Washing up area; used for cleaning dishes and kitchen tools. The lowest-ranking scullery boys sleep on sacks in the scullery itself, so they can be woken before dawn to heat water and scrub pots. Scullery maids scour the pots with sand or crushed eggshells because soap is too precious for the greasy pans even imperial ones. Enormous copper cauldrons in the scullery simmer almost continuously for washing linens and scalding kitchen tools. Because it handles scraps and dishwashing, its a hotbed for rats as a result the Tongs have created an elaborate trap system assigned to the task.
