Food Journal: Ancient Cooking & Dining Tools

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Food Journal: Ancient Cooking & Dinning Tools
In today's world of cooking, people are used to cooking using smart coffee mugs, pressure cookers, and air fryers. While these advancements have played a critical role in simplifying the way of cooking, cooking technology has a long history. Ancient people had their way of cooking and storing food to prevent them from damage and eventually making a loss. To make the entire cooking process successful, various cultures in different time frames had their tools for cooking various foods. While numerous tools can be analyzed, this paper focuses on Tripod Cooking Vessel (Li) and Archaistic Tripod Censer (Ding) as some of the artifacts observed from The Met Fifth Avenue (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) located in New York, USA.
Tripod Cooking Vessel is one of the earliest tools in China. The tripod vessel comprises legs in a breasts-look form applied by ancient civilizations for cooking over a fire (He et al. 5). The hollow legs were exceptionally functional since their design offered a large surface area that enabled the pot to be in contact with fire efficiently and effectively. As a result, the heat was equally distributed as the food was cooked. Moreover, the pot could have aided evenly when pouring the heated liquid from its beak spout. The spout suggested a bird's beak, although the clay pellet looked like the eye of the bird enabling this vessel to be another example of the zoomorphic form. This artifact will eventually continue to be one of the tools in Chinese history.
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Title: Tripod Cooking Vessel (Li)
Date: 13th- 11th century BCE
Period: Shang dynasty
Medium: Earthenware with cord markings
Culture: China
Dimensions: 20cm
Classification: Ceramics
On the other hand, the Archaistic Tripod Censer (Ding) is designed as an archaic ding vessel. Three curve...