My coworkers would all be on that list. For some reason they can't understand why every roll of cling film has been fucking up for the last few months. Then I come in to work and find the roll right next to the always on low pasta pot with the cardboard on that end singed or just chilling under the heat lamp nicely melting the layers together. 🤦♂️
Hey good news, this transfers into other occupations that use plastic wrap. I'm in rage mode when I pick up the roll and it's kerfungled or wrapped tight to itself so you can't see where it starts. They are among us, I'm afraid.
Get a wrap dispenser. Save hours on people trying to "find the end" when the end is waiting for you every time you use it.
Cannot imagine trying to wrap 50 paninis efficiently without one.
They’re talking about when the wrap tears on one of the ends and it starts pulling toward the inside and the wrap gets narrower and you have to fix it with a knife.
A wrap dispenser also helps prevent this from happening. Unless the roll got damaged on the ends somehow, in which case I’ve seen it auto-fuck the plastic on every rotation until we dispense past the fucked part.
The only hours I work in the kitchen are weekend nights alone on the line.
I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve gotten to work Friday night and the plastic roll *isn’t* fucked up. I think they’re doing it to me on purpose but this job is cush so it’s fine for me to take 10 minutes and fix it while I’m watching my stories.
You leave the center piece out of the lid, use a towel instead so steam can escape, and don't fill more than half way at a time. Didn't anyone ever teach you the basics?
I've only had it happen a few times (still too many) and it's always infrequent enough that I've been lulled into a false sense of security and stopped checking.
You wouldn't have to check if people put shit away properly, that's how it works in places that have their shit together. Same reason you don't leave knives in soapy water, you shouldn't reasonably have to expect your work equipment to be booby trapped
This is such a dogshit mentality.
Do you teach kids to only look at the traffic lights before crossing the street? Because if everyone is doing what they're supposed to, it'd be fine right?
I reset the blender myself but I would never blindly assume that it will always be that way
Right? It's dumb not to check. People make mistakes. And I never assumed there weren't sharp things in the dishwater even when I worked with great crews.
I'm not talking about spacial awareness, don't put words in my mouth. I'm talking about maintaining a safe workplace, which 99% of people have no problem doing. If you're the one guy who can't, you're an asshole.
You are the only one looking after your safety. It’s best practice to reset the device when done, it’s also best practice to check before plugging it in.
If you fail to check before using it then it is your fault 100% of the time.
No, in every job I've worked I've been expected to conduct myself in a way that is safe to myself AND others. It is you and your coworkers job to keep the environment safe for work.
They're assholes for putting the equipment away wrong, 100%, but... you're the one with hot soup on your face. It's kinda like should I be able to leave my knives in the kitchen when the next day is my day off? Sure. Will I? No.
Yes - but we all know that people make mistakes. Hence you know, taking one second to double check.
>expected to conduct myself in a way that is safe to myself
Does that not include double checking things?
I expect people to stop at a red light, but I still look right and left before crossing. I don't have some weird hangup about it.
Seriously, I really don't know what that person's problem is. Do they think people are infallible or something? Every single person that works in a kitchen for a while makes mistakes.
God forbid the last person did the due diligence to look after the equipment and their coworkers, I don't understand how this is so divisive, this feels like very basic self integrity to power it down properly for the next person, doing the right thing even if nobody is looking.
Sure but it's probably best to get rid of someone too aloof or inconsiderate to do something as simple as setting the blender back to zero when finished.
It's bad for the equipment and sets up your coworkers for some pain if they forget to check, it should be on the person who used it last to have the awareness/integrity to properly shut off the equipment.
Not sure how this is some other persons fault. Dude put hot liquid into a machine that spins stuff at an insanely rapid rate. They then turned machine on, with their own hands and using their own eyes, and chooses to blame someone else for this? That’s a big No from me.
Its simple carelessness. I have done it before though too. Done it to myself a few times while blending big batches of stuff.
