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| Question:
How was food cooked? |
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| Cooking pot |
| This type of pot was used for cooking, either on a gridiron or in an oven. |
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| Gridiron |
| Roman cooks may have put a gridiron like this over a charcoal fire, and then put cooking pots on top. It is rather like a modern barbecue grill. |
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| Pothanger |
| This iron pothanger would have been attached to a chain over the fireplace in the kitchen. A cauldron was then suspended from it, which may have contained a stew or boiling joints of meat. |
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| Cooking dome |
| This is part of a small clay domed oven. It was heated up with charcoal, which was removed when it was at the correct temperature for baking bread or other food. The oven entrance was blocked so that it could cook in a dry heat. |
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| Fishbourne ovens |
| These stones are all that remain of large ovens, used to cook food for the inhabitants of Fishbourne Roman Palace. |
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