Why would anyone need to pick another option? That would seduce the heck out of me
I think you can also interpret it that she wanted to hear what she missed.
Well that’s just greedy. But I’ll accept it
That’s when you slap the “one per date” card on the table;)
Smooth
She wants the recipe
Jokes on her. The recipe is iron and animal bones to make a sweet axe.
“CaN i PiCk AnOtHeR oPtIoN”
Bitch, you came looking for silver and found gold.
She recognized the gold.
She now wants his filthiest pickup line.
It better be about dead animal bones and forging too
Hey, you’re hot like a forge. Wanna bone?
(Never said it’ll gonna be good)
You don’t know if it’s good until you tried it
pick B a second time
Is this actually true? Because all the YouTube videos I’ve seen of people trying to make iron in primitive ways have the issue of too much carbon in the iron. This causes the iron to be very brittle and hard to work. The trick about making good steel is to get just the right amount of carbon.
You know you are in for a good time when you get to the chapter called “Sexual connotations”.
I’m not an expert on the field, so I’ve read the paper, but am not qualified to draw conclusions from it. But as I read it, the focus is more on the role of ritual and religion in the making of the iron. And the transfer of knowledge through this process and hypothesize the addition of the burning of bone is actually beneficial.
However they do not approach this from a material technology standpoint. So I would love for someone with knowledge on this point to chime in. It’s very interesting if the people back in the day knew how to make low carbon iron and the little bit of carbon they did add came from the burning of the bones. But as I see it the burning of the bones is more a ritual kind of thing and getting all of the carbon out of the iron is the harder thing to do, not putting the carbon in.
Bone char isn’t super high carbon, so it’s possible that either the calcium phosphate or calcium carbonate is playing a roll.
But honestly, you’re probably not getting very much of it mixed in from primitive smelting or forging methods.
Vikings also believed that drinking cod liver oil would make them stronger. Turns out, cod liver oil is high in vitamin D which mitigates seasonal depression which is kinda important in northern latitudes.
Trial and error existed before science was a thing, even if medieval academics were idiots who thought seniority was more important than observations and the reasoning used to “explain” things was often as dumb as the reasoning in the OP.
It’s how garlic and salt got a reputation of warding off evil spirits because food rotting seemed like it was caused by ghosts to people who had no idea microbes existed, and salt and garlic had anti-microbial properties, which reduced or slowed the occurrence of rot and/or mold.
Of course, from there it got taken to ridiculous levels, like people thinking a ring of salt protects them from non-existent beings or garlic frightens off other non-existent beings. But it all started from noticing that meat lasted longer for those with good access to salt (or something along those lines).