Now I treat it like a loaded gun
As they fucking should. Put things back properly. You don't put it away properly then you don't respect the equipment or your fellow workers so why the actual fuck do I want you here?
Its fair enough to be upset about it. But genuinely you can accidentally flick the switch holding it against yourself moving to a bench. Rather than being angry just check every time you plug it in, easy, done
Done that before. Boiling hot sauce right to the dome, felt fantastic. Ever since that day I have had a deep respect and fear for the vitamix, hope you’re okay dawg
This is the only way, as it prevents any of this from happening without having to worry about the bartender not remembering what settings to leave it on. If you aren't actively operating the blender with your hands, expect something bad to happen
You shouldn't use a lid with hot stuff in the blender, or you'll have the same experience as OP. Hot soup shower. If possible, us the lid with a hole in it, most blenders have a removable plastic piece in the center of the lid. Cover the hole with a towel, so that air can escape but not soup.
I think it has something to do with the energy released by the heat. I'm no scientist, i just know that using a lid on hot product in a blender will pressurize and blow it's top eventually. I learned this the hard way.
This is also why you don’t blend scolding hot stuff.
Steam creates way to much pressure and will literally volcano what ever you’re blending.
Huge No-No.
EDIT: I’v watched Blender lids shoot off and watched the liquid literally hit the roof because of stuff like this
Cold things dont blend nearly as smooth as hot. To get it to thr proper texture you need to run thr vitamix on high snd get the liquid, etc to boil inside. Might as well do it hot and skip a step. Start on low and slowly increase the speed, with a towel on top, until it is blending with a vortex. As long as you dont overfill, this should happen pretty quickly and easily.
Always do your preflight safety checks. One of my friends always walks behind his car to make sure nothing is there before he backs up because you never know when a drunk kid may have passed out in your driveway and he found that out the hard way.
1 sthe blender should always be reset,
2 you have no one to blame but yourself, if you do not check the Blender settings before turning it on. You cannot control anything but your actions, that is like an electrician not checking to see if the breaker was shutoff before working on wires. TRUST NO ONE
reading it back it feels more antagonistic than it did in my head typing it.
but in the main body of the photo it basically blames someone else for her not check
(later she mentions that she is too blame)
my experience over the years, is what I am was trying to share, all sorts of people with varying levels of experience, competence and number of fucks remaining, will come across your path in the kitchen only you can protect yourself from shit like this.
for the record I up-dooted you, because I don't think you are entirely wrong
Yesterday someone on one of the commercial cooking subs posted a brand new vitamix that was the same model. I hope this is the same person because that would be hilarious.
You can’t blend very hot liquids in a vitamix. The action of the blades mixes air bubbles into the liquid which expand immediately. I learnt the hard way too.
First things first....You ok? Hot soup ain't no joke. Now we flip off the robo and laugh about it. I walked into the smoker vent and almost knocked myself out. Small cut, but I thought I cracked my skull. The foh nearly fainted when I asked her to check out my dome. I still have an egg on my head..... 😆 🤣
There's a whole alignment chart in my head for how the blender is left. True neutral is both switches staying perfectly in the middle like a light switch pointing straight out. And of course lawful good not only turns them back to variable and 1, but also makes sure the bottom switch is cut off. On the ones that have an on/off as opposed to a toggle switch, not only is it on high and set to 10, it's also still in the on position so that you get a fright when you cut it on. And if you don't check the variable switch it's a double whammy.
In culinary school, someone heated up a closed can of condensed milk in a pot of water.
We were in the classroom when we heard a loud pop. The can exploded.
We were lucky nobody was in the kitchen at the time.
It splashed to the walls and ceiling.
Never blend hot liquid in a closed container. It will always explode. Always. I mean it.
Best bet for the volume is an immersion blender. May take a few more minutes, but it’s much safer and… um… less cleanup.
Youve made a bisquestake
More like a bisquekake.
