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I agree tab. I got a mixed so it definitely could have been the chicken.

Also have tingling skin like a fever. Definitely food poisoning.

This is turning into a baaaad time.

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Arent they supposed to shave the meat and cook it on a grill these days before it goes on the kebab? I know alot of places in QLD are doing that..

Plus most times the Beef/Lamb is processed anyway.. It's like eating shaved luncheon meat that got cooked..

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You're right, SDP.

I go to a lot of kebab places, and they all fry the meat a bit before serving on the bread... it seems like it's a requirement, if they all do it.
They all also heat the entire kebab inside it's foil on a sandwich press... not sure if that is also a legal requirement :P

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Not all of them use the foil.. And I can guarantee the amount of times my cheese doesn't get melted that the sandwich press doesn't do much..

But yeah a few places in town here actually fry the meat in big batches and then they store it in a hot box..

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Yeah, SDP... I think the sandwich press is to make it just a little bit warmer, more than melt/cook anything... :)

As long as it's cooked well enough, straight from the spindle is fine.

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Not a requirement, and those that do it wouldn't have it on there long enough to have the desired effect in the name of food safety - it's just to caramelise the meat to add flavour.

There's also the fact that leftover spindles are taken off the grill and whacked in to the freezer only to be pulled out in the morning and given another run. :blink:

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Well, if you don't trust the workers to be sterilizing the surfaces before placing the meat on the spindle, then I'd suggest it's not worth eating there.

I recently ate from over 15 kebab places in the Melbourne CBD in an experiment to find the tastiest one... Never felt sick, never had any gastric problems from any of them... This would suggest that current practices are safe (for the most part), in my opinion.

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Far more to it than sterilising the surfaces. All food has a low level of potentially harmful bacteria in it, if you allow it to grow or in the case of chicken don't raise the internal temp high enough before consumption then food poisoning can occur.

100 people could all eat the same thing and not get sick but if the conditions are right, or you've eaten other questionable stuff in the past 48 hours, then you'll end up like 2256.

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Yeah, I agree with that, with regard to bacteria. From what I can see, the risks of food poisoning are similar to eating chicken at a restaurant.

It's worth mentioning that I never ate a chicken kebab, in my experimentation. I'm much favoured towards lamb.

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