Surahi-Earthen Pot
Every village, every town, every important locality of a large city will have potters. They create pottery for different purposes. The large rounded spherical pots, gharas, for water storage, the long necked SURAHI for pouring the drinking water, the round bottomed with a broad width and narrow mouth cooking pot, handi, specially for dal, lentils, an essential part of our life, the clay flat griddle, tawa for making rotis, flat unleaved bread are even today an essential part of many homes. Not everyone has refrigerators and with hours of power failure, the cool water from a clay pitcher answers everyone's needs.
How does water kept in an earthen pot become cool during summer?If you pour cold water into an earthenware pot, jug, or ewer that has been kept indoors at room temperatures, the temperature of the water will increase to match the temperature of the inside of the vessel. This is true whether you store the jug inside or bring it outside into the heat.
Uploaded on March 11, 2011