[Sca-cooks] Cooking gone bad or the oops factor Getting Proactive

[Honour Horne-Jaruk]

Respected friends:

--- On Wed, 3/17/10, Antonia Calvo <dama.antonia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Honour Horne-Jaruk wrote:
> >      Imagine our surprise the morning
> of the event to discover that the freezer had spectacularly
> malfunctioned. Everything in it was _40 degrees below zero
> Fahrenheit_.   The guy who picked up the
> first piece 'burnt' his fingers, and, not being an idiot,
> dropped it. It was so hard it rang like a bell.
> >   
> 
> I'm quite paranoid about thawing frozen food-- if it's
> bigger than a poussin and it isn't fish, I start thawing the
> day before.  And, having seen one or two bad
> experiences had by people who froze 5kg of stew all in one
> lump, I'm *really* careful about the size and shape of the
> packages that go into the freezer.

We kept it frozen till the day of the event specifically because it was going to be transported twenty minutes to an outdoor site, and we wanted to be dead certain it had no chance to go 'off'. In retrospect, we probably should have checked the day before. However, the packages  were standard 2-3 lb. supermarket shrink-wrap.
> 
> > Debeo videre quid in capsis frigorifica
> >   
> 
> Capsa :-)
Thank you. I'll fix that. (Given the subject matter, I couldn't resist.)
> 
> 
> -- Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

Yours in service to both the Societies of which I am a member-
(Friend) Honour Horne-Jaruk, R.S.F.
Alizaundre de Brebeuf, C.O.L. S.C.A.- AKA Una the wisewoman, or That Pict

Debeo videre quid in capsa frigorifica