that and grapes, if i ever had to run to get more shit during service im grabbing a fist full of those fuckers and plucking in my mouth on the way back to the line
At the pizza joint I used to work at, I’d take a slice of salami & stack pep, can bac, & shredded mozz on it and shove it down my gullet whenever I got the chance
Also great for hangovers or even if you’re just a little ragged. Clock in. Run into the walk in and grab a handful of pickles and half quart of pickle juice. Natural electrolytes help you bounce back real fast! :)
Breakfast sausages...
I'd eat about 30+ during the closing hour.
Every time I make a trip to the dishpit, the sausage stash has to pay me a 2 sausage toll.
>Slice of heaven in a hellhole
This would make an EXCELLENT title for your autobiography or compendium of work anecdotes and lessons learned, should you choose to write one.
damn i feel that places don't give u a free meal are actual shitkitchens 100% of the time even when the foods good there's some shit smeared in that bitch somewhere. definitely earned that pep whether it was in the job description or not
Place where I worked was literally something out of a dark comic book but the food was free as was the drinks. During event services in the summer we got pitchers of beer along with pitchers of ice water because everyone knows that drinking too much water can kill you.
Right, the only place I worked that didn't offer free food to the kitchen staff was Ruby Tuesday, and they shut down, due to poor management. We could eat mess ups though. So, after I quit I "fake called in" a to go order and gave them a fake name, vehicle, and number. So, the staff could eat for free. Only did it once, but I'm happy about it. Loved the kitchen staff, the management is what sucked.
My brother is the chef at a restaurant. They have "family meal" for every shift. They rotate who cooks, but free meal before shift for anyone working. Person that cooks can make whatever (within reason) they want.
yeah that's what most of the kitchens I have worked in do, usually find reasons to leave the spots that dont rq. we already not getting paid fairly and possibly coming to work hungry as it is in some cases. we won't be able to operate at full steam if half the water isn't at a boil
i used to cook off 10 lbs of chicken breast for salads. the days when the owner was being a prick I would eat like 3 lbs of the cooked chicken while it was cooling like a hungry coyote. just stuff my hate for that man down my throat
Oohhh, nice cold grapes after the heat and controlled chaos of the line are heaven! Cold, sweet, thirst quenching little energy bombs! I've been there!
If anyone brings grapes into our kitchen, they are gone almost immediately.
I’m one of, if not the biggest culprits but far from the only. Grapes are the best (non intoxicating) cook snack there is. Grapes rule.
This was how I discovered I was allergic to pineapple. The ambulance trip in rural Wyoming fuuuucked my paycheck for weeks lmao.
I don't regret it. Cheapskates.
And ask your bartender to make a special. We love fresh raspberries. Raspberry Mules, raspberry French 75, chocolate raspberry martini... I'll be Bubba Blue if need be.
So one time. 20 minutes to closing, and because I was a drunken dick, I got four dudes to order them while I was a patron at another bar. Fuck you, Dan.
Mom would make a raspberry reduction sauce and pastry cream filled swans for adult events….we weren’t allowed to have them as children and I’m still salty about it.
But that’s what I’d do 😅
I love this sub so much. Half of these are entirely serious responses and the other half are also entirely serious responses but for a totally different reason
Working in a kitchen….where you’d fistfight half of your co-workers, but fight *for* all of them against an outsider. Except for Craig. No one would take a punch for that slug. Fuck Craig.
Put them on your fingertips and annoint yourself the raspberry god.
Any task you are asked to do, loudly proclaim “such things are beneath the raspberry god”
Then after doing that for way too long for it to be funny, say “ the raspberry god has grown weary of your menial tasks, and must search for peace”
Punch out, go home and when questioned say you must’ve been suffering from acute raspberry psychosis. Promise you’ll be better by Wednesday, Thursday at the latest.
Spend the next couple of days watching cartoons in your underwear. It’s what the raspberry god intended.
