A Gorean kitchen is unlike an Earth kitchen.
The kitchen of Korat is set up as follows:
There are large shelving units just as you enter the kitchen, holding serving dishes, horns, cups, goblets, and bowls. Under the counter tops there are more shelves where the platters, trays, plates and a drawer of cutlery. Upon the counter is two jars one of glass reeds and another of natural reeds{straws} for use by FW
The pantry cupboard near the door is where you will find all spices and herbs for cooking and teas are in clay or wooden canisters each cansister clearly marked with which spice is held inside. Two large canisters one painted white and the other yellow containing the two sugars. As well as all other dry ingredients such as flours, grains, black wine beans, and tea leaves. A wire basket hanging beside the cupboard displays washed fruits.
In the center of the room is a large preparation table, there you will find cutting boards and cutting stones. Beneath the left side counter are all the cleaning equipment for slaves.
There is a large closet that holds cleaning supplies mops, brooms, repcloths, beeswax, soap flakes, potpourri, and oils. In another closet linens and silks of every description also salves and medicines made up in advance are stored.
Underneath the main counter are the cooking pots, trays, tins, and utensils - all on the bottom shelf. The shelf on top of the cooking things contains already open sacks and baskets of vegetables that were found in the coolery.
Hearth: The main hearth is in kitchen it has two large rotisseries and a flat pan that sits on a rack under them these spits are used to roast meats. Kettles hang from hooks in varying sizes the largest holding water. Others holding black wine and paga. There may be in some Homes a smaller hearth in the main sitting room with all size kettles hanging from hooks keeping warm, ready to be served.
Cold Room: The cold room is a large room with heavy door. That hold a vast amount of food and drink ...On the bottom shelf large cuts of the bosk, tarsk and verr. All seasoned and basted with marinade to be cooked. On the shelf above the huge roasts are whole vulos already plucked and gutted, other meats grace the shelf above, during hunting season, quarters of tabuk, plucked and gutted tumit ready for stuffing and many fish. Shelves at the back wall are laden with dairy, fruit and vegetables. On the bottom shelf are sacks and baskets of the various vegetables, waiting to be placed underneath the counter. Suls, onions, kes, kort, tur pah, cabbage, carrot, radish, peas and beans. On the shelf above contains a variety of fruit ready to be displayed in the fruit bowl upon the counter Ramberries, apricots, dates, larmas, tospit, melons, plums, red fruit, and ta grapes. Also is a box of mushrooms and a pail of turian olives. The dairy products on the shelf above, the bosk butter freshly churned stored in a huge wooden bowl beside it lays a butter scraper to dollop into smaller bowls as needed, also pitchers of bosk milk, pails of clotted bosk cream, and wheels of verr and bosk cheeses. a clay crock contains honey, and other crocks of smaller size contain fresh jams . beside the pitchers of milk are bowls of ice shards Bottles of kalana and ta wine sit on the shelves. There are casks of paga, ale, mead etc upon the back wall.
To the back of the servery sits smaller casks of paga, sul paga, mead, ale. There are also two big barrels of water. All casks sit above the ground on a wooden skid, so that the vessel be it tankard, bowl or goblet will fit under spigot. There is also a wine rack with a vast variety of wines and liquors.
