Idk like I can only make so much food because I have industrial equipment that makes it happen. Like I can get rice ready for hundreds of people but it’s only because I have steam ovens and the hotel pans to put it in. And there’s all sorts of labor that assists too, I can’t cook food that farmers didn’t grow, I can’t cheat with products that industrial food workers didn’t make (i.e. canned foods), and I can’t live a fucking life without dishwashers cleaning all the shit I use (it’d take like so much fucking time to clean all the dishes AND cook).
So it’s not just me, and I still feel very unskilled
It’s hard to feel confident about walking out of the job when I’ve only been cooking professionally at this job and idk anything about the wages or working conditions in other restaurants other than that my friend who’s a chef with a lot more experience than me left this job to make $16/hr somewhere else…
So i got hired as a cook at 16.50, with mention of “up to 17” at a 90 day review. That 90 day review is coming up. I’ve been told nonstop what a good job I’ve been doing, and more importantly another cook who doesn’t cook as well as me got fired for being an asshole a month ago. I think he was getting >18$ so his being fired means they have more room with that $17 they mentioned to me, right?
And I feel like I’ve demonstrated a lot of desirable qualities i.e. I clean out the drain stopper on the steam kettle EVERY TIME, but even the fuckin sous chef in charge of hygiene left it uncleaned and covered in gross leftover alfredo sauce. So im a tryhard who can be trusted to care about shit like that.
Anyway how much money do you think I should ask for
Love busting my ass, dick and balls frantically trying to get all the food out before we open, nervous as fuck because I haven’t prepared these menu items before and have no idea the timing, or even the quantities of ingredients necessary (the recipes given will be like “6 gallons of stock. 2 gallons of milk” yeah I needed like 2 gallons and half a gallon for the same quantity of other ingredients, thanks recipe)
oh plus finding out when it’s time to cook that all the ground beef is frozen and having a little panic about whether to cook it from frozen or something else out
Only for these fuckin college kids to plow through ALL the chicken pot pie and only eat like one fucking hotel pan (i made seven) of the beef pot pie. I coulda just not made it and saved my ass like 40 minutes cooking and plating it + 20 minutes of having to clean out the fuckin tilt stirrer I used to cook it
Seriously fuck cleaning that thing. It’s so fucking badly designed. The steam jacketed kettles are so much easier to clean because I can just run water through them. This stupid piece of shit is like a big skillet with a hydraulic handle that tilts it to pour stuff out of it
But like, it is a huge pain in the ass to get detritus out because you have to put water in and dump it out multiple times because it doesn’t all flow out. If it just had a fucking drain built into it so that I could wash shit out without tilting it itt would be so much easier
Also it’s set into what’s basically a giant sink on the floor, right? Immediately under it is just a big stainless steel basin with a drain that goes to some sort of fat separation system, so apparently we can just shove food waste down it and It’s Fine (probably)
But the fucking thing is set up too close to the edge, so if you tilt to pour, it’ll go all over the fucking floor instead. So you have to use a big sheet pan to hold in front deflect it into the basin
It’s ass. I hate it. Fuck that thing.
At least I only had to clean it once today, I thought i’d have to cook the chicken pot pie in it too but I managed to make barely enough of it in one of the large rondeau pans (which the dishwashers clean and not me, thank you <3)
wow you really are so brainwashed that literally nothing could change your mind because you aggressively seek to ignore reality when it doesn’t match up with what you think you know
Ya think maybe producing most of the world’s shit has anything to do with that pollution, buddy? Like wow the west outsourced most of its manufacturing to China, no fucking shit it’s going to produce more pollution. What’s their per capita #s look like, frienderino?
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Good for you comrade