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Several tons of food passes through a cruise ship galley every day. The bigger the ship the more hungry passengers the crew has to feed. The galley on the Carnival Breeze serves both main dining rooms as well as having a small section just for making food for the taste bar.
produce piled high
The ship had a comedy brunch in progress as we toured through the kitchen. First we passed by the taste bar galley where they had a head start preparing things to get ready for the night’s tasting. Different nights at the taste bar feature different eateries around the ship.
Carnival Breeze galley
head chef Joaquim
Head chef Joaquim from India led us on through the galley explaining that the large area where they put the meals together had one end for each dining room so they could send things out in both directions since the two main dining rooms are at opposite ends of the galley and not that close to each other in the passenger area of the ship. The galley also makes some of the food for some of the other dining venues aboard the ship.
giant soup vats
Many sections branched off the main aisleway through the galley. One held many ovens, another giant vats used for soup kettles. By the pastry area a member of the galley crew mixed up batter in a mixer larger than he was.
garnishing the cheesecakes
Rows and rows of little cheesecakes sat in dishes all along one station while a guy with a bowl of berries worked his way down the line garnishing each one in turn. A different area had all sorts of people cooking up things like Eggs Benedict and curly fries for the ongoing brunch.
meat defrosting locker
Chef Joaquim said that all the meat came aboard before the ship left Barcelona, ordered in advance from Miami. They take on food at just 3 ports on this cruise. In Las Palmas, Grand Canary Island they loaded tomatoes, oranges, and potatoes. On our island tour of Grand Canary, we saw many enormous greenhouses, which the guide said all grew tomatoes.
galley crew making curly fries
Food definitely is one of the many things most passengers look forward to on each cruise. It takes a lot of work from a lot of people to feed the several thousand plus passengers aboard the Breeze. Then there’s the crew to feed as well. They need to eat too. No wonder the ship dedicates so much space to food preparation.
Ovens in the galley on Carnival Breeze
carved watermelon
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gosh must be extremely busy in those kitchens!!
Not all the galley staff work the same hours so they have people to cover all the different times and places where they need them, and yes I would imagine all of them stay quite busy.
There are so many things being made in the galley for so many different places I remember seeing some things ready when we did the tour on the Liberty that we never did find being served.
I’ve been on quite a few cruises, but I’ve never yet taken the ‘behind the scenes’ tour. I’ll bet it is a lot of fun!
It’s always interesting to see the inner workings of the ship.
Okay, you’ve set me up: what’s a comedy brunch? I suspect it’s not a food fight for the passengers’ entertainment.
Nothing that exciting, just brunch with a comedian for entertainment….perhaps if both the food and the comedian were terrible a rowdy crowd would throw their food at him.
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I wouldn’t mind having one of those big soup vats for home brewing beer. I would like to start doing all grain but a big enough pot for it is expensive. There is so much stainless steel in those galleys it must cost a lot to make them.
You could make a lot of beer in one of those vats. We had someone at work for a bit that used to work in a shop that made cruise ship galleys.
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