Some food of the better sort, cook using radiated heat from the firebox.
The reconstructed galley represents one of the two galleys that sat in the hold of the ship. Each galley a copper pot built into the top capable of holding 500 litres of water; and an enclosed fire box underneath. The wood that was used as fuel survived in the silt and we are careful to utilise similar wood; predominantly Birch coppice around 36 inches long.
It is most likely that only 200 litres or so of water were used at a time and quite possibly all the food was cooked in containers (nets, bags, pots) in the water rather than one big stew. The burning of Birch and the use of the firebox onboard a flamable ship, probably meant the firebox did not have a flue.
Our experiments have shown that, without a flue, it is highly efficiemnt and 400 litres of water can be brought to a rolling boil in lessthan 80 minutes. The lack of a flue also exposes a hot-spot just above the entrance to the firebox, which can be utilised to efficiently dangle-spit joints meat.
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