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Bánh mì is the bee’s knees!! Lolol!

Abt $2.00 for it, u’ll stuffed all day (well ya if for me :v)

Cooking with Metal

Let me ask you a simple question. How do you boil water without a pot?

One answer is that you heat up a bunch of stones and drop them into your sealed box, watertight basket, or small pool. But I am sure most of your agree its a lot easier just to put your pot over the fire and cut out the middleman.

Of course humans haven’t started smelting metal yet. The only pots you have are made of fired cermanic. They do the job, but they don’t heat up very fast, not to mention pottery cracks when constantly put over the fire like that.

You have a similar problem if I ask you how to fry something without a metal pan or a grill. Some ancient people did it by suspending a rock over a fire, but again they ran into the same problems. Rocks take a lot of time to heat up and the constant heating will cause it to crack eventually.

That is not to say that cooking without metal is imposible. Far from it. You can always stab food with a stick and hold it over the fire. You can also bury things like roots, corn, and eggs in the ashs and let them cook slow. You can bake things in stone or brick ovens, or leave it in baskets or pits in the ground to ferment.

But if you want to make rice, or soup, or fry an egg out of its shell, metal is what you use. It heats up quickly and readily, so you don’t have to burn a cord of firewood just to get the rock heated up enough you can cook on it. It doesn’t crack or break if you put it directly on the fire. Not to mention you don’t have to worry about your food having inconvient burnt spots, becuase you can put your pan close to the fire and get the heat without the flames turning the outside of your food black but leaving the inside raw.

We don’t tend to think about this aspect of metal when we talk about historical metal use. After all pots and pans are not as glorious as gold statues, iron swords, bronze sheilds, or silver medallions. But I think its important to remember that metal pots and pans make a lot of our current cusine and cooking culture possible. We certianly could never have electric ovens, stoves, or toasters without it.

Not to mention that instantly noodles would be a lot less convient if you had to heat the rock up first.