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Is this a relic of the past or a useful adaptation from the past?

How to make a container of wood - kadushku, they knew even in ancient Rome. And the name is derived from the Latin word meaning "bucket". According to the device, a kadushka is a sealed container, the walls of which are made of vertically standing boards, jewelry fitted to each other and fixed with hoops. The latter can be both metal and wooden.

The bottom of the tub is also a set of wooden planks. Unlike the barrel, the caskets do not close tightly from above, their lid is like a pan. It would seem that in the days of glass, metal and plastic, wooden utensils are an anachronism, but, strangely enough, it is recently again beginning to gain popularity.

Why kadushka

Since ancient times, a wooden kadushka was used for pickling . This is due to many factors. When salting, leaven or the urination of many products rich in acid, such as, for example, tomatoes, apples or cabbage, fairly active chemicals are formed. And they, in turn, interacting with the walls of containers of metal or plastic, spoil the taste of products and even saturate them with carcinogens and other harmful compounds.

Completely another thing - a tree. It is not only friendly with any products, but, on the contrary, is able to adsorb unwanted elements for our body.

And in some cases, and first of all it is connected with the production of alcoholic beverages, the material of the walls of wooden containers sates alcohol with unique tannins, making it a unique drink. This is how the unusual taste of such famous alcoholic products as cognac, whiskey, elite French port wine is created ...

But, not touching the elite or exotic products, it is enough to try the crispy salted in oak cucumber or cabbage to understand what distinguishes the tree from metal or plastic.

Birches

However, the tree is different from the tree. For home canning, the birch vat is often used. This is due to the lack of tannins in the chemical composition, such a natural neutrality, coupled with good strength properties of birch wood.

Birch vats are indispensable for the washing of apples, sauerkraut, pickles of cucumbers and tomatoes. Long, until the spring, stored in a birch tank salted black mushrooms, red-haired or freckles. Even snowballs, if you believe the famous Soviet singer E. Hil, you can salt in such a tub.

Oak barrels are also very common, but in them, due to the presence of tannic and astringent substances, it is impossible to store some chemically active products, for example, honey. But the birch cask is ideal for this.

Care of wooden utensils

But no matter how good a wooden kadushka, it is, nevertheless, not a plastic bucket that, after use, can be tossed into a barn or a cellar and not remembered about it until the next harvest season. These dishes require care.

To remove from the wood and cracks between the plaques the remains of last year's pickles and restore the tightness of the container after drying, the tub is soaked. If it has dried out strongly and the water does not hold in it, it must be immersed in water completely for several days. After the tightness of the tub is restored, it is washed with a washcloth and steamed for sterilization with steep boiling water.

In the off-season barrels, kadushki, other wooden utensils are rinsed, well dried and stored in a place in a place inaccessible to the sun.

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