So I got a new job and started today. Gotta say, it was pretty awesome; but there was one specific event that made it the best first day in all history of first days.
I think that we were making panatone, though I’m not sure anymore; but we had a bunch of water bottles that were capped off and had fermenting apples in water for 6 days. Needless to say, the bottles were a little swollen and hard. The executive chef, “Dad”, came in to see what we were doing when we started to open them. Things were going fine for a little bit, then all of the sudden, one bottle exploded with a bang, shot up to hit the clock and then went THROUGH the ceiling, spraying fermented apple bits all over the pastry kitchen. After a few minutes of shock and just looking at each other, we went about the business of cleaning things up. The rest of my shift, various employees and fellow kitchen folk ventured into the pastry kitchen to stare at the hole in the ceiling and state random obscenities of awe. Schadenfood.