SC - Feast Prep Questions

[Huette von Ahrens]

- --- 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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