Totally serious question. Did they have common kitchen appliances or tools that the people would rarely use? For example, I have a zucchini noodle maker and I’ve used it probably twice (the same week I got it), and I know someone who never uses their Slap Chop. Did the ancient Romans have any “trendy” but less-used kitchen gadgets?
If you owned kitchen utensils, chances were pretty good you (or whoever cooked in your household) was using them on the regular. The only one that I know of that was widespread enough to possibly fit in the “I have it and it’s gathering dust” niche would be portable grills. Give me a few minutes, I think I’ve posted a handful of examples of these I can dig up
Totally serious question. Did they have common kitchen appliances or tools that the people would rarely use? For example, I have a zucchini noodle maker and I’ve used it probably twice (the same week I got it), and I know someone who never uses their Slap Chop. Did the ancient Romans have any “trendy” but less-used kitchen gadgets?
If you owned kitchen utensils, chances were pretty good you (or whoever cooked in your household) was using them on the regular. The only one that I know of that was widespread enough to possibly fit in the “I have it and it’s gathering dust” niche would be portable grills. Give me a few minutes, I think I’ve posted a handful of examples of these I can dig up
Here are the objects being referred to as ‘craticulae’ (singular ‘craticula’), portable grills
https://lemmy.world/post/17348992
And a few examples of usage cases in a painting/reconstruction of a day at the Colosseum
https://lemmy.world/post/17348993