Overcooked or Overcured; Both Can End with Unfortunate Results
Here we are in the new year of 2010 and the holidays are now behind us. Most of us spent some time visiting family and friends. Probably eating and drinking more than we wanted to but we all know between Thanksgiving and New Years is not the most opportune time for us to start any diets.
How many of you had gone over to a someone’s house, spent the day basking in the magnificent aromas of a home cooked dinner being prepared in the kitchen? You just couldn’t wait to sit down for the meal. As the serving dishes were passed around the table, you filled your plate with all of those delicious looking sides and then came “The Bird”. You piled on the white meat. Once Uncle Buddy said grace, it was time to dig in.
You started filling your palette with all of those wonderful tastes of the sides and now it’s time to fill the fork with turkey. As you’re starting to chew, you quickly realize that your host has dried out the bird. Yes, overcooked and what a disappointment! You immediately scramble to find the gravy on the table and ask to have it passed to you. Now your white meat is swimming in a pool of brown sauce while you are wishing that someone would have taken the bird from the oven sooner, but you still complement the chef on her delicious meal.
Sitting with your family after dinner, you overheard some of your relatives sharing recipes and talking about the holiday dinners hosted in past years. Then you hear mention of the turkey and how it was left it in the oven an hour and a half longer than needed and a temp set 75 degrees higher than called for, just to make sure it was cooked thoroughly. Some folks tend to feel that more is better. Well it’s the same case in some pressrooms.
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Darren has worked in the printing industry for 30 years and spent more than 12 years at two of the nation's leading high-end commercial printers: Bradley Printing in Des Plaines, IL, and Williamson Printing Corp. in Dallas, TX. During that time, he operated conventional and UV 40˝ sheetfed presses and also successfully managed a $15-million pressroom equipment transition. Darren also was Lead Press Instructor for Heidelberg, where he directed specialty equipment startups and was involved in all aspects of the printing process by teaching both instructor and pressroom employees.
In addition, he served as a troubleshooter for various printing companies in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. As operations manager for a start-up specialty folding carton company, he played a key role in achieving more than $6 million in sales within two years. Currently Darren is president of D.G. Print Solutions, a consulting firm that supports printing companies of all sizes. He specializes in growth development planning, pressroom color management and pressroom training through specialty print applications.
