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Encyclopedia Britannica



SPIT

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 708 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SOU-STE
SPIT , a rotating bar for roasting
meat
 , game or poultry. A spit usually has one or more prongs to which the
meat
  is fixed; in the
case
  of a
basket
 -spit it is enclosed in an oblong
basket
  of
iron
  wire. The old form of spit was fixed on hooks or upon rachets on the fire-dogs; at one end of the bar is a grooved wheel for a
chain
  connected with a smoke-
jack
  in the chimney, or some similar contrivance for turning the spit so that every surface of the meat is exposed to the fire in turn. The
jack
  was sometimes turned by a boy or a small dog trained for the purpose, the boy and the dog were equally known as turn-spits. The spits, when not in use, were placed in a spit-rack over the fireplace. These primitive arrangements eventually gave
place
  to a combined spit and mechanical roasting-jack, which was fixed to a small
crane
  projecting from the mantelpiece. The jack, which was largely of
brass
 , rotated when wound up, and the meat was hung below it immediately in front of the fire, and the
gravy
  and dripping were caught in a large shallow metal pan with a high screen to prevent the diffusion of heat. The almost universal employment in England of closed kitcheners has thrown all forms of spits and jacks into disuse, but in old-fashioned kitchens they are still sometimes seen. The more ancient forms of roasting apparatus are now much sought after by collectors.


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