Used to cook typically Mediterranean dishes, especially clams and seafood in general, the cooking process used by the CATAPLANA prevents the loss of the ingredients and aromas, ensuring full and excellent flavour. Furthermore, cooking in the CATAPLANA is healthier since the recipes use less fat, and thus contain fewer calories. This specific cataplana model with flat bottom, is ideal for the new technology electric stoves. Due also to its "bulging" format, is able to take more food quantity that the others cataplana models of the same size, being the size of Ø 27cm ideal for 4 to 5 persons and the size of Ø 33cm ideal for 6 to 8 persons.