I've agreed to help out at the school summer fayre and have agreed to do teh BBQ.
There will be sausages and burgers. Burgers are easy to cook fast and cook through, but sausages have to be properly cooked.
Given that we will have about 250 people wanting food my idea is to use the school kitchen and cook the sausages through before finishing/browning them off on the BBQ. That way no-one gets food poisoning and we serve people nice and fast with safe food.
One lass says that this is dangerous as we will be 'reheating' the sausages. My argument is that this is fine as what can happen to a cooked sausage in the 20 minutes between it being cooked through in the oven and then browned on the grill. If you had a bowl of chilli that went cold cos the phone rang, you'd reheat it with no worries. When exactly are the bacteria supposed to have time to regrow after the cooking takes place ?
It's leaving food after reheating and *before* eating that is dangerous as you are providing a nice warm place for bacteria to multiply but this takes time and can't happen in just 20 minutes can it ?
Is my thinking right here ?
There will be sausages and burgers. Burgers are easy to cook fast and cook through, but sausages have to be properly cooked.
Given that we will have about 250 people wanting food my idea is to use the school kitchen and cook the sausages through before finishing/browning them off on the BBQ. That way no-one gets food poisoning and we serve people nice and fast with safe food.
One lass says that this is dangerous as we will be 'reheating' the sausages. My argument is that this is fine as what can happen to a cooked sausage in the 20 minutes between it being cooked through in the oven and then browned on the grill. If you had a bowl of chilli that went cold cos the phone rang, you'd reheat it with no worries. When exactly are the bacteria supposed to have time to regrow after the cooking takes place ?
It's leaving food after reheating and *before* eating that is dangerous as you are providing a nice warm place for bacteria to multiply but this takes time and can't happen in just 20 minutes can it ?
Is my thinking right here ?