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Explanation: One of the earliest steam engines (a ‘steam jack’) was invented by a Turkish polymath in the 16th century AD for the purpose of… spinning meat to be perfectly evenly roasted. The PERFECT kebab!
Europe around this same period also had developed a method of ensuring even roasting of meat… breeding dogs with small legs and having them run in wheels, which would spin the spit.
Mechanics vs. biotech. Human history is sometimes weird af.
Later, around ~1700 AD, steam engines would be developed in Britain for draining mines, which is a bit more economically useful.
which is a bit more economically useful.
My stomach disagrees
“Mining can fill your stomach.”
“Explain”
“Plentiful metal and fuel can make MANY cooking utensils”
“WOOHOO!”
Does this have anything to do with the image I saw earlier with the dog running in the cage to turn the spit in a medieval inn?
lmao, I posted it after checking to see if I could find any good illustrations of turnspit dogs. I couldn’t really find something of the quality I was looking for, but that drawing was contemporary with the depicted turnspit dog, so I supposed it was as close as I was to get on short notice.
That was 19th century though, I believe. Insane how late things can persist!
Woof!
Ancient Romans build a steam engine, but it was just a toy.
Wasn’t it the Greeks?
That’s what I thought, but when I looked it up it turned out to be Romans
Meat spin baby
Hrm, I wonder what will pop up if I duckdckgo that?
Der Gerät brät Kebab gleichmäßig.
