[Sca-cooks] OT Curious - catering for large numbers

[Elaine Koogler]

Yes, Master Robear's kitchen is absolutely amazing.  He used it to cook the
meat dish for the Atlantian 20 Year.  He also hauled it back up to Dun
Carraig last fall to cook all of the meat (he was head cook) for Atlantian
Coronation.  Mmmmmmmm.....REALLY good stuff.  Which is a large part of why
he's now "Master"...

Kiri

PS:  I will contact him and ask if he will share the information...he
literally built the whole thing himself..and, last I talked to him, hasn't
yet gotten all of the "bells and whistles" on it yet!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lis" <liontamr at ptd.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] OT Curious - catering for large numbers


> Good Master Chirhart,
>
> I had the great fortune to camp, at Pennsic,  next-door to the famous
> Atlantian barbecue-mobile belonging to Robert of the French Quarter. To
> quote Jimmy Carter, "I have lusted in my heart." For those who don't know,
> it was on a trailer which also had a stainless steel double sink with
> running water, counter tops made with bowling-alley lane wood (new),
> cast-iron stove burners, storage, and then there was the barbecue---made
> from a (new) 250 gallon oil drum on it's side, propane fired,  and the
> hinges lifted on hydraulic cylinders......And it all fit on a trailer that
> could be towed behind the average truck and had stabilizing legs to set it
> up level.
>
> Needless to say, I was in lust with that Pennsic Kitchen. Me, the person
> laurelled for rustic cooking.  I want one awfully bad. If I'm really nice
to
> hubby for maybe three years, then just maybe I can have one of my own to
> play with.....
>
> Is there any way to see plans/specs of that marvelous beast? Got any
> connections? Can you pull any strings?
>
> Cheers and thanks in advance
>
> Aoife, still drooling all these months later.....
>
> PS. Don't forget to add: Know your kitchen facilities in Advance to the
> below list. Oh Yeah, and Let There be Music, and free-flowing treats for
> workers/volunteers. If the best party is in the kitchen, you'll never lack
> for help. (I was Chef de Cuisine of Aethelmearc First Crown Tourney, and
> turned out a pretty good feast for 300 despite the fact that we arrived on
> site to find a ditch dug all the way around the feast hall and royalty
> cabins AND no water, gas, electricity or refrigeration. Whatever your
worst
> feast nightmare is, I lived it that weekend, with most of the known-world
> big-wigs looking on, and lived to tell the tale. Thank god for excellent
> people surrounding me. Hell, they were coming back into the kitchen for
> seconds, so it couldn't have been too bad. And no one to this day has ever
> criticized me for asking most of the known world royalty and hot-shots to
> please zip it and sit down so that I could feed them. I guess they could
> recognize a desperate woman when they saw one :) .
>
> M. Chirhart wrote:
> Keep Laughing!!!!! Be organized as humanly possible and don't turn away
> offers of help.They may have to wait by the wayside but there time will
> come. Keep laughing...  Have a good serving plan and good scullery help.
Oh
> did I mention Keep laughing.  Master chirhart kitchen steward for Atlantia
> 12th night night of 400
>
>
> P.S. KEEP LAUGHING
>
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