Skottle Fever

We have talked about Tembo Tusk’s Skottles in the past, but these incredible pieces of cookware deserve to be mentioned again.

Essentially a self-contained, single burner Wok, the Skottle is a steel harrow disk from a farm implement flipped on its side and used as a cooking vessel. This idea came from South Africa in the 1940’s. With steel and iron on a global shortage due to the war, farmers looked for a secondary use for old harrow disks and found their use in outdoor cooking while out in the fields. Now synonymous with a South African Braai (Afrikaans for grill), it can cook anything that would normally have been cooked in a pan or skillet or on a grill.

Tembo Tusk pre-seasons them, and in the event that you were forced to strip it of all its oils, can easily be re-seasoned with cooking oil. And just like a cast iron skillet, the more gunk and oils get built up on it, the better flavor and more slippery the natural non-stick surface becomes.

Designed to be used with low cost, portable one-pound liquid propane canisters and a single burner, this setup can function on the cheap, or it can be converted to run off your standard 15-pound bulk cylinders, as well.

There is not much you cannot cook on a Skottle, and at a reasonable $185, part of the fun is trying to test those limits to become the master chef. If you would like to get yourself a Skottle or are interested in learning more, roll on over to tembotusk.com.