October 5, 2010.
Remember the six-hour lecture from week one? I kind of thought that would be the only all-day lecture in this class. Or at least, I hoped.
I guess this time it was a little different because most of the day consisted of demos, not just lecture. Chef Gronert showed us how to make a few different fruits, some cute animals, and a really creepy-looking rabbit out of marzipan. We also took a break after lecture to prep some modeling chocolate, royal icing, and colored marzipan for the demos. But either way, we spent pretty much the entire class period sitting on extremely uncomfortable stools. Fun stuff.
We did do one other thing. It took about thirty minutes. We practiced piping ornaments for our practical final next week.
Yeah, that’s right; our final exam is on week eight (of sixteen) and has nothing to do with what we’ve been learning in class so far.
For this exam, we have to pipe eight different ornaments twenty-five times each, with a short break for grading in between each set. That means we get to pipe two hundred ornaments. For our practice today, we only piped one type of ornament, and only one person finished all twenty-five in the twenty-minute time limit. I was not that person.
The lowest possible score on each set is negative one hundred. More than one person would have gotten that score if this had been the actual exam. Again, not me. My grade would have been 38%. That’s because I only piped fifteen and a half ornaments and they were all ugly. That’s because my hand was ready to fall off after the first three ornaments. I’m just hoping that eventually I’ll be able to grip things again.
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