SC - kitchen in a krak

[margali]

It all depends on what you are burning whether or not it throws sparks. A good
bed of coals suitable for roasting or simmering over doesnt tend to throw sparks
unless you put something light or oily on [like paper, twigs, leaves or pine,
oily cloth/paper, table scraps with lots of fat]

When one burns dung cakes, they dont tend to spark, they smoulder until they
catch then they coal up. At least cow pats and horse flops do. Never tried camel
dung.
margali

Christina van Tets wrote:

> >It could be that they had a light plank roof or a canvas roof, enough to
> >keep
> >the sun off and any occasional rain, but left mostly open to let the heat
> >escape
> >up and away from the workers?
> >margali
> >
>
> That's quite possible.  There isn't much of the roof left at Belvoir;  the
> castle was deliberately made unusable (it was supposed to have been
> completely dismantled, but you know what soldiers are like when the CO is
> not looking) after the Crusaders were forced to leave.   Anyway, some
> of the living quarters and a storeroom or two have rooves, but nothing else.
>   So quite reasonable thought.  Short chimney though - it looks untouched by
> the wreckers - wouldn't a roof like that have caught fire?  Maybe not, if
> the fires are only in the ovens.
>
> Cairistiona