a real kitchen

[mrsbrown]

This kitchen is from Carmel Mission in California - how old is it?

http://heatkit.com/graphics/scans/pbakeo1.jpg

It's an awful lot like the kitchen we want to build.

Comments

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Ha! That's perfect! What's the lower space between the oven and the stovetop?

Googling suggests the Carmel Mission dates from 1770 or 1771, but there's nothing in the technology there that would be inappropriate, as far as I know.

[sjkasabi.livejournal.com]

OMG The Bastards even have a great big fuck off cauldron.

We REALLY need a great big fuck off cauldron.

*cries* (yes, really)

I may be a little overwrought right now. I think I need to be asleep already. Also, I need a great big fuck off cauldron. What joy can grown up saucepans bring into my life if there is not also a great big fuck off cauldron?

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear!

[mrsbrown.livejournal.com]

can you add the links to cauldrons to the wiki?

[vonstrassburg.livejournal.com]

I will see what I can do about the cauldron. There is a place near here, on military rd actually so I drive past it some days, that sells such things. I'll take some photos of what they have in stock and see what fits best.

I would like to know exactly how that cookbench is constructed -- air vents, insulating blocks, etc. That heatkit.com site has some good stuff on it, plans, step-by-step guides, etc.

[villana.livejournal.com]

How many fires do you need to have going to actually cook?

1 for the oven and 1 for the stove?? I'm confused.

oh an here's some cauldron stuff:
http://members.bettanet.net.au/~witchabilia/cauldron.htm

[mrsbrown.livejournal.com]

To cook for 20 people we think that an oven, about 4 stoves and a big fire on a hearth should be about right.

The oven gets a fire in it to heat it up. The fire is then taken out and put on the flat area to cook stews etc.

And those cauldrons are great, I think we've been thinking we were going to have to get one mailed from the US.

[vonstrassburg.livejournal.com]

My theory is that there is air circulation (grate, or similar) under the fire that is in the pits in the flat bit. If you see the period woodcuts and look carefully you will notice that the fire pits are directly over the arches, so it would be possible to build the stove top with ventilation through it. Then the fire could be kept going in the pits, rather than just shoveled from the oven all of the time. You could drop wood or charcoal in and it'd just burn.

Ooh. Hahndorf. I went there for a week one fine spring day (it was Oktoberfest). That's when I discovered that when Germans say "light beer" they mean the opposite of "dark beer". Lethal.