Hi Wildman800,

Concerning the "Eternal Stew" idea I have some experience.

I have been to many hunt camps or logging camps where the eternal stew (or it is often soup) is kept going and it is usually terrific.

But,

My lifetime best friend worked at a very run-down farm when we were in high school, the farm wife was not much of a housekeeper (I am being polite) and her husband had a good paying shift-work job off the farm, so he often came home at odd hours. In the farm house at the rear of the woodstove there was always a pot of stew and the contents varied depending on what was put in that day. The husband would often miss regular meal times so he ate this stew and was just as often sick with food poisoning; the problem was that it was not kept hot enough or just the general sanitation in the residence was bad.

My friend would always bring his lunch with him to the farm and would eat in the barn with the livestock, it was cleaner.

Later,

Mike