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Anonymous Sun Sep 18 07:25:09 2022 No.18368253 [Reply] [Original]

I hate this commercial kitchen tool with the burning fury of a 1000 suns, especially after my retard coworkers fucked it up and I still had to use it every morning to prep a billion and a half shitty ass tomatoes.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 07:29:58 2022 No.18368263 >>18368253 Can you elaborate what's wrong with it? I've never even seen a picture of this thing but looks like it could make the work easier assuming it's sharp enough.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 07:30:03 2022 No.18368264 Just get 6 knives and bolt them together

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 07:38:51 2022 No.18368281 >>18368253 A well cared for knife and a chef with half decent knife skills will outperform any machine at tomato slicing. Sounds like a "you" problem OP.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 07:41:26 2022 No.18368287 >>18368263 It gets dull really fast and there is no way to sharpen the blades. If you get a tomato, or two, or eight, that is slightly smushy they basically explode when you try run them thru the slicer and you get soaked in tomato juice.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 07:43:29 2022 No.18368293 >>18368253 We used that at mcdonalds and it worked perfect. You could slice half a dozen tomatoes in under a minute. Perfect uniform slices. Were the blades on yours messed up or something?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 07:45:23 2022 No.18368301 >>18368287 A tomato could never dull those blades. Something else must have been bashing into the blades.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 07:47:12 2022 No.18368306 File: 9 KB, 466x373, 616Nj4xYmjL._SX466_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18368253 >>18368287 Theres literal bolts that hold the blades in. Just replace them. They're like $12 on Restaurant supply stores

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 07:51:06 2022 No.18368314 >>18368281 Why would you use a knife for that? Ever heard of a mandolin?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 07:53:08 2022 No.18368317 >>18368314 No I've never heard of a mandolin A knife is faster

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 07:53:12 2022 No.18368318 File: 4 KB, 275x183, ff.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18368301

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 07:56:29 2022 No.18368326 File: 225 KB, 887x579, 368379832490324.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18368317 Maybe, but it's kinda hard to play folk music with a knife.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 07:58:27 2022 No.18368329 >>18368253 This seems completely unnecessary if you have a good quality knife and at least slightly above retard level cutting skills. Though I guess that rules you out kek.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 07:59:00 2022 No.18368332 >>18368329 Now prep 50 pounds of tomatoes.

Anonymous Sun Sep 18 08:04:28 2022 No.18368344

>>18368329
I've hurt someone's feelings
You need a sharp knife which requires some sharpening skill, and you need to have some knife skills to cut quickly without cutting yourself.
If you have both of those, you're better than any machine prepping tomatoes.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 08:07:07 2022 No.18368346 >>18368344 It won't be as fast when dealing with large quantities in a business with razor thin margins. Grow up. Learn to read. Get a job.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 08:07:42 2022 No.18368347 File: 51 KB, 600x600, 105161.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18368253 good christ that takes me back seeing that tthing had to use this nugga as well

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 08:10:19 2022 No.18368349 >>18368332 That is ~600 slices, ``where'' do you work?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 08:11:43 2022 No.18368351 >>18368349 Universal Studios

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 08:12:48 2022 No.18368354 >>18368346 It is faster with a knife, these tools are probably useful for minimum wage kitchens where a machine is a better guarantee of reproducibility than a human employee.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 08:14:01 2022 No.18368357 >>18368332 Why do you need to prep 50 pounds of tomatoes? Just cut a tomato when you need it, it literally takes 10 seconds at most. 50 pounds of tomatoes sitting there getting shitty for an entire day sounds like a really stupid way to do business.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 08:17:13 2022 No.18368361 >>18368281 Opened the thread to say this. I can slice tomaters with a knife faster than some drug addicted linecook can use that stupid contraption. And I take up less space doing it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 08:18:44 2022 No.18368366 File: 33 KB, 983x525, 1608669260034.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18368361 >tomaters

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 08:19:08 2022 No.18368367 >>18368361 You can slice a whole tomato in a second?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 08:20:41 2022 No.18368372 File: 47 KB, 500x498, 035pcrt.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18368317

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 08:21:14 2022 No.18368374 >>18368326 You can play music on a saw. I've been wanting to try it but I'm afraid of fucking up my really nice violin bow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmft674XPC0

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 08:31:37 2022 No.18368392 File: 55 KB, 600x600, tomato.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18368367 I can average more tomaters a minute than some clumsy retard having to feed that machine.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 08:32:35 2022 No.18368394 File: 7 KB, 400x400, 1313613920045.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18368392 no, you can't

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 08:34:04 2022 No.18368396 >>18368392 Some fast food worker earlier said they could knock out 6 in a minute not sweating. I bet you would struggle doing two.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 08:34:15 2022 No.18368398 >>18368392 this is a blue board retard

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 08:35:27 2022 No.18368401 >>18368398 Trolling is also not allowed.

