Learning the proper way to serve

Cooking food is GREAT knowing how to cook food is even better, but without the skills to serve food your restaurant or even establishment can't survive. In Essentials to Dining room students learn how to properly serve food. The unique part about Johnson and Wales is that because there are lab segments and Serving is one of them, when its time to serve food, you serve food that another class has made. Under the instruction of Mr.Messal we learned all about alignment of silver wear, and if one thing was not in align than he would deduct points from your grade. A restaurant can have the best food but if the host, servers and bus people aren't good than the entire restaurant could fail.

Grilled Pizza????

Something new that I learned that wasn’t known to me previously was the process of grilling pizza. Such a technique that seemed to be brainless produced a flavor that wasn’t familiar with me when it came to pizza. It gave the pizza sort of a smoky flavor. We began this process by making basic pizza dough, than added a little oil and grilled it. After that we added pizza sauce and applied toppings. The odd part is that in that class my eyes were opened to a whole new light of pizza toppings and sauce. From basic tomato to béchamel. We applied several toppings which are shown below.

Bascially

Johnson and Wales doesn’t only teach you new and exciting things, they know that none of this would be possible if they didn’t teach you the basics. Here is chef Rouch displaying how to align a knife. You must hold the knife at 45 degree angle to do this. Something that a lot of people don’t know that the only way to really sharpen a knife is to use a sharpening stone. The hand tool is only used to align the the blade, not to sharpen the knife. The basics are also displayed in these pictures like how to peel a carrot and peel an onion.