Chugun (pot)

Chugun (pronounced "chooGOON"; small one: chugunok) is a crock initially made of cast iron, hence its name: "chugun" in Russian means "cast iron".

[1] It has a special shape: narrow at the bottom quickly turning into a round bowl, that permits handling of it in the Russian stove with a special implement called ukhvat [ru], a long wooden handle ending with the two-pronged metal "grabber".

[2] Standalone small stoves had special metal rings to fit bottoms of chuguns of different sizes.

The implement gave rise to Russian surnames Chugunov and Chugunkov [ru].

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