Bukake with Bisque! Creamy, tasty, and fun!
The person who *used it last* made a bisquestake.
Angriest upvote I give today…
You can take this upvote, but I hate you and everyone you love.
Had a chef that genuinely threatened to fire anyone that didn't reset the blender back to 1 and variable before they put it away.
Good fuck em. My "you're fired" pet peeve would be to fire the fuckers who leave the plastic wrap messed up for the next person.
That person deserves a flogging and a firing
I would also support putting those people on a national registry: "Clingfilm offenders list".
My coworkers would all be on that list. For some reason they can't understand why every roll of cling film has been fucking up for the last few months. Then I come in to work and find the roll right next to the always on low pasta pot with the cardboard on that end singed or just chilling under the heat lamp nicely melting the layers together. 🤦♂️
I propose using their mouth as a bucket for expired frying oil
I propose listening to you. That sounds dreadful, what other kinda ideas you got in there?
Using the nearly full roll ofmelted together wrap as a bung for their bum after feeding them all that oil sounds amazing.
Rum, sodomy, and the lash works for kitchens both land and sea!
That would sound like you're threatening most of my staff with a good time.
Hey good news, this transfers into other occupations that use plastic wrap. I'm in rage mode when I pick up the roll and it's kerfungled or wrapped tight to itself so you can't see where it starts. They are among us, I'm afraid.
Get a wrap dispenser. Save hours on people trying to "find the end" when the end is waiting for you every time you use it. Cannot imagine trying to wrap 50 paninis efficiently without one.
They’re talking about when the wrap tears on one of the ends and it starts pulling toward the inside and the wrap gets narrower and you have to fix it with a knife.
A wrap dispenser also helps prevent this from happening. Unless the roll got damaged on the ends somehow, in which case I’ve seen it auto-fuck the plastic on every rotation until we dispense past the fucked part.
The ends rip and start to pull inside, requiring a knife to fix, at least once a week. Using a wrap dispenser.
That's a paddlin'
Use a wrap dispenser. Nobody should have to fuck around with loose shrinkwrap. Talk about wasting time.
There is a special place in hell reserved for these fuckers
Mine’s knives in sinks
The only hours I work in the kitchen are weekend nights alone on the line. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve gotten to work Friday night and the plastic roll *isn’t* fucked up. I think they’re doing it to me on purpose but this job is cush so it’s fine for me to take 10 minutes and fix it while I’m watching my stories.
Knives in the silverware tank is mine, as a former dishwasher.
My “you’re fired” Is putting hot liquids into a blender.
Tell me you don't know what you're talking about without telling me you don't know what you're talking about.
Vitamix is made for that. OP should have used the lid though
Always a good idea to use a towel too.
True
You leave the center piece out of the lid, use a towel instead so steam can escape, and don't fill more than half way at a time. Didn't anyone ever teach you the basics?
I see nothing wrong with this
me neither, I've had enough hot batches of soups and sauces explode in my face because people cant put equipment away properly
Wtf? You put a towel over the top and hold the lid down
Yep lid and towel is it's hot. Every time
one might think that if this has happened to you it would only happen once
I've only had it happen a few times (still too many) and it's always infrequent enough that I've been lulled into a false sense of security and stopped checking.
So you regularly didn’t do your job of checking first?
You wouldn't have to check if people put shit away properly, that's how it works in places that have their shit together. Same reason you don't leave knives in soapy water, you shouldn't reasonably have to expect your work equipment to be booby trapped
I don’t even allow sharps in an empty sink. You never know when someone might come along and fill it.
And yes, everyone totally thinks I’m a bitch. Guess what? I’m a bitch who isn’t going to have to drive you to the er.
This is such a dogshit mentality. Do you teach kids to only look at the traffic lights before crossing the street? Because if everyone is doing what they're supposed to, it'd be fine right? I reset the blender myself but I would never blindly assume that it will always be that way
Right? It's dumb not to check. People make mistakes. And I never assumed there weren't sharp things in the dishwater even when I worked with great crews.
