[Sca-cooks] [Fwd: Question on the Melitta Weiss Adamson Guter Spise]

[Decker, Terry D.]

It is possible to use wood in cooking utensils.  Hardwoods tend to stand up
to heat as long as you don't get them hot enough to burn.  I've planked fish
on a hardwood board and cooked it by the radiant heat from a fire without
turning the fish or the plank to charcoal.

I believe the term used in Guter Speise is "einen hulzinen rost" (with an
umlaut over the u).  I don't have my dictionaries handy to check, but Alia
Atlas translated this as "wooden grate."  It may be that the grill under
discussion is a wooden frame suspended from the ceiling over a fire (cooking
in Germany and the Lowlands appears to have been often done on raised
firestands rather than in fireplaces, a situtaion suitable for a suspended
grate).

Bear

> Did they use wooden grills for slow roasting things?  Would a
> wooden gill
> hold up to such heat without burning or at least scorching?
>
> Regina