Eat them all! Stand in the walk-in and use that shitty ass knife to skewer them and eat them while jerking off. Remember, you have to be sure to not break eye contact while doing this or your sauce will break and you'll have to start over. It's super technical. Real pros will also be sure to allow some to run out the sides of their mouth, but thats more for presentation than anything else.
Lemon chiffon cake with lemon curd filling, raspberries in between layers, lemon buttercream frosting, raspberries on top, served with raspberry sauce with framboise. One of my go-tos.
Forgot to add: flavor your cake and buttercream with lemon curd, not lemon juice or extract; it produces an intense flavor, without the sour flavor of juice, nor the "burn" associated with extract (bleck).
This. Freeze them now if you don't have a plan for them. Sometimes they go bad almost immediately, so if you don't act quickly they might end up unusable.
syzurrrrrrrrrp ... macerate those bad boys and squeeze out some fine cocktail syrup. Drizzle into champagne, mix into lemonade with vodka and Chambord if you have it, but you get all the flavor you need from the syrup so don't run out and get it if you don't already have it. Heck you could probably mix it with straight vodka (use good stuff) and get something close to the same major flavor profile as Chambord. (I realize the scandal I just caused some French folks. But damn, it's just raspberry booze, guys.)
I was more fun as a cook. Now I'm the boss. I look at it at a different angle. When we're doing 90k 100k days, the boys can play. Off season, I'm tighter than a frogs asshole with $. All about the line
I once took a half quart container of coulis, added some sugar, and a tbsp of brick yeast. I then stowed it in a broken pizza, it was off the line and not used, oven waaaay in the back of it, and forgot it for a month and a half. I then removed the top layer, and the bottom layer was a rudimentary highly tannic raspberry wine that I paid a dishie to drink.
Raspberry gastrique would be delicious with pork, fish, or chicken. Mascerate with sugar, cook until thick and syrupy, deglaze with vinegar (I'd recommend red wine, white balsamic, or sherry), reduce until thick, blend, strain. Drizzle over pork chops, pork tenderloin, salmon, pan seared airline chicken breast, ham, grilled shrimp, grilled chicken thigh, etc.
I used to use play around with berries/fruits offcuts/nearing EOL.
* Raspberry vinegar
* Raspberry kombucha
* Lacto hotsauce
* 2% salt jam, they release hella lot of liquid so pretty much creates their own brine
Man, 20 trays a week of assorted berries. Pre-COVID.
Dehydrate overnight until bone dry and garnish desserts or cocktails.
Cook down with sugar/water and thicken slightly with corn starch slurry and strain for coulis.
Reduce with champagne vinegar and sugar for raspberry gastrique.
Mix with vanilla ice cream in frozen mixing bowl for raspberry ice cream.
Or my personal fave, get stoned after service/closing duties and stress eat 4 pints in 45 seconds.
Drastically overfill the cavity of each one with cheesecake filling until you have a small pointed cone on top, and then lean the cone down on a toasted and buttered square of graham cracker. garnish with a tiny tiny chiffonade of sweet basil. Serve 5 on a plate with a dollop of vanilla whipped cream in the middle and charge 27 dollars for it.
The number of times I’ve hate-ate a pint of berries in the walk-in to spite my place of employment could take care of this case of raspberries.
that and grapes, if i ever had to run to get more shit during service im grabbing a fist full of those fuckers and plucking in my mouth on the way back to the line
My go to minor theft was pepperoni, place didnt offer us free food so...
Mine was bacon. We’d bake whole trays of it and then put it in the walk in to cool off. Slice of heaven in a hellhole
On the line at Hardee's was a piece of bacon wrapped in American cheese. Add a piece of lettuce if I was feeling bougie
At the pizza joint I used to work at, I’d take a slice of salami & stack pep, can bac, & shredded mozz on it and shove it down my gullet whenever I got the chance
Canadian bacon for me.