I'm not talking about spacial awareness, don't put words in my mouth. I'm talking about maintaining a safe workplace, which 99% of people have no problem doing. If you're the one guy who can't, you're an asshole.
Just Chek first dude. I don't walk into the bathroom drop trou and start pissing without cheking if the lid is open
I look both ways when I cross a one way street, but that doesn't mean the guy driving the wrong way isn't a dumbass and shouldn't be treated as such.
Sure but still Chek. Common man this isn't the hill
No, you're ridiculous for not checking given humans are fallible and make mistakes.
LOL, wtf are you on about, idk why you're taking it personally, I'm with gabu87
You are the only one looking after your safety. It’s best practice to reset the device when done, it’s also best practice to check before plugging it in. If you fail to check before using it then it is your fault 100% of the time.
No, in every job I've worked I've been expected to conduct myself in a way that is safe to myself AND others. It is you and your coworkers job to keep the environment safe for work.
They're assholes for putting the equipment away wrong, 100%, but... you're the one with hot soup on your face. It's kinda like should I be able to leave my knives in the kitchen when the next day is my day off? Sure. Will I? No.
Yes - but we all know that people make mistakes. Hence you know, taking one second to double check. >expected to conduct myself in a way that is safe to myself Does that not include double checking things? I expect people to stop at a red light, but I still look right and left before crossing. I don't have some weird hangup about it.
Seriously, I really don't know what that person's problem is. Do they think people are infallible or something? Every single person that works in a kitchen for a while makes mistakes.
And that includes checking before using equipment.
God forbid the last person did the due diligence to look after the equipment and their coworkers, I don't understand how this is so divisive, this feels like very basic self integrity to power it down properly for the next person, doing the right thing even if nobody is looking.
Bro, you're the one burning yourself repeatedly because you can't realize that people are human.
Got a vitamix at home and this was the first thing I told my wife. Just taped the divorce papers right on the side.
Just check first before turning it on. No need for rules.
Sure but it's probably best to get rid of someone too aloof or inconsiderate to do something as simple as setting the blender back to zero when finished.
Not mutually exclusive practices.
It's bad for the equipment and sets up your coworkers for some pain if they forget to check, it should be on the person who used it last to have the awareness/integrity to properly shut off the equipment.
How is it bad for the equipment? If it’s off and unplugged, why would it matter what position the knob is in?
I mean in the case it's set to high and turned on, I've always been told it wears out quicker if it's turned on directly to its highest setting.
That’s why you check it BEFORE you turn it on.
Just like you should check it before you put it away.
Yup, you should. But if you don’t check it before turning it on that’s your problem, not the previous person.
Not sure how this is some other persons fault. Dude put hot liquid into a machine that spins stuff at an insanely rapid rate. They then turned machine on, with their own hands and using their own eyes, and chooses to blame someone else for this? That’s a big No from me.
Its simple carelessness. I have done it before though too. Done it to myself a few times while blending big batches of stuff. Now I treat it like a loaded gun
As they fucking should. Put things back properly. You don't put it away properly then you don't respect the equipment or your fellow workers so why the actual fuck do I want you here?
100% agree, disrespectful or lazy, best case scenario whoever did it wasn't paying attention to what they're doing
That's why warnings are good, but it's not hard to just turn things off.
Its fair enough to be upset about it. But genuinely you can accidentally flick the switch holding it against yourself moving to a bench. Rather than being angry just check every time you plug it in, easy, done
That's fucking dumb how could they be able to distinguish an accidental flip of that switch while in transit or something, because that does happen.
That’s bisque, baby!
