"...if we weren't cooking, we would be baking in the evening. Bread. We ran out of bread a couple of weeks
after we got underway to go overseas, so we would have to bake bread every night, that was about 100 loaves of bread every night! And we would work from seven o'clock
in the evening to around eight o'clock in the morning, just
putting out breads and pies and cakes and muffins and
donuts..."
William McGee
Baker & Cook, 1957-58
USS CASSIN YOUNG

The crew's meals were prepared in this kitchen and carried to the crew's mess two decks below, as well as to the chief petty officers' mess and to the officers' wardroom.