[Sca-cooks] Cooking Tripods, Supports, Pompeii Brazier, fire height

[Elaine Koogler]

Sharon Gordon wrote:
> I'm looking for recommendations for places that make cookware supports for fire cooking such as tripods, spits, frames, firepans, etc.
>
> How about metal cookware?  I have a hard time figuring out what is period and what isn't.  I mean some things are easy.  I know to give the iron corn shaped corn bread pan a pass :-).  
>
> Also does anyone know of people making the Pompeii Brazier as shown here.
> http://www.legio-ix-hispana.org/brazier.html
> (but site is down today)
> It's rectangular with iron rungs in a much wider spacing than a modern grill.
> Ah, there are some photos of the brazier at the Apicius yahoo group
> http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/Apicius/photos/browse/7511
> And here are some photos of it being used for cooking
> http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/Apicius/photos/browse/14dc
> In the Pompeii brazier and cauldron photo, you can see how the rungs slide to change the spacing or in this case to use the rung side as a fire pit
>
> For places that don't allow ground fires, what is the minimum height that the firepan needs to be above the ground?
>
> Sharon
> gordonse at one.net
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The only problem with your last two links is that you have to join that 
group to see the photos.  Is there any way you can make them available 
to those of us not members of that group?

thanks!

Kiri

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