Daily Activity 20 August 2019

As usual, today I’m gonna tell you all of my activities at the kitchen in my campus. I arrived at 7:30, before I went to the kitchen, as usual I had to tidy up the uniform I was wearing. After that, I went straight into the pastry and made a line because Mr. Ical would show us how to make croissants and sour dough, and we were also required to make it. Same as yesterday, Nata and I were in the same group and we divided the tasks. I had to weigh the croissant and sour dough ingredients, meanwhile Nata had to thin out the shortening for the croissant and prepared the ingredients for the sour dough.

After I finished making the croissant dough, I proofed it for an hour. Then I flattened the dough using a rolling pin, then put the shortening that had been thinned by Nata, then flattened and folded it once. Afterward, I flattened the dough again stored it in the chiller. Then I helped Nata to make the sour dough. After 30 minutes, I took out the dough that I had made earlier, and then resting the dough. When I flattened the dough, the dough was a bit broken, and I was afraid that my dough would fail but I kept flatten it and folded it once and then put it back in the chiller.

While waiting for my dough in the chiller, Mr. Ical showed us again how to make a new croissant because the first dough failed, because it used too much shortening. And well, it looked like our dough failed because it broke, that was no big deal because tomorrow we will make it again.