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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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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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Reigniting 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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Lacking metal pots, they simply pulled red-hot rocks from a fire and dropped them directly into water-filled squash shells until it angrily bubbled.
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Without any proper ventilation, just cooking a basic dinner guaranteed you would be weeping profusely and coughing up black soot all night long.
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Long before Tide Pods existed, the raw ammonia in week-old collected pee was considered the absolute best chemical for stripping heavy stains from fabric.
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