Discada Discs

kwdickert

Has anyone seen these? Any reason to use this over say a CI pan on the egg?

http://bluemoondisk.com/products/blue-moon-disk-medium

Big plow disc that fits down in your egg. My local dealer http://www.kenrashmemphis.com/ had a demo of this cooling off when I arrived at their store on Saturday. I had never seen anything like it. 

It seems like there are about 5-10 makers of this type of cookware called a discada or plow disc. 

Anyone have one or used one? What's the point?

fishlessman

a 16 dollar wok and a flat steel plate would give you more options. i have done alot of cooking on just a flat carbon steel plate over a fire, cooking la plancha if you need a fancier name and a higher price tag for cooking on a steel plate

U_tarded

When I lived in Texas a friend would cook tripas on them. It was a big deal and pretty good.  Kinda the same idea as a wok but thicker metal 

FlashkaBob

It's a damned plow disk for crying out loud with a couple of horseshoes welded on. buy a wok! here is the best rated I could find in the past minute
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001VQIP4/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=ch001-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=B0001VQIP4

FlashkaBob

If you still want to cook on a plow disc then go buy one here for less than 20 bucks! 
http://www.agrisupply.com/plain-disc-harrow-blades/c/4500011/

Hotch

Yep, I have a few buds with these. Mostly use them when at the race track and camping. I went to a pool/birthday party one time and the hired chef was slinging out some fast and great grub off of one.

There size and portability is the advantage. They do cook up some fine fajitas.

DMW

@caliking and @20stone cranked out killer kathi rolls on one over a butane burner at Salado.
http://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1178503/salado-pictures-at-last/p1

I'm pretty sure it wasn't from that site, I think it was an actual plow disc with horseshoes welded on, but I'm not sure.

tamu2009

They are great for tailgates. Many many a tailgate breakfast did I cook on one in school. Makes great breakfast tacos. I since graduated and refined my tools to a blackstone, but I love cooking on a good mexican wok as we called it in school.

Thatgrimguy

Discada is like the spanish equivalent of woking. It's like a griddle and wok rolled into one.   Lots of people like to say you can wok in a disco but you can't disco in a wok.  I wouldn't want to use one on my egg, but with a propane burner they are a lot of fun.  Discos are what got me into the idea of a blackstone.

kwdickert

I don't really have any interest in buying one. Just wanted to see if you guys knew about it and what the real point is versus doing fajitas in a big cast iron pan or blackstone. Thanks for answering my questions!

Darby_Crenshaw

i was going to buy one until i saw THIS!

"* Caution:  Blue Moon Disk handles get hot during the cooking process"

(seriously, it says that)

DMW

Darby_Crenshaw said:

i was going to buy one until i saw THIS!

"* Caution:  Blue Moon Disk handles get hot during the cooking process"

(seriously, it says that)

not everyone knows about conduction

kwdickert

Sounds like they've had some stupid past customers!!! 

Griffin

Its not like cooking on a wok. The sides aren't sloped as much, so you can push things off the center where its hotter and they won't slide back down. Great for fajitas and Mexican grub, but I wouldn't pay that much for it when they can be made so much cheaper.

caliking

I have a few versions of that sort of thing. 

The big steel thing you see in the Salado link above is a tawa which i hauled back from India. Like a discada, its not very deep, kind of a shallow concave griddle. I'm not familiar with ones that are as deep as a wok. 

Advantages are that you have 2-3 zones for cooking - hottest in the center, then cooler as you go up the sides of the disc - and that grease trickles back to the center once you put food at the periphery. Its great to cook on, but not very useful for the egg i think. Works well on a propane burner, or even a butane stove (as we found out at Salado).
 
For much less $$, you can get a steel disc cut, a plow/harrow blade from a Farm & Fleet type of place, or even the end of a big propane tank cut off.

SmokeyPitt

FlashkaBob said:

If you still want to cook on a plow disc then go buy one here for less than 20 bucks! 
http://www.agrisupply.com/plain-disc-harrow-blades/c/4500011/

I happened to notice on that same site they have some with the handles and no hole in the middle for pretty cheap.

http://www.agrisupply.com/bbq-disc-blade-discada/p/85077/

DoubleEgger

I saw this in Bergen Norway. Looks similar. 

Hotch

DoubleEgger said:

I saw this in Bergen Norway. Looks similar. 

Wonder how big a tractor it takes to pull 20 or so of those?

Darby_Crenshaw

this should put into perspective the foolishness behind whether a plastic bucket is "food safe"

everything is food safe if you aren't a complete stooge.

nolaegghead

Darby_Crenshaw said:

this should put into perspective the foolishness behind whether a plastic bucket is "food safe"

everything is food safe if you aren't a complete stooge.

but...but...there is no warning on the plastic bucket the handles can get hot

jeroldharter

I think I would rather have a Mojo griddle than that for most things.