Scones Lab Reflection 

• I chose the scone lab because I found it to be the most challenging so far this term.  I plan to go over it again as I believe I can find new ways to improve it for next time. I thought it was challenging to knead the dough. While I was watching the lab demo I thought it was going to be easy. However, when I actually went to try it the dough was sticking to my hands and wasn’t cooperating with the way I was folding it. By the time I was done the dough was still in a ball and a lot of it remained on my hands. 

 

 

• I enjoyed this lab because it was the most complicated one to do. My group had to work hard together and we had to stay on task to be able to finish on time. I found it challenging because there were so many steps to remember. When we had to go to the ingredient table to find everything, it was very busy but we communicated as a team and sorted out who will find what. This made it more time efficient. The scones are my favourite thing we made so far. I made them at home to share with my family. They enjoyed them too!

 

• Our end result wasn’t really what we had hoped for. One of the problems was that we didn’t knead the dough as many times as we should have. When the scones were done baking they were flat. Something our group did well was, monitoring the time and they were perfectly cooked, with golden on the top.

 

 

• This scone lab was the one of the labs our group worked really well on together . There were so many steps that we had to do so we worked efficiently to finish on time and we worked together to assign jobs.  Right away we knew who had what job.  Usually we don’t look at the jobs board till the end and everything is rushed but before we even started to cook we review the details on the board. We knew who was doing what and that saved us time at the end and helped us build team camaraderie. 

 

• If I were to do this lab again I would definitely take more time and patience with kneading the dough. I  would also add more flour on the counter. Overall our group did very well on this lab and the outcome was good. Basically our only drawback was flat scones but they still tasted delicious.