Anonymous Sun Sep 18 08:48:23 2022 No.18368432
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>>18368394
>>18368396
With the proper knife I can absolutely slice six tomaters a minute consistently and it would take you less than 15 minutes to learn how to do it as well.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 09:03:14 2022 No.18368464 File: 344 KB, 1212x647, 1638326638230.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >all these larping 3rd tier line cooks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqo6Sr9z2Aw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUIhJM09Ogg

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 09:07:45 2022 No.18368472 >>18368464 That looks slick as fuck. Faggots above seem to be just the They Took Our Jobs crowd.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 09:15:14 2022 No.18368483 >>18368432 6 tomaters? yeah. but the Nemco slicer can do like 20

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 09:23:53 2022 No.18368503 >>18368253 Quit suckway and work at McDick's. Pays way more and the tomatoes arrive already sliced now.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 14:08:26 2022 No.18369069 >>18368347 We used a deli slicer for the onions. Worked pretty well, but I was always in tears by the time I was done slicing them.

Anonymous Sun Sep 18 22:14:23 2022 No.18370596

Not even a Michelin star sous chef can cut tomatoes faster and more uniformly than one of these with fresh blades. Anyone who says otherwise is larping and has never had to process a half dozen boxes of tomatoes by hand.
t. line cook who sharpens the knives at work

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 22:24:19 2022 No.18370634 >>18368253 >This is how thick a commercial product must slice tomatoes Oh nono industrial revolution bros how can we job to the most basic tool known to man a simple knife

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 22:25:22 2022 No.18370637 >>18368287 What if you first freeze the tomato?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 18 22:27:43 2022 No.18370644 >>18368332 I could probably do that in an afternoon I wouldn't want to do it but I could easily

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 00:24:19 2022 No.18370942 >>18368357 >really stupid way to do business Have you ever been to a typical restaurant in the past 2 years? They always do the things that reduce quality the most. Your tomatoes were probably sliced 3 days ago.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 00:40:23 2022 No.18370985 >>18368372 What kind is that? I have a Borner one. Love it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 00:43:13 2022 No.18370997 >>18368253 wagie cut the veggie lmao

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 00:43:23 2022 No.18370998 File: 60 KB, 560x680, unagamer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18368287 Maybe that's just the universe's way of telling you that you suck and you're a bitch. Like when people throw rotten tomatoes at performers that suck.

Anonymous Mon Sep 19 00:46:09 2022 No.18371010

>>18368253
can confirm, also I asked my co worker when the last time it was taken apart and deep cleaned and he said he didn't know and he had been there 6 years, they just rinse the fucking thing

>>18368281
the gay ass machine makes more even slices for gay ass blt sammich

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 02:20:35 2022 No.18371291 >>18368253 way too thick, mators should be half that

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 02:30:16 2022 No.18371315 >>18368253 >dont core tomato >place it in slicer sideways >half the product is unusable >”preps done, boss!"

Anonymous Mon Sep 19 04:00:11 2022 No.18371536
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I used to have to dice pressured tomatoes with pic related. They were for these shitty take home pizzas our supermarket made. I must have smashed thousands of tomatoes with it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 04:04:29 2022 No.18371547 >>18368281 You show that newfangled evil machine who's boss, John Henry of the kitchen.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 19 04:23:43 2022 No.18371592 >>18368464 seems like it should be easy to attach a hopper and electric motor to eliminate wagies like OP from the equation

>>	op Mon Sep 19 04:25:46 2022 No.18371596 >>18368361 >I can slice tomaters with a knife faster than some drug addicted linecook can use that stupid contraption will you work for the same pay as a drug addicted line cook?

Anonymous Mon Sep 19 04:51:37 2022 No.18371676

>>18371592
in general you're still going to need someone to operate the machine even the larger ones. you need to align things properly so the ends get tossed. but either ways even the mid sized machines slice + dice many times faster than humans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcBMpc_vIsQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JfzXweE5yM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unqEF6v2rMo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEed1vXwMRM

Anonymous Mon Sep 19 04:54:52 2022 No.18371681

>>18368287
This isn't true, I worked at braums for breakfast and had to prep a case of tomatoes every morning with that exact slicer. It worked great, you probably didn't know how to apply force correctly. Even if you get a bad tomato you are pushing away from your body there is no way it could explode juice on you.
Yes the blades dull and need to be replaced but that's not the slicers fault that's just how it works. Even when they didn't replace them often enough if you just push it through in one fast motion it will slice them cleanly.
The trick is to do it one handed, don't hold it turn your body sideways and use leverage to drive it through with one arm. This also completely eliminates the danger of cutting yourself with it since your hands never come close to the blade part.

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