September 21, 2010.
Good news: Chef Gronert is back! Bad news: Chef Gronert is back.
Last week when he wasn’t here, we skipped one of our recipes. I’m not exactly sure why, but we did… so this week, we got to do that recipe in addition to everything else that was planned for the day.
I’m sure I’ve mentioned before that Chef Gronert never lets us out of class early. He always plans enough work for us that we don’t get out until two o’clock. So if you take a full day of production and add in one extra recipe, what do you get? That’s right! You get out of class late!
I’m not sure if the class is shrinking, or if a fourth of the class just happened to be busy today at 7:30 AM. Either way, we only had nine people in class. Instead of working in two groups like we would normally do and just making the groups slightly smaller this week, the entire class worked together as one unfortunately large group. We also doubled all of our recipes so we would still end up with the same amount of candy… not that it matters how much candy we make, since it apparently just sits in the kitchen until random people come in and eat it all. And speaking of the candy, I can’t figure out why the only one that almost broke my teeth was the only one with “soft” in its name.
Anyway, through this class, I rediscovered the fact that nine different people cannot work on the same task at the same time, unless we’re talking about one large task that has nine smaller tasks within it. That’s not what we’re talking about.
The one time it was good to have the entire class working together was when we had to whisk nougat for thirty minutes over a double boiler. Those of us who were fortunate enough to be too short to do much good had the extremely difficult and important tasks of watching our classmates sacrifice their sanity, and telling other classmates to come relieve them of whisking duty.
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