June 1-4, 2010.
Week one. I should have known that I would injure myself within the first ten minutes of starting this job, but I somehow didn’t know myself well enough to predict that. Important lesson #1: The outside of the oven is hot!
I wasn’t expecting to scoop several hundred cookies on my first day, but as the unpaid intern, I guess I should have also predicted I would be doing something “easy” that no one else wants to do. Important lesson #2: Lift weights before going to work in a bakery.
Day two would have been better without the coconut macaroons. First I accidentally replaced part of the shredded coconut with coconut flakes. Then I was absolutely sure I had to be scooping them wrong, but I didn’t say anything because I didn’t want to redo them all. How many different ways can there be to scoop cookies anyway?
One thing I learned this week about working at Baked is that it’s not a typical kitchen. Everyone here is-- gasp-- friendly! Socialization is pretty much more important than actual skills. I’m not quite sure if I like that, but oh well, I’ll be spending three days a week here for the next ten weeks of my life whether I like it or not.
I also found out how to burn marshmallows using a blowtorch. That wasn’t really my goal, but at least if someone ever hands me a blowtorch and asks me to burn some marshmallows, I’ll know how to do it! After using and/or burning all the marshmallows, I had to make more, and I found out how disgusting marshmallows actually are. Animal skin, corn syrup, and sugar? Important lesson #3: Don’t eat too many marshmallows.
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