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cooking and water containers?
Feb 19th, 2005 at 6:19pm
 
I know this is not a weapon but I thoult I might beable to post it here any way.
     I was wandering what primitive man used for water containers and cooking. thanks
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Re: cooking and water containers?
Reply #1 - Feb 20th, 2005 at 3:58am
 
the most  thing at hand i can figure out is clay pottery, still in use for lot of cooking here. as well as for water container to keep drinking water  cold even in summertime we use a clay container we name "botijo",there are lot of designs of botijos (check this addy to see a lot of them) http://www.fontun.com/~aytotoralguzmanes/museo1.html
Botijos are sort of a comunal drink water dispenser, ppl have to drink pouring the water from the narrow hole without touching  the water exit... and yes, we have a comunal glass wine dispenser named "porron" you have to drink the same way Grin http://www.la-mediterranea.com/shop/collection.asp?sesid=*43D8TQ0TWM&collection=...
for a lighter water container (i.e. carying water in a walking journey, old people used dry kind of pumpkin (Lagenaria Siceraria)with a cork plug
in the Kalahari Desert they use ostrich eggs as water containersfor carrying it and setting buried water caches..
i've also seen TV documentals people using bamboo as water containers, also green bamboo over the fire for boiling water and cooking. also some people use big leaves to wrap the food and cook it in ground ovens  burying the packed food with pre-heated rocks (Polinesia, Papua New Guinea) they wrap together a lot of different food, meat, vegetables, roots... a biiiig meal for lot of people.
Also you can boil water in a non fire resistant container  adding pre-heated rocks.
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Reply #2 - Feb 20th, 2005 at 6:43am
 
Water containers are often made of the inside of animals, or bark.  There are lots of nice containers that can be made of birch bark, from simple folded pails to winnowing trays and that kind of thing.  Other bark works as well, of course.  In the southwest USA, often very very tightly coiled baskets would be used to hold water, or less tightly woven ones with a coating of resin on the inside to waterproof them.
  Obviously, you can't place any of these things over an open fire, for boiling, that kind of thing.  That's why we use a technique called "stone boiling", whereby you fill the container with water, heat some rocks in a fire, and then put them in the water.  By repeatedly taking rocks out, putting new hot rocks in, you can quickly bring water to the boil without screwing up the container.  (You need a special tool to lift the cold rocks out of the water, but it's simply made.)  You can use the same method without water to stir fry, by putting the ingredients in the dish with the hot rocks and stirring them around, so that everything cooks.
  You don't really need a container, because you can just steam everything under a fire if you have to, or roast it on sticks in the embers.  (That's my favourite method, to just skewer everything, meat, insects, roots, whatever, on a long stick and put it in the embers of a fire, preferably of alder wood.)
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Reply #3 - Feb 21st, 2005 at 9:51am
 
i made a water bottel out of leather and sealed it up with pitch and bees wax.  it works ok. ive allso used gords to hold water.
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