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Comal

A named flat griddle of later Mesoamerican practice for tortillas and related foods. Not a wok, not a griddle of iron alone, and not an olla.

Also known as Mesoamerican comal

Nahua tradition

Comal appears in Nahua tradition.
The Florentine Codex describes the comal, the flat griddle of Nahua cooking, among the household gear of that ethnography. A named Mesoamerican cook-surface in that book, not a wok and not an iron griddle dump.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
appears in · sourced · culturally specific

sources

Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).