Italian archaeologists have discovered a fragment of a non-stick Roman pan in the vicinity of Naples, which proves that in antiquity, comfort in the kitchen was taken care of. <\/p>\n
The south of Italy was famous for the production of such products, which were called Cumanae testa<\/em> or Cumanae patellae<\/em> (pans from the city of Cumae). They are also mentioned in the 1st-century Roman cookbook “De Re Coquinaria”, recommending that they be used in the preparation of chicken stews.<\/p>\n Until 1975 the Cumae pans remained a mystery. It was then that the Italian archaeologist and historian Giuseppe Pucci proposed that the clay pots with a red non-slip coating – known in the scientific community as “Pompeian Red Ware” – should be considered as Cumanae testae.<\/em> Now other specialists: Marco Giglio, Giovanni Borriello and Stefano Iavarone found evidence to support Pucci’s thesis. Scientists found a hole filled with fragments of cooking utensils (about 50,000 fragments of lids, pots, and pans – of various sizes and thicknesses), which date back to the reign of Octavian Augustus<\/a> and Tiberius<\/a> (27 BCE – 37 CE). This place was a dumpster of broken dishes for a pottery factory; this, in turn, proves that non-stick pans were manufactured at Cumae. Many of the fragments have a thick red coating on the inside to prevent food<\/a> from sticking. In this way, it was possible to prepare a meat stew perfectly.<\/p>\n Preliminary analysis shows that the clay from which the vessels were made in Cumae is different from that used in Pompeii<\/a>. The study also proves that the Cumae pans were of much higher quality than the so-called. Pompeian Red Ware.<\/p>\n Mass production of high-quality pots and pans promoted Cumae to the entire world at that time. Kitchen utensils were exported to Spain, North Africa<\/a>, Gaul, Germany and Great Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36470,"template":"","class_list":["post-105979","odkrycia-rzymskie","type-odkrycia-rzymskie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie\/105979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/odkrycia-rzymskie"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie\/105979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}