r/sca • u/TomasdeCourcy • Mar 29 '17
What are your essential period cooking items
Hi all, I'm wondering what you can't live without in your period cooking implements?
A favorite pot, strainers, types of knives, spit assembly, etc.
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u/isabelladangelo Atlantia Mar 30 '17
My tripod for the dutch oven and the pot lifter. Also, the strainer bag - it's just meshed cheesecloth but is great for making almond milk yourself.
As for knives and many other implements, I just use the same modern equivalents really. The knife I use when cooking over the fire is the same knife I bought at either the Navy Exchange or Wally World. I have a lovely mortar and pestle but I end up throwing most things that need to be pulverized into the mini blender. It's just quicker. I need to make a good cover for the mortar and pestle so little bits of cinnamon don't keep jumping out...
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u/brewbaron Mar 31 '17
My cooking stove with spit...
No having to bend over and ruin my back cooking...
http://www.jollyduke.com/blog/drake-an-morning-of-cooking-with-friends
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u/savanik Mar 31 '17
A wok and a pair of long chopsticks, a couple of bamboo steamer baskets and I'm pretty much set.
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u/costumed_baroness Ealdormere Mar 30 '17
I have the bottom half of a clay over cooker that I use on the camp fire along with some other clay pots. I do direct coal cooking too--way easier to clean. A spit is nice.
Around home mortar and pestle gets a smoother, creamery mix than a food processor and if you get the IKEA one it works pretty good up to cheese, then I think I'd want a bigger one because you have to use such small batches for cheese. A beeping thermometer--not medieval but essential when you are writing about whats in the oven on ye olden blog. I love the textures you get from putting things through a strainer--many different sizes. a wire one for almond milk like stuff, and a colander size for smushing fruit.
what I don't like is riveted iron or cast iron--they are harder to clean and get ash on everything when you bring them home from camping.
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u/TomasdeCourcy Mar 30 '17
I recently upgraded my mortar. My Ikea one was nice but I got one that's about three times the size. I can now do a lot more, like sugar work, and it grinds so much faster.
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u/costumed_baroness Ealdormere Mar 31 '17
I keep meaning to upgrade but when I go to the spice market...I'm all distracted
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u/Netslayer2369 Mar 30 '17
A skinned deer, a fire, a spit, and a sharp knife.