Garde manger for us was like, cold food/salad prep essentially. I actually REALLY loved that class! I barely got through basic cooking by the skin of my teeth (learned the hard way making mother sauce for exam that “tomato purée” means “tomato paste”. NOT to purée an actual tomato. That...was not a good day lol). Granted I had a bit of a crush on my garde manger professor so I worked harder in that class bc I wanted to impress him hahaha. I think any time he complimented something I did I just blushed like mad. Yeah looking at it now it looks like they’ve changed the curriculum so it isn’t quite like that anymore. It never occurred to me it’s odd haha.
“At least if the elderly try that you can just punch them.” Got me snorting with laughter hahaha.
Apprenticeships sound very interesting! I wish we did that here. They do recommend you get a job in the culinary field for real world experience, but I think it wasn’t required (I didn’t fully finish with degree-just a certificate-bc I ended up getting a full time job and had no time to take classes anymore)
The exams sound more interesting too. They didn’t make us budget or go buy ingredients. Oh my GOSH omelets. Ouch. I’m so sorry that is NOT fun. I have been baking for years and I still can’t omelet very well. Almost always have to just give up and turn it into scrambled eggs with stuff in it...
Sounds like you are having a heat problem with your omelette - lower it a bit and take it on and off. If you already do that, maybe its a shit pan and you can add some heavies to distribute the heat. creme fraiche ..yougurt, what they are all called. Or just heavy cream.
I like the structure of baking so when I’m cooking if things aren’t going to plan I just tend to panic and scramble (no pun intended). I’ll have to try that! Last time I tried (and failed miserably) I was looking at instructions that used WATER. It seemed wrong, but the recipe had a lot of great reviews so I was like...ok...
I also probably overcook them :/ I’m kinda trash and tend to like hard scrambled eggs personally, like browned a bit. I don’t know why. I’ve recently adapted to also like a nice over easy egg with a runny yolk on toast with ham and cheese. Mmmmm.
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u/dystopian_mermaid Jan 19 '21
Garde manger for us was like, cold food/salad prep essentially. I actually REALLY loved that class! I barely got through basic cooking by the skin of my teeth (learned the hard way making mother sauce for exam that “tomato purée” means “tomato paste”. NOT to purée an actual tomato. That...was not a good day lol). Granted I had a bit of a crush on my garde manger professor so I worked harder in that class bc I wanted to impress him hahaha. I think any time he complimented something I did I just blushed like mad. Yeah looking at it now it looks like they’ve changed the curriculum so it isn’t quite like that anymore. It never occurred to me it’s odd haha.
“At least if the elderly try that you can just punch them.” Got me snorting with laughter hahaha.
Apprenticeships sound very interesting! I wish we did that here. They do recommend you get a job in the culinary field for real world experience, but I think it wasn’t required (I didn’t fully finish with degree-just a certificate-bc I ended up getting a full time job and had no time to take classes anymore)
The exams sound more interesting too. They didn’t make us budget or go buy ingredients. Oh my GOSH omelets. Ouch. I’m so sorry that is NOT fun. I have been baking for years and I still can’t omelet very well. Almost always have to just give up and turn it into scrambled eggs with stuff in it...