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[Drayek]

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It's only Saturday and we're already out of apple pies entirely. When I get home I'll post pictures, but in the mean time I can email them to anyone who posts their email here. I want to show the sheer volume of crap people buy. Christmas will make for good pictures too.

Also, does anyone know of a blog that would let me easily update with pictures from a phone? I want to start a bakery blog about all the wtf in my workplace.

[Kaelthir]

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I was blown out and honestly did not care at all to crop and upload pictures, I rounded so many buns my arm ached too bad to even type. Finally got around to it today:

To begin, thanksgiving starts early the previous week with pies. Pies pies pies. Mostly pumpkin pie, although we ran out of apple early on. The pies are brought in frozen, 6 pies to a box. This is a skid of pies:


I have a few more pics of pie skids from previously in the week (all of which sold out), this one has the most pies on it though.

So then one of us gets a cart and dumps a bunch of pie boxes on it, and we dump the pies onto a rack and put a sign on the rack and wheel it out for customers to rip at like wild vultures.




Then there are butter pan buns.


These things are like crack or something. Here's a bunch of orders for them people made set aside, as well as a stack of bins filled with them. We don't have enough rack space to put the buns on racks, we need to use bins instead.


Here's an entirely different stack of them. I think 6 fit in each bin, so those two bins have 96 packs of buns. And there were more being baked off that day.


We did a tremendous amount of prep for the next day too, all these blobs of dough on the table are heads that we flatten out on plastic plates and run through a bun rounding machine. Even then it still takes a lot of time to do this many buns.


Once we entirely filled up a rack with those buns, all the extras were baked off for that day.



While on Sunday I was working with the dough and on the ovens, on Saturday they had me take on the role of an extra decorator. I'm the only helper that's picked up decorating since I started working there 3-4 years ago, so they send me when the decorators need help. Well, fundraising for breast cancer was going on that weekend. The store sets it up so you make a donation to breast cancer and you get a slice of cake. Originally, they ordered 2 cakes for Saturday and 2 cakes for Sunday. That changed to 8 cakes Saturday, 6 cakes Sunday. Now, as you may guess people like DESSERT with their thanksgiving dinner, and the decorators were already swamped trying to keep up with that alone, so I took over making the breast cancer cakes.


Then we ran out of breast cancer picks to put on top, and I was taught how to properly make rose buds! They look a bit rough still, but I've gotten a lot better with it.


Here's a rack full of cakes, they kept coming back to take more so it isn't all of them I made that day


It was great, I was using so much pink dye for airbrushing my snot was pink when I went to blow my nose on my break.


Happy Thanksgiving!

[Yasamin]

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hahahahahaha out of it all, this really summoned it up.