01-27-2021, 12:57 AM | #51 | |
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Assuming, perhaps, you want a more low-tech one, that's not lightweight, look at this: https://www.townsends.us/collections...e-c4515-p-1242 If you want a cast-iron one look at this: https://www.potjiepots.com/cast-iron-cauldron-PT1355 |
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01-27-2021, 01:43 AM | #52 | |
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Re: cauldrons
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However, if I look at the Basic Set, it lists "group basics" as including a cookpot for up to 8 party members. There doesn't seem to be any restriction on TL. I have the impression that items in GURPS are supposed to be the same price regardless of TL; so a cookpot ought to cost the same whether your society is TL1 or TL8, even if the materials are different. Of course, there is the possibility that a "cookpot" may not be available at sufficiently low TL; but I have the impression that cultures that eat grain are likely to have some way to make porridge of it, which seems to imply something like a stewpot or cauldron.
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01-27-2021, 08:35 AM | #53 |
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Re: cauldrons
A quick googling points out that cookware of some kind existed 10k plus years ago, so I would imagine at any TL that's worthy of playing you could find *something* to cook in. Even if it's hot stones boiling water, it's still cooking food in a vessel.
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01-27-2021, 11:02 AM | #54 |
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Mightn't a standard TL1 cookpot be ceramic with copper/bronze being a high status item?
As for a iron pot, I seem to recall that whilst it was possible to forge a cauldron from bloomery iron, the introduction of the blast furnace and the ability to cast really helped. IIRC cast iron cauldrons (know in the trade as Guinea kettles) were a significant item in the African trade as European iron foundries could produce bigger, better cheaper than the locals (to whom iron was not unknown). For reference, these are the sort of cauldrons that cartoons sometimes depict missionaries being boiled in ... which adds a certain irony to the whole business. |
01-27-2021, 11:12 AM | #55 | |
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If a ceramic pot is $50 for some size, a bronze pot would be either $250 or $1000. Have to figure what size goes with a typical "group basics" pot, though.
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01-27-2021, 01:42 PM | #56 | |
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Heh ... here it is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydoR...xOaN_g&index=1 ...go from about 33:19 for the cookpot. |
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01-27-2021, 02:38 PM | #57 | |
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But the problem for travellers is that earthenware is heavy and fragile, which is why indigenous peoples were so excited to be able to buy iron pots. The Roman army issued brass mess kits for example. Métis sites on Turtle Island are littered with scraps of imported tea services. So TL 1 travellers will want expensive bronze cookpots, if they can get them.
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01-28-2021, 01:07 AM | #58 | |||
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01-28-2021, 02:01 AM | #59 |
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Re: cauldrons
Soaking cracked grain overnight works, though just about everyone with other options (such as boiling it, turning it into bread, etc.) preferred those other options.
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01-28-2021, 02:04 AM | #60 |
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Re: cauldrons
Yep. "You can live on it, but it tastes like..."
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