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Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

@Lou Ann: Your hands are all you need.
Many "comales" are big enough as to have a place of their own, but they don't need to be moved. We generally don't use them to cook meat or things that can get sticky (we usually prefer pans for that... or those with handles). Those onions, for example, can be easily removed with some slotted spoon, and tortillas are handled with bare hands.

Thanks. I'll take your answer at face value, although I still have trouble imagining it. You don't ever fry something in a griddle without moving it around a bit. And if you move something around a griddle, you have to steady it with your hand. Without a handle you'd burn yourself. So this means that you would never move anything around this kind of griddle? I'd have to see it in action to really "get" it....