More pics fromthe CSUN lab oven tests

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Here Yalda evalauting the evenness of heat from the broiler of the DACOR range

 

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Thermador broiler Test

Bianca and Sandra perform the broiler evenness test on the Thermador dual fuel range

 

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That is Andre looking watching the cakes bake not Yalda, sorry Andre

 

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DACOR

Yalda evaluates the broiler in the DACOr

 

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Jade Salamander

Lucine, Anthony, and Jennifer evaluate the browning of the salamander

 

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Me and my prince

Mischael is a real prince (Kuati Royal Family) unfortunatly he is not mine. I am his thesis director so I do get to boss him around a little. Get over here boy!

 

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Hal my lab assistant

This is Hal. He took the class last spring and loved it. I placed him in an internship with Miele and now they have hired him on to do demos in their Beverly Hills Showroom. He is a great guy.

 

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Sig Ep boys

Me Hal and Gil. Present and former Sig Ep Presidents. I am the faculty advisor for their frat.

 

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Andre analysis the ingrediants on a cake mix

The students learn to identify the ingrediants in prepackaged food to determine if there are aftificial browning agents present. This messes up the tests

 

[maytagbear]

Allen--

Thenk you for this set of pictures, and mercy, you're a great looking guy.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

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rotiss chicke

Ekur, Sarkasian, Bray, Isabel, and Eduardo prepare the rotised chicken and vegetables stewed in its juice - yumm. One of the hazards of the job, there is a lot of food around, and some of it ispretty good.

 

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bird spins

Anthony and Christine watch the birs spin and spin and spin.

 

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hal supervises

Hal, the Miele expert, makes sure everything is working properly. Hal teaches the lab when I am not available. The equipment class it the only class I teach in the spring. There are two lab sections (16 students each)lasting three ours and a two hour lecture per week

 

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Christine carves

Christine is a chef and is taking the course to improver her equipment knowlege. I lot of what goes on in a commercial food service environment involves the interaction of materials and the equipment being used. This is one of the components of the course.

 

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juicy bird

Her is the finished product.

 

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Double Batch Brownies

Carissa prepares a double batch of brownies in the Thermador Jet Direct Oven. This oven was only on the market for a year or so. One of my former students did the recipe development for them and lead the deomonstration team. It is a great oven. It cooks the double batch in twn minutes. It is a compresssed convection and microwave combination. Unfortunatly it was very complex and expensive to manufacture and consumers balked at the $7,000 price tag and it was eventually pulled from the market.

 

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brownies

Sandar dishes up the brownies

 

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students

students awaiting the opening of the lab. Joey, Carissa, Abeer, Sharad, and Amy

 

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pizza

Joey and Brandon and Luca prepare pizza to compare using an aluminum pan and a pizza stone. Sarapi is a little picture shy.

 

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pizza

Joey, the italian stallion, shows off the finished products

 

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cake lab

Aram, Shazrad, Kelly, Katie, and Amy compare cakes cooked in ovens using differenct bake modes. Pure convection, convection aith bottom heat, convection with top and bottom heat, and tradtional radiant mode

 

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micro cake

Anthony contemplates the flavor of the microwaved cake

 

[scott55405]

The chickens look very nice! ....did they manage to stay where they were supposed to be, for their entire adventure in the oven?

 

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microwave cake

students attempt to cover up the microwave cake look

 

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all in a days work

Anthony and I celebrate the conclusion of the ovens labe with a little bubbly. He is a great guy with great culinary skills. He cooks for me on occassion when I have severak over for dinner.

 

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rotis

Yes Scott, Hal figured out that the roasting pan must be in the oven a certain way or the rotissing unit will pop out. I tried it at home and mine worked just fine.

 

[scott55405]

That's great Allen. The microwave cake picture makes me smile, and think back to those heady times when people were trying to make anything and everything in microwave ovens, regardless of how many levels it was just so wrong on...(LOL)

 

[tlee618]

Allen, thanks so much for sharing these great pictures. I still say that you have one of the best jobs ever! It would be great if you could do a class for all of us here. Believe me I would be first in line to sign up!

 

[foraloysius]

Thank you Allen, you have indeed a great job. Great pictures and some great food too, although I must admit the microwave cake doesn't look very attractive. LOL. Probably reminds me too much of my own attempt to bake a cake in the microwave...

 

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glad you like

It is an intersting course. CSUN is one of the few universities to still teach such a class. This is primarily due to industry support nurtured through my work with them.

I have some pics of the dishwasher lab. I will post when I get some time.