[Sca-cooks] Safety in the Kitchen

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 12 Jan 2004, at 8:54, Anne-Marie Rousseau wrote:

> I STRONGLY RECOMMEND natural fiber clothing and sensible no skid shoes
> for any cooking setting and REQUIRE it for outdoor cooking using any
> sort of flame. Linen is good, wool is better. (I have an old polyester
> apron I use as an example of WHY. Scared straight works good :))

This was at home, not in a feast kitchen, but I can testify that spattering oil 
from browing meat will make a nice neat hole in polyester, and will still have 
enough heat left to burn the skin underneath.  Fortunately, it was a small 
spatter.
 

Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
rcmann4 at earthlink.net