[Sca-cooks] Looking for a Roman craticula (cooking grate)

Wanda Pease wandap at hevanet.com
Sun Jan 1 20:03:22 PST 2006


This summer someone posted a picture of a reproduction of a Roman craticula.
A friend said he would make me one because it looked like it would fold down
nicely for taking camping.  Now neither of us can find the picture.

It is essentially a metal grate made with something resembling rebar.  What
I remember is a rectangular frame with about 1/3 spaced out with two circles
of metal designed to hole pots, then the other 2/3's made grill like with
metal bars that could fold down to create the gill or fold out of the way.
All on nice collapsible legs.

Ring any bells for anyone?  Steffan has a mention in the Cheap Apicus Art
section with an article by Margali "Apicus for the Impoverished"

Maybe something like St. Lawrence's gridiron but with special round holes
for pots.

Ring Any bells?

Wanda Pease/Regina Romsey
Never attribute to malice what can as easily
be attributed to simple social ineptness





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