#Job shenanigans

[aces-to-apples]

Extremely random question that you can ignore! So as a cook, when you work somewhere does that place like, give you specific recipes to follow? Because I always figured that they'd want their food standardized, but also it made SUCH a difference when the cook at my favorite breakfast place left, but if they were following the same recipes shouldn't it have been the same?? Or is there just a massive level of skill difference that can happen there?

Most places have a certain level of standardization with regards to recipes and ingredients, yes, but also how you cook something, and for how long, and what else you may add can make a massive difference. Cooking something on the flat top vs. a grill vs. the oven vs. the fryer vs. a steamer can all massively change how something comes out, and yeah it's sometimes a skill thing too. Some people don't put oil down, or drench everything in it even when that's a crazy thing to do; some people don't season, or massively over-season; some people (especially older cooks) kind of go by vibes and don't, for instance, actually temp the fucking meats they're cooking; some people never even look at the fucking recipes and just vibe their way through everything based on previous training, making all of their food taste different than everyone elses'.

Adding to that, there's also the matter of who's doing the prep: depending on the place, some (a lot, really) line cooks are also part-time prep cooks and that'll have an effect as well. If your favorite cook all did all the prep work for the specials, or made sure everything was flipped and stocked on the line, or had a special recipe for sauces and marinades that wasn't written down, or was the person responsible for proper rotation, or always timed and temped their cooking properly, etc. etc., then them leaving likely had ripple effects and left holes in the system that nobody had thought to fill yet.

And on top of that, yeah, skill and experience make a big difference too. New cooks for instance often learn everything on the line and piecemeal across different jobs, which will affect their cooking each time they go somewhere new. My very first job was at a fucking Subway, but since it was all fresh ingredients and no actual cooking, the main thing I was taught to focus on was proper rotation (FIFO: First In, First Out), accurate labeling (contents, date made, use-by, initials), and keeping everything stocked, which is literally always the first thing that new bosses compliment because of how, uhhhhh, lax a lot of line cooks can be about all that; on the flip side, I've been a line cook for several years and just learned at this latest place to check the internal temp of steaks to determine how cooked they are (rare: 120ish, mid-rare: 130ish, medium: 140, mid-well: 150, well done: +155) simply because I never worked anywhere that did a lot of steak work.

So yeah it's sort of a grab bag in kitchens of where the disconnect may be lol, very much an art rather than a science, especially in kitchens that aren't terribly fussed about having everything exactly the same every time. Plus, not gonna lie, some "official" recipes are absolutely wack and everyone in the kitchen just tacitly agrees that We Are Not Doing That and does their own thing.

[crystalelemental]

School just announced the third car breakin of the week. Shit is wild around here this year, my god.

[unhonestlymirror]

My Lithuanian bestie: - Why are you laughing? :D

Me, who suddenly got a thought from the brain that she looks like if Owen Wilson was a girl

[muzsmocsing]

Xie Lian can roast him to the moon and back about his unforgivable crime of not being pop idol level blindingly handsome but there is not a mf in this series as classy, mature, and level-headed as Yin Yu.

[oxandthorn]

kitty kaiju and kafka

(after a week of being sick, i'm only now just getting a bit of energy to do things)

[boimann]

I think mr robin wants me to go bankrupt, do you think he’ll let me pay in kidneys??

[theinfinitedivides]

'somebody kiss this man so i don't have to' ykw what we call that in this house. we call those some famous last f*cking words, Eliot Spencer sir

[karlachian]

girl what the fuck is your problem

[juniemunie]

"Why am I still doing this?"

"Don't you get it?"

"This is all just a show... and we're playing parts~"

[chaylattes]

i don't like posting my face online much anymore but i think everyone should see my sick ass Harrow costume from last night

[bishicat]

stinky ex-tapeworm showers for the first time in 54 years

[crystalelemental]

I am a professional. Obviously I do not pick favorites among my colleagues. But all I’m saying is one of them notifies me when the popcorn machine is on during lunch period and tells me when we have random days off they know I know catch, and the rest of you are on thin fucking ice.

[certainwizardlady]

Day 7: Overbearing

Huck is our resident overly anxious tiny. Luckily it has some pay off when he’s helping Henry get out the door for work 😅

[samthechaotic]

*Me a medical student reading Batman 138*

What the actual fuck? DOES THIS WRITER KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HUMAN'S BIOCHEMISTRY?? HOW IS HE SUPPOSED TO "FALL IN LOVE" AND LIVE A NORMAL LIFE WHEN ADRENALINE IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF FALLING IN LOVE AND HAVING KIDS!!!

*10 mins later*

ADRENALINE?? ARE U FCKING FR???

*40 mins later*

I COULD SPEND AN ENTIRE MONTH ON WHY THIS IS MEDICALLY SO WRONG AND IT WILL NOT BE ENOUGH!!!

[vaguely-concerned]

lucanis truly has a near terminal case of burned out golden child syndrome. caterina fucked both of these kids over so incredibly bad with the dynamic she enforced there, with illario being labled the perpetual fuckup kid where lucanis 'could do no (would never be allowed to do) wrong'. the way he admits in the first coffee date scene that the only thing that happened when he showed he could carry the weight of expectation was that more weight was added makes me so sad. you can hear it in caterina's voice in his intro mission that she's incredibly proud of him, but this is clearly a leandra and hawke situation where that pride never translates into relief or resolution or unconditional warmth or understanding or anything that really helps.

[l3viat8an]

Mammon: I got an idea!

MC: Does it involve breaking the law?

Mammon: By now don't you think that's a given?

MC: I was just trying to be optimistic.

Mammon: Don't bother, darlin’. Ya fell in love with my devilish charm and that's not changin’ so let’s go!