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Washing Up In Bulk A visit to the kitchens of the Empress of Britain, which is due at Wellington on Sunday in the course of a world tour, is a revellattion, and if the equipment could be reduced to household proportions what a joy it would be to the average housewife. Great steam dish-washers can handle 100 dishes at a time, and there is a special giant washer for glass. Knives, forks, spoons and other table silver are handled by a burnishing machine, which polishes them ready for use. This is just as well, as there are 31,000 pieces of silver aboard, and an average of 4000 dishes, 1500 glasses and 5000 pieces of silver are used for each meal. The little matter of cooking demands the services of 90 men. There are 12 chefs and 10 pastrycooks. For vegetables alone there are eight men, and the sole object in life for six more is to prepare tempting salads. The baker, with six assistants, turns out an amazing variety of bread and 12,000 rolls, piping hot, every morning. Fish? There are a thousand and one ways of preparing fish, but the Empress of Britain’s special cook, with three assistants, knows of one thousand and two.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 162, 5 April 1938, Page 4
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