Plow Discs - Cowboy Wok

[Wishbone]

Anyone use plow disc to cook with. I was at a Friends house a couple Saturdays ago. They had an Old Polw Disc mounted on a 55 gal barrel with a propane burner under it. They cooked all types of Veggies as well as Steak & Chicken. They heated tortillias around on the outside. Good eats. I was wondering is there any thing else but Mexican food cooked on them? Wishbone

[Singing Bear]

Aren't there holes in those things?  Scuse.  I've only seen plow discs on the plow.   

I suppose one could use anything.  The Hopi use flat stones for baking their piki bread.
Mongolian stir fry is cooked on a 4' diameter steel disc.  East Indians use the side of a
clay oven for baking their bread.

We use our wok for deep frying, stir frying and steaming.  If that plow disc is deep
enough, it could be used for the same.  Being able to deep fry and steam makes
for more options for your cooking, if it don't have no holes. 

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

I've seen a large disc fitted over all four elements of an electric stove.  Some very good Lebanese-Canadian friends used it to cook flat bread.  They don't bother anymore because most all ethnic food is almost universally available in Canada.

My wife is Cypriot-American, and is not a good cook - SHE IS AN ARTIST WITH FOOD, and I'm one lucky and well fed guy!

That said, Our Lebanese friend is an even better cook!.  She kept me & my family properly fed at least twice a week when I was an impoverished law student.  Even now our kids refer to their kids as cousins, and vicky-verky.

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[Branding Iron Bill]

A small metal plug and a mig welder will take care of that hole.  That's a no brainer

Corn masa gorditas and beef tripas in one of those discos, well, it just doesn't get any better than that.  Oh yea, topped with pico de gallo, and guacamole, of course.  Yum scrum!  Hello calories!  Not something you would want to eat every day.

[Wishbone]

Yes, Singing Bear the Disc had the Center Holes welded shut. The one my friend has  measures 27" accross. Bigest Disc new I can find is 24". I going to get one & give to Son to take to school and weld it shut. Get out the Grinder & sandpaper and polish it up. I season it on Turkey fryer. With the curve in the Disc,I should be able Stir Fry too. Then I'll invite some friends over & cook something up. Wishbone

[Ozark Tracker]

Wishbone, farmers back in Oklahoma used to use rollin plows,  blades up to 36 inches,  I haven't seen one of the plows in years, stopped using em because of fuel costs.  might do a google search for rollin plow blades.  see if anybody has any in stock.  exactly the same as disc blades only larger.

[Singing Bear]

Yes, Singing Bear the Disc had the Center Holes welded shut. The one my friend has  measures 27" accross. Bigest Disc new I can find is 24". I going to get one & give to Son to take to school and weld it shut. Get out the Grinder & sandpaper and polish it up. I season it on Turkey fryer. With the curve in the Disc,I should be able Stir Fry too. Then I'll invite some friends over & cook something up. Wishbone

Thanks.    We see plows used in the pineapple fields and some of the
smaller veggie farms around, but don't give them much thought at all,
especially for using a blade for cooking.  Too easy to just go to the
nearest hardware store or any of the numerous Asian stores around here
to buy a good, steel wok.    

[El Peludo]

I knew a family in L. A. many years ago that had one that Abuelo had made when he was a young man.  It was fit to a round firebox affair and they fired it with wood.  This one was about 30 to 36 inches, and the hole was open; he had welded pieces of angle iron around it with small holes for the grease and stuff to dribble through onto the fire, but it kept food that was being cooked from slipping through, and it made a handy place to put a pan of something to heat up.  Abuela and Mama made their tortillas on it, too.  Necessity is the mother of invention.  They also had a smaller disc hung from a chain that was the "calling" bell; had a beautiful ring to it.

[Charles Isaac]

That seems like it would be a good piece of cooking equipment. I will have to bring one to the blacksmith and have him hammer weld the hole up.

[Russ McCrae]

You can find them without the hole in the center punched at some tractor stores but you gotta look. I got a 24" without the hole in the middle with horseshoe handles from a guy and it is a single guys fryer. We've done everything in it mentioned and them some. Main dishes are deep frying, breakfast and Tex-mex but it cooks a mean pan fried steak if your into that (I LOVE steak from a skillet).

They're a great outdoor skillet if you don't want to heat up the house by cooking inside

[saltbush from oz]

still use them down here in oz,just weld couple nuts on bottom to screw thread rod into
it for the legs