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Chugun (pot)

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Handling a chugun with an ukhvat

Chugun (pronounced "chooGOON"; small one: chugunok) is a crock initially made of cast iron, hence its name: "chugun" in Russian means "cast iron".[1] It has a special shape: narrow at the bottom quickly turning into a round bowl, that permits handling of it in the Russian stove with a special implement called ukhvat [ru], a long wooden handle ending with the two-pronged metal "grabber". Later chuguns were made of aluminium as well. This kind of ware had become widespread in Russia since the break of the 19th and 20th centuries.[2]

Standalone small stoves had special metal rings to fit bottoms of chuguns of different sizes.

The implement gave rise to Russian surnames Chugunov and Chugunkov [ru].

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  1. ^ s:ru:ТСД2/Чугун
  2. ^ Русская изба. Иллюстрированная энциклопедия. [Russian stove. An Illustrated Encycliopedia] — St.Petersburg, Искусство-СПБ, 2004, pp. 359—360