Time required to prepare Greek Menu?

Question

Menu consists of Dolmades, Baklava, pastitsio and a couple other items. My boss tells me it can be done in my 8 hour shift. I think he's crazy. Given just the 3 items I've mentioned, how long will this take?

Answer 1

if you're familiar to these things, pastitsio would take you about 30-45 min's to prepare and approx 45 to bake. Baklava is a bit difficult but wouldn't require more that 1h30m to 2h to be ready to eat. dolmades is your nightmare cause you have to make the filling and prepare each one separately that would require about 2-3 hours to prepare and cook. so your boss is correct you can do this in one shift as long as you have someone to wash the mesh you'll have to leave behind, so you can prepare something while baking an other. You don't have to do it in a home style kitchen, do you???

Answer 2

To my knowledge that should only take up half your shift. Bake the baklava and put in the fridge. While it's baking start the pastitsio, and the dolmades. Refrigerate the baklava while using any down time for assembling dolmades. Refrigerate those while finishing up the pastitsio.

Just break everything down into "what needs to be or can be done now or later". Don't just work on one thing at a time. Eight hours is easy. You'll even have time leftover unless the restaurant has some weird way of making something or you don't have a prep cook.

Answer 3

Baklava prep time about 15-20 min...cook time about the same
Pastitsio has about the same prep time and about 45 min cook time.
now...It's the Dolmathes that are a pain in the butt...
the prep time depends on the volume...the stuffing has to be mad...and it depends on if your making a plain stuffing or a meat stuffing.
each leaf before stuffing has to have the main stem cut out of it.
prep time 2-3 hrs
cook time 1 hour or so give or take.
If you time them all correctly you can get them all out together in about 4 or 5 hours no problem.

Answer 4

It depends if you know what you are doing or not! Get your boss to show you how it can be done in that time!