Disco de arado

A plow disc over fire: the Argentine camp pot that fries, stews, and feeds a circle.

Also called disco, plow-disc grill · From Argentina

A seasoned plow-disc disco over wood with onions, sausage, and a long iron spoon.

The journey

When a plow disc was cheaper than a paella pan, Argentine and Uruguayan camps flipped it, welded on a rim or a handle, and cooked over wood. A disco de arado is still the pot of a Sunday away from the parrilla — onions first, then meat, then a stew that the whole circle eats from.

The parrilla is the grill. The disco is the pot that traveled with the grill.

An 1818 map of the Río de la Plata — the camp country whose other hearth is a plow disc. — John Pinkerton, map of La Plata (1818) · Public domain. Source

In the kitchen

Season the iron. Start with fat and onion. Keep a hot side and a quiet side. Serve from the disc.

The Argentine volume's camp dishes assume this fire. A wide skillet on a grate is the city stand-in.

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