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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Today was Super-stressed for me in class.
It was going okay for me first, in the morning.
We were supposed to make almond chiffon cake today per person, and chef was like first thing in the morning

"Please get the Mis-en-place[everything ready] for almond chiffon cake now"

And so we[my group] was like running back and forth the kitchen to get everything ready.In fact the whole class did. I shld have video-taped the whole scenario..It was super busy. I assigned every person in my group for the task.
I get the dry ingredients, while Denieza get the wet ingredients, and ignacia get the tools ready. We are suppose to make a chiffon cake for each person..But then I was thinking..If each person get their own ingredients, our own work space will be so full of ingredients..We will not have enough space to work on..what made things worse was that..There were only 2 mixers for each group...and both mixers are going to use for per person and there will be no enough time waiting,too.
So what I did was, I tripled every recipe for all the ingredients..We are just going to combine our ingredients, and divide into three portions in a cake pan.This case, it will save us up a lot of time. Because, we were given only one hour to do that. The chef's crazy. Happy to say, we made it on time, bake it. And i didnt feel any pressure for the first time in the morning. From cake to tools, for the first time we are fast today.While I did the cake, Ignacia washed the dirty tools in the dish room. We finished at around 8.00. Then, I looked around, I saw people still kept doing their cake,not yet bake their cake and I was like walking in classroom saying to myself "WOW YOU ARE FAST TODAY!!" And I was so happy.

Then, I stand around at my bench together with Ignacia..and chef was like going around asking people :"how many chiffon cake do you bake? Do you have extra?" and everybody said "NO"
Then, chef wrote another recipe for another cake and we were suppose to get the mis-en-place for it too..

Then, nightmare CAME! Just as I was about to start doing the mis-en-place for new cake,Suddenly I heard my name called out "Ignacia and Yana! can you bake me a chiffon cake?NOWWWW!!!!"

I feel like running out from that classroom but i cant do that..Or maybe told him..NO..because we have to get ready for another cake since we are given only an hour to do that too..But I was like...Chef is Chef..he is like the KING..whatever he says, all we have to say is YES.

Then I started feeling the pressure..I have to get the mis-en-place for chiffon cake again..from the wets and drys..I told ingnacia that she shld get the wet one..But..she is too blur to know what;'s going on..I have to force myself to work alone..
Along when I was doing the cake, I was thinking :

"Who is going to get our misa-en-place for blackforest torte? Oh there is still Denieza..She is going to get it..COs i saw her grabbing chocolate coating which was part of the blackforest ingredients" And so I was rushingly doing the cake..and Im FAST doing the chef's cake,too. I put the cake in the oven around 8.45..and I started at around 8.15 which means I worked for only 30 mnts..

DONE! I thought that was that! BUTTTTT Denieza came to me and asked me to get the misa-en-place ready for our group..
"I thought u r getting it already?"
"No..that's for chef's"
I WAS LIKE really mad at chef. How could he assigned all from our group? Then, who is going to do our blackforest cake to finish it in time so that he wont be angry with whoever who is late baking the cake!!

I then rushed like hell...getting the chocolate converture from the front table, chopping it to small pieces till it reached 16 oz.
And that's only for one person..We were suppose to work alone...and denieza asked me to get for each person..which means I have to chopped chocolate for 16 0z x 3..48 0z and separate in a different bowl..Can u imagine me doing that!!
And In front at chef's bench, I could hear chef saying :
"AS soon as you r done doing the misa-en-place for blackforest, can you grab a stool and sit down?"

Then, I saw people grabbing stools, except from my group. Of course they grabbed stools! They have enough time to get everything ready in time..While I have to rush making cake for the fat chef and did the misa-en place for later use at the same time! Cant he please at least consider our feelings? Who does he think we are? robots?

What made things worse..I called ignacia out to help me doing the chocolate measurements..BUt she was like hestitated..And so i finally made her just do the chopping of chocolate to small pieces which was the easiest part of the job already..I was mad at Denieza and Ignacia,too...Who do they think i am? ROBOTS??

They were like so bossy. Me this and me That. Get this get that. I feel so tired out and being pressured from chef and them.
Thats not it. I feel even pressured if all the other teams stared at me for doing things so slow..Im not slow..my group just wont co-operate. I do things better without group. When group, I feel like a lot of pressured..people bossing me here and there.

Then, I finally later found out from denieza.."Here yana, you can use my chocolate converture i prepared for chef..that is 16 oz already"

"WHat? isnt that for chef?"

"Yah..but he got it already at the front table. He told jennifer to prepare it already"

MAYBE CHEF is CRAZY. HE LOST HIS MIND. He called my name, Ignacia and Denieza and told us that we are the chef's comittee for today, but he called out another name again...Indra,christian,Rachelle..to be the chef's comittee.
And earlier i heard him saying.." Jennifer you are the inspection committee for today..but i heard him saying again for like 30 mnts later..Denieza, you are the inspection commitee for today."

But when i went up to the front to look out for the job list for today, I checked out mine..was the sweeping floor together with Ignacia.I WAS LIKE WTH...how could he made us do the chiffon cake when we are not the chef's comittee? Cos chef's comittee are the ones who usually get the misa en place and bake cake for chef. NOT the sweepers!!! sweepers are just sweepers!they are related to the floors!! NOT FOOD! Thanks to him for making me and my group felt so pressured today..him and his chef's comittee stuff...He shld thank the sweepers for baking him a cake..

what a crazy day i had to go through..

Yanastarted this journey at7:14 PM