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:8. Cold. Cold has always been used as many houses had a pantry in the past. Yet the greatest advance in this regard was cold storage, dry chambers or refrigerators, as a much lower temperature could be thus achieved.
== Flour mills, errotak ==
=== Introduction ===
Until the 1950s, flour mills were an essential aspect of the livestock-farming economy of our villages. This explains the large number of mills that were to be found throughout the Basque Country.
=== Types of mills, errota motak ===
The mill was called ''errota'', ''igara'', ''eihera'', ''bolu'' in Basque. In Spanish, there were different words to describe the mills such as ''aceña'', ''tahona'' (driven by mules).
The importance of these industries overtime is reflected in the many places names to be found here and which refer to the mills that stood there. This phenomena is to be found throughout the Basque Country, both in Basque (Bolueta, Bolibar, Bolunburu, Igarabidea, Igarabide, Errotaldea, etc.) and in Spanish (Molinar, Molinedo, Las Aceñas, Molinejo, etc.).
These small hydraulic industries underwent adaptations overtime. Some of them had previously been forges, ''burdinolak'', where iron ore was worked until the mid-19th century. Others became power stations that supplied electricity to nearly population centres. This adaptations took place in the early decades of the 20th century. Others became sawmills.
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