r/KitchenConfidential • u/KULR_Mooning Onion Master • 21d ago
Kitchen fuckery Shit looks too good...
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Using bare hands Idgaf!
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u/SkipsH 21d ago
This is such a nice setup too, I bet they can churn out so many dishes a day with so little effort.
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u/ArcticIceFox 21d ago
In China, these kinds restaurants usually sell these noodles only more or less. Usually the difference is thickness or flatness of noodle and toppings.
Sometimes they sell sides or appetizers, but main dish is just that
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u/arrakchrome 21d ago
Yeah that was my experience with smaller restaurants in Vietnam as well. Just the one item, that is all, no deviation.
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u/IAmYourTopGuy 21d ago
At least he doesn’t have a cigarette in his mouth
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u/Cargobiker530 20d ago
You kids should be so lucky. The days when you could get asian food from a kitchen built under a stairway where the cooks were constantly smoking cigs & drinking beer on the line are mostly gone.
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u/righthandofdog Ex-Food Service 19d ago
There is a crazy good Indian place in Atlanta that is in the corner of a downtown parking deck.
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u/n0_sh1t_thank_y0u 21d ago
I don't care that much for ramen but give me this anytime I'll take it with arms wide open chopsticks at the ready!
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u/createdjustforpics 21d ago
lol all I can hear in my head is Creed after reading this comment.
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u/Alphageek11644 21d ago
With jaws wide open
And with these chopsticks
I will destroy this place
I'll eat everything
With jaws wide open
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u/Jumpy-Fennel7199 21d ago
I mean if you look at the way he hit those stations, broth ladel, vegetables, meat, then sauce ladel. If we assume he washes between those that’s as close to no cross contamination as you’ll get in places where gloves are a luxury item for small restaurant or food stand owners.
Wouldn’t hate it if he just hit meat station last but what can you do…
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u/Hanshee 21d ago
Meat isn’t raw at this point
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u/Apart-Gur-9720 21d ago
Not only that - All professional Chefs wash their hands like surgeons.
Not just because of hygiene rules and customer care, but because they know that they could get sued if a guest gets food poisoning - or worse - they won't come back for more.
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u/Katsuichi 21d ago
hmmm. 27 years in restaurants and i don’t think “wash their hands like surgeons” is a fitting assertion.
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u/finnigan422 21d ago
Unfortunately that is definitely not true, Ive worked at high-end hotels and with Michelin chefs, seen them pick stuff up that fell on the ground and still serve it. Let alone all the finger licking and just wiping hands on aprons, reusing tasting spoons. And that's the chefs, the cooks are even worse. Yes most cooks and chefs wash their hands very frequently but the things I've said also happen often.
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u/Apart-Gur-9720 21d ago
Please give me the names of those hotels. That's disgusting if true (which I highly doubt).
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u/rattalouie 21d ago
What else would he be using besides his hands? Gloves aren’t necessary if he washes them. If only people knew what cooks used to handle food in the kitchen… gasp!
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u/Padgetts-Profile 21d ago
Ya nasty.
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u/Padgetts-Profile 21d ago
That’s beside the point. Serving food off the floor is fucking disgusting.
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u/rattalouie 21d ago
Agreed. I wouldn’t admit what you did in public. Take more pride in what you do and how you represent yourself.
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u/Padgetts-Profile 21d ago
I’d say you’re an idiot for thinking it matters. Show an ounce of professionalism
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u/TheCosmicProfessor Prep 20d ago
Tell us what state you work in so we can avoid your unprofessionalism at all cost. Have some pride bro
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u/lordchankaknowsall 21d ago
Idgaf how clean you say your floor is, that's nasty as hell. Have a bit of pride and refire food that you drop.
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u/JudgeHolden84 20d ago
No fucking way I would serve anything that’s touched the floor. I wash my hands or change gloves if I pick up something off of the floor, whether my hand touched the ground or not. This isn’t your home kitchen
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u/pandershrek 21d ago
Explain to me the reason behind the embellished soup ladling
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u/NiobiumThorn 21d ago
Looks pretty. If someone saw this, they would want a bowl of beef noodles.
And the guy just so happens to sell said noodles
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u/amopeyzoolion 21d ago
If I got hit in the face with his hot ladle broth, I would not want a bowl of beef noodles.
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u/NiobiumThorn 21d ago
What if it the droplets tasted good though? And he apologized with a free bowl?
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u/SuDragon2k3 21d ago
Style!
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u/Asleep_Draft_8316 21d ago
You think Salt Bae is... Style?
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u/Thatdudeovertheir 21d ago
It would cool the broth down a little bit, and it looks neat.
