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?
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
This is so cool!
It makes my day when I can help share interesting tidbits like that!
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
It is crazy to me how recognizable these are when compared to modern cooking utensils 2,000 years later.
It’s funny how some things change radically through time, and other things it’s just like, “We hit on the best shape for this stuff early. GG no re”
