SC - Feast Prep Questions
Huette von Ahrens
ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 24 19:24:12 PST 2001
- --- lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
> FIRST: Last year there were plenty of industrial
> size spoons and
> ladles in the kitchen. This year... there were two
> industrial size
> spatulas. We managed to make the feast with small
> spoons we found in
> drawers and a couple wooden spoons that some of my
> helpers had
> brought.
>
> Do frequent feast cooks own a fairly extensive
> collection of BIG
> industrial style spoons and ladles? I've got average
> home kitchen
> stuff, but you need a big implement to stir 40 cups
> of frumenty to
> keep the eggs from curdling.
Lilinah,
Does the Bay Area have any 99 Cents Only stores? If
so, they are a great source for cheap [in every sense
of the word] cooking utensils. I always check the
kitchen a week or so before a banquet to see what I
need to supply myself. The 99 Cents Only stores
usually have large [about 18" long] serving &/or
slotted spoons. They are just strong enough to last
one or two banquets, if you are lucky, and don't go
thru a dishwasher well. But for a buck a piece, I
don't worry or get upset if they get broken, thrown
away or pilfered. In my cooking stores, I have about
6 of these currently. I also have 12 plastic ladles
from there. I only have 1 meat fork, because they
mangle easily. Several sets of plastic salad tongs.
I have used what they laughingly call knives. These
don't cut meat well, but are okay for chopping veggies
or cutting cakes or pies. But I throw them out after
every use as they dull quickly and don't sharpen well.
But hey! They were only a buck. Better than
bringing my expensive stuff and loosing one of them.
If you don't have a 99 Cents Only store, I could pick
up whatever you need and send it to you, if you would
like.
Huette
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