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What dinner utensils were used in Roman times?

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Most people in ancient Rome ate most of their food with spoons. A lot of it was soups and porridge. The spoons in this picture are made of bronze and bone. But a lot of Roman spoons were made of wood. Fancy rich people also used silver spoons, and forks like this bronze one. read more

The ancient Romans used pots, pans, tines, large spoons and spits. Braziers an ovens were used for"grilling" and baking. read more

Fibres were spun into threads, some as fine as a third of a millimetre, and two or more strands were twisted into string. Flax, palm fibre, rush, papyrus, and various grasses were used for coarse ropes. Two-strand ropes were sometimes doubled and redoubled, resulting in thick ropes of eight strands. read more

They were not provided at dinner parties and people brought their own knives. The Romans also used knives to cut hair The Romans made sophisticated spoon made of bone, pewter, bronze and silver. Roman spoons developed from simple bowls with a handle to thinner bowls which could come in a variety of shapes: round, oval, pointed, or flared at the front. read more

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