SC - Feeding servers

[RoseThstle@aol.com]

This practice of clean as you cook gives all the more credence to asking
a group of OTHER people come in afterwards to clean what is left.  If I
am in the kitchen cooking for 12 hours, and cleaning as I go, I believe
that someone else needs to provide additional assistance to my staff to
cleanup the remnants of service and leftovers.  We've done our 12 hours
cook/clean.  It does not seem unreasonable to ask assistance after that.

On a related note, I look at offering to help clean in this light.  When
I am not preparing or helping in the kitchen, I see offering after the
feast to help clean as a respectful gesture to the kitcheners in
appreciation of their day-long efforts.  I think it is one of then most
honorable accolades that people can afford a feast staff.  If you
enjoyed and appreciated being fed an enormous meal for $5 or so, being
prepared by your comerades .... go lend a hand for 30 minutes helping
put the kitchen to rest.  If everyone showed similar appreciation, no on
would have to sped more than 30 minutes for the task.

Another related note...I do not believe that my home Barony of over 200
people on the roles (some 50 to 80 active) should have to send Heralds
to ask for help.  We should have people enough to perform these tasks
without that.  We should afford an opportunity for others to get some
skin in the game and feel a part, but not demand volunteers from the
paying crowd.  Just my humble opinions.

niccolo difrancesco

snowfire at mail.snet.net wrote:
> 
> >>Mari said...
> >> we have implemented the process of "Clean as you cook"
> 
> >I  was taught to do this growing up, and do it myself, and am
> >attempting to teach my lord and the children to do this at home. I
> >can't cook if dirty items start building up.  Either I need an item or
> >I need the space it is all sitting in.
> 
> I can't imagine not doing this given the emormous amounts being cooked and
> the space available in some of the event kitchens.  The "clean as you cook"
> philosophy was drilled into me by my "O level" school cookery teacher in
> Britain.  She had this "battle-axe" kind of personality, and insisted that
> work areas etc were kept meticulously clean and ordered all the time.
> (Sometimes I wondered if we spend more time wiping things down and putting
> utensils in a row, than in actually cooking!).
> 
> But the drill comes in handy.  At Simplefare a couple of weeks ago (I was
> helping in the kitchen), I found myself automatically scouting out the dirty
> stuff, keeping on top of the clutter, washing countertops etc. which seemed
> to help everyone a great deal.  I think too that if everything's ordered (not
> always possible I know), people feel calmer and can concentrate better than
> in the middle of a mess because they feel the situation is more in control.
> 
> I also seemed to find myself handing utensils to the cooks in the "knife,
> scalpel, sutures etc..." mode!  But that's another story! ;-)
> 
> Elysant
> 
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