Day one hundred nineteen

Block of butter we
had to clarify today

What is the biggest amount butter to clarify so far? 

Back to the school after the summer break. This time we are doing high volume production cookery. This short block will be split in two parts: seven days breakfast and seven days lunch. For our group the first part is breakfast. The most difficult part is that class starts now at 4:30 in the morning. One day is done, six more to go.

The big difference for this class is that we have six groups and every group cooks something different every day. Our group has cooked egg benedict today (poached eggs, served on English muffin with a slice of Canadian bacon and sauce hollandaise).

Other teams cooked: ham and cheese omelette, asparagus fritatta, has brown potatoes with bacon, buttermilk biscuits with country gravy, fruit platter and smoothies.

As per our chef instructor for the first day we did
pretty well. We were almost on time (except for the one station which was late for about 5 minutes). The food were good.Tomorrow should be better.

We had to clarify today a 55 pounds block of butter. It was amazing. We had to use a stock pot (huge one) and it took almost two and a half hours to do the job. At the end we got slightly more than five gallons clarified butter.

I am going to be short today, want to go to sleep. Tomorrow will be easier, so promise to publish some interesting recipe.