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Well it depends..... if you are a peasant You dont have a kitchen but you have a big pot in the middle of your 1 room house and dried food hanging on the wall. Including meat. but if your in a castle you have a giant kitchen!

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Castle Kitchens

Kitchens were the main part of the castle, without them the inhabitants couldn't eat. They were big and spacious so that the many cooks could move around and far away from the great hall for fire safety, often the food got cold on the way to the great hall, so a passage was built away from the doors to stop the wind coming through.

A kitchen would have had a big open fireplace to roast animals such as cattle on it. Over the fireplace they would also cook soups and stews in bronze, clay, silver or copper pots. They also smoked meat over the fire to preserve it.

The job of cook could be very dangerous, the fire spat and hissed and the cooking got very hot. The risk of fires was very high and this was why the kitchen was as far away from the great hall as possible. They had no chimneys so had to waft the smoke through vents in the wall, if possible, however, they cooking was done outside.

There were often many different rooms for cooking in a castle depending on the type of food that was cooked. Some kitchens had tables for chopping and setting out the food, others had spits for roasting and stewing.

On the celling would have hung utensils such as spoons, pots and pans

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