[Sca-cooks] Re: OOPS! 12th night feast

[Denise Wolff]

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From: "Mark S. Harris" <MarkSHarris at austin.rr.com>
Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
To: SCA-Cooks maillist SCA-Cooks <SCA-Cooks at ansteorra.org>
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Re: OOPS! 12th night feast
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:30:11 -0600

>>>>12 people or more. the clean up will kill you.
That certainly would have improved things. You are right on there not being 
enough hot water. I'd forgotten that problem. More cloth towels would have 
helped as well. Even if the kids hadn't soaked several of them playing in 
the water, there still wouldn't have been enough. The paper towels didn't 
quite seem sufficient, but maybe that is the answer. There were lots of pans 
and trays and steam pans to dry off.<<<<

***Lesson learned years ago. when buying paper towels- don't scimp on cost. 
What you save in pennies add up when you need more than you thought you 
needed because they either fall apart or don't absorb well

_and-

Invest in a large amount of cheap drying cloths (just for this purpose). I 
just fill a bag with the overused ones and throw them in the washer-with 
bleach after the event is over. save them for the next event in the group 
gear.

<<<By the way, no one answered my questions about what to do with pots of 
bad food, leftover glop etc. What is supposed to go down the drains? What 
gets put in the trash? And if the latter, how do you package it? Plastic 
bags full of unsolidified pudding or whatever, seem to be rather unwieldy 
and likely to burst at the wrong time. And even gallon cans of glop are 
likely to be a mess in the dumpster, even if you have enough cans.Stefan>>>

*** Drain off the liquids in the sink (unless especially greasy- then 
disposing requires either alot of hot water and dishsoap, or reserve to a 
fixed container- which can be put in the freezer- so it congeals. Dispose of 
this when it does-not at the event most likely).
"Double bag" the semi solid remains and place in the can.

Hope this helps,
Andrea MacIntyre
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