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What I Learned Being a Restaurant Cook For a Day

What I Learned Being a Restaurant Cook For a Day

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What I Learned Being a Restaurant Cook For a Day KaMiKaZee: I used to run food at a 3 Diamond restaurant. One of THE most impressive things I've seen to date was a chef; making something that had a prep time of HOURS cut down to minutes. It was a squash puree, and someone misread the prep sheet or something happened that in the middle of the first rush we hear Chef I have 4 orders of squash puree left. Not on the line, in the house. Chef just looks at me and he's like Watch the line. So now Im expo-ing AND running food. (thats not the amazing part) He runs to the back and pulls the 7 trays of squash out of the oven, (normally they cook them for 6-8 hours and glaze them through out the process. These had only been in the oven about 2 hours, which was enough for him to scrape a bit of all the pieces baking in the oven. Within 10 min he had another 15-20 orders. He might have had to do it one more time but damn, I was impressed. Instead of 86ing it, he fixed it in minutes.
Date: 2019-08-15

Comments and reviews: 9


I fully disagree with you here. Now how long does it take to make a PBJ sandwich? Let's say 5 minutes. It DOES NOT take over an hour to make 25 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches Making quantities of food doesn't take that much longer. I could make 25 PBJ sandwiches in less than 15 minutes and that includes clean up and wrapping each one. 50 slices of bread on the table using spatula, peanut butter on half jelly on the other half. count out 25 pieces of wrap, then cut, wrap and stack. Put everything away, clean up and done in 15 minutes. Only an idiot would make them one by one. AND I have seen allot of idiots in kitchens. But thanks for props to cooks I have worked very hard and efficiently.
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I use to work in a cafeteria and boy was it hard. Like I did everything in that kitchen except toy with money. I cooked, did dishes, did prep, cleaned the tables and floors, got burns, and anything else I could do. It was a good learning experience and I fit right in. But I quit for a nice relaxing job as a parking lot attendent as it payed more and I barely had to do anything. I miss the kitchen though.
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The hardest part about working in a restaurant for me was mirroring the public's time off. Every long weekend and celebration is spent in a hot kitchen. It kind of takes you out of the regular ebb and flow of the local work week. Sure - you get to enjoy the amenities of your neighborhood with not as many people to wait behind (lines etc. But, I always found it somewhat alienating. Another great EP thx man.
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See, Sarah Lynn? We're not doomed. In the grand scheme of things, we're just tiny specks that will one day be forgotten. So it doesn't matter what we did in the past, or how we'll be remembered. The only thing that matters is right now. This moment. This one spectacular moment we are sharing together. Right, Sarah Lynn? Sarah Lynn? Sarah Lynn?
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Definitely a good idea to try it out rather than to give everything else up and dive face first. Restaurant biz burns you out fast, is competitive, and generally doesn't have high profit margins. There's a reason cooks are stereotyped as drug users or life rejects.
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not a bad life choice, you just have to adapt the menu to what you can realistically manage. like how in-n-out only has burgers and fries. there are other forms of selling food too, such as catering or food truck
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I love your videos, you got a very familiar abd homemade, yey professional look, with a very nice content and you show you are very knowledgeable. Keep it up, I hope I could have teachers like you at my college: ')
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Learned that a lot of nice places especially Italian food, uses a microwave. This is a no-no, to heat up 5 day old lasagna that's been sitting in the bottom of a flooded refrigerated cabinet is gross.
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The problem with the restaurant industry is that the hours are grueling. You really don't have a life. FARMERS have more of a life than cooks, or chefs, and they also get up at the crack-ass of dawn.
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