/ck/ - Food & Cooking

2 worst things to happen in my cheffing career:

>Happy christian chef with the hot latina wife is making staff meals after a busy service
>There's 5 or 6 staff on, I'm sous chef
>One of the waitresses is vegetarian
>He accidentally puts jus on her meal
>Welp, we decide not to tell her and just serve it anyway
>You could just tell she could taste the rich beefy jus, no amount of veges is going to cover that up
>maximum cringe and awkward situation


>Doing a buffet dinner for some function
>Head chef has a broken leg so its just me and the new guy
>Can't remember the temperature to cook the roast beef to
>Cook it to 40C and then rest it in a cold breezy area
>Fail to realize what has happened
>Comes time to serve the beef, I'm slicing ham and roast beef for the customers at the end of the buffet
>Beef is stone cold rare
>Fucking white sinew refuses to be cut
>Stomach sinks
>We have failed to cook the beef.
Thankfully hardly anyone went for the beef anyway and I was able to salvage the end bits.


Weirdest shit:
>Doing a large wedding
>Buffet dinner
>Many of the guests are from overseas, Philippines or India or some shit.
>I serve them ham at the end of the Buffet
>The next day everyone at work gets REAL sick
>Turns out all the guests had gotten REAL sick the same night of the buffet
>They blame us for ruining the wedding, try to sue
>Turns out they infected US with something, hence why they got sick first, then us.
>most food poisoning has a 24hr incubation period. Highly unlikely you'll get sick on the same night as eating it.
>Its the same Buffet we always serve anyway and hasn't got anyone sick for the 10+ years the place has been open.

I'm trying to think of more horror stories, but most are just bad cuts and burns... nothing too special.

ok here's one:
>Staff party at work
>Gets loose as fuck
>next day someone had left the tap on upstairs and flooded the entire kitchen and downstairs area.
>Mfw I was the last to leave that night