All good ideas! Thanks Bob

Jim

"bobdrob" > wrote in message ...
> hi jim! i usually suggest this to my non-foodservice friends: make friends with a local chef ( we're easy, chat us
> up, tell us your problem, then promise us a taste..) ask him or her to take you into a professional wholesale shop. be
> specific in your needs with with a clerk & .be prepared to pay cash money. plan B would be to ask friend chef to share
> some of his catalogues and order from same - we usually get supply catalogues regularly. plan 3: bribe friend chef to
> toss an appropriate vessel into the dustbin, as i believe you call them, some late night whilst you're wandering past
> his back door . ;^) maybe friend chef chef knows of a concern about to close up shop... HTH regards, bob
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> "jim" > wrote in message ...
>>I hear with a little jealousy how accessible bulk equipment seems to be in the US for home food and drink making. In
>>England it seems that any larger cookware at a real premium.
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>> I would love to find an affordable supplier of 5 gallon boiling pots suitable for heating all my must water in one
>> hit. Currently the most I can boil at a time is about 6 litres and I fear that I am 'cooking' my fruit for too long
>> when I add in four consecutive loads of boiling water over an hour or so - plus its a real hassle.
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>> Does anyone know of any UK suppliers of suitable cookware which comes at a reasonable price? Otherwise, suggestions
>> as to likely catering supply outlets would be a boon. I have googled this and am still reasearching, but most of the
>> stuff I find is for stand alone electric boilers - I'd be happy enough to get one which would sit on my hob.
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>> Many thanks for suggestions, Jim
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