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Happening on a tuesday (when i'm still in starters, before Lennon join the team)
7am- walking through the door of 53 asking myself why did i choose to go through this.
705- change and take all the shit outside
710- hang all the clean kitchen towels to dry
715- slicing carrots for carrot puree and putting it in the water bath
720- portion potatoes for dinner.
722- check for horseradish slush- "shit not enough, better do more"
723- rush to the fridge to get horseradish and start peeling them
725 start to juicing it.. whole kitchen is filled with the spiciness of it- "F--ing hell joel i hate you".... "not my fault" you can see the tears in everybody's eyes.
730- weighing out the number of recipes to do for horseradish
736- clean down
740- start to slice beetroots for wagyu dish...
...
...
830- Done, at last... "Shit beetroot granita!"
831- Thank God it's enough to last through today.
832- take out scallops to marinade them
843- take out garnishes to do for scallops
910- done 1st garnish (local watercess)
920- done 2nd garnish for scallop ( parts of watercress)
921- Jap man comes. "why now!!! F"
940- done with the whole shit load of orders and run back to my stuff
941- doing 3rd garnish for scallops (corriander cress)
941- "shit forgot to do marnide for beetroot and juniper oil"
947- done beet root marnide
950- done juniper oil
- Boss comes in and talked loudly to the whole kitchen "lunch we have 25"
- "what else do you need doing?" "tahoon cress, sayur bermis and i need to see my list"
- " ok i can pluck sayur bermis" "ok thank you boss"
10am - took out 70 chicken leg to dig out for the oysters
1030am- clean the bench
1033- cutting tahoon cress
1035- done cutting
- looking at list "SHIT.. shallots and parsley"
1036- took out shallots and start mincing them
11am- still mincing shallots "Carrot puree! al could you go up and take the carrots out from the water bath and start to blitz them"
- Lee walks in with a few bags that he went shopping for us
- "here you are asshole"... "F you"
11.15- done shallots, run to the fridge to get parsley
1130- done parsley
-start to clean down
- Lee starts to shout at the pastry guys
1140- setting up for service
- "could you please clean that filthy window" "yes boss"
1150- start to scrub some potatoes for next day
12pm- first guess in
1205- "SNACKS FOR 2 PLEASE"
- "YES", "YA", "WEE"
1215- order comes down
....
...
...
...
... loads of screaming and shouting in the kitchen...
"BOSS where is the old man it's almost 2pm"
155pm- old man comes to deliever veg
- boss went out to shout at him
230pm- lunch service is over for starters
- clean down
245pm- takes out chicken skin and lay them on trays to bake them
310pm- start to bake them
312- start to do brown butter
313- slice chestnuts
- "F".... i sliced my skin off "you alright?" "ya. just part of my skin came off" "shit"
315- getting patch up
- continue to slice
-brown butter ready
320- start to fry chestnuts
330- done chestnuts
- bring the oil outside
333-start to weigh out coffee soil recipe
340-done coffee soil and baking it
- pick basil
4pm- done picking
-weigh out basil water recipe
403- done
420- done basil water
- takes out smoked eel to cut
430- done cutting smoked eel
-mackerel is done curing time to wash it
440pm-"Joe could u cut up some veg for staff?" "and also do the pasta?"
- "sure"
441- rush to do staff veg
5pm- potatoes are done
- start to portion according to the tables
515- start to portion consomme
520- staff meal done and starting to dish out
530- running through dinner prep to see what is missing
531- "wow, we are done for dinner" "now we need to scrub more potatoes, but set up first"
550- starting to scrub
6pm- "joe could you sweep the floor please" "ya"
615- back to scrubbing
7pm- guest in
...
...
...
...
...
busy dinner service... till 11pm, and we start to clean down.. 12am leave the kitchen and go home
this is pretty much what i went through.. it may seem like a very relax, but it's not, it's only my poin of view not the whole kitchen. if i had to type everything down, it will take me a few days and it will be full of the "f word" it's a rough world in there. But it's GOOD.
