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Previously on "Why has no-one thought of cookisto before?"

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    more than 5 times a month according to the WI.
    So the trick is, is to get your guests to help with the cooking.

    So then they would have cooked part of their own dinner in your house.

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    Don't you need a food hygiene certificate to sell food to the public?
    Excellent! MrsBP has one of those already. Any competition and I will report em to the council.....

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  • TykeMerc
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    more than 5 times a month according to the WI.
    Ye gods! I was taking the mick a bit with that comment, depressing that there are regulations around that. I admit I'm not shocked though.

    This country has become obsessed with regulations.

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by TykeMerc View Post
    Odds are if you cook a dinner party for friends here you're dancing close to breaching some regs or other.
    more than 5 times a month according to the WI.

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  • hyperD
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    Originally posted by TykeMerc View Post
    In the UK probably yes with a whole raft of other rules and legislation to make it totally impractical, Odds are if you cook a dinner party for friends here you're dancing close to breaching some regs or other. Maybe in Euroland too, but if there are similar requirements no doubt they're completely ignored by everyone.
    Yes, the "supper club/pay cash" stuff is under the radar but it does leave you very exposed if someone makes a claim that you gave them food poisoning, whether you did or not.

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  • hyperD
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    Don't you need a food hygiene certificate to sell food to the public?
    Yes, hence the remark.

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  • TykeMerc
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    Don't you need a food hygiene certificate to sell food to the public?
    In the UK probably yes with a whole raft of other rules and legislation to make it totally impractical, Odds are if you cook a dinner party for friends here you're dancing close to breaching some regs or other. Maybe in Euroland too, but if there are similar requirements no doubt they're completely ignored by everyone.

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by hyperD View Post
    It's a good idea but as said above, won't work in the UK as the Food Standards Agency will be all over it like a flurry of vomiting bluebottles.
    Don't you need a food hygiene certificate to sell food to the public?

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  • Old Hack
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    In Spain, there are loads of people who have turned their homes into cheap restaurants.

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  • hyperD
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    you have never been to a greek party?

    They make Indian weddings look like a famine.
    WVS.

    Why make a light salad with feta when a roasted whole lamb and a metric tonne of moussaka will do! I swear GF#1 will be the end of me.

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  • Halo Jones
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    I always cook too much; then I freeze it & have “ready meals” for during the week.

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  • DaveB
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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by Pondlife View Post
    I'm still struggling with this concept of "cooking too much"
    you have never been to a greek party?

    They make Indian weddings look like a famine.

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  • Pondlife
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    I'm still struggling with this concept of "cooking too much"

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  • hyperD
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    It's a good idea but as said above, won't work in the UK as the Food Standards Agency will be all over it like a flurry of vomiting bluebottles.

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