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Watercolor illustration of a modern Metsovo dairy ripening room with pale cheese rounds on wooden shelving; the sources do not identify the pictured variety or document the separate smoking room.
Built structures · Place

Metsovo dairy smoking facility

The Baron Tossizza Foundation’s Metsovo cheese factory combines cheesemaking and ripening, with Metsovone smoked after its maturation. Sources document the room used for ripening but not the smoking chamber’s design.

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Smokehouses and smoke rooms
Metsovo
An illustrated convex metal saj griddle supported above a small bed of embers.
Equipment

Saj

A portable convex metal griddle used for thin flatbreads. Surveyed forms are about 50 cm across and set over embers; regional names and modern heat sources vary.

Baking surfaces and griddles
Jordan
Editorial illustration comparing a coopered wooden feta barrel, shown as the primary traditional form, with a separate rectangular metal brine tin; producer-specific examples, not a universal blueprint.
Equipment

Feta ripening barrel and metal tin

Two portable vessels documented for feta maturation: a coopered wooden barrel used with salted cheese and brine, and a rectangular metal tin used with cheese in brine. They differ in construction and packing.

Barrels and casks
Kalavryta
Illustration of a large Minoan-style terracotta pithos with broad shoulders, a narrowed mouth, relief bands and small handles, shown empty in a plain stone storeroom.
Equipment

Pithos

A pithos is a large ceramic storage jar documented in Minoan palatial storerooms and later Aegean settings. Its clay body, broad shoulder and high capacity suited bulk storage, while individual forms and uses varied by place and period.

Jars, pots and crocks
Crete