A Food Safe
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A wall-hanging cabinet for keeping the bugs off of food. It's based on photos of one from western France dated to the 19th Century. I think the screen needs a different material than I used.
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If you put some candy in there, you should improve the security concept to make it child secure (But I'm not sure if the glass front will be considered to be torture) .
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I agree Carsten. I was thinking it wouldn't keep food safe from kids or even some critters. The front and sides are wire screen to let the smells out, I suppose.
Maybe it needs a lock.
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Brings back memories...
My grandmother had one of them in her pantry.
It was called a 'meat-safe'.
It was used for meat, butter, cream etc.
That was when there were no fridges [==no electricity!] but proper pantries were small 'walk-in' rooms, made with solid insulated walls, marble shelves for coolness and a mesh-covered small open window on the north wall to ventilate/cool them and stop the sun.
It hangs up on the wall to be less accessible to pesky critters.
Its elevated position and mesh-screens on three sides allow a flow of cooling air over the contents without admitting blow-files.
Ours also had a middle wire-grid shelf for 'double-decker' storage
It'd also have a milk-cooler in it, overlaid with a damp cloth that would kept the milk cold by evaporation. -
That kind of stuff worked pretty well, too, didn't it?
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Sure did work OK.
They improved my grandmother's Georgian farmhouse by building an outside toilet connected to a new sewer, when I was about six...
Before that there was an 'earth-closet' at the end of the large garden - she grew great vegetables !
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