Hagama the kama with wing and Kamado the cooking stove made from ultra thin cast iron

The inheritor of "Washoku; traditional dietary cultures of the Japanese" for next generation

Abstract

Casting hagama is a cooking tool that has inherited the spirit of Zen and tea ceremony since 800 years, continuing to cook rice which is indispensable to Japanese food culture tastily. Therefore, we challenged to develop the hagama made from cast iron. We have succeeded in casting cast iron hagama and furnaces. Their minimum wall thickness of 3 mm. These were realized by combining Cupola melt with a shell mold using newly developed low odor and low defective sand. This hagama can cook a cup of rice with a piece of solid fuel. We hope that this hagama will become a new carrier of the Japanese traditional food culture.