>>1945197When I put it in I was thinking that eating acorns without something to smash them up inside of would be hard. Grind them up, remove the shells in it, that was the idea, then put it into the canteen full of water (it's pot/pan/griddle) and then boil the tannins out, over and over until it can be eaten. De-shelling and grinding it up to a flour would be hard without something to smash it inside of, so that was the point of it. Also one would usually use wooden ones for grinding herbs, and there's those to be found too.
Anyway, if I had a kiln going from a pit of fire, making a mortar and pestle from clay would be easy. Then I'd make bricks and build an oven, that'd make the stove griddle wood stove thing useless a bit, the tent would be too after I made a small hut of bricks with a thatch roof, etc. But would I stay that long? Is there even clay? Will the wind hit the pit right to get it hot enough? Says who I'd make a kiln in the first place. It'd not BE for ceramics though. Mixing clay recipes I'd just have various bags of the differing dirts and then get it wet and kneed it like flour. You don't need to grind up the dirt, just add water if it's dry and squish it around a lot. I can't wait to live in a terracotta brick thatch roofed hut! Back to reality I'd probably leave once my tent got boring instead, though I'd like to think I would not.
