We had to make another full batch of french puff pastry on top of making two products. Making the pastry isn't so bad, it's actually kinda fun, but when everyone is in and out of the cooler trying to find where they placed their stuff, that is when it's frustrating. Oh I can only count the number of times the cooler beeped; a warning it has reached above it's cooling temperature. This on top of limited space and general disregard for others made it a crappy day indeed.
You see, every time you fold and roll your pastry it needs to chill for a good 20 min, to set the butter to a degree, so you can roll it out again without having it be too soft. Well, when the cooler is warm as heck this becomes impossible. So I had no choice but to throw it in the freezer and keep tabs on it every other minute to make sure the thing wouldn't freeze. As for making products, I managed to make fifteen wind mills that have not had the chance to bake as well as two logs of blueberry strudel. I dropped the ball on the strudel by adding the filling that wasn't chilled enough causing my pastry to melt which limited the amount of layers to rise. It still turned out fine, just not perfect. Oh and not to mention rolling out dough for exact dimensions is a huge pain in the-.
Hopefully things will go down well tomorrow...
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