There were four of these big walk-in lockers--one for dairy, eggs, and milk; one for fresh fruits and vegetables; one freezer; and one for leftovers, cheese, and meat.
I was excited to see all the crazy equipment in an industrial kitchen. To the far left are the steamer ovens (which scare me--stuff comes out not just hot but wet, too). One of my first days, I asked what the other things were called, and the woman just shrugged. "Pots," she said. I could fit inside them; they boil water really fast. People would get up on a stool to stir the thing to the right of the photo, and stir using this huge metal spatula-looking thing, making them look like a witch over a cauldron.
Baskets for serving bread and pass-through warmers for transferring the food to the serving lines.
Spices. Today, in the new Cannon Commons, we were missing some ingredients (including parsley), and someone told me to go to the old building to see if I could find them there. I walked in--the lights were off, it smelled a little rotten. There was still a case of tomatoes on the floor, and some brown bananas. I went into the dry storage room--which felt a little like a scene from Wall-E. Things were mostly cleared out, but there were some bottles and jars of things left behind on the shelves. Alone in the big, empty building, I picked over the leftovers. I never did find parsley. Who runs out of parsley?
(When I got back to the new building and told one of the chefs that I couldn't find it, he said, "That's okay, parsley doesn't taste like anything anyway. Maybe like weeds. Wait--not like weed, I mean like weeds.")
A great big scale in the bakery. The new building doesn't have one--there will be a central BYU bakery instead.
Bakery.
2 comments:
How could they not take that beautiful scale?
Also, do you refer to it as "Hobart"? Because I would have if I worked there. That's one of those names I'll put on a long list of names that may or may not end up being dog/kid/goldfish names in the vague future.
I don't know what they're going to do with that scale, but I really would take it, except for the fact that it enormous--the face's diameter is at least two and a half feet. I always really liked it, though.
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