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Hi, forumates.
As this is third time posting my Irori life to this board, I'm feeling some reluctance to post this.
I visit this place almost regularly, the last time I visit was Last year of May.
As I posted before, Irori is an indoor fire pit situated on the floor of living/dining room of traditionally built Japanese houses.
It maybe almost obvious for people visiting this board but I must say repeatedly that it's an extremely great thing to have open fire indoors.
Beside keeping and watching open fire is a lot of fun,
we can cook lots of food simultaneously as open fire can produce much more amount of heat compared to everyday cooking heaters.
This is very nice to spend time with people more than a number of couple of families.
When I was born, Irori was not in use in most part of Japan, which means I'm not looking back my old memories to visit this place.
I cannot find good words to explain this feeling but I feel something dear with this style of living.
The place is an abondaned village several decades ago, still mentained well by the volunteers formarly lived in this place.
This time we had no communication. Absolutely nothing as the only telephone (a pay phone) was broken, with a note is postered
telling no schedule to repair it is given
.
This is a good news for us as we choosed to go to remote place.
As the place is about 1150 meters (3800 ft.) of height. Spring comes delayed.
Pics of the inside of the house.
This time I went with my daughter (twenty months old).
The last shot shows Jizai-Kagi (adjustable pot hanger) hanging from the roof.
Jizai-Kagi is a device to adjust the height of pot hang above the open fire, an essential equipment for Irori life.
With it we can easily adjust the distance between the pot and the fire and amount of heat given to the pot.
Here's a link to a video of cooking by the Irori taken by my wife.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaTmkahsNyc
Along side with stew in the pot, we can grill various things with carcoal fire.
Besides Irori, we also have Hearth.
Generally rice was cooked by the Hearth in Japan several decades ago.
As the hearth has a closed combustion chamber, it is more energy efficient
compared to Irori. But as you can see it has no adjustable hanger, cooking well needs more trick.
Thanks for looking and reading.
As this is third time posting my Irori life to this board, I'm feeling some reluctance to post this.
I visit this place almost regularly, the last time I visit was Last year of May.
As I posted before, Irori is an indoor fire pit situated on the floor of living/dining room of traditionally built Japanese houses.
It maybe almost obvious for people visiting this board but I must say repeatedly that it's an extremely great thing to have open fire indoors.
Beside keeping and watching open fire is a lot of fun,
we can cook lots of food simultaneously as open fire can produce much more amount of heat compared to everyday cooking heaters.
This is very nice to spend time with people more than a number of couple of families.
When I was born, Irori was not in use in most part of Japan, which means I'm not looking back my old memories to visit this place.
I cannot find good words to explain this feeling but I feel something dear with this style of living.
The place is an abondaned village several decades ago, still mentained well by the volunteers formarly lived in this place.
This time we had no communication. Absolutely nothing as the only telephone (a pay phone) was broken, with a note is postered
telling no schedule to repair it is given
.This is a good news for us as we choosed to go to remote place.
As the place is about 1150 meters (3800 ft.) of height. Spring comes delayed.
Pics of the inside of the house.
This time I went with my daughter (twenty months old).
The last shot shows Jizai-Kagi (adjustable pot hanger) hanging from the roof.
Jizai-Kagi is a device to adjust the height of pot hang above the open fire, an essential equipment for Irori life.
With it we can easily adjust the distance between the pot and the fire and amount of heat given to the pot.
Here's a link to a video of cooking by the Irori taken by my wife.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaTmkahsNyc
Along side with stew in the pot, we can grill various things with carcoal fire.
Besides Irori, we also have Hearth.
Generally rice was cooked by the Hearth in Japan several decades ago.
As the hearth has a closed combustion chamber, it is more energy efficient
compared to Irori. But as you can see it has no adjustable hanger, cooking well needs more trick.
Thanks for looking and reading.
