Hearth Cooking Techniques Analysis

Used in

• Chapter 1 The Rhythm of the Hearth

The rows that check it

• 4 confirmed
• 3 amended
• 3 marked for safety

• H1 amended Safety No fire is lit indoors without a chimney; wood smoke is fine particles and CO; three-stone kitchens kill through the lungs; a wood-burning house has twice the fine dust of its …
• H2 amended Safety Creosote lays down when flue gas cools below about 120 °C; a chimney fire runs at about 1,000 °C, cracks the liner and fires the roof; cures: dry wood, hot fast fires, never close …
• H4 amended Safety Bank a fire only when nothing flames; damper mostly closed; ash a finger thick over the heap; relights after eight hours
• H10 confirmed Open hearth sends 80 to 90 % of heat up the chimney and drags cold air in
• H11 confirmed Coals radiate; radiance falls with the square of distance; three heats sorted by size
• H12 confirmed Spider on three legs; Dutch oven with rimmed lid, twice the coals above as below; salamander as ancestor of the grill
• H14 confirmed Turnspit dog: bred for a wall wheel, worked in shifts, mentioned by Darwin, extinct in the 19th century; spit boy behind wet hay

In the Index

Fire and fuel Tools and their making The kitchen and its dishes Wood, willow and the cask