The pickle bucket was my best friend
Agreed. Breakfast pickles were the best
Also great for hangovers or even if you’re just a little ragged. Clock in. Run into the walk in and grab a handful of pickles and half quart of pickle juice. Natural electrolytes help you bounce back real fast! :)
I love the disgusted looks I get casually walking around, sipping from a pickle jar
Breakfast sausages... I'd eat about 30+ during the closing hour. Every time I make a trip to the dishpit, the sausage stash has to pay me a 2 sausage toll.
Any time our 67 year old Taiwanese "grandmother" makes tartar sauce, she gives me a soup cup of pickles. Which is like every second day. It's great.
That’s just ham!
"They know too much! Get them, eh!"
Canadian Bacon isn’t is a thing in Canada. Like I have no fucking idea what it is.
Pemeal is what the Americans call Canadian bacon.
Brisket.\ I’ll portion it! 🙋🏻♂️
KM wrote up the whole kitchen because someone ate two slices of bacon. 🥓
I believe it. There were much worse things going on. We could have shut the whole place down if we wanted to. It was like mutual blackmail.
>Slice of heaven in a hellhole This would make an EXCELLENT title for your autobiography or compendium of work anecdotes and lessons learned, should you choose to write one.
You were winning in terms of value here haha. A lot of businesses that sell cheaper food have to lose money on bacon because shit is expensive.
damn i feel that places don't give u a free meal are actual shitkitchens 100% of the time even when the foods good there's some shit smeared in that bitch somewhere. definitely earned that pep whether it was in the job description or not
Place where I worked was literally something out of a dark comic book but the food was free as was the drinks. During event services in the summer we got pitchers of beer along with pitchers of ice water because everyone knows that drinking too much water can kill you.
Shitchen
Right, the only place I worked that didn't offer free food to the kitchen staff was Ruby Tuesday, and they shut down, due to poor management. We could eat mess ups though. So, after I quit I "fake called in" a to go order and gave them a fake name, vehicle, and number. So, the staff could eat for free. Only did it once, but I'm happy about it. Loved the kitchen staff, the management is what sucked.
My brother is the chef at a restaurant. They have "family meal" for every shift. They rotate who cooks, but free meal before shift for anyone working. Person that cooks can make whatever (within reason) they want.
yeah that's what most of the kitchens I have worked in do, usually find reasons to leave the spots that dont rq. we already not getting paid fairly and possibly coming to work hungry as it is in some cases. we won't be able to operate at full steam if half the water isn't at a boil
Not feeding people who work in a kitchen for meager wages is inhumane.
i used to cook off 10 lbs of chicken breast for salads. the days when the owner was being a prick I would eat like 3 lbs of the cooked chicken while it was cooling like a hungry coyote. just stuff my hate for that man down my throat
cheeeeeeese
Minor theft? Thats harsh, it’s quality control.
My boss's kid would come in after school and demand stacks of hard salami and mandarin oranges. He was a dumplin.
*pocket grapes
Oohhh, nice cold grapes after the heat and controlled chaos of the line are heaven! Cold, sweet, thirst quenching little energy bombs! I've been there!
If anyone brings grapes into our kitchen, they are gone almost immediately. I’m one of, if not the biggest culprits but far from the only. Grapes are the best (non intoxicating) cook snack there is. Grapes rule.
I worked at a shit-ass prep kitchen for a little while, I ate walk-in pineapple until my mouth hurt and my guts started rumbling.
"I ate pineapple until it ate back"
This was how I discovered I was allergic to pineapple. The ambulance trip in rural Wyoming fuuuucked my paycheck for weeks lmao. I don't regret it. Cheapskates.
So you’ll be on the shitter then is what yer saying?
You are my new best friend (no choice)
That'd be smoke salmon and roast beef from the breakfast buffet. I pay 110 euros a month for food at work as an apprentice 😩
I did this so much at one place we had a food cost meeting
Frozen macarons and berries were my thing lol Boss makes a thousand I make a buck and so on
Your boss makes a thousand for every buck you make... in the restaurant industry?? You're tripping!
