New Kitchen Updates

The adventures with my oven continue. The other day I made a loaf of no-knead bread and it turned out beautifully.


The other quirk about this oven is that there is no light. There are three switches on the stove that do nothing from what I can tell, and they are all identical. Yet, there is only one place for a bulb in the oven. I have to figure out if a regular bulb can go in there or if it takes a special one. If it takes a special one, I might be SOL because this one dinosaur of a machine.

I also got a book shelf from a friend who was having a garage sale yesterday, and it turned out to be perfect for my kitchen and all my cookbooks! Now, my collection has a nice new home!


I just cannot keep accumulating cookbooks, though...Says she who just got a copy of the new Giada book from Random House to review...Sigh...

Update: Haz light! The oven took a regular 60W bulb and one of the three switches turns it on. I have no idea what the other two switches do, though! Now I need to clean the oven...The previous tenants left it pretty dirty.

Tour

For a simple Friday post, I thought I'd show you some pictures of my current work place.

This is the nicest, cleanest, newest kitchen I've ever worked in - and let me tell you, I have worked in some filthy, moldy, disastrous kitchen in my life. I have black mold stories that would curl your teeth.

But that is the past! This is the present!

This is the front of the kitchen where the steam tables are located, and where I cool all the baking. You can see the KitchenAid & Robot Coup at the end of the counter, and the big bins of flour, salt and sugar underneath the work top.

This is directly opposite the above picture: range, oven, grill, convection oven.

This is the pantry. It's kind of awkward to photograph, but you get the idea.

Our knives and utensils. Unlike some places I've worked, the organization keeps the knives very sharp and sends them off to be sharpened professionally.

The Dish Pit. Clean and organized, just like it should be.

The main work space, where I do the baking, and the fridges & freezer.