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Arbroath smoking barrel
The Arbroath “barrel” is a hardwood-fired smoking pit with triangular rails and a cover. Its documented form belongs to the traditional hot-smoking of haddock around Arbroath and Auchmithie, Scotland.
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Tuckers Maltings floor-malt kiln
A Tuckers Maltings kiln floor in Newton Abbot: the 1900 complex grew from two kilns to four. A 2010 photo shows wire mesh; the original floor used perforated ceramic blocks.
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Lockerbie Academy corn-drying kiln
An excavated Scottish grain-drying kiln at Lockerbie Academy, with a deep stone-lined bowl connected by a flue to a separate firepit.
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Dry grain-storage pit (Iron Age Britain)
An underground grain-storage pit is a dug cavity for keeping dry grain, distinct from raised granaries and portable silos. Iron Age British examples are archaeological interpretations; experimental forms and results varied.
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Craster kipper smoke room
A surviving nineteenth-century stone smokehouse at Craster, Northumberland. Its tall, narrow rooms, hanging racks and roof vents belong to a commercial herring-curing works; the evidence describes this listed building, not a universal smoke
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Grimsby chimney smokehouse
A brick chimney smokehouse associated with Grimsby's traditional fish-curing trade. Individual buildings varied; one working Alfred Enderby example documents tall chimney bays with smoke pits and speats for hanging fish.
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Acorn Bank grain-drying kiln
A reconstructed two-level grain-drying kiln at Acorn Bank Watermill in Temple Sowerby, Cumbria. A lower fire grate warms oats on a raised perforated floor; a baffle spreads heat, while smoke historically escaped through the roof ridge.
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Peat-fired malt kiln
A fixed malt-drying kiln at Laphroaig on Islay, where peat smoke passes through damp malt before it is fully dried.
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Scottish household bacon chimney
A domestic hearth chimney used to smoke cured meat in historical Scottish practice. It was part of the house, not a freestanding smokehouse, and the surviving chimney forms were varied.
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Wide-mouth glass vegetable fermenter
A modern wide-mouth glass jar for vegetable fermentation, often paired with a gas-release lid or airlock and follower weights. This accessory arrangement distinguishes it from general preserving jars and stoneware crocks.
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Yorkshire square
The Yorkshire square is a slate fermentation vessel and linked process system, documented in continued use at Samuel Smith’s Old Brewery in Tadcaster. Its form and operation vary by brewery.
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Wide, heavy stainless-steel preserving pan
A contemporary, wide-mouthed stainless-steel pan for heating fruit mixtures into jams, marmalades, chutneys and other preserves. Its open surface supports evaporation, while base thickness, capacity and handles vary by model.
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Borniak Smoker 150 BBQ INOX Wi-Fi
A 150-litre Wi-Fi electric smoking cabinet with a brushed stainless-steel exterior, automatic wood-chip smoke generator and 150°C maximum. Exact model BS150IWUK.
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Transport amphora
An ancient Mediterranean ceramic shipping container for wine, oil, fish products and other goods. Its handles, restricted mouth and varied bases suited closure, lifting and cargo stowage; it should not be assumed to have been a fermenter.
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Thermostat
A thermostat senses temperature and regulates heating or cooling to a chosen condition. It may be built into an appliance or supplied as a separate controller; a sensor reading describes its measured point, not every part of a batch.
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SodaStream MIX sparkling drink maker
The SodaStream MIX is a CO₂-powered bottle carbonator designed for drinks beyond water, with a locking release dial and overflow collection. This page covers the MIX model, not the broader water-focused SodaStream range.
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Slow cooker
An electric slow cooker warms a removable heavy crock under a lid. Stored heat aids gradual cooking, but its settings are not a universal fermentation thermostat.
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Heavy stainless-steel (nonreactive) saucepan
A modern, portable stovetop pan with a stainless-steel cooking surface for sauces and other small simmering jobs. Size, cladding, lid, compatibility and care vary by model.
