stackyFACTSWithout 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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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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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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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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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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The original slow cooker literally just consisted of throwing a bunch of hot rocks and raw meat into a dirt pit and completely burying it for hours.
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