Brasero (heater)

Modernly, certain deposits of burning embers, such as the upper compartment of solid fuel heating boilers, are called braseros.

In pre-Columbian America, there are numerous similar artifacts, from the Aztec "tlecaxitl" of religious uses, to the braseros-fireplaces studied by instructor Raúl Ybarra.

And in South America, especially in the Río de la Plata, a brasero model with barbecue functions is still preserved.

[8] In the Episcopal Museum of Vic there is a brasero dating back to the 14th century which nevertheless corresponds to a typology of Romanesque roots or even earlier.

For people who spent a lot of time sitting on the camilla, some kind of very uncomfortable spots or blisters appeared on their legs.

Using the traditional cisco/charcoal/pitch brasero required a place to store the coal, a place to dispose of the ashes, and was a very dirty task for a small city dwelling, and with economic development there were who preferred the use of the electric brasero for the convenience of having a plug and even a switch on the cable, which allowed for immediate heat and without coal embers that could generate a fire from a spark or CO poisoning produced by a bad combustion of these.

Currently, there are still people, especially very old people and in villages, who continue to use this type of braseros, and, unfortunately, every year there are many deaths, from fires or from inhaling carbon dioxide due to poor combustion of the coal or the fire itself by a resistance that becomes red hot in the case of electric braseros and that burns when something comes into contact with it.