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BBQ anyone?


Added: Sep-22-2012 Occurred On: Sep-22-2012
By: MB-UK
In: History
Tags: how, to, make, charcoal, medieval
Location: England, United Kingdom (UK/GB) (load item map)
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  • Does anyone recognize the host? Tony Robinson = Baldrick (from the classic Blackadder comedy series). Here he is in all his thick-skulled glory:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY-rVVRZoC8

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    Posted Sep-22-2012 By 
    beer foot (92.90)

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  • Good old Tony Robinson - a national treasure ;)

    Posted Sep-22-2012 By 
    Rowhan (139.40)  

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  • It's not just how the Saxons made charcoal, but entire Europe since antiquity well into the modern age.

    Posted Sep-22-2012 By 
    Uac_mitun_ahau (241.02)

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    • @Uac_mitun_ahau I have seen large charcoal making areas outside cities in Tunisia. I doubt the Saxons were making so little at one time. Not worth the wait. Many people believe in error that our forefathers were less intellgent than we are.

      Posted Sep-22-2012 By 
      khamomil (1581.14)  

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  • 100 hours to make so little? i guess only the rich were buying that. normal ppl probably settled for good dry wood.

    Posted Sep-22-2012 By 
    Thunderscratch (371.16)

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  • next theyll make a saxophone

    Posted Sep-22-2012 By 
    rlnbns (1482.12)  

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  • That job would have sucked. But hey, there were no "I wont do nothing"-office-jobs back then, uh?

    Posted Sep-22-2012 By 
    xaxaxav (246.34)

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  • Charcoal is easy to make. You exclude oxygen in a vented container, and heat till resin/ steam is gone. Mine takes just a couple hours, not days. It's kind of weird because it almost leaves no ash when its finished.

    Posted Sep-22-2012 By 
    buttkracken (660.08)

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  • I have a cunning plan: put wood all around, cover with earth and turf and set fire inside. That'll get me out of the war!


    If they were really smart, they could have build another enclosure over the mound and smoked their fish or women.

    Posted Sep-22-2012 By 
    CargeLock (1995.62)  

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  • Fascinating, looks like a pain in the ass.

    The bloke in the hat--is that a Yorkshire accent? Not important really, I'm just curious.

    Posted Sep-22-2012 By 
    cleetusawreetus (335.20)  

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  • interesting

    Posted Sep-22-2012 By 
    Amusing (5221.18)

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  • That is true charcoal and you can get a welding heat in a charcoal fire.
    BBQ charcoal is not the same thing at all.

    Posted Sep-22-2012 By 
    Dave556 (1948.96)  

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    • @Dave556
      Not charcoal.
      Called Char.
      Charcoal is a mixture of char and coal. You can still get real char for BBQ.

      Posted Sep-22-2012 By 
      moefugger (2138.66)  

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    • @moefugger
      You are misinformed.
      What they made is charcoal, they called it charcoal as does anyone else who's knows about the stuff because that is what it is.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcoal
      https://www.google.ca/search?q=charcoal&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=making+charcoal&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=JEV&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&source=univ&tbm=vid&tbo=u&ei=E_xdUM More..

      Posted Sep-22-2012 By 
      Dave556 (1948.96)  

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    • @Dave556 It looks like Mexican charcoal which you can find in a few stores in the southwest U.S.

      Posted Sep-22-2012 By 
      TMoray1 (736.76)  

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  • 100 hours! No thanks. I'd rather have been a shrubber.

    Posted Sep-22-2012 By 
    Louse (12.74)  

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  • OMG ITS BALDRICK!!

    Posted Sep-22-2012 By 
    Baron_Kaz (331.70)  

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