[Sca-cooks] Kitchen wear, was Very carefully not panicking...

[r.carnegie at verizon.net]

>
> This is why I wear long t-tunics and scoff at people who tell me wearing
> jeans to cook in is 'Much Safer'. We had a head cook spill hot water on
> her leg and get badly burned before she could skin out of her jeans-- I
> had the same thing happen, hitched up the tunic and undertunic, kicked off
> my shoes and stuck my leg under the cold water spigot outside. No
> blisters.
>
> - Jadwiga, who wears t-tunics and italian ren. :)

    Frankly almost all of my historic cooking has been done in period dress, often with down hearth methods (hot coals and fire).  I do not feel that my hiostoric clothing is any less safe than modern ones, and often it is safer (fire hazard issues).

Ranald de Balinhard,

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