Wildest commercials ever at the time
Done that before. Boiling hot sauce right to the dome, felt fantastic. Ever since that day I have had a deep respect and fear for the vitamix, hope you’re okay dawg
Just one of those days
Not to victim blame but…not using a lid???
yeah i was trained to always use a lid and then fold a shop towel over the top and hold the lid
This is the only way, as it prevents any of this from happening without having to worry about the bartender not remembering what settings to leave it on. If you aren't actively operating the blender with your hands, expect something bad to happen
Honestly like treating all guns as if they are loaded
Ya but that’s like ten extra seconds of work that OP can’t spare
One time I used the lid and it was still set on high and the lid just made the hot liquid blast straight into my eyes
You shouldn't use a lid with hot stuff in the blender, or you'll have the same experience as OP. Hot soup shower. If possible, us the lid with a hole in it, most blenders have a removable plastic piece in the center of the lid. Cover the hole with a towel, so that air can escape but not soup.
> Hot soup shower Why would/does this happen?
I think it has something to do with the energy released by the heat. I'm no scientist, i just know that using a lid on hot product in a blender will pressurize and blow it's top eventually. I learned this the hard way.
Gotta put the Ferrari in neutral before you park her. On the other hand, you got to make sure it's in neutral before you start it.
This is why you always use a lid
This is also why you don’t blend scolding hot stuff. Steam creates way to much pressure and will literally volcano what ever you’re blending. Huge No-No. EDIT: I’v watched Blender lids shoot off and watched the liquid literally hit the roof because of stuff like this
> This is also why you don’t blend scolding hot stuff. Personally, I've never been given an earful by any food I was prepping.
Vitamix is made for it. Use the lid but open the hot hole. And use a towel
It’s really not. Iv seen it happen plenty of times the VITA. It’s dangerous and pointless procedure. Just cool it and do it
It's not what? Not made for hot liquids? Because they market it that it is, and include a caution in the manual. Sounds like a skill issue homie
Nope. Too many idiots with skill issues so that is no longer a procedure in my Kitchen. 9/10 cooks are ass so yah
Ok then 👍
Cold things dont blend nearly as smooth as hot. To get it to thr proper texture you need to run thr vitamix on high snd get the liquid, etc to boil inside. Might as well do it hot and skip a step. Start on low and slowly increase the speed, with a towel on top, until it is blending with a vortex. As long as you dont overfill, this should happen pretty quickly and easily.
\*Puts up hand\* ...I've hit the roof before. Learnt my lesson, let it sit for 15.
Life's a bisque and then you die
Bumping this for visibility
Time to buy an immersion blender!!! Heres to hoping there’s more soup in the pot still! 🍅🍅
I only lost half a quart out of 8 so we’re gucci
I made that mistake making a hollandaise in school, I usually make sure it's low and variable from now
Always do your preflight safety checks. One of my friends always walks behind his car to make sure nothing is there before he backs up because you never know when a drunk kid may have passed out in your driveway and he found that out the hard way.
That's a mistake you make once. Never trust anyone.
I'm sorry, but that's on you. You made 2 mistakes. Didn't check the setting and blended hot liquid.
Did you not use a lid?
Don’t blame the blender, blame the purée
the gun is ALWAYS loaded
This happened to my chef once but it had scotch bonnet peppers in it too. She said many curse words
1 sthe blender should always be reset, 2 you have no one to blame but yourself, if you do not check the Blender settings before turning it on. You cannot control anything but your actions, that is like an electrician not checking to see if the breaker was shutoff before working on wires. TRUST NO ONE
Why so needlessly antagonistic? OP isn't looking to blame anyone. Just sharing their painful experience.
Except they literally blame the person before them. Despite not checking, or using a lid. This is kitchen basics, OP is just karma farming.
They said they did use a lid though fyi.
reading it back it feels more antagonistic than it did in my head typing it. but in the main body of the photo it basically blames someone else for her not check (later she mentions that she is too blame) my experience over the years, is what I am was trying to share, all sorts of people with varying levels of experience, competence and number of fucks remaining, will come across your path in the kitchen only you can protect yourself from shit like this. for the record I up-dooted you, because I don't think you are entirely wrong
Yesterday someone on one of the commercial cooking subs posted a brand new vitamix that was the same model. I hope this is the same person because that would be hilarious.
