mm, electronic cleaning

Cleared out now-redundant emails from my inbox and sent folder. they both are <15 each now, instead of about 60 :)

Should get around to doing the dishes too, but that requires more effort than just clicking the mouse button. Besides, I'll be at work soon. I got a day shift today, 11 - 2. It's my first day shift. It would have been my second, but my car was still broken on the Saturday.

phew, day shift is so different from night shift

Night shifts consist mostly of just delivering pizzas, with topping up the make bench, answering phones, answering customers, sweeping, and dishes in between.

Day shifts consist almost completely of prep. I didn't do a single delivery in the 4 hours I worked today. Just prepared everything for today and tomorrow. Like, put the make bench (with all the toppings) back together (it gets disassembled every night). Putting toppings into bains (containers), putting a due date sticker on them, and then putting them into the cool room.

I helped make the dough! Was fun. You put the water, yeast, and pre-mix into this huge mixing thingy, and it mixes it all up in 8 mins. One batch = 32 deep pan bases, and we were making two batches at a time, twice. so that's approx. 128 deep pans we prepared this morning. then you pull the dough out, cut it up into 480 - 500 gm pieces, roll it into a ball, and flour the ball. Squash the ball so it's kinda flat, then put it into a machine which makes it thinner, then thinner again. Catch each base as it comes out (you machine-squash one or two at a time) and put it into a pre-oiled pan. Yes, that's right, 128 pans that Jason oiled with a bain full off oil and a big paint-brush.
Then you put all the pans on a trolley and leave it for 20 mins in today's weather or up to 1 hour in winter. Cart the risen bases inside the coolroom. They will then be ready to use in 3 days! Yep, the deep and classic crust pizza bases are prepped 3 days in advance. The thin pans come out of a box.

Oh, and then there's the taking out last night's rubbish. Not allowed to take the rubbish out to the dumpster after a certain time at night, so the rubbish that's left has to be carted out the next day.

I prepped tomato too, but I've done that before when we've run out during the night shifts. There's this contraption which is like a four-legged tripody thingy, and it has a thin-metal-not-quite-blade grid thingy in it. then it has two metal rods going up. on these two rods is a metal thing with a plastic thing on it's bottom, that when slammed down fits into the grid thing. So, you cut the tomatos in half, put a half on the grid thing, and slam the metal thing down, which pushes the tomato through and cuts it. Kinda like mashed potatos, only you only do each half once through the grid thing.

So, betcha didn't all know that, huh? :)