[Sca-cooks] kitchen accidents

[Kirsten Houseknecht]

worked in a ktchen at a fast food (well, a bit hiigher up that that)
chain......
accidents *happen* but can be minimized by good training and care.

when they pull the vents, grill bits, and other HOT parts to be cleaned at
the end of shift you learn to avoid the metal cart they are on FAST....

also newbies tend to find out the hard way that food slicers, lemon slicers,
and etc are sharp.

even after being warned i cut off three finger nails (and luckily just
nails) trying to properly clean the blade grill from a tomato dicer....

hot things, sharp things, crowding, and working too fast tend to be a recipe
for disaster.....
Kirsten Houseknecht
Fabric Dragon
kirsten at fabricdragon.com
www.fabricdragon.com
Philadelphia, PA     USA
Trims, Amber, Jet, Jewelry, and more...

I worry about you, wear a reflective sweater...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig Jones" <drakey at internode.on.net>
To: <drakey at internode.on.net>; "Cooks within the SCA"
<sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] kitchen accidents


> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > >
> > > From: "Stefan li Rous"  I wonder why life insurance
> > > companies are so  concerned about whether
> > > > you fly a small airplane, SCUBA dive or parachute. It
> > > > sounds like working in a kitchen is more dangerous.
> > > > Hey Drakey, have you ever worked in a professional
> > > kitchen? :-) >
> >
> > I worked in MacDonalds as a teenager (3 mths between
> > graduating from the International School Bangkok and
> > starting at the Australian National University).
> >
> > I've worked in pubs (help pay for Uni - beer money) but in
> > IT after that ever since...
> >
> > I'm involved in surprisingly accident and incident free
> > kitchens in the SCA...
> >
> > Drakey - not sitting down but recovering from a rather
> > nasty rattan hit to the left buttock (no armour - just
> > hosen) from a 6'6" chunk of man-beef from the Barony of
> > Rowany...
>
> Damn... Shouldn't send out emails so early... I have never
> worked in a commercial kitchen.  Always have dreamed of
> working as a chef but I enjoy decent wages, work times, and
> work conditions too much... I love to cook but for me, just
> a hobby...
>
> D.
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