In medieval and early modern kitchens, the spit was the preferred way of cooking meat in a large household.

The medieval kitchen and keep are mostly intact on the inside.

But this is the room eventually we're going to use I mean not for a long time yet, as a working medieval kitchen.

It is one of the best preserved medieval kitchens in Europe, and the only substantial monastic building surviving at Glastonbury.

The Abbots Kitchen is described as "one of the best preserved medieval kitchens in Europe".

The basement course appears to be an older, possibly 14th century piece, due to its Romanesque barrel-vaulted construction, and clear architecture of a medieval kitchen.

Almond milk was also a staple of medieval kitchens because cow's milk could not keep for long without spoiling.

In the medieval kitchen the interior wall is over five metres thick, accommodating a hidden staircase and affording bearing strength to support the upper levels.

European medieval kitchens were dark, smoky, and sooty places, whence their name "smoke kitchen".

On site there is a museum, medieval kitchen, shop and restaurant and coffee house.