Cooking or baking in
the catering kitchen can be busy as well as interesting. When everything is
going well…it is great. But, sometimes, a cooking or baking problem might
occur. And sometimes a non-cooking problem can arise when you least expect it.
There was a time when
the oven doors stuck and we needed to use a flat headed screw driver to open
the oven door. This became a pain, especially when the food or baking was done
and the trays needed to be pulled out. This problem went on for a long time
until it was taken care of by Chef Jeff, who came to work in the kitchen. Chef
Jeff always carried a tool box in the back of his truck and he fixed our
problem. That tool box came in handy as well as the chef knives that he carried
with him.
Then there was the time
that I had to figure out how to re-light the pilot light that went out, under
the commercial ovens. I hate gas stoves for this reason. This is a minor problem
but I hate doing this job, and I hate lighting matches as well. But it can be remedied by not using the
exhaust fans and sweating in the kitchen.
Finally, I put on my
plumber’s hat, when the dishwasher wouldn’t fill up. I remembered my daughter
telling me how she fixed it. So, I poured a bucket of water down the
dishwasher’s drain and pulled the plunger up and down a few times and hoped for
the best. I pressed the fill button for the water and, voila, to my utter amazement…it
worked!
Oh yeah…I now have
earned my plumber’s badge and can add it to my expanding resume!
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