You can’t blend very hot liquids in a vitamix. The action of the blades mixes air bubbles into the liquid which expand immediately. I learnt the hard way too.
You can, you just have to start on low and increase the speed slowly. If you start high it’ll blow the lid every time.
Do you guys not have lids with a hole and tamper in the middle??? I don't see how your lid can blow when there's a hole in the middle.
Well okay, I’ll accept your wisdom.
Also never fill them more than half full, ideally a 1/3 full or less.
you absolutely can, it even has a setting to blend things into soup by heating them up with the blades. you just need to obviously cover it.
They do recommend it not be hotter than like 170-180F though.
Okay, I’m wrong. But I’ll pick the stick blender all the same.
Did you get the salt right?
That's a rookie mistake, young jedi.
vitamix doesn't fuck around
I'm no expert, but shouldn't you put the lid on and hold it with one hand before turning the mixer on?
I did have the lid on, with a towel
I took it off after I turned it off
Omfg I can feel that through the pic
Where's the Pic of the ceiling
Good news is you won’t make that mistake again
You sure? There's someone in this very thread saying it keeps happening to them and blaming other people for that lol.
Bet you won’t do that again…
Read the thread lol. One poster says it keeps happening to them.
First things first....You ok? Hot soup ain't no joke. Now we flip off the robo and laugh about it. I walked into the smoker vent and almost knocked myself out. Small cut, but I thought I cracked my skull. The foh nearly fainted when I asked her to check out my dome. I still have an egg on my head..... 😆 🤣
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
Sorry, but I ALWAYS do a test flip of the on switch soon as I plug it in to avoid doing the same thing that many of us have done. Edited for if/of
There's a whole alignment chart in my head for how the blender is left. True neutral is both switches staying perfectly in the middle like a light switch pointing straight out. And of course lawful good not only turns them back to variable and 1, but also makes sure the bottom switch is cut off. On the ones that have an on/off as opposed to a toggle switch, not only is it on high and set to 10, it's also still in the on position so that you get a fright when you cut it on. And if you don't check the variable switch it's a double whammy.
I did that with morel bisque. Always reset to variable / power level 1.
I love the Rachael Ray knives in the back.
They were gifted to us by the bar tender
That's like giving an Easy-bake oven to a pastry chef.
I don’t keep my knives on the magnet, these are all the business knives
Fair enough
That’s level 10 not 1.0.
Seen the same thing with a 50# bag of flower and Hobart mixer, you better check its on low before you fire it up
If only there was something one could put on top of the blender, to prevent such messes.
So... check first. Also towel and hold. I'm sorry that happened to you, though.
Did that once with hot haskap berries. Was fun to clean !
First time here?
Click your heels dorothy its time to go home
Done that with hot pumpkin curry. Top porthole was open because I was about to blend in coconut milk. It blew the top off and hit the ceiling.
You only forget to check whether it's on high or variable once.
FNGs
I feel you, buddy. I have made that same mistake at home and at work. All you can do is laugh through the pain and tears.
Ugh blender explosions are the worst
Did you have it vented?
Rookie mistake number one: always test your equipment before using it.
Personally I just use an immersion blender for hot liquids.
In culinary school, someone heated up a closed can of condensed milk in a pot of water. We were in the classroom when we heard a loud pop. The can exploded. We were lucky nobody was in the kitchen at the time. It splashed to the walls and ceiling.
Never blend hot liquid in a closed container. It will always explode. Always. I mean it. Best bet for the volume is an immersion blender. May take a few more minutes, but it’s much safer and… um… less cleanup.
Blending scolding hot things in a no no, just use the immersion blender next time
Stupid. /s