My adventure at Top of the Hub began on Wednesday. I was there for just a few short hours getting the gist of the kitchen and the station I would be on mostly, Pantry. I learned some general things and then they let me go home.
The next day was my first real day of work. I arrived at the bright and early time of 2:45pm. I helped set up my station, mostly cutting vegetables with some light grilling of chicken and frying potato chips. Basically my Pantry station is plating all salads, some cold appetizers, and finishing and plating desserts. Pretty easy once you figure out what goes on what and how to read the tickets. I spent the night doing just that and got the hang of it very quickly. It was a Thursday so it was a pretty slow night, especially with 3 people on the station (2 plus the trainee... ME). Anyway, we finished service at 10, cleaned up and went home.
I had off Friday and spent the day just hanging.
Then I woke up and went to work today at 12 assigned to Brunch and having no idea what that meant. Turns out it was pretty easy. I had a long list of prep for Brunch tomorrow. Anything from poaching 100 eggs to making little frittata's to just chopping vegetables. Since I was being taught what to do I was there a full 8 hours but I can imagine once I get going I'll knock it out quick and have more time to help. By the way, as my first "test" according to the Sous Chef I had to peel and sm dice 5 pounds of parsnips (white carrots basically). Boy was that a pain.
Anyway, so far work has been fine. Hopefully I can master the Pantry station quickly and then ask to move to the Saute or Grill station. I will be doing a Banquet with the Banquet crew this week so I'll be sure to update on that.
After my shift on Pantry tomorrow, I have off until Friday so there won't be too much blogging unless I do something really cool.
Keep on cooking!
Chef Werblin
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