My first week at cheffing

02/082011 - 09/08/2011

We as a group cleaned the academy kitchen. We each got a post (an area where 1 chef can prepare food) to clean, We cleaned thinking that we might have done a great job....Chef Edward did not think the same.

He taught us that a good chef will lay down on the floor and would even clean under the working table.. understandable! He also taught us that we should clean from top to bottom, in other words, start from the roof, then clean the walls, then the table and finally the floor.

The next day chef sent me back to the academy with a big bag of onions and told me to peal the onions and cut them up into very small pieces.. He did not say why or what it is for but i knew that it would help me with my knife skills. After wards I went back to the main kitchen and helped one of the first year chefs to cut lettuce and after that we cleaned the main kitchen... More cleaning!

Lilandi, one of the first year students chefs showed me how to make garlic bread (not difficult at all),we used garlic, butter, and cheese powder and melted everything together and then we put it onto bread and put it into the oven for a while.


Chef William also let us make Scottish egg, boil an egg and after that peal the shell off and wrap the egg in a layer of mince, roll the mince wrapped  egg into flower, raw egg and then finally in bread crumbs and then deep fry the egg for about 4min and then put it into the oven for 5min.. Easy as pie.. well or as Scottish egg??

Another thing a learned during this week was how to make real mayonnaise using only the yellow part of an egg (8), 2 litres of oil and about a cup of vinegar, you can also add some mustard spices.

Made a lot of pancakes because I did welcoming at the caravan park alone and there where about 120 stands rented out for the weekend and each stand have about 4-6 people on it. Worked till about 20:00pm.

I also worked split shift at the Moselesele tented camp the whole weekend with my co-worker/permanent staff/chef, Jeanet. There are 4 tents and each tent have space for four people. had to make breakfast and dinner for each family, which means everybody had different tastes and wanted different breakfasts and dinners and they all wanted the food to be made in a curtain way. It was all great fun and an awesome experience.