Menu Project Day 1

8am: we arrive, and begin to set up. It smells a bit funny in class, the heater is on. At first, this was good. Considering we normally spend the class shivering. But then, it got REALLY hot. With several ovens running and the heater the room quickly jumped from pleasant to sweltering. If the heat wasn't enough, slowing us down and making us feel a bit nauseous, I manage to burn myself within the first hour on a bowl someone left on a pilot light. On my thumb. This isn's a good start. Then, the freezers broke down, hopefully we were able to get our ice-creams down stairs to a better freezer before it was too late (we'll see tomorrow). I managed to get most of what I wanted done, but not get ahead (I had really hoped to do so). But I was lucky, my partner, not so much. Due to the heat she ended up fainting (having thermo-regulation issues) and had to go home. The Chef of course was unconcerned. "You guys keep complaining about the temperature, you're never happy, and I'm done with it." Ummm, it's clearly a heath hazard! Oh well, what did we really expect from him anyway? Tomorrow we have about two and a half hours to finish, and 30 minutes to plate. I have absolutely NO idea how I'm going to get everything done, I just hope it comes together! Though it's hard to be motivated when the Chef clearly doesn't really care about the class. 10 days and counting! From now on, "we'll be running!"