johnsemlak
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Can anyone who knows about this matter say somethign about how they worked, what the looked like, how large they were, etc?
Can someone tell me about medieval stoves?
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As far as I'm aware, what we think of as a "stove" is somewhat more modern. Medieval cooking had ovens and fireplaces, but I'm not aware of stoves, as such. Unsurprising - an old-fashioned stove calls for a very large amount of metal, which would make them terribly expensive.
Anything before Ben Franklin was mostly fireplace and ovens, pots, pans that were hung over open flame or placed in stone areas/slots in a stone oven.
diaglo
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and for those who could afford them... kitchens with/ the cookfire style fireplace were in a separate building. or in a room off the main building.
the summer months made cooking too hot for the house. also another reason for baking outdoors in a brick oven.
in the winter.. people wanted to be near the kitchens. so in the wealthier homes. they had 2 kitchens. one for the summer .. round back or in the side building.. and one for the winter inside the house.
all fires needed to be watched very closely as many houses were terrible ventilation (edit: causing death from the hanging smoke) and easily burned down from poorly made chimneys or sparks.
the summer months made cooking too hot for the house. also another reason for baking outdoors in a brick oven.
in the winter.. people wanted to be near the kitchens. so in the wealthier homes. they had 2 kitchens. one for the summer .. round back or in the side building.. and one for the winter inside the house.
all fires needed to be watched very closely as many houses were terrible ventilation (edit: causing death from the hanging smoke) and easily burned down from poorly made chimneys or sparks.
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Mark
CreativeMountainGames.com
For some enjoyable reading you might also pick up The Year 1000 : What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium by Danny Danziger and Robert Lacey. There are a number of things within that might surprise even a well-read gamer.
johnsemlak
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Doh!Umbran said:
Of course I meant oven. I equate the two so much I often forget to differentiate. Good thing I started this thread, to remind myself to clarify that.
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Mark
CreativeMountainGames.com
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blstoves.htm
http://www.antiquestoves.com/history.htm
http://www.mha-net.org/msb/html/bakeoven.htm (I like this one in particular)
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/Canaan/Bread.html (tabun = oven)
http://nefertiti.iwebland.com/timelines/topics/food.htm
http://online.vkrp.org/module_2.htm (I like this one in particular, too)
http://www.antiquestoves.com/history.htm
http://www.mha-net.org/msb/html/bakeoven.htm (I like this one in particular)
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/Canaan/Bread.html (tabun = oven)
http://nefertiti.iwebland.com/timelines/topics/food.htm
http://online.vkrp.org/module_2.htm (I like this one in particular, too)
