[Sca-cooks] cross contamination, was special diets

[Steve]

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Cross contamination is bad for many reasons.

1.  Bacterial transfer--potential food borne illnesses
2.  Ingredient transfer--people with food allergies getting  something
unexpected that they react to.  (Shellfish allergies come strongly to my mind).
3.  Meat transfer--some people do not eat meat for religious reasons and
even that much cross contamination goes against their belief.

Remember the people drawn and quartered in the post below should be packed
in salt to preserve them for the next feast so they don't go bad.

Æduin, who also believes in no bland food (subtle yes, bland no)

At 09:29 PM 01/08/2002 -0600, you wrote:


>>It also means that the kitchen staff have to be more careful with food
>>handling - ensuring that there is no cross contamination of the food with
>>anything wheat based (I've been training my crew in this - along with
>>drumming into their heads that each pot of soup/stew has it's own wooden
>>spoon and not to grab just anyone!)
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>This *should* be a given.  No cross contamination.  Period.  Anyone caught
>using a spoon for one dish into another *will* be drawn and quartered, then
>used as main meat for next Feast.
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>Seriously folks...  Master A has a pet peeve about bland food (which I
>share).  I have a pet peeve about cross contamination! :-)

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