Main kitchen

Dear readers.

Today we worked in the training kitchen to make pastry shells. I worked together with Chef Ruan and it was my first time doing something like this. We started off by cleaning the kitchen top to bottom and then we repacked the dry store after cleaning it. We packed everything neatly in rows and together so it can be found easily if needed. We threw away old stock in the fridge and stored in the dry store.

The pastry dough.

The dry store after we packed it out and cleaned it.

The molding of the pastry shells.

We then started with the pastry shells. It was very interesting to see how cold water was needed to make the dough work. We made the dough and molded it into the cupcake pans to form shells, it felt like I was a kid again playing with clay! It was also very rewarding to see how they rose and the golden brown colour they baked.

After finishing up in the training kitchen we went back to the main kitchen to clean up and pack away deliveries.