[Spit-Project] Late period pot

[Saint Phlip]

Potjies are nice pots, however, the ones y'all are finding on sale are
all cast iron. Cast iron, as near as I can find, was known in period,
but was considered trash metal, and wasn't used for anything that I've
found...yet.

If you notice the pot described was made of bronze, and so far as I've
found, metal cooking pots were made of copper (see the Mastermyr find)
bronze, possibly brass, and tin. While they're all metal, they all
would not only be very expensive, and thus limited to the wealthy,,
AND, for our purposes, would have different cooking and flavor
characteristics.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:41 PM, masahide at summerscauldron.com
<masahide at summerscauldron.com> wrote:
> A quick google search found similar items under the name "Potjie Pot" with
> much better availability and price:
>
> http://gal9505.dealerstack.net/prostores/servlet/-strse-Potjie-Pots/Categori
> es
>
> Some of these are even of the "Let's feed the whole army" size.
>
> Masahide
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
>>Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:06:39 -0400
>>From: Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com>
>>Subject: [Spit-Project] Late period pot
>>
>>Seemed like a good post for this list as well
>>
>>Johnnae
>>
>>On the herald's list a reference was made to this:
>>http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/small/item/GTJ23060/
>>a 16th century cooking pot.
>>
>>Modernly, there is one that is darn close to it available here:
>>http://www.shop-southafricans.com/bestdutypotjiepots.aspx
>
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