Charcoal?

[Victoria Navarre]

Is this a craftable item or is it a drop from a specific mob that I don't know about yet?

 

[Basara]

It's either cooking or alchemy crafted, IIRC - can't remember which (and I have REALLY got to get HS on my second account some time, as I've only got smith and bowcraft on the HS-enabled account).

 

[Victoria Navarre]

Yeah,it's in the cooking menu...which I don't get. Burnt wood in cooking? I know I have burnt some cassiroles in my early days of cooking but come'on....

 

[Basara]

Cooks used to have to make their own charcoal to cook on, in medieval times.....

 

[Victoria Navarre]

That's true but I am sure they didn't use their ovens to make the charcoal. I am thinking maybe dug-out fire pits? Anyway thanks for the help on this.

 

[Petra Fyde]

I was curious enough to look it up.

"char·coal" definition: a black or dark gray form of carbon, produced by heating wood or another organic substance in an enclosed space without air. (Encarta® World English Dictionary© 1999)

Great piles of wood are carefully arranged so that once the fire is set the heat that is generated slowly "bakes" the wood, boiling off the moisture, leaving behind the hard black crusted charcoal.

 

[Victoria Navarre]

I was curious enough to look it up.

"char·coal" definition: a black or dark gray form of carbon, produced by heating wood or another organic substance in an enclosed space without air. (Encarta® World English Dictionary© 1999)

Great piles of wood are carefully arranged so that once the fire is set the heat that is generated slowly "bakes" the wood, boiling off the moisture, leaving behind the hard black crusted charcoal.

Hmmm so yeah it could be made in an oven of a sort. Probably not the same as you would put a side of beef into. Well,at least I hope not.