So we are currently canning tomatoes and I bought one of those big blue metal pots with a basket inside and a lid.
Is there any function or is it just a traditional
marking pattern that there are a bunch of tiny white dots randomly on the pot and lid surfaces.
It almost looks like when you flick a paintbrush that has just been washed and some paint is still on it and the paint dots would have landed on the metal. Or a starry night.
My guess is there is no function more of a traditional style.
Enamel wear. I think the splatter pattern is probably tradtional. I have alot of enamel wear. Inherited it from my MIL. Some is red some blue. And one yellow stock pot that I love.
AFAIK strictly traditional. Great stuff. I have a big canning pot and a campfire coffee pot in blue enamel ware.
‘Speckles’ were/are patent-able,
CMC fnord!
Jackson Polluck made splatter paint into ‘fine’ art.
Generically, the speckled enamel stuff is called graniteware.
Not too surprisingly, it’s actually a trademarked name. Somewhat surprisingly, the same folks have been making GraniteWare for nearly 150 years, and over 100 years in the same factory. https://graniteware.com
I can’t tell if you’re one letter off from the correct name (Pollock) or one letter off from a nice pun (Potluck).
The speckled blue pattern is just tradition for cooking/canning pots. You can also get serving dishes & platters, and even tableware made of this. The tableware I remember was made in solid primary colors, red, blue, yellow + white & black. Again, the colors were just tradition, I think.
