/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19819096
To clarify, it is functional and built in a time when it was actually used daily.

It just takes ages to get hot and it heats up the house to hellish levels if used in the summer. Boiling huge amounts of water is where it excels. It is good for boiling juice, heating water for cleaning, making stocks..

Boiling mushrooms is a good example of a use case. You need to boil certain mushrooms to remove toxins, and it takes about 40 liters of boiling water per bucket of these mushrooms to prepare them for the freezer. That is 4 stock pots of water per bucket, because you can fit half a bucket in at a time, and I boil them twice.

I picked about 15 buckets of mushrooms this year. If I used the electric stove, I would still be boiling them in January... 2025