Knife fighting and
Tourne?
The ServeSafe exam is over, and it’s time to do the happy
dance for that small step in this process to be finished. The days of reading about pathogens, and
cross-contamination are over, seeing pages and pages about physical, chemical,
and don’t forget biological hazards are now a thing of the past. Now looking on to the future we as students
must remember to always wash our hands. Over, and over again! It is no longer
the day of reading the order in which items should be stored in the
refrigerator, but doing it, and doing it well we must!
In moving forward this week we were issued our knives. I must give major kudos to Chef Rob and Chef
Brandon, not sure if I would be comfortable teaching students how to properly
use them.
Once again, like the first day of school I found my mouth
dropped with my head cocked to the side and the look on my face as to, “Wait,
you want us to what?”
Julienne, Fine Julienne, Brunoise, Fine Brunoise, Batonnet,
small dice, medium dice, large dice, oh yes, and Tourne. Or today it may have been referred to as
Tornado, or baby potato footballs! Call
them what you will, I will be the first to say, Tourne is by no means my strong
point.
Practice makes perfect!
So practice we must, over and over again. First day with knives went surprising
well. However, I’m almost positive the
other students ahead of us were taking bets on how many in our class would get
cut today. Just so we wouldn’t
disappoint any of them, and two boxes of band-aids later, I do believe a
majority of the class left today with a blue band-aid. Just in case you didn’t
know, it takes a ton of pride to rock a blue Band-Aid!
10 pound bag of potatoes at Wal-Mart = $3.00
1 box of band-aids = $2.10
Knocking my time down to make a Tourne from one hour to
sixteen minutes = PRICELESS!
Perhaps one day I will have the super-hero skills to do
it in thirty-five to forty-five SECONDS, till then I still have my batman
band-aids.
Happy Chopping!
-Dmitri
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