RIX Grill

I came down here to Belize with a Coleman camp stove grill, designed to fit over the Coleman two-burner stove.  It does fit on two burners of our four-burner gas stove.  Because I had a friend starting up a new restaurant (Joan, of Joan's Economic Kitchen) I decided to let the Mennonites make me an aluminum copy.  We took my grill over to Shipyard, where there's an aluminum foundry making pots, grills, comals (a round hotplate used to cook tortillas) and other miscellany like juicers, coconut grinders, etc.  I gave him the grill and asked him to make me three copies.  He did that, for a very nominal cost, and then he asked me if he could have the original to keep in his pattern collection.  The original was Silverstone® coated, and so it took weeks to get the new one seasoned.  But it is seasoned now, altho my housekeeper tried to scrape the seasoning off last month.  (I wanted to kill her, but I restrained myself, because she is young and earnest.)  

To be a diner cook, you need two other accoutrements, a large cook's spatula, and a bacon press,  which I show below on the top of the grill  I doubt if you can find either in Belize, so if you come down here, you better bring them with you.  If you're still in the States, you can get them at any good restaurant supply.  The pot (upper left) is an aluminum Dutch oven, and below it is a small comal which I use for a hotplate.  Both are made by the Mennonite foundry here in Shipyard, Belize.   

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