“Cooking-pot fabric” may be a subset of the brown or red alluvial soils that characterize much of the local pottery at Ashkelon, although Goren sees it as a subset of the ḥamra group (Mazar and Panitz-Cohen 2001:20, Fabric Group 15). In any case, it is widely agreed that this is a specialized fabric made exclusively for use in cooking pots. The cooking-pot fabric is orange in color, has coastal inclusions (beach sand and accessory minerals), and is characterized by many parallel cracks surrounding the inclusions.