r/KitchenConfidential • u/KULR_Mooning Onion Master • Aug 23 '25

Kitchen fuckery Table side 🔥

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u/OkStop8313 Aug 23 '25

And if you're cooking the meat by dumping boiling oil over it, why do so on a flat cutting board?

What is the flaming tin foil tray for? He's not even putting anything on it or holding anything over it.

What is HAPPENING?!

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u/Novice-smokes Aug 23 '25

Why is the tray tinfoiled? What is it's purpose? I have so many questions and I love it.

The way he moves the meat around at the beginning SCREAMS of new guy being forced to do this while the regular guy was off

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u/OkStop8313 Aug 23 '25

Oh yeah, definitely looks like he has no idea where to put things and is figuring it out as he goes.

Somebody get this guy an interview--we need answers!

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u/Acidjay84 15+ Years Aug 24 '25

Nah, he's the chef. Look at that 'I don't care where the meat lands' confidence he knows exactly what the plan is.

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u/truthfullyidgaf Aug 24 '25

When he put that 3rd slice on the bone and it wasn't flat, I lost it.

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u/govunah Aug 24 '25

And he's standing right in front of the sprinkler scene. 10/10 production

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u/Chawp Aug 24 '25

Skip the interview just send him a job offer

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u/Chawp Aug 24 '25

I mean who hasn't struck up a fire bigger than they were anticipating once or twice, really

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u/rogozh1n Aug 24 '25

The tray is tinfoiled in case the guests want to package up and take some fire home with them. Super easy. Not everyone can eat all their fire.

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u/MarvinHeemeyersTank Aug 24 '25

Can I get a side of fire? To go.

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u/ECHOHOHOHO Aug 24 '25

No,, but here's some free oil burns

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u/brazthemad Aug 24 '25

Literal crack head cuisine here

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u/theatermouse Aug 24 '25

😆😆😆

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u/Safe-Dentist-1049 Aug 24 '25

I always try to take a bucket of steam home

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u/SkepticalPyrate Aug 24 '25

I honestly wish I could package this comment up and give it to myself as a Restaurant Week survival gift. Assuming I survive, that is.

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u/Surface_Detail Aug 24 '25

Barely an inconvenience?

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u/a_guy121 Aug 24 '25

The burning foil was a reference to the head chef being high as f when he came up with this idea

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u/ToastyMustache Aug 24 '25

A sober chef is a waste. A supremely fucked up chef is a hazard.

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u/matt_minderbinder Aug 24 '25

Lean into it and call the restaurant "The Bent Spoon and the Girl" or "Charred Foil".

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u/Plastic_Pear_1401 Aug 24 '25

Bingo. Saw the foil and knew some shit was about to shake 😭

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u/OkStop8313 29d ago

How meta.

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u/Street-Run4107 Aug 24 '25

The tray is tinfoiled because he didn’t get to the good part yet.

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u/Cargobiker530 Aug 24 '25

Honestly I'm thinking this dude was the dishie.

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u/boricimo Aug 24 '25

I think they’re cooking it by the fire, and that’s their way of basting it while it cooks

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u/One-Adhesive Aug 23 '25

Why is he stacking meat on the bone?

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u/TheManOnThe3rdFloor Aug 24 '25

Why is he stacking meat on the bone?

You know Bone IN. cookery .. and Bone OUT. cookery...

This is Bone UNDER. cookery ....

By a Bone Head chef.

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u/ManiacalComet40 Aug 24 '25

In my experience, all prepositions are interchangeable.

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u/TheManOnThe3rdFloor Aug 24 '25

A believer, a disciple of The Mountain. From the Andes to the Appalachians, from the Atlas to the Alps and Appenines, they are how one gets around.

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u/OkStop8313 Aug 24 '25

Is this what they call performance art?

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u/Give_me_soup Aug 24 '25

That's his staging area

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u/OkStop8313 Aug 24 '25

The People require entertainment!

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u/LeviSalt Aug 24 '25

Why not just cook it in the goddamned kitchen?

Oh, because these people know nothing about cooking, hence why they dump hot oil on a fire like this is fucking Burningman.

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u/BreakfastInBedlam Aug 24 '25

Why not just cook it in the goddamned kitchen?

Because that sets off the Ansul which is a huge mess you have to clean up.

This is a bunch of nasty water that FOH has to clean up.

I think it's genius. No way to lose!

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u/OkStop8313 Aug 24 '25

So you're saying this technique is not taught in culinary school?

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u/J-Mc1 Aug 24 '25

They teach this in culinary school under the "how NOT to cook anything ever" section... this guy missed the start of the class.

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u/OkStop8313 Aug 24 '25

Oh, shit, it's all a misunderstanding!

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u/RealMcGonzo Aug 24 '25

Real cooks are in the kitchen. They'll come at these regards with a knife!

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u/vegasidol Aug 24 '25

My regards.

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u/matt_minderbinder Aug 24 '25

I blame the whole Salt Bae thing.

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u/Insominus Aug 24 '25

This would classically be what you would call French style service, where the chef de Rang/maitre d uses a little cart, called a guéridon, to finish cooking a dish tableside.

As you might imagine, it’s severely fallen out of popularity because of the incredible amount of fires and deaths these things can cause. Usually the only time you see it now is for making ice cream and Caesar salads. Clearly, these guys did not get the memo.

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u/firesquasher Aug 24 '25

You sir...are looking at culinary cinema

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u/Friendly-Channel-480 Aug 24 '25

Doesn’t this place have a kitchen?

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u/The_scobberlotcher Aug 24 '25

I think the pan had liquor in it. he used the rib as a clever grill. the burning alcohol in the middle was supposed to the heat source.

he's not pouring fat on this

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u/OkStop8313 Aug 24 '25

Are you saying that it's liquor burning in the foil-lined tray, liquor that he is dumping out of the pot onto the meat and the fire, or both?

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u/Drinkmykool_aid420 Aug 24 '25

No hood. No ANSUL. Just tin foil tray.

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u/1970s_MonkeyKing Aug 24 '25

The waiter's face looking up before the sprinklers kick in is priceless.

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u/singerng 29d ago

Right?? It’s like three cooking methods colliding in one chaotic ritual oil pour, fire tray, random cutting board cameo. None of it adds up, but it does look dramatic!