Elephant leg hygiene
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Boobonman

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5,700 posts

221 months

Monday 28th October 2013
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Sorry if this has been asked before, but I am intrigued.

Presumably the elephant legs are left to cool overnight when the kebab shop is shut, or are they heated all the time?

Surely continual cooling then reheating has got to be a recipe for some serious bum wee?

sherman

15,194 posts

244 months

Monday 28th October 2013
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I have never seen one left half finished before. I have always seen them chopped down completely by the end of the night. I dont know what they do with the bits if they dont use them though.

Baryonyx

18,280 posts

188 months

Tuesday 29th October 2013
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And as they shave off the grey, flaccid meat from the outside of the leg as it's cooking, surely the inside must be raw? No wonder they can make you sick.

That said, there was a chippy near my ex-girlfriend's house that got through a whole leg every day. They used to run the grill at a very high temperature, meaning the outside was always crisp and juicy. It seemed to render a lot of the fat down, which would then run off. Never since have I had such a good meal from a chip shop.

Mobile Chicane

21,977 posts

241 months

Tuesday 29th October 2013
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I'd wager the good places get through several elephant legs a day.

There is no semi-cooked meat left to fester.

Wadeski

9,015 posts

242 months

Tuesday 29th October 2013
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Yes.

After 9 pints and three vodka red bulls, its definitely the doner kebab that makes you sick in the morning hehe

jogon

2,971 posts

187 months

Tuesday 29th October 2013
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http://www.bradford.gov.uk/bmdc/the_environment/en...

"If you do intend to reuse a whole doner the following day, do not leave it on the spit overnight. Cool and refrigerate the doner overnight at below 8°c. When re-heating part used doners, turn the heat on full and ensure when slicing that the cooked meat is piping hot all the way through."

Lovely.

beko1987

1,720 posts

163 months

Tuesday 29th October 2013
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Our local van goes through 2 a night sometimes. Always leaves the outside to go slightly crispy, it's never fatty and I've never been ill from it before. And I always have either an extra large donner or medium mixed (which ends up larger than the donner on its own)

obob

4,193 posts

223 months

Tuesday 29th October 2013
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Lol @ never fatty. That's all it is.

longshot

3,286 posts

227 months

Tuesday 29th October 2013
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obob said:
Lol @ never fatty. That's all it is.
That depends.
You can buy different grades of elephant leg.
Depends of how mean/generous the kebab shop is.

GreenDog

2,261 posts

221 months

Tuesday 29th October 2013
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The 'leg' is cooked from frozen and any that's unused is put in the fridge until the next day when it's reheated again on the spit. It seems to go against every bit of common sense regarding food hygiene but I don't imagine any shop throws away a half used spit. I think the OHs friend who owns a takeaway pays over £100 for a leg.

Gandahar

9,600 posts

157 months

Tuesday 29th October 2013
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Good question.

Lets face it. the initial meat supply has come through a chain where cost is the over riding factor. Then it is "cooked" by people who follow the same credence.

So how can you have you badly sourced cake and badly cooked (warmed?) cake and eat it?

Well if you just rolling out of the pub and want to eat it there and then there is not a good solution. However it has to be said that this is the best way to ever eat a doner kebab lets be honest. You are cold, you are drunk, and you are hungry. So go for it. But if you have to take it home then I would suggest you take half the meat and put it under the grill to make it crispy (and more healthy, lots of fat comes out) and then do half in the microwave so it is still soft, but you know it is cooked.

So next thing I would do is throw away that pitta bread. By this time it is too dry and it always was too thick. Instead use a wrap.

If you have soft and crispy kebab meat and wraps at home the world is your oyster. You can make Mexican salsa donners or perhaps Oyster sauce and bean sprouts/ water chestnuts which gives a Chinese bent and is very nice indeed. You could do a Phili donner with cheese for a quick and easy US style.

I guess I am giving a deconstructed view of a doner here. I think that, if you do take a doner home, then twice cooked doner is more healthy than normal and junking the pitta bread for a wrap also makes it better. That would be my mantra. I can imagine you saying, that is not a donna though, and that would be a fair point.

But if out on the town then I would not worry too much about it and just eat and enjoy it.

Beer will give you batwings of invulnerability, especially if a local hospital is within the batphone distance.


bloodorange

151 posts

212 months

Tuesday 29th October 2013
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http://www.jjfoodservice.com/

Does everyone on this thread own a kebab shop or something??

Have a little peek at this..
1x15kg 30 quid..

Do they sell all the leg everyday or if they don't,slice the rest up..
In my opinion do they fk.



Wadeski

9,015 posts

242 months

Tuesday 29th October 2013
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I remember years ago there was a documentary into kebab meat that set out to find horror stories...it actually concluded it was fine.

I prefer a shish anyway.

OzzyR1

6,353 posts

261 months

Tuesday 29th October 2013
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bloodorange said:
http://www.jjfoodservice.com/

Does everyone on this thread own a kebab shop or something??

Have a little peek at this..
1x15kg 30 quid..

Do they sell all the leg everyday or if they don't,slice the rest up..
In my opinion do they fk.
Hmm, £30 for 15kg.

Assume that supplier is making a 25% mark-up so that's about £1.50/kg of meat, or 68 pence per lb...

Must be the choice cuts!

Just as well they taste awesome hehe




steviejasp

1,646 posts

194 months

Tuesday 29th October 2013
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I had the worst food poisoning of my life from a doner. Took me twenty years before I could look at one again.

bloodorange

151 posts

212 months

Tuesday 29th October 2013
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There was some documentary years ago giving the ok..
And they taste awesome..


Close the thread..

Oh wait.. Leg hygiene?

A crisp serviette should sort that out..

steveo3002

11,200 posts

203 months

Tuesday 29th October 2013
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place i was at for a lunch time bab fetched out a a half used leg the other day

its the chicken doner things that put me right off

jogon

2,971 posts

187 months

Tuesday 29th October 2013
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steveo3002 said:
place i was at for a lunch time bab fetched out a a half used leg the other day

its the chicken doner things that put me right off
You can make your own..





Much nicer!

steveo3002

11,200 posts

203 months

Tuesday 29th October 2013
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yeah skewers sound ok

im on about these things, raw? chicken with the outside cooked bits shaved off


jogon

2,971 posts

187 months

Tuesday 29th October 2013
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I thought they must be cooked in a SousVide style method before delivery to the kebab shop confused