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Chef sentenced after one killed and 31 left ill by undercooked shepherd’s pie
the guardian ^

Posted on 12/02/2021 1:38:14 PM PST by algore

A church harvest supper at a village pub ended in tragedy when one of the congregation was killed and 31 others suffered food poisoning after eating a shepherd’s pie filled with mince that had been incorrectly prepared by a rushing chef.

Elizabeth Neuman, 92, repeatedly vomited after eating the pie and died while other parishioners became “unpleasantly ill” and three of those attending only escaped because they were vegetarians, Reading crown court heard.

The cook, John Croucher, who at the time was head chef at the Crewe Arms in the Northamptonshire village of Hinton-in-the-Hedges, was given a four-month jail sentence, suspended for 12 months, after admitting a charge of contravening food regulations.

Defending himself in court, Croucher, 40, said: “I hate to say it, I really hate to say it, but I think I was rushed. I was rushing.” He said he had worked in kitchens for 20 years and was now “a better chef” because of the “horrible, horrible circumstance”.

He added: “Remorse is an understatement. This is something I will never forget. Because of it, I am a better chef and it is just a shame the cost of it had to be what it was.”

Billingham, of Northampton, who admitted three charges of contravening food regulations was fined £9,000 and ordered to pay £1,000 court costs. His company was fined almost £3,000.

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: britishcooking; britishnoncooking; dead; food; foodpoisoning; mincepie; offal; pie; shepherdpie
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41 posted on 12/02/2021 2:42:29 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

😄


42 posted on 12/02/2021 2:44:31 PM PST by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: Boogieman

LOL!!


43 posted on 12/02/2021 2:47:47 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: Bullish

its not like they have teeth to eat it with


44 posted on 12/02/2021 2:53:35 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Hieronymus

yet his goose is cooked


45 posted on 12/02/2021 2:54:14 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: mylife

´How did this end up in the Smokey back room??´

Because the discussion is heated. Like the pie shold have been.


46 posted on 12/02/2021 3:03:31 PM PST by algore
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To: algore

A basic thing in a restaurant kitchen is never to seal up a hot or even warm dish and put it in the cooler.

A soup or any dish will become toxic if you cover it and refrigerate it before it cools. Supposedly, it’s because of the bacteria laden steam condensation that drops down if it’s in plastic wrap.

But even if it’s not, a hot or warm dish raises the temperature in the walk in and this can mean that other things will spoil too.

So, yes, he was in a hurry and probably his restaurant would have been upset had he thrown out the dish or left it on the counter to cool all the way...but what he did wrong was basic Cooking 101 What Not To Do.

This applies to home cooking as well, btw.


47 posted on 12/02/2021 3:07:59 PM PST by livius
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To: algore

Twenty years as a chef AND THIS.... makes him a better chef.

Oh-kay.


48 posted on 12/02/2021 3:08:42 PM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: livius

Oh crap, then I should have been dead a long time ago.

I guess whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.


49 posted on 12/02/2021 3:11:03 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: algore

tepid at best, with some peanuts in an RC.


50 posted on 12/02/2021 3:14:55 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: algore

But I didn’t eat the pie.


51 posted on 12/02/2021 3:23:14 PM PST by dgbrown
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To: mylife

Mod has a queasy stomach.


52 posted on 12/02/2021 3:31:50 PM PST by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: Boogieman

ROFL!


53 posted on 12/02/2021 3:33:57 PM PST by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: Az Joe
One run we got a new chef who had been in the surface Navy all his career, and this was his first time on a submarine 70-day patrol. He cooked like shit!

Earl Lanier, the USN cook from the Destroyermen series.

He actually made a mean sammy, though. The pigboat guys had a rougher time in Destroyermen, but they came through big time.

54 posted on 12/02/2021 4:07:33 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: larrytown
Because of it, I am a better chef...

That one made me laugh a little too.
55 posted on 12/02/2021 4:46:57 PM PST by SpaceBar
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56 posted on 12/02/2021 5:19:21 PM PST by moovova
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To: mware

I remember that


57 posted on 12/02/2021 7:43:10 PM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: mylife

Oh yeah, penis pop tarts are da bomb!


58 posted on 12/07/2021 1:38:56 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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