Yeah. To the best of my knowledge, it's always been a specialty pit usually reserved for high wind areas where a surface fire is impracticle.
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Yeah. To the best of my knowledge, it's always been a specialty pit usually reserved for high wind areas where a surface fire is impracticle.
I know of it from two other specific uses...it's the way that grain drying 'kilns' are constructed. These aren't really kilns but more bowl shaped hollows that have some kind of gridded base on which grain is put. The fire is constructed a short distance away and the hollow that drives the heat through is connected to the firepit which is connected to the grain drying area.
Oats need to be heated like this to puff up and loosen the outer layers of chaff. It's almost impossible to free the grain otherwise. Such oats are then called groats.
The other use is to create a hot fire suitable for blacksmithing (presumably why Andy was trying it out
) or for pit firing pottery.
cheers,
Toddy
Oats need to be heated like this to puff up and loosen the outer layers of chaff. It's almost impossible to free the grain otherwise. Such oats are then called groats.
The other use is to create a hot fire suitable for blacksmithing (presumably why Andy was trying it out
) or for pit firing pottery.cheers,
Toddy
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