SC - Passage East III - Part 1

[Craig Jones.]

Ras,

I'd consider this an Occupational Safety hazard.  I check my kitchens carefully
for:	Electrical Hazards, Gas Hazards, Slippage Areas, etc.  As the Feast
Steward, I have an obligation to do this.  The same as I have an obligation to
stop smoking and the consumption of alcohol in the kitchen.

You usually don't see people smoking in the workplace, you certainly wont find
smokers working in kitchens (at least in OECD countries) of commercial
restraunts.

I have no problems with drinkers and smokers (I am a brewer myself), but they
have no place in the Kitchen...  I would assume ashes would be sterile, but not
very tasty on my cuskynole...


Drake.


>
>I have to say that I find this whole thread rather amusing. Ashes are as 
>sterile as any thing you could possibly imagine. Second hand smoke theories 
>aside, I see no reason for the sterility question to be even considered when 
>involving cigarette smoking in this instance given that the smoker was not a 
>food handler or cook and had no opportunity to 'infect' the food with 
>bioorganic nasties spread by continuously touch ing the cigarette itself.  
>Perhaps this is just another overreaction by the nonsmoking world to a 
>personal pleasure that has for whatever bizarre reasons taken on some over 
>blown socially significant position in the scheme of things?
>
>
>Ras
>The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.- Solomon Ibn Gabirol