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Electric pressure multicooker
A countertop electric cooker combines pressure cooking with model-specific functions such as sautéing, slow cooking, rice cooking and low-temperature programs. Settings do not transfer to pressure canning.
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Instant Pot Duo multicooker
The Instant Pot Duo is a manufactured electric multicooker with a removable inner pot, locking lid and electronic programs. A 2016 IP-DUO60/80 manual documents yogurt and jiu niang settings; later revisions may differ.
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iSi gas whipper with Rapid Infusion
The iSi Gourmet Whip fitted for Rapid Infusion uses a stainless-steel canister and a separate tool kit to extract botanical flavours into liquids under pressure.
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Stand mixer
A stand mixer is a powered mixing machine built around a stationary base, a supported bowl and a driven beater or other tool. It can stir, beat, whip and knead; particular models may also accept separate accessories for other jobs.
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Ohmic heater
An ohmic heater passes electric current through conductive food so electrical resistance generates heat inside the product.
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Hydrometer
A hydrometer floats in liquid and uses its weighted body's depth to indicate density. In brewing, readings track changing gravity, not every dissolved substance or kombucha alcohol.
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Food-rated gas whipper
A food-rated pressure canister with a dispensing head and gas-cartridge holder. Cream whippers aerate or dispense foods and, with a compatible rapid-infusion attachment, can speed botanical flavour extraction into liquid.
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KitchenAid stand mixer and food grinder
A KitchenAid stand mixer can work as a shared powered base for ordinary mixing and a separately fitted food grinder. The hub-driven grinder is a removable attachment, not a grinder built into the mixer.
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Rotary quern (Viking Age)
A rotary quern is a hand-operated mill with a runner turning over a fixed bedstone to grind grain. Scandinavian household use of rotary querns increased around the beginning of the Viking Age.
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Nooth's apparatus
Nooth’s apparatus was a three-vessel glass device for impregnating water with carbon dioxide. Its surviving late-eighteenth-century form documents an early route from laboratory gas experiments to manufactured aerated water.
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Sausage stuffer and grinder attachment
A stand-mixer attachment that grinds meat through a plate and can be reconfigured with a separate stuffer plate and tube to fill sausage casing.
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Large glass wine globe
A large, transparent, spherical borosilicate-glass vat designed for modern wine fermentation and maturation. The 220-litre Wineglobe model has a wide neck, fitted lid and support; its use and fittings vary by model.
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Household preserving pans
Open, heated pans cooked fruit into preserves before transfer to jars. Historical records document copper and enamelled cast-iron forms, while museum objects show variation in material and shape.
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Cheese press
A cheese press applies weight or mechanical force to curds in a draining vat or mould. Tiree’s wooden fiodhan, stone weights, screw presses and a documented New Zealand lever press show distinct forms, not one standard design.
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Oval coopered pig-salting trough
An open sycamore trough bound with iron hoops, recorded in use for salting pork at Penally, Wales, between 1850 and 1900.
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Salt-meat barrel
A coopered cask for curing and carrying salted meat, documented in seventeenth-century English shipboard writing. A modern reconstruction illustrates its use, not a surviving period artifact.
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Keiller nineteenth-century stoneware jars
Keiller-branded stoneware jars were commercial packages for Dundee marmalade. Collections show cylindrical forms with printed marks; sources distinguish the Dundee brand from documented Maling manufacture in Newcastle.
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Marble-stoppered bottle
A marble-stoppered bottle is a glass carbonated-drink bottle sealed by a glass marble pressed against a rubber washer. Its Codd neck holds the marble at the mouth when sealed and gives it a side pinch after opening.
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Stoneware ginger-beer bottle
A late nineteenth-century stoneware bottle for ginger beer, represented by an Aberdeen museum object dated 1850–1899. It documents beverage packaging, not a fermentation vessel or a universal bottle design.
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Burton Union
A Burton Union is a connected set of horizontal wooden beer casks, swan-neck pipes and shared troughs. Fermentation lifts yeast-rich foam into the trough; beer drains back to the casks, leaving yeast behind.