Topic: Terminology question – a different pressing method

[kerstinfroberg]

Hi all! Kerstin from https://bergdala-glastekniska-museum.se/eng-index.html (Sweden) here.
I try as best I can to translate all our pages to English (and I hope I do it better than google translate).

Recently I have added a page about a different pressing method, introduced at Pukberg, then at Kosta in the late 1960-ies. It was instantly nicknamed (as I translated it to) “pancake baking” – in Kosta that expression is still used. BUT: is there an accepted name for this method in English?

See the page at https://bergdala-glastekniska-museum.se/eng-html/eng-pressed-pancake.html.
(I found one post here, https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,683.msg156903.html#msg156903 that must describe this same method. No name, though)

All comments, on this page or any other on the website, are welcome!
Thank you for looking (and welcome next summer)!

[cagney]

  In American English the term "pancake pressing" in the figurative sense would be instantly recognizable to most people.The word "baking" implies something different altogether. I do not know if there is a term used for this method amongst glassworkers in U.S.A.

[Lustrousstone]

Page typo: plan should be plain

I don't think this is the same as the ringless pressing Marcus describes; that definitely has a base mould and a plunger, just no sides.

Pancake pressing works reasonably well in English, but I can't find a better term

[Frank]

I would describe it as flat press moulded then slumped.