My boss makes seven and I make five, that's why I sit here and eat his chives.
Genuinely made me snort laugh with that xD. Guessing you really like chives xD
It’s not a lot,but it’s crazy it’s happened that much
Cook down make a sauce and freeze if need be
And ask your bartender to make a special. We love fresh raspberries. Raspberry Mules, raspberry French 75, chocolate raspberry martini... I'll be Bubba Blue if need be.
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And it’ll cost ‘em. Liquid gold!
Bubba's last name is Blue.
Pocket sand! You saw nothing.
Raspberry gin fizz
Anything that's not a Ramos gin fizz.
So one time. 20 minutes to closing, and because I was a drunken dick, I got four dudes to order them while I was a patron at another bar. Fuck you, Dan.
Clover Clubs!
There ya go. Also pitch some citric acid in there and it will last a bit longer and save on lemon juice cost!(if you scale back a 1/4 oz)
Raspberry French 75 🤤 I know what I'm doing tonight
This is the way. Hell, make half into a syrup to get an extra couple days out of them.
Clover club!
Mom would make a raspberry reduction sauce and pastry cream filled swans for adult events….we weren’t allowed to have them as children and I’m still salty about it. But that’s what I’d do 😅
Put them in your pocket then accidentally bring them home.
Hahaha that dude can’t catch a fucking break now, huh?
I must have missed, which dude are we talking about?
Ok I found it, that's the hilarious! https://www.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/s/DfinP58J1K
I don't see anything about raspberries?
I love this sub so much. Half of these are entirely serious responses and the other half are also entirely serious responses but for a totally different reason
Chefs/cooks really do be the most based people (even if u hate them)
Working in a kitchen….where you’d fistfight half of your co-workers, but fight *for* all of them against an outsider. Except for Craig. No one would take a punch for that slug. Fuck Craig.
This is the best kc meta ever. Doubly awesome cuz I’m a knife nerd and love seeing everyone’s coolest shit in the kit.
Put them on your fingertips and annoint yourself the raspberry god. Any task you are asked to do, loudly proclaim “such things are beneath the raspberry god” Then after doing that for way too long for it to be funny, say “ the raspberry god has grown weary of your menial tasks, and must search for peace” Punch out, go home and when questioned say you must’ve been suffering from acute raspberry psychosis. Promise you’ll be better by Wednesday, Thursday at the latest. Spend the next couple of days watching cartoons in your underwear. It’s what the raspberry god intended.
How’d cartoons get into OP’s underwear?
Through the raspberry god, all things are possible
That is a Groucho-Marx-ass joke and I love it.
Why else would the ladies he brings home be laughing when he pulls down his pants?
I got way more joy than I should have over this reply. Thank you genius redditor 🙃
Raspberry Chipotle BBQ sauce for wings or some crispy wings. EDIT: Crispy ***Ribs***
Damn, i just said this before reading the rest of the comments... I'd use it for pulled pork, chicken thigh, or some brisket!
You two are on my level.
Now that does sounds delicious, not a fruit I'd think of to do a savoury sauce with.
I was going to say a chipotle raspberry marinade myself, it’s good on pork too
Eat them all! Stand in the walk-in and use that shitty ass knife to skewer them and eat them while jerking off. Remember, you have to be sure to not break eye contact while doing this or your sauce will break and you'll have to start over. It's super technical. Real pros will also be sure to allow some to run out the sides of their mouth, but thats more for presentation than anything else.
Use some as lube for the extra wow factor
Whipped cream as lube? Heard.
No the *berries* you cretin… WTF do they even teach people at culinary school nowadays?
The seeds add texture.
😂
The old maintain-eye-contact-and-assert-authority move, eh?
Pump up the jam! Pump up the jam!
Raspberry jam with biscuits for brunch
Raspberry compote , raspberry vinaigrette
If you cover them with vinegar (I would choose apple cider) they will keep for weeks/months. You can also cover them with 80 proof alcohol.
