[Sca-cooks] Period dutch ovens

Judith Epstein judith at ipstenu.org
Wed Dec 9 15:30:23 PST 2009


On 9 Dec 2009, at 4:30 PM, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

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> On Dec 9, 2009, at 5:14 PM, Judith Epstein wrote:
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>> On 9 Dec 2009, at 2:54 PM, Michael Gunter wrote:
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>>> Cooking pots similar to our Dutch ovens are ancient. The reason modern Dutch ovens
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>>> aren't correct is because they are cast iron, which wasn't really perfected until the
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>>> very late 1600's. Earlier cooking pots were usually made from clay, tin, steel, bronze,
>>> 
>>> etc....
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>> And pig-iron as well, no? Which... is ancient? The reason our modern Dutch ovens aren't period correct is because they say Lodge on the lid.
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> I'm not aware of the technology being available in Europe to cast an iron pot of any significant size. I'd think that if the ability to cast large iron pots of any depth and structural integrity existed in period Europe, it'd have been a LOT easier to build cannons than it apparently was. 

Actually I was thinking specifically of the Near East and Asia, not Europe.

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