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I think a lot of other factors play into that other than the availability of metal tools.

I usually use wooden spoons when cooking.

I also think that as this will only be used occasionally I have don't have too much to worry about really. I suspect my main intake would come from handling and cleaning the brassware I have lying around the house.

Much of the advice out there seems contradictory and perhaps over cautious. We used heavy cast bronze replicas of cauldrons a lot back in the early 90s when we ran a medieval kitchen, mostly for broth, stew, pottage type dishes and never had any taint or taste issues. I suspect that any...

Just picked up a nice brass jam pan at the weekend. Cleaned up nicely and I'm happy enough to use it for boiling non acidic food like root veg for example. Not too worried about the lead content, that was usually added to brass that was intended for machining work, but I did wonder about the...

I've not put you on ignore, I've just been doing things far more interesting than listening to your whining. If you cannot tell how much you are irritating people from the responses you are getting, then, as I mentioned before, you seem to lack the social skills that I would expect from a...

Excellent. There are just so many nice things to make in the Hillary Stewart books.

Good work.

Having been here a while I would have to say that the majority of members on this forum are very willing to pass on their skills, both online and in person at the various meet ups that have been arranged through the forum and otherwise. After half a century of outdoor activity I learn new things...

I think far too much importance is placed upon the need for an axe or a crowbar/woodie knife for splitting wood. I. I often don't need to split wood anyway, I usually just burn it as is. Fire is a great tool for processing wood. 2. Human beings existed for a very long time without metal tools...

Interestingly some of the Viking Age bows had iron spikes on their tips. Not ideal as a fighting weapon but would have been very handy in the first heat of a skirmish. LARP wise I always had to keep the bow out of the way because it wasn't padded of course. I had forgotten the arrows were...

Back in my LARP days when I regularly used a longbow I used to carry my bow with three or four arrows in my left hand. The rest of my quiver was low slung on my back so the fletchings did not rise above my head while breaking through brush. I generally carried a longsword at my left hip. The...

I'm not going to watch 40 minutes of that but my first impression of the guy is that he doesn't know much about his own subject. For a start he is wearing a ridiculously long sword over his shoulder that he could not possibly draw. Fail... I have met many people like him in my years graduating...

I think things get much easier below -10°c personally, especially when cold camping. I am not a fan of heated tents, I find they get in the way of adapting to the conditions.

One of the big challenges we have to going light on our Arctic trips is that we can no longer rely on temperatures being below -10°c. As such, we need to kit for the cold wet snow conditions we typically get in the UK as well as the cold dry snow conditions we would normally expect in Boreal...

I'm surprised you even need to ask...

That is a really interesting idea. Might look into that myself.

Reminds me of something that happened in an inner city school Debs was teaching at a few years back. She had sent the kids out into the yard, which had a few bushes around the edge to see if they could find any insects and one of them came back with a shield bug of some kind. Debs looked it...

We had lots of them flying around where we were at the Wilderness Gathering. Camped at the swampy end of the lake we expected to be eaten alive by mozzies but we only had one bite between the three of us I think.

It is a while since light weight was my way of operating. These days it tends to be the opposite but when I was younger I cut back my camping gear so that I could carry more photographic equipment. I started by making a list of the items I needed then looking at the list to work out the...