Day 4/8 - 25Dec - 114
Happy Christmas and thanks for reading this far. This year we are cooking 114 turkeys in The Gate kitchen, a huge number because we are looking after the Warehouse team and some other Crisis centres. I left four of the Afternoon team at midnight last night still in front of the ovens and returned at 3pm this afternoon to find them at their stations, James said they finished at 02:30hrs Christmas morning! We stood at whiteboards listening to Chef allocate out the tasks for today and everything seemed surprisingly calm and relaxed for a 7pm target serve time. James was TurkeyMan, just 60 of them today, Sagar was RoastspudandvegMan and I was ParsnipMan. I say it every year in my diary that if you ever cook a roast or BBQ poultry please invest in a digital thermometer probe to test the centre of the bird to avoid stomach upsets or trip to A&E. I do the parnsnips every year because it involves a couple of hours in front of two large woks of very very hot oil balance...