What's with spits?

[The Sociologist]

: You use 120 grams of wood on Grilling meat.
: You use 300 grams of meat on Grilling meat.
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: Project Grilling meat has been finished (150 grams, ending up in the inventory of xyz).

Why so inefficient? Is this a bug? I mean my character only built the spit because he/she thought it would be a more efficient way of cooking meat.

*grumble*

[The Industriallist]

Spits are supposed to be terrible. They were created because a lot of people thought it was defective to need a (iron) shovel to make outdoor meat-cooking apparatus. As such, they're at the bottom of the cooking hierarchy.

EDIT: Now you OOC know. Are you ever going to make that IC mistake again? All goes back to the machine knowledge business...

[The Sociologist]

Spits are supposed to be terrible. They were created because a lot of people thought it was defective to need a (iron) shovel to make outdoor meat-cooking apparatus. As such, they're at the bottom of the cooking hierarchy.

Well, I also think it's defective. What precisely is supposed to be the difference between a Neandertal barbecue and a modern one? Anyhow thanks for providing the stated 'rationalization', daft though it may be...

EDIT: Now you OOC know. Are you ever going to make that IC mistake again? All goes back to the machine knowledge business...

No, and I'm not going to build a 'glass oven' either in the fond expectation that it's one of those shiny modern jobs with the smooth black tops.
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[trage]

Tell me, would all your meat get cooked if you were cooking out in the open ground with the wind blowing and your fire constantly going out cook meat well, or would an oven or a pit protected against the wind do better?

[The Sociologist]

Tell me, would all your meat get cooked if you were cooking out in the open ground with the wind blowing and your fire constantly going out cook meat well, or would an oven or a pit protected against the wind do better?

A spit is not a kebab.

You also don't need an iron trowel to make a fire pit. The earliest hearths date back some 600,000 years, I believe. Finally, cooking a large animal whole is a very efficient way of utilizing it, and the only reason it isn't done more often is that it cannot fit into an oven.

Too many Americans think a barbecue requires a 'barbecue machine' because they've been brainwashed by the manufacturers of said machines. Many doubtless also believe that you cannot clean your teeth without electricity.
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[Thomas Pickert]

If you want to discuss national hygiene standards, please do that in General Discussion.

Here's not the place for such a conversation.