Cruise: Day 3 - Galley Tour
Nov. 20th, 2007 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebToday we went on a rather mediocre galley tour, but there were still some good parts to it.
First, the waiters use a revolving door to get between the kitchen and dining room. This is great because they don't need any hands to get through. However, we totally can't see into the kitchen at all, because there is always a part of the door blocking our view. On the tour, we got to see the other side of that door. Just beyond the door is this:
It just seems like this control panel makes it a little too easy for evil to be exercised.
My other favorite part of the tour was seeing a guy making fondant roses. I assume it's fondant anyway, because it's not quite frosting. It's a thing you can roll out like clay into a snake, then cut matching pieces off. Take each piece and flatten it into a circle. Then roll one circle into a spiral and add two more around the edges. Fold some of the tops outward. Set on cake.
(Click to see bigger size; you may have to click on "all sizes" and then select "large" if not already selected.)
I later heard that some of the people in the tour were snatching these treasures and popping them into their mouths. And the poor chef must not have felt he could have said anything.
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We also went to an afternoon tea each day at sea. Here's a place setting:
I learned how to fold the napkins to make those cool leaning-tower-of-Pisa shapes. First, bring two corners together that were kitty-corner to fold a square napkin in half on the diagonal. Make a fold parallel to the long edge of the triangle, folding it back. Then take the remaining corner and fold it to the bottom.
Then take one of the new corners and bring it toward the other side to make a vertical fold. Don't quite bring it far enough over to fold the napkin in half.
Now take that same point and fold it so that it sticks straight up along the right edge of your napkin.
Then roll it so that the width of this sticking-up part is the diameter of the roll, and tuck in the end. It's hard to explain this stuff.
Quote of the day - "I'll turn this ship around." - cruise director, in a threatening way
First, the waiters use a revolving door to get between the kitchen and dining room. This is great because they don't need any hands to get through. However, we totally can't see into the kitchen at all, because there is always a part of the door blocking our view. On the tour, we got to see the other side of that door. Just beyond the door is this:
It just seems like this control panel makes it a little too easy for evil to be exercised.
My other favorite part of the tour was seeing a guy making fondant roses. I assume it's fondant anyway, because it's not quite frosting. It's a thing you can roll out like clay into a snake, then cut matching pieces off. Take each piece and flatten it into a circle. Then roll one circle into a spiral and add two more around the edges. Fold some of the tops outward. Set on cake.
(Click to see bigger size; you may have to click on "all sizes" and then select "large" if not already selected.)
I later heard that some of the people in the tour were snatching these treasures and popping them into their mouths. And the poor chef must not have felt he could have said anything.
**
We also went to an afternoon tea each day at sea. Here's a place setting:
I learned how to fold the napkins to make those cool leaning-tower-of-Pisa shapes. First, bring two corners together that were kitty-corner to fold a square napkin in half on the diagonal. Make a fold parallel to the long edge of the triangle, folding it back. Then take the remaining corner and fold it to the bottom.
Then take one of the new corners and bring it toward the other side to make a vertical fold. Don't quite bring it far enough over to fold the napkin in half.
Now take that same point and fold it so that it sticks straight up along the right edge of your napkin.
Then roll it so that the width of this sticking-up part is the diameter of the roll, and tuck in the end. It's hard to explain this stuff.
Quote of the day - "I'll turn this ship around." - cruise director, in a threatening way