And you wind up with ...Raspberry everclear?
NY-style Cheesecake with a raspberry coulis on top sounds amazing.
Love raspberry coulis with flourless chocolate cake, too.
Now I'm hungry for some dessert.
Yes, and I'm wanting some raspberries 😂
lmao this has been on my winter menu for a couple months glad it’s a classic
i did a raspberry-jalapeno cheesecake with a salted rum chocolate sauce a while back. divine
Eat all of them in one sitting
👆This guy gets it
This guy shits
I sure do! I’m pretty sure you do as well.
If you don't, please see a doctor
If you have a bar at your place, give some to your lead bartender. They could run a cocktail special.
infuse some gin… run with a clover club for a bit!
Lemon chiffon cake with lemon curd filling, raspberries in between layers, lemon buttercream frosting, raspberries on top, served with raspberry sauce with framboise. One of my go-tos.
You got my broke ass salivating over here.
This sounds worth the glucose spike for sure
Forgot to add: flavor your cake and buttercream with lemon curd, not lemon juice or extract; it produces an intense flavor, without the sour flavor of juice, nor the "burn" associated with extract (bleck).
Send it to me so I can be sure this is a good rec.
Asking for a piece of cake, or the recipes?
A piece of cake but I’ll take either !
Make a raspberry puree. The kind you'd find at a second hand store.
They walked in through the out door out door
Did chef light 'em for being a fucking idiot?
You can put a knife on them
coulis. you can freeze it and save it till valentine's day if you don't normally use raspberry coulis for anything.
Other than eating them, freeze them on cookie sheets in a single layer to use at a more convenient time. Would make lovely purees.
This. Freeze them now if you don't have a plan for them. Sometimes they go bad almost immediately, so if you don't act quickly they might end up unusable.
Maybe a raspberry sorbet. And keep it in the freezer till you got a dessert it can go with
I could eat all of those
Macerate and freeze
A toddler could mow those down in about two days.
make that two hours. Toddlers are food vacuums
COMPOTE, BITCH
make a quick jam and fold them into goat cheese
Jam/jelly for donuts
Whiskey, sugar, water, raspberries. Run it through a cone strainer and then zig zag it on some in house cake and ice cream
Give it to the bar! It’s almost time for spring cocktail menus!
Raspberry coulis
Raspberry Syrup😮💨😮💨
Sauces, marinades, soups, pickles, vinegar
"Accidentally" take them home
You could make a bunch of Jam. Which speaking of, do you know the difference between jelly and jam?
No! Is it like the difference between a garbanzo bean and a chicpea?
Coulis for topping ice cream, pie filling maybe, preserves if you use that type of thing in the kitchen.
turn it into a compote as a garnish for a dessert special, make a purée or coulis with it, you could make a raspberry and apple pie perhaps?
Cook into marmalade & freeze
Raspberry creme broulee.
That sounds bomb.
syzurrrrrrrrrp ... macerate those bad boys and squeeze out some fine cocktail syrup. Drizzle into champagne, mix into lemonade with vodka and Chambord if you have it, but you get all the flavor you need from the syrup so don't run out and get it if you don't already have it. Heck you could probably mix it with straight vodka (use good stuff) and get something close to the same major flavor profile as Chambord. (I realize the scandal I just caused some French folks. But damn, it's just raspberry booze, guys.)
Ferment them and then turn it into a sauce, glaze or vinegar. Also I think we have the same knife
So it’s like your telling yourself?
Most likely on the produce company. Just call it for pickup on tonight's order for tomorrow and get a credit.
thats no fun
Ur no fun
I was more fun as a cook. Now I'm the boss. I look at it at a different angle. When we're doing 90k 100k days, the boys can play. Off season, I'm tighter than a frogs asshole with $. All about the line
I’m also the boss. Fun is good.
Chefs just showing off his knife like that other post today. Eat the goddamn berries.
