
An empty stainless space.
Currently, every Tuesday I enter a silent kitchen that is quiet and left all for my little lonesome self. Well semi lonesome because I always get visitors. I enter a space that is super clean after being deep cleaned on Sunday night. It’s shiny. It’s pure stainless clean.
Everything is in its place and I have free range of all countertops to start baking and making. I get to enjoy the entire space to myself. It’s freedom. It’s confinement, as I make it a semi challenge to not spread out too much like I would normally do. It’s fun. It’s hard. It’s amazing responsibility.
I have written poems about the stainless and cleaning and perfection of a quiet kitchen, either first in the morning or last out at night. There is peace in the opening and the shutting down.
It is definitely Stainless Silence.
Kate
Interesting start to your 31-days writing challenge! There really is something peaceful, even serene, about arriving in a professional kitchen before the day’s work has begun. Looking forward to following your posts about this during October 🙂
Thank you! I have gotten to enjoy the silence of the morning since the beginning, which is rather lovely. I absolutely love how the fans and ovens and ‘noise’ of the kitchen are toned down so much when you first unlock the door. I was really inspired by the silence after reading Sous Chef by Michael Gibney. I love it. And the smell inside is marvelous too. A blank canvas to start off. I hope you get to enjoy my take on a professional kitchen. 🙂