You Make the Call - Chef in Distress

It happens.  Sometimes dinner at the firehouse is delayed by calls for service, drills, details you name it.  However, sometimes a newer member of the company, who's turn it is to cook, is having trouble with a new recipe.

I've already told you all about the dangers of trying a new recipe at the firehouse (try it at home first), but this member never got that advice.

As folks mingled into the kitchen to help, the member confidently told them that everything was prepped, he was just waiting to get started.  Lettuce had been cut, washed and is in the fridge, dressing made and chilling. "Just timing the chicken," he told everyone.

So we all wandered off.

At 15 minutes before 1900 hours, dinner time, I enter the kitchen to see the cook browning some chicken in a pot.  "What do you need?" is the question I ask.  The answer and how you respond to it will define what kind of Firefighter you are.

His answer was "I need to brown this chicken, then it goes in the oven for an hour."

There were half a dozen other firefighters at a nearby table commenting on how dinner would be late.

What would you do?

 

You Make the Call.