I got my first taste of kitchen work on Sunday night/Monday morning. I was a little disappointed at start up to find out that the person who I was to shadow was on vacation. After a short talk with my supervisor, I was able to talk him into letting me get involved in the kitchen process for the night. I was assigned "creme attendant" where the only responsibility the job entails is mixing the ingredients for the pumpkin spice hershey kisses we are running this week. I was shown once how to complete the task and then was told "alright, go make another batch". At first this was a little intimidating, but after talking myself through it and realizing it's just chocolate, it was no big deal at all. So for the remainder of the night, the only thing I did was mix creme and chocolate recipes and haul them from the chocolate control room to the kitchen. Talk about redundant, mundane work.

Monday night/Tuesday morning I finally got into the kitchen to see what everything was about. It's about 100 degrees in there, and I got to sit all night reading the Job Safety Analysis (JSA). Hopefully tomorrow morning when I get off of shift I will have had the opportunity to get some hands on training, and I will have something more interesting to write about.