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20 Really Strange Things That Kitchen Staff Are Totally Used To
Hilariously weird things in the kitchen.
People think that it’s normal to work with gloves all the time in the kitchen. Or for chefs to have these deadly serious expressions on them when they cook. But the kitchen is more of a hell and hectic place than most people think. Gordon Ramsay’s explicit edition of working in the kitchen isn’t always that far off.
These kitchen employees share what it was like in the backroom. The gastronomic world has its own weirdness, but people learn to embrace it all and live life.
“The worst possible thing happened an hour before close. Busser knocked an ABC extinguisher off the wall and it went everywhere. I stayed with our Dishie until 4am.”
“I present to you, the humble 2 gal cambro.”
“When you come in to find nobody had watered the hot wells all day.”
“Owner: Let’s make lots of dough tonight! Me: Okay! (Proceeds to empty 20kg of flour in the mixer.) Owner: Dude I mean money! Dough = money! Me: Too late! Jokes aside, that’s a 50lbs pizza dough for the weekend. Hope ya’ll have a great weekend.”
“We all have that one cook that unknowingly teaches everyone a valuable lesson, like: Never leave your tray on an active burner.”
“Customer broke a bar stool. Rather than throw it away we decided to make a luxury milk crate™️.”
“This made it so much easier to cook for this customer.”
“When you’re on overtime and chef asks you too sweep…”
“So my cooks had issues with exactly how I wanted the burgers built so I made this diagram on paint. One of my cooks loved it so much he had it tattooed on his leg.”
“Hit the holy grail shucking Kushi oysters tonight.”
“End of my night last night. Understaffed and overworked. Still love this job for some reason.”
“Newbie asked where the right hand gloves were.”
“I heard a scream from backroom, so I went to see what happened and I saw this.”
“The new girl at work was zesting lemons, and holy shit I’ve never seen anyone do it quite this thoroughly.”
“I don’t want to be here anymore today.”
“The way my coworker stacked the clean potatoes.”
“When you gotta work grill, but you also gotta write an essay.”
“We’re going to need a bigger kitchen.”
“Former McDonald’s employee here. I used to build random stuff at work, and everyone loved it.”
“The foot of the front leg on the stove gave out. Luckily it wasn’t during service and no one was near it when it happened. 10 gallons (the pot didn’t look like that before this happened haha).”
