LCB - Lesson Three

"Playing with fire"

Today we had a different demonstration teacher and every students in the class seemed to like her class. She made 4 dishes so fast but when you see her, she looked as if she was just walking in a park. There was no sign of urgency in her face, now I think this comes from many years of experience on the cooking line. Another thing was that she was so tidy and organised, we could not see any mess on her work-top.

Today's main learning outcome was to handle the stove (direct heat) by sauteing vegetables and learning how to 'turn' the vegetables making a barrel shape.

When you're dealing with fire, it's all about Time, Temperature, Quantity of ingredients, so if you concentrate on that it's not that difficult. But turning the vegetables is a knife skill that you cannot perform perfectly over-night. This kind of skill has to be practiced day after day. If I had a sack full of potatos I would be happy to peel and do a various cuts to practise my skill which I'm currently learning from LCB.

Well meantime, I'm image-training how to turn the parsnip with my egg.