Week 1: May 9th-13th, 2011

Friday 13th May 2011

Today I woke up at 6:10 and got to the dining hall by 6:20 to start my day in the kitchen.  We were going to have pizza for lunch and so Nate and I had the wonderful job of making the dough.  The pizza making turned out to be the only thing I had to do for the day.  We used three gallons of water and a lot 45lbs of flour.  Three gallons!!  That's enough water to wash my hair and rinse my body!! (I don't exactly know this, but I'm just guessing.)  Anyway, we mixed the dough into a clumpy big ball of goo.  Once that was done, we let it sit on the side for a while and Nate told me to start and grate the box of mozzarella and a tube of provolone (the provolone wasn't in a tube.  It was just in a circular wrapper).  After I finished this the yeast in the pizza dough had taken effect (we left the dough near the oven) and it had rose by quite a bit.  As Nate folded the dough onto sheet pans, I sauced the dough, put the cheese and whatever other ingredients that we needed onto the pizza and set it aside.  Once a group of around five trays were done, we put them in the oven and let them cook.  We repeated this step a couple of times until we had seven trays of cheese and pepperoni pizza and three trays of tomato and basil and hawaiian pizzas.  That gave us about 800 slices of pizzas.  That's a lot of pizzas!!  Except all of those  pizzas were gone by the end of lunch.  Bye-bye to six hours of work in about one hour.  Soon after that, lunch started and Nate and I were busy once more, bringing food out of the kitchen and empty trays into it. After that, I had lunch and then left for the day.