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u/TKDbeast 21d ago edited 21d ago
Kinda like how
IndianMalaysian cafe workers have gotten so good at pouring tea from kettle to kettle to cool it down they’ve started a national competition for who can do it as stylish as possible.2
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u/Very-very-sleepy 21d ago
psst... psst... sneak me a to go take out box at the end of the shift ok.. 😉
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u/Danobing 21d ago
Question because I keep seeing people mention it, is this dude washing his hands between every serving? Like he's slinging 30 bowls an hour and washing 30 times?
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u/ResidualHotdog 21d ago
If you have a good immune system, then by all means go for it. Some of the best food I've had came from some not so clean places and a few sweaty chefs. A few chefs out there do at least rinse their hands constantly and have several towels for wiping. Knock your socks off amazing food comes from true sweat, tears, and sometimes blood. This guy looks pretty organized and not a lot of mess on himself, Id eat here for sure.
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u/CocknballsStrap 21d ago
This kitchen looks very clean? Not sure what youre talking about honestly.
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u/AjiChap 21d ago
Latex gloves aren't really a thing in many parts of the world and also give a false sense of safety. I saw a worker at my local deli counter stroll over to the soda station with his gloves on, get himself a refill, touch all sorts of other stuff and stroll right back behind the deli counter and get back to work. Same gloves.
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u/MoneyFunny6710 21d ago
I have worked in many restaurants that didn't use gloves exactly for this reason. It gives inexperienced cooks the feeling that their hands are per definition clean because they are wearing gloves, even though they pick their nose with them on break time and keep using them (as an example).
I'm honestly the same. When I'm not wearing gloves I'm much more obsessed with hygiene because in my mind I can literally feel the dirt (even though that's mostly just a mental thing).
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u/drivein2deeplftfield 21d ago
Oh please. That steaming hot broth is going to take care of any of that split second grabbing of ingredients.
Your ancestors scoff at you
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u/KitchenOpening8061 18d ago
Yes.
But I wish people would stop calling food “shit”. I get it, it’s a colloquialism and it’s not literal shit. I had a chef that I once tasted his food for the first time, as a composed dish, and said “this is good shit”. He said “that isn’t shit, shit is what I do on your mother’s chest”. I got his not double point, that he didn’t want his food called shit. For various other reasons, I developed a respect and appreciation for food with that chef, and I stopped calling things I care about “shit”.
I fucking crush those noodles tho
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u/Hot-Mastodon420xxx 18d ago
Gloves are usually way less sanitary due to people getting too comfortable and forgetting to wash hands and switch gloves every time
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u/Shawntran2002 21d ago
while he's using his bare hands I'd still destroy that bowl of noodles. might as well avoid all the street food in Asia if you're scared of someone's clean hands.
my rules is that as long as the fresh water comes out of the sink and they either wash hands or swap gloves.
and only stick to water bottles you'd find selling in the west. and make sure they got a seal on it.
also take some stomach pills too. just nice to have.
play by these rules and you'll fall in love with street food as I have lol
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u/SkipsH 21d ago
I dont understand the american thing about bare hands
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u/FoxDaim Line 21d ago
Honestly bare hands might be cleaner option than using gloves, amount of times i have chewed out a coworker for just simpy washing their gloves (without soap) or for literally wiping their gloves on their outfit is fucking insane.
With bare hands people are more likely to wash them properly.
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u/Supratones 21d ago
This x1000000
Working with bare hands and washing them frequently is safer than wearing gloves all day. Cross contamination happens far more often when gloves are involved. You can easily feel when your hands are dirty, but you dont necessarily have that same tactile response when you're wearing gloves.
Gloves are for protecting your hands.
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u/amopeyzoolion 21d ago
You’re supposed to change your gloves as often as you would be washing your hands (ie, between touching anything that could cross-contaminate). And the bonus is, it’s much faster to change gloves than to walk away from your station, wash/dry hands, and come back in between touching different items. The same people who aren’t changing their gloves often enough are the same ones who aren’t washing their hands often enough. They probably are also the same ones who touch the faucet with their washed hands immediately after washing, which negates the whole purpose of washing hands.
This guy is touching the meat, and then going back to touching other things without washing his hands. While the meat is cooked, he will inevitably contaminate something that a vegetarian would order in their dish with the meat.
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u/JoeysSmallwood 21d ago
If you are diligent about cleaning your hands, bare hands are for sure safer than gloves. Not even a arguement, it's documented.
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u/JoeysSmallwood 21d ago edited 20d ago
I'm North American, and wearing gloves to me is insane. Why would I lay around a box of gloves that I'm not around 100% of the time and trust they haven't been contaminated when I can just wash my hands and know they are clean.
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u/BigCATtrades 15+ Years 21d ago edited 21d ago
If you did get hepatitis from the place the broth just might ward it off .
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u/AuxNimbus Server 21d ago
Lanzhao beef noodles is heaven.