How to clean clay pots

How to Remove Fungus From Terracotta Products?

How to clean clay pots for cooking? How to clean a clay water bottle? How to clean earthen curd pots? These are vital questions that need answers before you switch to a terracotta cooking lifestyle. The ground rule is that to hygienically use terracotta cooking vessels you will need to soak them overnight, wipe them with a cloth and apply castor oil on the inside. Then you will need to slightly heat them and switch off the flame. Apply and heat another 2 or 3 times. When slightly heated, castor ...

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How to Clean Clay Water Bottle

There was a time when a majority of homes in India would store their drinking water in terracotta clay water vessels. While tradition played a role in this practice, another very important aspect certainly was the health benefits of drinking water stored in clay water bottles. “In case you have not had water saved in a clay pot, also referred to as matki or even matka in Hindi, then you’re passing up lots of health benefits,” Ayurvedic expert Dr Nitika Kohli wrote on Instagram. Clay water bottle...

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A Guide to Cook in Terracotta Cooking Utensils 

For all the chefs at home, you will understand when I say: Finding the right vessel and learning how to optimize its usage in the best way is so important. The world gradually moving back in the future at several levels for several reasons. The question “Why cook in terracotta vessels or how to cook in a clay pot” gets a few good answers. The progress made in technology, commu...

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Is Terracotta Clay Environment-Friendly?

Look around you today, what do you see? Earthquakes, crumbling hills, forest fires, melting glaciers, and polluted water bodies. The environment has taken a beating from man and his tendency to want more than required, more than on offer, more than what he has been given by nature, by right. Now, retribution has come to roost. { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "mainEntityOfPage": { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://tranceterra.in/terrac...

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Reasons Why Curd Should Be Made In A Clay Pot

A question most curd lovers usually ask is, what is the best vessel to set curd? Through this blog, I am going to share why I think clay curd pots are the best vessel to set curd in. Have you ever enjoyed authentic curd that is baked in traditional terracotta curd pots? If so then you know the feeling, if not then it’s time to try.  { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "mainEntityOfPage": { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https:...

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What is the Difference Between Clay and Terracotta?

A question that usually pops up in most of our minds is, what is the difference between terracotta and clay? So based on all the research I ended up pinning thoughts on the difference between clay and terracotta in this blog. Terracotta material is fast becoming popular these days for several reasons. Prominent among those is the focus on a larger picture, that people probably never even imagined, say, a decade earlier. That reason is the crying need to reverse climate ch...

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The Beauty and Importance of Terracotta Pottery

The importance of natural products has been underlined very often by events in our lives in our times. In the good old days, food was cooked in earthen vessels in earthen choolahs fired by coal and cow dung was a primary energy source. The process was slow and cumbersome but people were used to it and didn’t think twice about it. But then we progressed… { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "mainEntityOfPage": { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "ht...

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Healthy Cookware Alternatives You Can Choose to Make Your Tomorrow Better

Cooking with a terracotta handi has a variety of health benefits and is also much tastier. Using terracotta is a much healthy cookware option as it is much better than cooking in a normal utensil as it improves the quality of the food and adds many important nutrients like calcium, phosphorous, iron, magnesium, and sulphur to food, which is extremely beneficial to our body. The porosity and natural insulation properties of clay allow the heat and moisture to circulate throughout the cookware.

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Terracotta Lighting : A Healthy, Bright and Ethnic Choice | Tranceterra

Terracotta Lighting- Switch To a Healthy, Bright And Ethnic Lifestyle Choice

Switching was never easier though than it is now, with Tranceterra offering a myriad of designs in terracotta hanging lamps, terracotta lanterns, terracotta lamp shades or terracotta wall lamps to suit every mood, every quirk or every dream. With a click of the thumb from the comfort of your easy chair,  Tranceterra home delivers the lamps, lanterns and everything else right to your door.

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Quench your Thirst with Summer cool Terracotta and Glass Water Jars

Drinking water from clay water bottles helps prevent acidity and other gastric problems because clay has alkaline properties and retains higher PH levels (more than 7). It is to be understood that our body, especially our stomach, is acidic in nature while clay has alkaline properties.  In many cultures, clay filters are a traditional technique to purify drinking water at the household level.

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