[Sca-cooks] food safe temperature

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Lonnie D. Harvel:
>Question for the professional foodies...
>
>Are temperatures between 35 - 42 safe for storing a couple of large, 
>cooked hams, and a sweet potato casserole in my car outside 
>overnight? We are feeding 300 homeless tomorrow and I am out of 
>space in my refrigerator. I don't want to give anyone food poisoning 
>for Christmas!

If the items are refrigerator temperature (or at least room 
temperature) already, they should be fine (just don't tell your local 
board of health, etc.) If you're thinking of taking these foods out 
of the oven and putting them in the car, it's probably a really bad 
idea. The sweet potatoes, for example, you may be able to chill by 
putting them, in their container, in a pan lower than the container, 
and running cold water through the outside pan.

Adamantius

-- 




"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la 
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them 
eat cake!"
	-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques 
Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
	-- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry 
Holt, 07/29/04