The Log
Every claim the books print, and what the checking found
One row for each claim: what it says, where it stands in the chapter, what it must be checked against, and what the check found. The rows that could hurt someone if they were wrong are marked and come first.
- 537 confirmed
- 163 amended
- 42 partly confirmed
- 90 unresolved
- 7 dropped
- 206 marked for safety
How to read a row
- The claim
- What the book prints, in its own words or close to them.
- Where
- The chapter and the movement or the Bench protocol it stands in.
- To check against
- What would settle it: a standard text, a rule, a museum, a practitioner.
- The verdict
- confirmed, the source agrees. amended, the book’s figure was corrected. partly confirmed, some of it holds. unresolved, no source found yet. dropped, the claim was taken out. open, not yet checked.
- Safety
- A row marked for safety could hurt someone if it were wrong. Those are checked first.
FEASTING after the FALL
- 537 confirmed
- 163 amended
- 42 partly confirmed
- 90 unresolved
- 7 dropped
- 206 marked for safety
| Chapter | Rows | Safety | What the checking found | Not settled |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preface: Setting the Table | 3 | |||
| 1 The Rhythm of the Hearth | 40 | 8 | ||
| 2 The City Is a Mine | 47 | 12 | 4 | |
| 3 The Knife | 50 | 10 | 4 | |
| 4 Copper, Wood and Stone | 54 | 14 | 3 | |
| 5 Making Ground | 52 | 12 | 4 | |
| 6 The Five-Year Conversation | 77 | 12 | 10 | |
| 7 The Orchard and the Wild | 50 | 12 | 8 | |
| 8 The Cow, the Pig and the Hen | 80 | 20 | 13 | |
| 9 The Hardest Chapter | 62 | 22 | 8 | |
| 10 The Water | 58 | 20 | 18 | |
| 11 Salt | 24 | 7 | 1 | |
| 12 Cold and Dark | 26 | 8 | 1 | |
| 13 Sour | 15 | 4 | 1 | |
| 14 Milk into Cheese | 43 | 10 | 8 | |
| 15 Drink | 52 | 12 | 21 | |
| 17 The Table | 60 | 15 | 10 | |
| 18 The Village | 46 | 8 | 18 |
Safety rows not yet settled 28
The rows that could hurt someone if they were wrong, and that the checking has not yet closed. They come first in every pass.
- D2 unresolved Discard the first 50 ml of every 10 litres of wash as heads; run a solvent-smelling spirit again cutting the first 100 ml
- I10 unresolved Cast iron drum cracks when water hits it hot or the fire is built against one side; never quench in the drum
- I11 unresolved Manganese (Hadfield) steel: non-magnetic, unhardenable, destroys files and saws; digger teeth, crusher jaws, rail crossings
- K3 unresolved As-quenched blade is glass-hard and can shatter if dropped; temper within the hour or it can crack on the bench by itself
- K7 unresolved Scythe hung up, never laid down, never carried edge forward
- K8 unresolved Steel struck below dull red (650 °C) cracks inside and breaks in the quench
- W2 unresolved Lead-tin solder must be hacksawed off before any heat: liquid lead penetrates hot copper (hot shortness)
- W52 unresolved Hot-dip tinning: 15 to 20 kg tin bath, 25 mm flux blanket of tallow with sal ammoniac, dwell 60 to 90 s; the same document offers 80 % ZnCl2 / 20 % NH4Cl and bars zinc chloride from food surfaces …
- O11 unresolved Grafting knife cuts toward the thumb; cut away from the body
- A74 unresolved Limewater: 1 kg slaked lime per 15 l boiled cooled hard water, lime into water; eggs under 24 to 36 h, unwashed, candled, points down, 5 to 8 cm cover, lard film, 8 to 12 °C, 8 to 12 months; whites …
- B12 unresolved Hoist: gambrel through hind tendons, four-fall block and tackle, beam or larch tripod rated for a tonne, three people on the rope; a gutted 500 kg cow still ~300 kg; rope, blocks and beam load-tested …
- B14 unresolved Fat fire: tallow catches at ~200 °C and above, a wood fire under an unwatched kettle reaches it in minutes; lid or sand, never water (fireball); kettle never left, never more than a third full, no …
- B17 unresolved Kochwurst safety: blood sausage cooked at 80 °C never boiling 60–90 min until it weeps clear; keeps a week in the cold, longer smoked; bursts if boiled or filled tight; all sausage from an untested …
- B19 unresolved Lye and lime: wood-ash lye burns, eyes covered; 1 kg tallow ≈ 140 g NaOH or 200 g KOH; egg-float test (coin-width cap); slaked lime 1 kg/20 l burns eyes and skin, goggles and gloves; spent lime and …
- B21 unresolved Children behind the fence for the shot and the stick, stirring the blood, carrying the soup; not in the kitchen during rendering; every person's place fixed before the shot
- E9 unresolved Spree/Havel eel: state consumption advice on dioxins and PCBs (and recently PFAS); lean fish (pike, perch, zander) carry far less; pond fish none the household did not add
- E11 unresolved Garden pond the commonest drowning site for small children in Germany; drowns in a minute in 20 cm silently; fence 1.2 m with child-proof gate from the day it holds water
- E12 unresolved Ice: walk only on ≥ 15 cm clear black ice on still water, never on rivers, inflows, outlets or reeds, never alone; rescue from the bank with ladder, plank, pole or rope; ~10 min of useful hands at 2 …
- E17 unresolved Eel critically endangered (IUCN); glass-eel recruitment a few per cent of 1980 levels; EU Eel Regulation 1100/2007
- E19 unresolved Winter hole: never hammer on the ice (stuns fish); straw or reed bundle frozen in lets gas out; sweep snow for light
- E20 unresolved Fire outside a wooden smokehouse: single point of failure; barrel smoker fire management; never resinous wood (turpentine, tar)
- T6 unresolved Beeswax flash/ignition ~200 °C and above; render in water bath, never over a bare flame reaching a dry pot; never water on burning wax
- T7 unresolved Candle in a catching dish or stick, a hand's breadth from hangings, never left in an empty room, put out by pinch or snuffer not breath
- T10 unresolved Free alkali in finished soap burns hands and rots cloth; tongue "zap" test; cook with more fat
- T48 unresolved Pit fire under turf 650 to 850 °C; cross-draught kiln 28 h to temperature, 36 to 48 h cooling, opened only below 80 °C; quartz inversion 573 °C both ways and cristobalite trap about 220 °C on cooling …
- T59 unresolved Horn: boil 60 to 90 min, strip 18 by 4.5 cm by 3 mm in hot tallow 15 to 20 min, pressed 10 to 15 min, edge scraped to 1 mm; beaker plugged with a wooden disc (book's own); wash lukewarm only, hot …
- J6 unresolved Scythe carried blade down and behind; stone moved away from the edge; nobody inside the arc
- J8 unresolved The three narrows demand daylight-to-dark heavy labour at 490 kcal/h in June to August heat: water, salt (Ch 11's 8.5 kg is for the year), rest at midday, and the risk of heat illness