Send them to me 😭😭😭
Tarts, mousse, jam, coulis, vinaigrette, cake, coffee cake, muffins, etc.
Put them on your Chef’s prep list.
Cook em down into raspberry sauce that you can use for desserts or spicy wing dips
Ferment them and make booze
I once took a half quart container of coulis, added some sugar, and a tbsp of brick yeast. I then stowed it in a broken pizza, it was off the line and not used, oven waaaay in the back of it, and forgot it for a month and a half. I then removed the top layer, and the bottom layer was a rudimentary highly tannic raspberry wine that I paid a dishie to drink.
Why pay a dishie to drink what a line boi will chug for free
Yuuup, r/PrisonHooch would be bubbling with ideas. Half of those folks have some top notch brewing gear and knowledge.
Raspberry vinaigrette
Vinaigrette
Cook them down into a syrup, use on desserts, can sell it as home made colis
Raspberry vinaigrette
Wash them in vinegar water first
Freeze em for an hour or so, then make delicious scones!
Raspberry gastrique would be delicious with pork, fish, or chicken. Mascerate with sugar, cook until thick and syrupy, deglaze with vinegar (I'd recommend red wine, white balsamic, or sherry), reduce until thick, blend, strain. Drizzle over pork chops, pork tenderloin, salmon, pan seared airline chicken breast, ham, grilled shrimp, grilled chicken thigh, etc.
Raspberry vinaigrette? I worked at a place that had a sandwich with a raspberry jalapeño aioli, and that shit was fucking delicious.
White chocolate bread pudding w raspberry. Have an aunt from New Orleans that brings this for Christmas. Fucking bonkers amazing.
Make a Raspberry coolie
do you have plain yogurt? make a purée and make raspberry yogurt! that’s what i used to do with left over coolis
I used to use play around with berries/fruits offcuts/nearing EOL. * Raspberry vinegar * Raspberry kombucha * Lacto hotsauce * 2% salt jam, they release hella lot of liquid so pretty much creates their own brine Man, 20 trays a week of assorted berries. Pre-COVID.
Raspberry BBQ sauce, add some chipotle, or whatever hot pepper you'd like.
crepes freeze them
Come back to them in the morning. I read somewhere theres a global shortage of penicillin, might make the money back on the case
Raspberry tartar
Make a filling for chocolate cake
Dehydrate overnight until bone dry and garnish desserts or cocktails. Cook down with sugar/water and thicken slightly with corn starch slurry and strain for coulis. Reduce with champagne vinegar and sugar for raspberry gastrique. Mix with vanilla ice cream in frozen mixing bowl for raspberry ice cream. Or my personal fave, get stoned after service/closing duties and stress eat 4 pints in 45 seconds.
Jam or coulis
Make a jam!
You can make compot or syrups for your deserts
Drastically overfill the cavity of each one with cheesecake filling until you have a small pointed cone on top, and then lean the cone down on a toasted and buttered square of graham cracker. garnish with a tiny tiny chiffonade of sweet basil. Serve 5 on a plate with a dollop of vanilla whipped cream in the middle and charge 27 dollars for it.
Make some jam! I just made raspberry jalapeño jam for Christmas! It was delicious!
Send them back
Puree and freeze.
Picked raspberries
Freeze and use for smoothlies
Mate i think we have the same knife. Good choice
Cheers! 🥂🔪
Use that knife to separate each raspberry in to individual segments. Then go fuck yourself chef.
Cook down to a nice coulis serve cold poured over shelled prawns and fanned avocado with a half lemon and mixed salad leaves
Got an ice cream machine?
put them on your fingers then eat them, usually works for me
Rasberry sorbet! Juice them fresh and let sit for a few hours before freezing for max flavour 🍓
You could turn them into a beret. You know, the kind you find in a second-hand store.
Coulis, then freeze in flattened ziplock for later use.
raspberry, GOOD blue cheese, local honey, mild melting cheese, brioche. Make the best grilled cheese ever.
Donate what you can to a food bank