Ouch! #2

Today was my second day as saucier, yesterday was easy - I just had to make sauces (oddly enough). Today started off OK, I made some garnishes (although the potato tuiles didn't make it) and prepped for service, then my job would be to cook and plate all the meat. We had reservations for 25. In the "real" world of restaurants 25 isn't much but in our learning world 25 is a full dining room.

Yikes! So much for starting off slowly. Chef said it would be a "trial by fire." How right he was //sigh//, first I got burned by a spit of oil from the deep fryer, just a tiny drop, no biggie. Then I went to pick up a pot handle that was HOT and got a small burn on my fingertip (no print on that one today!). And of course, I had to grab one more pan and my towel slipped, so you guessed it, another burn. That one has a nice little imprint of part of the pot handle (a la Indiana Jones) on the edge of my palm. We were right in the middle of service when the last one happened so I had to wait a bit before I could ice it.

I think I'll try to be more careful tomorrow . . .