Top Chef 3 and A Day in the Life of a Turkey Slicer

So, yesterday was Top Chef competition take 3! It still hasn't gotten old! Each time it's new chefs and new ingredients...okay the dishes all usually include chocolate because lets face it; the kitchen staff is all girls and there is nothing we like more. Three teams, four main ingredients per team and we came out with some interesting looking dishes. Pumpkin/oreo pie, cookie/pudding volcano, banana/white chocolate frozen yogurt pie...They all tasted pretty good and all the kitchies and cooks seemed to have a really fun time getting free reign in the kitchen and getting to feed sweet goodness to the Institute class and four judges.

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After a fantastic day of cooking sweets, came the task of slicing turkey... Everyday we send kids out on trips with a turkey sandwich (apple, cookie, & chips) lunch. And to be good stewards of our money and be able to send out fresh sliced meat every day, we choose to slice our own turkey. We have an awesome meat slicer that helps gets the job done amazingly, but it's also everyone's most dreaded kitchen item to clean. The cooks informed me that turkey has been taken for granted around here, so now I hope it's getting it's well deserved "shout-out." Today for our Hollywood dinner and for trips tomorrow, I sliced 100 lbs of turkey. That's about 1,400 slices from 8 turkeys piled high and ready to be made into a yummy sandwich on our bakery fresh baguettes.