[Sca-cooks] oil lamps

[Stefan li Rous]

Giano warned:
> As a word of caution, BTW - filling modern lamp
> oil into Roman- or medieval-design oil lamps will
> result in a very dramatic pyrotechnic effect as
> the entire outer surface of the lamp catches fire!
> Done that, too. (unglazed pottery. If you pour in
> vegetable oils or animal fats they will close the
> pores, being viscous, and effectively waterproof
> the lamp for the duration. Mineral oil distillate
> just seeps through, turning the entire lamp into a
> wick... *always* glaze your pottery lamps)

Or use the period fuels.

LOL! I do hope no one was hurt by this. This is however, one of the
practical archeology type of messages that I like to include in the
Florilegium. If we limit ourselves to only studying written works,
then we may miss things like this.

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