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Old 02-05-2009, 18:46
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I just finished eating a kebab and it was so nice and I was wondering about the following:

What do kebab shops do at the end of the night when they have half a kebab still on the rotisserie?

Do they throw it out or do they stick in a fridge for the following day. If they stick it in the fridge and re heat it the following day wouldn't that be dangerous (salmonella).
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Old 02-05-2009, 18:55
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I shudder to think....
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Old 02-05-2009, 18:57
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They just turn the burners off.. If they stuck a hot kebab in the fridge it would warm the fridge up and that would be even worse for food poisoning
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Old 02-05-2009, 19:28
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If they have a blast chill on the premises then they could chill it quickly and serve it the next day, as long as they only do it once.

They wouldn't be allowed to refrigerate the meat as that doesn't bring the temp down quick enough.
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Old 03-05-2009, 10:22
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It's all made from a elephant's trunk anyway. They just go down to the zoo and chop of another one
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Old 03-05-2009, 19:51
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Funny you should ask that question, as we were talking about the same thing at work the other day.

We couldn't decide on what they do with it though. We should all go and look through the window of our local ones, when it is closed and see if it is still on the rotisserie, then we'll know
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Old 04-05-2009, 16:11
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They trim off any of the meat on the outside that is cooked and then keep the rest chilled.
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Old 05-05-2009, 20:34
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If the remnants of the night before are left to cool down properly, should we assume that as the meat is so close to the burner as it turns, any bugs would be killed off? I like a once in a while kebab, well actually it's when I've had an evening out with the girls and it's a real good excuse to eat something that's meant to be wrong. I buy a large one and what's left I will microwave minus the greenery next day for breakfast. Morning after pizza is equally as good. Either way, I appear to have missed out on any potential food poisoning moments.
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Old 05-05-2009, 21:41
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I just finished eating a kebab and it was so nice and I was wondering about the following:

What do kebab shops do at the end of the night when they have half a kebab still on the rotisserie?

Do they throw it out or do they stick in a fridge for the following day. If they stick it in the fridge and re heat it the following day wouldn't that be dangerous (salmonella).
Salmonella is killed off at a pretty low temperature, though. Far lower than the heat those rotisseries give out. And with kebabs, its only the meat on the outside that's been subjected to that heat which is used. So even if there was Salmonella in the meat in the first place, by the time it's cooked there'd be little chance of you getting food posoning. Unless the rotisserie is broken, of course.

I'd imagine the main kind of food poisoning people get from eating at kebab shops comes from the salad, when the people chopping up the veg haven't abided by proper sanitation rules.
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Old 05-05-2009, 22:01
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The OP makes a sound and valid point, but TBH, I've always been completely 'ar$eholed' when ever eating a 'large donner, no salad thanks'. Heavens knows what bugs I've had running through my system over the years!!! Guess the alcohol acts as some kind of antiseptic.
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Old 06-05-2009, 19:15
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Re-reading this kebab talk, I want one. Bugger the potential dangers, I'm going to have one on Friday as an end of the week treat.
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Old 06-05-2009, 19:31
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It's all made from a elephant's trunk anyway. They just go down to the zoo and chop of another one
My dad always calls then elephants legs.....
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