It's time for a new crazy idea

[michiexile]

The pan-european huge LARP project Dragonbane will have a village bakery. I just emailed their info-adress to find out details. If they build the oven in addition to all other things they've promised, and if the bakery group can be made large enough to facilitate a decent work load, then it might just be worth €125 to participate in that LARP...

And besides. I -am- a master baker by now.

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*thwap*

[michiexile]

Ehn.

One of the french co-organizers just got back to me on my questions. Seems that his idea of a LARP bakery is someone who sells bread manufactured or bought before the LARP starts. I am now officially Not Impressed.

Communication is still ongoing, though.

[michiexile]

Hmmmmm. I've gotten a few answers from people more in-the-know now. Not that the new answers do their job enthusing me very well.

According to the finnish co-organizer who has answered me now, they intend to build a fullsize industrial kitchen with 25l and 10l dough kneading machines. Still no info on their oven thoughts, though. Thus, they find, they will be able to keep people fed with bread good enough. Alas, though, that means that baking is an offgame activity.

I sent them some thoughts and extrapolation, claiming that with 20 people running shifts of 10, and five wellheated ovens, a bakery should be able to keep a steady flow of dough into the ovens and thus get a throughput enough to feed a 500-person LARP. This presupposes that each oven can be utilized slightly more than double the number of breads we managed, and that two people working can keep one oven filled for several hours on a row. I wouldn't see this as a very outrageous claim - and such a vision would allow for a LOT more roleplaying than an offgame kitchen will.