Chapter 7. Object Composition
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Cooking a gourmet meal with several courses is a challenging undertaking, particularly if you wish to partake in the consumption. You can’t very well eat and cook at the same time, yet many dishes require last-minute cooking to turn out well.
Professional cooks know how to resolve many of these challenges. Amidst many tricks of the trade, they use the general principle of mise en place, which can be loosely translated to everything in place: everything that can possibly be prepared well in advance is prepared in advance. Vegetables are cleaned and chopped, meats cut, stocks cooked, ovens preheated, tools laid out, and so on.
The components of the meal are prepared as much as possible. If ice cream is part of the dessert, it can be made the day before. If the first course contains mussels, they can be cleaned hours before. Even such a fragile component as sauce béarnaise can be prepared up to an hour before. When the guests are ready to eat, only the final preparations are necessary: reheat the sauce while frying the meat, and so on. In many cases, this final composition of the meal need not take more than 5 to 10 minutes. Figure 7.1 illustrates the process.