Sugar cooking

today felt like it was very long! i just realiesed that i put my other post up this morning, but feels like it was yesterday. i apologise in advance for this entry being so long!!

well... this afternoon, i went to go and buy my super sexy safety shoes, and my goodness are they sexy. they give crocs a run for their money! but wow are they comfortable!!! i left them in my locker at school, but will upload a pic of them soon, so you can see just how lovely they are.

then went back to the school, to change into uniform! it really is like being back at school! oh well...

we have to wear the chef jacket with the school emblem on it, and black and white checked trousers.. and for pracs we have to wear granny blue hair nets and a little sailor looking hat, and an apron. (i dont know if you want to hear all these random details, avid readers... please report back on what is necessary to divulge).

first class this afternoon was Demonstration. the head pastry chef, chef julie, is so lovely. you can see she has such a passion for teaching and anything pastry related. i really cant wait to learn more from her. 

(the health and safety system is so crazy in this country... we had to go through how to work all the equipment, and light switches and power switches, and once the chefs had seen that we know how to work it, we had to sign a document to show that we have done it. i guess it is to cover their own bums if something happens, but still madness! cant imagine anything like that happening at home.)

so back to the lecture: it was 3 hours, on how to use our knife sets... then we identifying fruits and then making a simple and sugar syrup with different infusions. then sugar spinning, and making those amazing looking domes and spirals out of sugar!! it really is mind blowing watching the chefs do their stuff, its all done with such ease! i cant wait to be like them!

then we went off to the prac class in the patissarie. we walked in, and there stands a french man. but when i say a french man, that is an under exaggeration. he is so fantastically french. you can see his life is patisserie! now, we are not allowed to wear any jewelry or watches or anything to class. and i forgot to take my watch off, so he looks me up and down, and asks me the time, so i look at him strangely thinking i was late or something, but it was impossible because there was only one other person in the room, and then in his accent "it is time to take off your watch, you have zero". so first impressions of him... SCARY! chef cristophe, is in fact not scary... he is mad, but amazing. another man who loves his job. we learnt a sugar test... how to check the different stages, by sticking your fingers into the pot of boiling sugar!!! yes, you read right!!! this is a magic trick, and i shall not tell how its done :) but its super fantastic!!

well.... thats me for today... i am tired!!!

until next time :)

thanks to my avid readers for reading! 

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