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Building the perfect alchemical brick furnace

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A standard oven simply wouldn't do for serious esoteric cooking. Alchemists designed elaborate, towering kilns that were supposed to perfectly mimic the incubation heat of a living body. They were incredibly difficult to maintain and exploded frequently.

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