Kelly Kettles and the Practise of Zero Carbon Cooking Outdoors – Part 6, ‘Long Walks & A/P’

Ramblinactivist 2022/15, 28th April 2022

In English, ‘kettle’ comes from the Saxon ‘ketel’ – a rare ‘loan word’ into Germanic languages from the Latin ‘catallus’, a deep pan for cooking. Why think about the origin of this word?

Metal containers for boiling water are ‘ancient’; but what do you think ancient Greek (their word, ‘kotyle’) or Roman people used to heat their pans? Electricity? Kerosine? Compressed petroleum gas? Heating water is foundational to human society – a technology that defines us. How do we maintain that skill in an increasingly uncertain world?

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Chapters
00:00 Opening titles.
00:25 Introduction.
01:02 Camp-fires and consumerism.
02:02 Squeezing traditional skills out of the modern lifestyle.
03:53 Please subscribe to my channel.
04:21 ‘The Kelly Kettle’.
05:22 Using The Kelly Kettle, step-by-step.
09:45 Enough soft-sell – how much?
10:30 Take the carbon out of camping!
11:22 Closing credits.

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