A pot is a container used for cooking.
A pot is a container used to cook or heat a certain amount of water . These vessels , which can be built with various materials (steel, clay, etc.), have handles that allow them to be manipulated without burning.
For example: "Please check to see if the water in the pot is already boiling" , "I'm going to put the lid on the pot so the food cooks faster" , "After I put the broth in the pot, there is "We have to wait about twenty minutes until everything is ready."
The concept of pot is also used to name the contents present in the container and the preparations that are made in it. At a general level, the food known as roca in Spain includes meat, potatoes (potatoes), chickpeas and pancetta (bacon), among other ingredients. According to the variations of each recipe , we can talk about Cordoba pot , gypsy pot , pork pot and other dishes.
Types of pots
According to their specific purpose, it is possible to speak of various types of pots. The pressure cooker is one that, with an airtight seal, prevents liquids or air from leaving the container until a certain pressure level is reached. This allows very high temperatures to be achieved that favor faster cooking of food.
The steamer pot also plays with pressure to cook food using steam, which allows healthy cooking by not requiring oil or other fatty matter.
Pot food is very popular in winter times.
a whirlpool
Olla, on the other hand, can be the whirlpool that is created when water is in a hole or depression. This phenomenon is very commonly seen on maritime coasts and is usually difficult to perceive for inexperienced people.
Although in the case of a pot of discrete dimensions on the seashore it cannot be highly dangerous, it can generate a traumatic situation for the little ones, since upon entering it they suddenly sink and quickly lose control of their body. .
The terrorist organization OLLA
As an acronym, OLLA was a Catalan terrorist organization with a libertarian tendency although with a clear nationalist sensitivity, emerged in 1972 by a group from the Socialist National Liberation Party called Resistencia . The full name of the OLLA was Organització de la Lluita Armada , which can be translated as Organization of Armed Struggle .
It was related to other armed groups of the time, such as the Internationalist Revolutionary Action Group and the Iberian Liberation Movement , given their compatibility at an ideological level. In a book titled "Countdown" , by the Catalan writer Francesc Escribano , there are testimonies from OLLA militants related to the organization's support in the face of unjust arrests and death sentences.
The OLLA helped its militants through international campaigns, enlisting the help of various anarchist groups on the European continent, and also with protests. The group 's activity ended in 1974 , when some of its members were arrested on a train bound for France . Thanks to the contribution of Felip Solé , one of the members of the organization, there is a large volume of documents about said arrest, both the actions of the police, the military trial, the defense and the accusations of subversive and terrorist activities that were received. the members of the OLLA.
Just like the OLLA, there were other armed libertarian organizations in Catalonia that emerged at the end of Franco's rule. Fundamental to its study are the sources donated by the aforementioned Felip Solé , as well as Salvador Puig Antich , among others, which are currently in the Library of the Pavilion of the Republic .