/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18879557
Never worked as a line cook, but I did briefly work at a factory that made frozen tv dinners and hot meals for Meals on Wheels, and cafeterias too. The guy that hooked me up with the job told me it was hard work, but the part he left out was just the INSANE amount of mental math I'd have to be constantly doing in order to make sure that the portions were equal....they were very adamant about perfect portions. I couldn't keep up. I mean it was like some dude would just walk past me and say 8 grapes for 37 and place a basket of freshly washed grapes in front of me and expect me to scoop out exactly 296 grapes in less than 30 seconds. There was other shit too like placing scoops of PERFECTLY measured rice into trays that were moving on a conveyer belt at the speed of light, and about 30 minutes into that the rice scooper felt like it weighed 500 lbs.....and there were motherfuckers doing that shit for like 12 hours straight. I never looked at a tv dinner the same way after that job.