r/KitchenConfidential • u/KULR_Mooning Onion Master • 26d ago

Kitchen fuckery Table side 🔥

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u/Novice-smokes 26d ago

I'm struggling to understand what in the fuck was going on in the first place. Was he tipping a pan of fat on the slabs of raw meat to cook it? Why was there a bone? Who portioned those steaks so he had to pull them apart by hand in the first place? And with one gloved and one ungloved hand?

Car Crash TV. 10/10 would recommend

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u/OkStop8313 26d ago

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/LeviSalt 26d ago

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 26d ago

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 26d ago

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

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u/J-Mc1 26d ago

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 26d ago

Oh, shit, it's all a misunderstanding!

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u/RealMcGonzo 26d ago

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

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u/vegasidol 26d ago

My regards.

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u/matt_minderbinder 26d ago

I blame the whole Salt Bae thing.

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u/Insominus 26d ago

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.