Day 086 - 09 Feb 95 - Page 33
1 it for active purposes it will, in fact, be 350?
2 A. It will be even at 350. Throughout the day, if you
3 wanted to check the temperature of the grill surface,
4 you would put it in a particular area and you would expect
5 it at 350.
6
7 Q. Rightly or wrongly, if I give you an example, suppose the
8 time was 10 minutes after turning it on -- just suppose --
9 heat is set so the dial comes up to 350?
10 A. Yes.
11
12 Q. 10 minutes after turn on, you test it; if you have got
13 these temperatures in the appropriate positions then by the
14 time you start cooking, whenever that is, later (because
15 for all I know you have a provision to turn it on at least
16 half an hour before you start cooking or whatever), then
17 you can be confident, is this what you are saying ---
18 A. Yes.
19
20 Q. -- I am not asking whether it is right, but this is what
21 you are saying, then it will be 350 throughout the day's
22 cooking?
23 A. Yes, on this calibration, what you would alter if it
24 was not would be the air shutter at the front, to change
25 the flow of gas. You would not change the 350 setting.
26
27 Q. No. But you would change the air shutter so that your
28 temperatures were the appropriate ones across the plate?
29 A. Yes.
30
31 Q. Is that right? That is what you are saying?
32 A. Yes, that is my recollection of this procedure three
33 years ago, yes.
34
35 Q. I mean, if you are not confident about any part of that you
36 should say so.
37 A. I am confident about the procedure of setting the air
38 flows and that that is why you have that variation.
39 I believe there is a different procedure -- throughout the
40 day you would just put the grill surface probe on to ensure
41 that it was 350.
42
43 MS. STEEL: How long after switching it on would you do this
44 test?
45 A. I think it is something like about 45 minutes that you
46 would do this particular air flow test.
47
48 Q. Right.
49 A. So the grill is getting up to temperature. You switch
50 it on, it is cold, and then at particular timing, it will
51 be fully functional. This gas flow check had to be done at
52 a particular moment in time.
53
54 Q. How long after that would you start cooking the burgers?
55 A. Quite shortly after that.
56
57 Q. More or less straightaway, as long as the check was OK
58 according to that?
59 A. Once a grill was up to temperature you could start
60 cooking.
