[TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:

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>Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:20:21 -0300
>From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net (on behalf of mspencer at tallships.ca (Mike Spencer))
>Subject: [TheForge]  Re: The hard cider is good... OT:  
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>> As to those wimpy enameled French AGA's -- get yourself a Vulcan
>> instead!  If the 6-burner, single-oven job below isn't enough for
>> you, they make a 12-burner double oven model as well.  And they make
>> gas as well as electric models.
>
>As recently as 40 years ago, you could still buy a cast iron,
>wood-burning range meant for the kitchens of remote lumber camps.  Two
>fireboxes, two large ovens, twelve "burners" and, in the center, a
>griddle big enough to play hockey on (presumably by tying a bacon to
>each foot?).  IIRC, warming ovens over the stove were optional.  I
>suppose with 50 or a 100 hungry lumberjacks, nothing sat around long
>enough to worry about it getting cold.
>
>
>- Mike
>
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>Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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