[Philmont]: RE: Dish cleaning 101

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how is it considered hazing? Maybe I don't understand the procedure.
I thought it was that you pour some water into your bowl or cup, swirl
it around to get the food off the sides, and then drink it. That's
hazing?
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Well that's just the thing. Its not hazing. Drinking watered down food is
no big deal to most people. Some consider it disgusting and gross. There
were a few bad Rangers who called kids sissies and forced them to drink
the watered down food. These reports got to the guys upstairs and they put
a halt to it. Its a shame because it really is the best way to teach dish
cleanup especially when combined with the 2 pot cleaning method.

For those that don't know what TRUE human sumping is, let me explain.

The official Human Sump Method: After eating your meal in your bowl/cup,
you scrape the sides with your spoon to get as most food off as possible.
You then add a tiny bit of water to help scrape more food off. This is
then drunk (it is only water and food, no soap). More water is used until
all large food particles have been cleaned from the container. This
virtually eliminates yum yum (the extra food particles left over from
dishwashing). To take it a step further, the 2 pot method can be used
just to make sure everything is nice and clean.

2 pot method: Most crews who cook their meals, put all the food in one of
the big 6 or 8 qt pots to cook/serve from. When all the food has been
eaten, some of the cooler crews will human sump this pot. Or atleast
scrape and lick the food out. This is then given water (cool or warm, it
doesn't matter) with about 2 drops of camp suds. The second 8 qt pot (the
rinse pot) is used for rinsing off the campsuds. The personal dishes are
washed in the dirty pot and rinsed in the rinse pot. Once the personal
dishes are clean, the scrubbie is then applied to the cooking pot (which
by this point should be mostly clean). After the food particles have been
loosened, this water is dumped into the sump through the sump frisbee.
The sump is a pipe in the ground that takes your waste water (from dishes)
and puts it about 3 feet down into the ground and is then dispersed along
about a 10 ft long section of PVC pipe with holes in it. Now part of the
rinse water is dumped in the cooking pot to get more food particles out by
swishing it around. Andif there are any more remaining, more water is
dumped out into the cooking pot. By the time you get to your last rinse of
the cooking pot, it should just be water, no food. Save this last bit for
the magic of the sump. The sump frisbie is removed and the glorious wire
mesh sump screen is revealed. The wookie knife (aka rubber sraper or sump
scraper) is then tapped on the screen while the crew chants "Ohhhhh sump
clump. Ohhhh sump clump" Magically, the food parts that slipped through
the frisbee will all come to gether and form a clump in the center of the
screen where the scrapper removes them to the yum yum bag. The remaining
clean dish water is then dumped over the screen to remove the remaining
smells (or many of them anyway). If a small pine or fir cone are handy,
this can then be LIGHTLY scrubbed on the screen to remove more food
particles and give the screen a nice piney fresh scent. The cone is then
tossed into the woods.

Before the next meal, dishes are then sterylized.

And that is dish washing 101, the PHILMONT way

Jason
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Retired Ranger

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Received on Mon May 5 23:08:31 2003