This is a Cow.
This is Cow Dung.
This is Cow Dung Cake. (Dried Cowdung)
And We in India cook our food on these cow dung cakes which is nothing but dried cow dung.
Especially Baati/Bafla (wheat balls used as bread) cooked on these cow dung cakes tastes like heaven. It gives an earthy, smokey and out of this world flavour and texture.
When finished this Baati looks like this.
We serve it after dipping these into clarified butter (ghee) with Dal and Choorma.(a sweet dish) It tastes nothing short of heaven.
No electric oven or microwave can recreate this magical taste like cowdung cakes do to food.
It's like a Mandatory Sunday Ritual in My community to make Dal-Bati on cowdung cakes.
Indians especially Marwadis: Familiar enough?
Rest of the World: Weird enough?
Those who think this is 100% unhygienic, please read this wonderful comment by Satyam Chourasiya (सत्यम् चौरसिया)