[Sca-cooks] Lackeys and Refrigeration

[Elaine Koogler]

What we do is to freeze as much of our food before going as possible.  We
keep all of the food stuff in one cooler, and use blocks of ice in that
cooler.  To start off with, we freeze containers of water (gallon jugs,
usually) and put those in the freezer (has the added advantage of giving us
water we can drink when it thaws).  Another thing we discovered...keep a
white/light colored heavy towel spread on top of the cooler, and keep
coolers in the shade.

Kiri
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christine Seelye-King" <kingstaste at mindspring.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 1:01 AM
Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] Lackeys and Refrigeration


> We have a young man who makes most of his money at War by doing daily ice
> runs.  This year we were down a hill and it proved more of a challenge for
> him (that, and the 116 degree heat the first week) :o
> Freezing some things ahead and keeping one cooler for storage is helpful.
> Keeping one cooler for drink ice only so the others don't get opened as
> much.  One can rent a deep freeze up there that has the electronics taken
> out, and keep a lot of the frozen foods inside it.  It takes more ice to
> start, but keeps it longer.
> Buy the blocks of ice, they last much longer.
> Christianna
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org
> > [mailto:sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of Marian
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 12:32 AM
> > To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> > Subject: [Sca-cooks] Lackeys and Refrigeration
> >
> >
> > Greetings all,
> >
> >   So, how do other people handle refrigeration at Pennsic?
> >
> >   Last year, with three main people for our kitchen[1], we had a
> > persistent problem of thinking someone else got the ice and a
> > great deal of our food spoiled.  (Ras, gallantly saved us from
> > eating food court one night with an absolutely delicious chicken
> > sausage thing...)
> >
> >   The dish washing wasn't as bad an issue[2], because of
> > lingering memories of the food hygeine horrors with the people
> > we stayed with at Pennsic 29.
> >
> >   Do you hire a lackey?  Set up a schedule and make sure
> > everyone sticks to it?  Whine loudly?  Dig a hole in the ground
> > and partially bury your coolers?  Wait until the ice melts and
> > the food spoils and eat dinner elsewhere?
> >
> > -M
> >
> > [1] We had a landlord/tenant relationship and there were
> > multiple kitchens in camp and some people who preferred food
> > court to cooking.
> > [2] Though it was an issue, since we all hated to do it.
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