SOLVED: This apparently is a baking dish. Thrift store find for my wife. But why is there a hole in the side? What is it?
SOLVED: This apparently is a baking dish. Thrift store find for my wife. But why is there a hole in the side? What is it?
Oh, and it's LARGE. That's my range it's sitting on, and it covers about 2/3 of it.
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Viewing hole for your miniature otter museum.
It's an Icelandic Fairy house with the roof missing. The hole is a window, and you're supposed to give them a south facing view for good fortune.
It was not supposed to be used, the hole is to hang it at the store.
I know this one! It's a bed pan!
Don't put your privates in it.
So you can look in and see how the pie is cooking and if the center is done yet.
Except that the crust where the window is would bake completely differently from the parts of the crust that would be touching the stoneware.
This is the only answer that sort of makes sense so far. For a pie with a crust, it lets you see what the crust looks like below the filling line.
I'm not a baker. Just a guesser.
Without the power cord and heating element, it's unbound.
The inset ridge at the top makes me think maybe it had a lid at one point? Looks like you could cook a turkey in it, I wonder if it was itself a small electric oven, but now is missing the lid, rack, and heating element? That would explain the hole and the size.
The feet on the bottom really don't seem practical for an oven rack, completely unnecessary if that's what it's for.
Are you sure it’s a food item? It this was used as an electrical insulator, it could have trace amounts of highly toxic and carcinogenic oil. I would not use it for anything before positively identifying it.
Frankly, we aren't planning to use it for cooking. It's been holding hair stuff, brushes and hair ties and pretty little frilly things.
Some people say handle. I think it’s to have an electronic device slotted in to do something inside while it’s in the oven. Not sure it was intended for baking food.
Could be the lid of a deeper dish.
Does it say where it was made anywhere on it? Like which country? That may give us a clue
This is the bottom and there's only this one number on it. It also would appear that it's supposed to rest on these pegs so it's probably not a lid.
Maybe it’s a drainage pan of some sorts and the hole is overflow?
Could it be a lid and the hole is for steam to escape?
Someone else said that but there's "feet" on the bottom.
might be a bedpan. hole is for your thumb. I heard of bedpans making it to thrift stores before
Any stamp of any sort on the bottom?
Whatever you bought there: It's not usable for much with that hole.
It looks like a slow cooker insert, but I can’t for the life of me figure out the hole.
I guess for storage, so you could hang it on a hook at the wall
