In ancient Persia, engineers mastered a sustainable technology to store ice throughout the scorching

[livingston]

In ancient Persia, engineers mastered a sustainable technology to store ice throughout the scorching summer
In the hot, dry deserts of Ancient Persia in around 400 B.C.E, long before the invention of electricity, engineers mastered a sustainable technology to store ice throughout the scorching summer.

In ancient Persia, engineers mastered a sustainable technology to store ice throughout the scorching summer





Yakhchāl were ancient evaporation coolers with a doomed shape above ground and subterranean storage space for ice, food, and other perishables. This effective method of storing ice in the middle of the desert may seem complex, but in reality, it was a simple technique that even the poorest could afford.

 

[GOYABEAN]

cool simple technology but in today's pc world the building board committee wouldn't approve it

 

[GOPerfect]

Some of the best tech comes from yesteryear!

 

[meketrefe]

I have a cellar that is the same temperature all year no matter the weather outside.
In the hot summer I go there and take a nap sorrounded by wonderful cured salted meats and wine barrels.

 

[Deplorable Me]

I think it's called a beer cooler.

 

[Podmonkey]

Its the same principle the cooling towers of coal and nuclear power plants use.

 

[pjzwtl]

I have a cellar that is the same temperature all year no matter the weather outside.
In the hot summer I go there and take a nap sorrounded by wonderful cured salted meats and wine barrels.

Dude if I had that I would pork up real quick or should I say become gravitationally challenged?

 

[ArmedCorgi]

That's cool. Maybe now they can try not living like its the fucking dark ages.

 

[meketrefe]

Dude if I had that I would pork up real quick or should I say become gravitationally challenged?

lol..

I think it is the smell between the cured meats and the wine barrels that is hypnotizing.
Even after a nice lunch it is hard not to be gravitating towards the cutting board...

Home made red wine. We buy the grapes from other regions because the warmer climates produce
better quality red wine. Cannot produce decent red wine in a cold climate region.

I think it is one of my favorites meals. Go down and eat in the seller.
We even put a table to play cards afterwards. LOL

And yes! I bake my own bread too! ...don't like the shit they sell everywhere.
One cannot buy good bread anywhere in America so if you want the real deal you have to brew your own starter and bake like the good old days.
The thing is there are awesome flours but the problem is the lack of people who knows how to do it right. So the only solution is to get down and dirty. It is not an easy thing. It took a lot of trial
and error. I think what helped the most was what I learned from my Mom and her wisdom who was a master chef.

In the summer house I have an earth oven and I have been thinking to make one at home.

Right before the worse of the winter we ate Babe who roasted that oven for 3 hrs.

Hungry yet? lol

 

[holdover]

Im a newbie but I made 60 gallons of wine this year , my basement smells awesome I haven't got the brix thing down yet but its still pretty good

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

I have a cellar that is the same temperature all year no matter the weather outside.
In the hot summer I go there and take a nap sorrounded by wonderful cured salted meats and wine barrels.

"It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again."

 

[kev74]

lol..

I think it is the smell between the cured meats and the wine barrels that is hypnotizing.
Even after a nice lunch it is hard not to be gravitating towards the cutting board...

Home made red wine. We buy the grapes from other regions because the warmer climates produce
better quality red wine. Cannot produce decent red wine in a cold climate region.

I think it is one of my favorites meals. Go down and eat in the seller.
We even put a table to play cards afterwards. LOL

And yes! I bake my own bread too! ...don't like the shit they sell everywhere.
One cannot buy good bread anywhere in America so if you want the real deal you have to brew your own starter and bake like the good old days.
The thing is there are awesome flours but the problem is the lack of people who knows how to do it right. So the only solution is to get down and dirty. It is not an easy thing. It took a lot of trial
and error. I think what helped the most was what I learned from my Mom and her wisdom who was a master chef.

In the summer house I have an earth oven and I have been thinking to make one at home.

Right before the worse of the winter we ate Babe who roasted that oven for 3 hrs.

Hungry yet? lol

It looks like mek is a man who likes some pork now and again.

 

[meketrefe]

It looks like mek is a man who likes some pork now and again.

I don't trust people who do not like dogs ... or bacon. lol