Ceramic Or Enamel

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Ceramic or enamel.

Clay discussion from the chowhound cookware cast iron food community. Additionally cheaper ceramic cookware may discolor ceramic glass cooktops at higher heat. As a adjective ceramic is made of material produced by the high temperature firing of inorganic nonmetallic rocks and minerals. As nouns the difference between ceramic and enamel is that ceramic is uncountable a hard brittle material that is produced through burning of nonmetallic minerals at high temperatures while enamel is an opaque glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects.

Avoid the use of harsh cleaning tools such as steel wool and abrasive cleaners such as scouring powder. What we do have is enamel painted baked on coatings on other materials. Updated by sarah long 10 2 2017. It may be ceramic cast iron or steel.

As nouns the difference between enamel and porcelain is that enamel is an opaque glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects while porcelain is usually uncountable a hard white translucent ceramic that is made by firing kaolin and other materials. Because both pure porcelain and porcelain enameled sinks have basically the same finish you use the same cleaning methods on both. Read the enameled cast iron vs. As a verb enamel is to coat or decorate with enamel.

I don t know of any enamel coated aluminum cookware but it could be we do have several line.