Kettle
A kettle is a large pot that is mostly used as a cookware . Such kettles are used for cooking laundry, water and food on a stove or on a stove fire . In the case of shallower vessels, one usually speaks of pans or saucepans . In contrast, a kettle itself contains a heating element.
Word origin
The word “boiler” goes back to the vulgar Latin catillus “bowl”, diminutive of catīnus “pot, crucible, bowl, water container on the fire engine”, which was borrowed from the Germanic tribes as * katilaz : Old High German chez (z) il > Middle High German kezzel , "Kessel, Kupferkessel", Middle English chetel , Old Norse ketíll (from English kettle ), and other forms.
In technical terminology, the word boiler expressly stands for pressure vessel - for example for steam boilers , gas boilers and boilers in a heating system. In the kitchen area this meaning can be found in the whistling kettle .
history
Before the introduction of modern kitchen stoves , most of the food was prepared in kettles over an open fire. These kettles either stood on a tripod or hung on hooks over the fireplace. The carrier for the kettles ran across the open hearth; one or more chains of different lengths were attached to this. In order to be able to move the kettle horizontally, there were kettle swings (rotating beams) that were attached to the wall or next to the stove. These crane-like frames mostly consisted of wooden beams. Sometimes there were also iron swivel arms.
In the past, the kettles were made of iron , copper or bronze ( Battersea kettles ) and provided with a bracket or handle for hanging over fire places. Some of the kettles also had feet so that they could be placed directly in the embers of the hearth fire. Special large boilers were also firmly walled in in kitchens; they were used for cooking sauerkraut , large amounts of water or meat after slaughter, for example . Large copper cheese kettles were used in the dairy industry.
Boilers were also permanently installed and heatable in the communal wash houses , in which boiled laundry could be made. The fictional witch's cauldron that occurs in mythological literature and fairy tales is derived from this .
The tinker was one of the historic wandering professions who soldered the pewter, copper and iron dishes . The word Katzelmacher (disrespectful for “southerners”) is derived from this profession .
use
The kettle is a cookware that is mainly used today in large kitchens , but also when camping , for example as a crock pot . The field cooker , colloquially known as the “goulash cannon”, also consists of one or more kettles. For example, soups, potatoes, pasta and other things are cooked in large quantities. Cooking kettles are now available in gas and electric versions:
- Gas version: The boiler is heated with water, which is heated or brought to a boil by a gas flame in a double boiler wall. The resulting water vapor heats the contents of the kettle.
- Electric version: The boiler is heated by an electric heater and works in a similar way to the gas version.
In the case of boilers in large kitchens, the boiling time can be from half an hour to two hours. They are available in sizes from 50 to approx. 400 liters.
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- ↑ Duden: The dictionary of origin, Etymology of the German language. (= Duden. Volume 7). Duden publishing house. P. 340.
- ^ TF Hoad: English Etymology. Oxford University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-19-283098-8 , p. 252.
- ↑ a b Gertrud Benker: In old kitchens. Setup, device, culinary art. Callwey Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-7667-0815-5 , p. 50 ff.