SC - Feast hall lighting (wasRe: under cooked chicken)

[Michael Newton]

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From: "Lee-Gwen" <piglet006 at globalfreeway.com.au>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 7:15 PM
Subject: under cooked chicken (was Re: SC - alcohol revisited)


> ----- Original Message -----
> From:  Anahita
>
> > However, under cooked whole chickens seem to be a recurrent SCA feast
<snip>
> I was doing something else, the message came back to the kitchen that some
> of the chicken was still quite pink inside!  Ooops!  I raced out into the
> hall and, in my best herald's voice made the appropriate announcement
> (something to the effect of "stop eating that chicken, it is not properly
> cooked and return all chickens to the kitchen pronto").  Oddly enough, I
was
> told by someone that I should have been less ... overt, shall we say ...
> about the uncooked chicken *sigh*.
>
This is one of the reasons I don't like candle lit feast halls. You can't
tell if the meat is fully cooked or not. A little artificial illumination is
not a bad thing. Now I understand the need for ambience and such, but a
fully candled Chandelier provided as much light as some lower watt bulbs do
now.  Food poisioning is not a fun thing to endure.  I was unfortunate
enough to suffer through this after a feast in Calontir. It only happened
once, most Calontir and I am sure SCA in General feast are poison free.

Thorbjorn