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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LOL!!
its not like they have teeth to eat it with
yet his goose is cooked
´How did this end up in the Smokey back room??´
Because the discussion is heated. Like the pie shold have been.
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.
Twenty years as a chef AND THIS.... makes him a better chef.
Oh-kay.
Oh crap, then I should have been dead a long time ago.
I guess whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
tepid at best, with some peanuts in an RC.
But I didn’t eat the pie.
Mod has a queasy stomach.
ROFL!
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.
I remember that
Oh yeah, penis pop tarts are da bomb!
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