Day seventy eight

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The end of meat study.

It was Friday and the final for our meat course. The final consisted of three parts. The first one was written test where we suppose to answer many questions about meat and poultry. The big unpleasant surprise was that the test was not multiple choice. That was a real surprise. 

The second part was fabrication. Everyone from our group was given a half of pork shoulder and had to fabricate from this piece of meat two roasts and tie them. All reasonable trimmings had to be cut for stew meat. Also we got one chicken each and we had to fabricate two airline breasts, two wings, two boneless skinless thigh, and two drumstick optionally Frenched. That was really easy part, probably because I got and easy part of pork shoulder (I was splitting them:-).

The last part of the final was an identification test. At the beginning it was slight confusion. There were eighteen pieces of meat and only twelve spots to fill up in the form. Then we realized that all spots on the form were individually marked and that made all clear. With identification the biggest challenge was to see a couple of big chunks of meat completely frozen. When I saw frozen beef tenderloin it was clear, but when I saw shoulder clod and inside round I had no idea what part it was, I could only identify that it was beef.

It over now and the Chef expected to post results by the next Tuesday.

After lunch I went to our Learning Strategy Center for help with English Writing. These guys really helped me with one assignment which was due this week. The instructor wants me to revise one assignment from the last week (surprise to be advise only on Thursday). Also received tutor second comment on my essay, but due to shot time and the nature of comment I ignored it and submitted essay with the fist comment.