Junior year of high school I attended a school called; Columbus Downtown High School. The school was a two year career development high school, only including juniors and seniors in the entire school. There were a few select programs you could go for such as: Cosmetology, ROTC, Police Enforcement, Culinary Arts, and Business. I chose to go for was Culinary Arts. Junior year was an exciting year for the two years I went there. The reason being was I was picked to participate in a culinary competition called: Ohio Prostart. The culinary cooking competition was for high schoolers pursing an education in culinary programs at there high schools all around Ohio. I was thankful enough to participate in such a big event. It was a chilly Monday morning
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Sometimes the recipe worked out, however other times it fell flat. When competition started I got right to preparing my dish. I was hoping the whole time that my dessert would actually do justice, and come out correct. I started with my sugar sculpture first. This is just caramelized sugar, I was wanting to let harden after I made my desired shapes. I put the pieces aside, hoping they would harden so by the end I could put the pieces together. I went on with the recipe poaching my pear and helping my team members when I had down time waiting for my own dish. Time went by incredibly fast because it was already the last ten minutes of competition. I started to slightly panic when I checked on my sugar sculpture pieces, and they hadn’t hardened in enough time to even be made into a sculpture. Consequently, I had to throw the pieces away because there was nothing else I could do. My dish was left uncompleted, and for the rest of competition I was upset. Our team ended up getting 11th place. If it wasn’t for the sugar sculpture we would have probably gotten a higher ranking. The competition was an amazing opportunity because I was able to see how the people on the cooking shows such as; Top Chef, feel when they are competing. You have to be driven, fast, and ready to handle business when it comes to cooking in a competition. Even with the setback of knowing we didn’t win and my dessert was a fail, I learned a lot that day. I learned that even
Sometimes the recipe worked out, however other times it fell flat. When competition started I got right to preparing my dish. I was hoping the whole time that my dessert would actually do justice, and come out correct. I started with my sugar sculpture first. This is just caramelized sugar, I was wanting to let harden after I made my desired shapes. I put the pieces aside, hoping they would harden so by the end I could put the pieces together. I went on with the recipe poaching my pear and helping my team members when I had down time waiting for my own dish. Time went by incredibly fast because it was already the last ten minutes of competition. I started to slightly panic when I checked on my sugar sculpture pieces, and they hadn’t hardened in enough time to even be made into a sculpture. Consequently, I had to throw the pieces away because there was nothing else I could do. My dish was left uncompleted, and for the rest of competition I was upset. Our team ended up getting 11th place. If it wasn’t for the sugar sculpture we would have probably gotten a higher ranking. The competition was an amazing opportunity because I was able to see how the people on the cooking shows such as; Top Chef, feel when they are competing. You have to be driven, fast, and ready to handle business when it comes to cooking in a competition. Even with the setback of knowing we didn’t win and my dessert was a fail, I learned a lot that day. I learned that even