SC - kitchen in a krak

[Christina van Tets]

Hello the List!

Stefan wrote some of these comments (I think), and I forgot to check whose 
the others were.  Sorry.

>You need flames, but...
>Not necessarily in the same place.
>

No, but this is a krak all by itself on the top of a hill, under siege for 
18 months.  Still, they may have made charcoal outside the building, that is 
true.  I wonder if the Brother Armourer (or whatever they called him) did 
it?

>A very common occupation throughout period and right up to the
>beginning of the 20th century is Charcoaler.

Wahoo!  Brother Charcoaler, right up there with all the important people 
like Brother Vinter!

>The use of charcoal for fuel would have eliminated all sparking,
>popping and uncontrolled burning, and allowed a shorter chimney
>stack, just as was posited earlier.

Agreed.  I'm just not sure it was possible in this instance.  I'd hate to be 
Brother Wood-gatherer...

The chimney was unusually short, to my eye.  I would guess, from memory, at 
about 9 feet.  Please note that this is not an accurate measurement at this 
stage.

When my mother-in-law arrives in 3 weeks, we're planning to inflict all the 
Crusader edifices on her, or as many as possible, including a visit to a 
Crusader church where one can still attend a Latin Mass.  I will measure the 
chimney of the Belvoir kitchen at that stage (I can see the park ranger's 
face now) and take as many pictures as I can.  If you have any requests for 
pictures, let me know now.

Cairistiona
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