stackyFACTSReigniting a hearth without matches was such a tedious, miserable nightmare that peasants just let logs dangerously smolder 24/7 inside their homes.
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Cooking essentially meant crouching dangerously close to an open raging flame while desperately trying not to set your own sleeves completely on fire.
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Without convenient flat stovetops, every heavy piece of iron cookware had to awkwardly straddle the glowing embers like a creepy metallic spider.
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Without an electric kettle, just making a cup of hot water required building a fire from scratch, hauling heavy iron, and waiting half the morning.
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Microwaves made things entirely too easy. Early snackers would take dried kernels and stir them into a pot of scorching hot sand. The intense heat would…
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You weren't actually supposed to eat the outside pastry; it functioned as medieval Tupperware designed solely to bake and hold the questionable meat inside.
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Houses just featured a gaping hole in the roof, meaning absolutely everyone constantly smelled like they spent the weekend at a miserable bonfire.
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