When I was a little child there was a pot in our home. My mother referred it to as “the aluminum pot”, because aluminum cookware was so expensive that it was the only pot made of aluminum, or exactly speaking, aluminum circle in the house. We boiled water with it and steamed food in it. In winters great granny just placed the pot with water on her coal stove kept burning honeycomb coal balls to warm her room. Whenever we needed to wash hands she would shout “come for some hot water”. It was simpler times when food was homemade and a big family enjoyed happiness of union every day.
Years later I went to high school in residence during which great granny passed away. The pot made of aluminum circle, deformed and old, became a dust bin. The idea of “aluminum pot” hadn’t occurred to me until years ago, I entered the export department of a factory producing aluminum circles and aluminum plates. Among so many usages of aluminum circle, “deep drawing cookware” drew my attention first.
I began to check how many pieces of deep drawing cookware in my house is made of aluminum circle. We have two pots, one of which made of aluminum. Amusing enough, I used to believe that it’s made of steel because it’s much brighter than great granny’s old pot. After checking the instruction, I found that the inner pot of our pressure cooker is also made of aluminum circle. Its so dark and thick that I thought it’s of ceram-like material. I had thought that days of aluminum cookware would never return, yet they have come back in a different way. They remain to be so precious that I narrowly missed them if not for an occasional chance.