2009 Culinary Salon. Bread display wins Gold!
On Saturday the 7th at 9pm I started mixing my first dough and began my overnight bake to have fresh bread out for my display at the 2009 culinary salon. As the night progressed I created my take on the epi loaf, guinness and barley bread, ciabatta, palmiers, croissant, danish pastries, 5 grain buns, 5 strand challahs and my centre piece. I set up the display around 6 am on sunday after a relaxing night bake. Judging began at 8am and i was allowed back at 1pm. I arrived with much anticipation and found my peice awarded a 1st place standing in my category!. Gold! I took some pictures of my work space at the college for everyone to see. Needless to say i was excited all day about the win.
A couple doughs getting fermented
The Deck oven I use. Its not fancy but gives good heat and I control the steam I add w/ a manual lever
Palmiers Getting rolled out
My take on the Epi
Baguette Crumb
Me and Chef Bucher( my instructor from europe)