Keeping “Heart” in the Process
Posted on: 23rd March 2009
It’s rough making a great bagel when the oven breaks down! Fortunately for us, our bagel baking team has been around long enough and worked together well enough that we’ve created solid work habits that produce the most beautiful bagel, arguably in the country.
Today, the bagels survived, and so did we, even though everybody was exhausted from the longer hours. Late yesterday afternoon, the engine in the oven blew out. We were unable to get the necessary parts, but we were able to rig it so that the shelves would rotate. They rotate in one direction right now and normally they rotate both forward and backwards. This slows things down, but at least we can bake in one direction and we don’t have to manually crank the shelves around. We can bake on all the shelves instead of just one. Since we sold the Georgetown DC location 3 years ago, we haven’t had a back-up oven and this is definitely something to think about… nobody lost their passion to complete the bake and all I can say is it takes patience, commitment to the process and a lot of love to work a night like this.
Thanks Georgetown Bagelry team!
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