Need a Saaj (Saj) for restaurant use

[Hassouni]

Does anyone know where I might be able to obtain an actual saj for use in a restaurant? Short of going to Lebanon, that is...

[heidih]

For reference here is a topic on this fascinating cooking implement.

[Panaderia Canadiense]

Is it possible to visit your local forge or ironmonger and ask them to cast you one of appropriate dimensions? That's how my Persian friends down here got theirs.

[David A. Goldfarb]

I've seen them in use on the street during the Atlantic Antic street festival on Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn, where there are many Arabic shops. Maybe one of them has them for sale or could order one from the source.

[Hassouni]

Does anyone live around Detroit that may have seen them in Dearborn?

[minas6907]

For reference here is a topic on this fascinating cooking implement.

That is an awesome way to build one! I didnt know that was called a saaj. I enjoyed a warm flatbread with yogurt and olives when I was visiting Caesarea, the flatbread was heated up on one of these, I had never seen it before. Thanks for the memories!

[Hassouni]

Yes, technically the grill thing is called a saj (or in Turkish, saç), but often the pizza-like thing cooked on them, technically called a man'ousheh, is also called saj.

The overturned wok construction seems to work well in that thread, but a real saj is not as steeply convex, and can usually handle 5, 6, or more manaa'ish (plural of man'ousheh) at once, and they're usually about 10" in diameter.

By Caesarea, do you mean Kayseri in Turkey?

[minas6907]

Ah, I meant in Israel, the ancient city and now national park. There was an Arab woman selling some of this simple food inside.