| Phred |
In article <BF5AE5E5.72EE2%catmandy@optonline.net>, Sheryl Rosen <catmandy@optonline.net> wrote:
>Phred at ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com wrote on 9/24/05 7:07 AM:
>
>> Control
>> Correct cooking to minimise spore germination and multiplication.
>> Cooked food should be held hot at 630C before consumption. Left over
>> rice should be cooled quickly and placed in the fridge.
>> </quoting>
>
>630 degrees Celsius? Is that what that says????
>
>Now I'm no expert on the Celsius scale, but I know that water boils at 100C
>and 212 Fahrenheit. For simplicity's sake, say Celsius is roughly half
>Fahrenheit, right? I can't even IMAGINE 630 degrees Celsius. 630F would be
>a pizza oven...pretty darn hot. 630C would melt steel, I think. Doesn't
>jet fuel burn about that temp? Isn't that what caused the WTC to topple on
>9/11/01?
>
>What the hell are you talking about then, holding cooked food at 630C to
>minimize spore germination?
Got ya knickers in a bit of a knot there, Sheryl? Here, lemme help:
To most, the figure which I cut and pasted from the site I mentioned
<http://www.hart.gov.uk/environ/envh.../foodpoisoning.
htm>
was simply a typo. But I do take your point, it's pretty typical of
web sites to be rather casual about their text and there's no
guarantee that figure was meant to be 63.0C as the most likely
interpretation of a most unlikely "630C". However, if you had gone to
the site you would have seen the actual value was "63[degrees]C" which
my archaic text-based newsreader managed to translate as [degrees]=0
rather than the usual superscript form of the notation. So I plead
guilty of careless proof-reading (none actually :) of a cut and paste
operation. I shall try to be more careful in future.
In the meantime, "Sheryl" reminded me of the catchy Jim Haynes' song
"Since Cheryl Went Feral" [different spelling of course -- are you
sure about that "S"? ;-)]. Full lyrics may be found about half way
down the page at <http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=64321>
(Now there's even a friggin' Feral Cheryl doll to compete with Barbie!
<http://www.feralcheryl.com.au/>)
Cheers, Phred.
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