beautiful terracotta utensils with non-stick coating

 Being from a potter community have fascination for clay utensils actually anything of clay   I own and use these beautiful clay utensils from my the remote area of chota Udepur in Gujarat. Made by The Dhanak Adivasi of Chota Udepur have an indigenous way of making non-stick terracotta utensils 

the best part is they are having a non-stick coating  made from locally procured lac, had bought these from the potter at a haat (weekly market in rural areas ) few years ago 

this is the most organic way of making non-stick utensils 

The uniqueness about these utensils is that they are made with the local clay, first sun dried, then burnished with application of geru paste and coated immediately with lac while they are taken out of the furnace. The firing is simple and fastest way ever seen anywhere. Dry leaves of Taad tree (local palm) are used to fire the utensils which takes only half an hour to bake them complete. The coating of lac, which is also harvested by the locals make it impervious, smooth and non-stick.