Happening on a tuesday (when i'm still in starters, before Lennon join the team)
7am- walking through the door of 53 asking myself why did i choose to go through this.
705- change and take all the shit outside
710- hang all the clean kitchen towels to dry
715- slicing carrots for carrot puree and putting it in the water bath
720- portion potatoes for dinner.
722- check for horseradish slush- "shit not enough, better do more"
723- rush to the fridge to get horseradish and start peeling them
725 start to juicing it.. whole kitchen is filled with the spiciness of it- "F--ing hell joel i hate you".... "not my fault" you can see the tears in everybody's eyes.
730- weighing out the number of recipes to do for horseradish
736- clean down
740- start to slice beetroots for wagyu dish...
...
...
830- Done, at last... "Shit beetroot granita!"
831- Thank God it's enough to last through today.
832- take out scallops to marinade them
843- take out garnishes to do for scallops
910- done 1st garnish (local watercess)
920- done 2nd garnish for scallop ( parts of watercress)
921- Jap man comes. "why now!!! F"
940- done with the whole shit load of orders and run back to my stuff
941- doing 3rd garnish for scallops (corriander cress)
941- "shit forgot to do marnide for beetroot and juniper oil"
947- done beet root marnide
950- done juniper oil
- Boss comes in and talked loudly to the whole kitchen "lunch we have 25"
- "what else do you need doing?" "tahoon cress, sayur bermis and i need to see my list"
- " ok i can pluck sayur bermis" "ok thank you boss"
10am - took out 70 chicken leg to dig out for the oysters
1030am- clean the bench
1033- cutting tahoon cress
1035- done cutting
- looking at list "SHIT.. shallots and parsley"
1036- took out shallots and start mincing them
11am- still mincing shallots "Carrot puree! al could you go up and take the carrots out from the water bath and start to blitz them"
- Lee walks in with a few bags that he went shopping for us
- "here you are asshole"... "F you"
11.15- done shallots, run to the fridge to get parsley
1130- done parsley
-start to clean down
- Lee starts to shout at the pastry guys
1140- setting up for service
- "could you please clean that filthy window" "yes boss"
1150- start to scrub some potatoes for next day
12pm- first guess in
1205- "SNACKS FOR 2 PLEASE"
- "YES", "YA", "WEE"
1215- order comes down
....
...
...
...
... loads of screaming and shouting in the kitchen...
"BOSS where is the old man it's almost 2pm"
155pm- old man comes to deliever veg
- boss went out to shout at him
230pm- lunch service is over for starters
- clean down
245pm- takes out chicken skin and lay them on trays to bake them
310pm- start to bake them
312- start to do brown butter
313- slice chestnuts
- "F".... i sliced my skin off "you alright?" "ya. just part of my skin came off" "shit"
315- getting patch up
- continue to slice
-brown butter ready
320- start to fry chestnuts
330- done chestnuts
- bring the oil outside
333-start to weigh out coffee soil recipe
340-done coffee soil and baking it
- pick basil
4pm- done picking
-weigh out basil water recipe
403- done
420- done basil water
- takes out smoked eel to cut
430- done cutting smoked eel
-mackerel is done curing time to wash it
440pm-"Joe could u cut up some veg for staff?" "and also do the pasta?"
- "sure"
441- rush to do staff veg
5pm- potatoes are done
- start to portion according to the tables
515- start to portion consomme
520- staff meal done and starting to dish out
530- running through dinner prep to see what is missing
531- "wow, we are done for dinner" "now we need to scrub more potatoes, but set up first"
550- starting to scrub
6pm- "joe could you sweep the floor please" "ya"
615- back to scrubbing
7pm- guest in
...
...
...
...
...
busy dinner service... till 11pm, and we start to clean down.. 12am leave the kitchen and go home
this is pretty much what i went through.. it may seem like a very relax, but it's not, it's only my poin of view not the whole kitchen. if i had to type everything down, it will take me a few days and it will be full of the "f word" it's a rough world in there. But it's GOOD.
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