[Sca-cooks] maintenance questions -- feast gear

[John Kemker]

jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:

>Last fall, I managed to get appointed Shire chamberlain (just before the
>last chamberlain got sent home from Ur due to unplanned collision with a
>jeep). Yesterday being warm and sunny, I trucked over the shire storage
>unit and did the inventory. I have a couple of questions for y'all about
>group gear:
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>- what kind of marker works best on aluminum/steel trays and bowls
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An engraver.  No other marker really does the job for very long.  They 
all wear off.

>- do you have a favorite grease-cutting dish soap (I now know the one we
>used at our last event didn't work, ick)?
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My personal favorite is Palmolive.  Others prefer Dawn.

>- should wooden bowls with a finish on them be oiled?
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With a finish, no.  Without, yes.

>- anybody have a good cheap source for those composite wood bowls or some
>other substitute for soup-sized and butter-sized wooden or cheap plastic
>bowls?
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Yard Sales and Garage Sales.  (A Yard Sale is a Southern oddity 
substituting for a Garage Sale.  In Texas, we called them Garage Sales.  
In Atlanta, they're Yard Sales.  Otherwise, they're identical to each 
other.)

>- anybody have a good idea what proportion of large to small bowls one
>should have for feastgear?
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When you find out, let me know.

>-- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
>"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists certainly as love and
>generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to
>your life its highest beauty and joy." -- Francis P. Church
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