The call: Roaster not turning on…
Well this was my first time seeing or ever hearing of “The Broaster” 😂 what and elegant and rugged looking pressure fryer!
I verified that we had 208VAC coming in and the hi-limit was NOT tripped. Next I checked the voltage across the fuse holders and the second on had a reading which should have been zero volts (blown fuse! The owner showed up right about that time and told me he had replaced the high limit and when he was reaching in there he accidentally shorted the front panel and it made an arc. Easy Peasy. On a side note, I know how much everyone hates flat head screws so I shared a secret tool that you gotta have in your kitchen!!! Check out this 100 year old food grinder that’s still in use to make cold slaw 💪
by Boogedyinjax
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That dirty kitchen looks like botulism experiment!
Where is this? So I can never eat there
What in gods name
those are TnT burgers aren’t they?
Maryland Fried Chicken? Looks just like one, my favorite fried chicken on the planet
What’s a “tator baby”
Well enough Internet for me this morning
A buffalo chopper! Ain’t seen one of those since I was a not-so-young and dumb cook
[constructive feedback voice] I’m gonna fucking puke
This is cool as hell thanks for sharing this. Reminds me of half the tiny town dairy bars in the places I visit in Indiana.
Like the aretha franklin restaurant in the blues brothers
I miss having a buffalo chopper at my job lmao. Those things come in clutch when you’ve gotta do like gallons of mirepoix or trinity and it doesn’t matter how uniform the cut it lol
i bet the burgers go all the way off tho!!!
Fire hazard of a place if I’ve ever seen it.
Broasters are bad ass’
That Buffalo chopper needs a restoration badly
Love it. This reminds me of the early episodes of “diners drive-ins and dives” where they were actually going to true dives and not just hipster chic places that were in a shitty building.
The non-commercial range and the wood floors are wild. The food is so good the health inspector and the fire inspector eat there weekly lol
I’ll take a dark plate with a double order of potato logs.
A presto griddle and a paint scraper for burgers 😂😂😂. I can smell the PFAS from the northwest 💩
Look, I’m gonna keep it real with you chief. You know the food is AMAZING when the kitchen looks like that. They just have to make sure we don’t see the roaches or rats. We gotta know that they’re there, just gotta not see em.
Reminds me of my grandmas restaurant that she had in the 90s in Kentucky! Gotta love a good ol’ knothole sort of place.
There was a fella back in my hometown in Eastern Kentucky who used to make slawdogs at his diner, and I swear he used the exact same sort of food grinder. He used to run stale bread through it to give it a good clean out.
Ya’ll like [Jojo’s?](https://www.wweek.com/restaurants/reviews/2017/07/12/the-history-of-the-american-jojo-which-is-definitely-not-a-potato-wedge/)
I bet that place makes amazing food. A broaster is a pressure fryer. Makes fried chicken really fast. The big old looking thing is a buffalo chopper. Like an old school robot coup.
What’s special about the screw driver? Can you share a link?
Refrigeration guy here. I have a customer with these! They are amazing!
If the menu looks like that, you know it’s gonna be fire
Broaster? Nah, I’m pretty amused at the Frigidaire stove. Instead of having a used MoTak or similar, did the owner have this one in their house and just go, I’ll use this more at work than home?
I used to sell and repair commercial dishwashers and the grimy control box filled with roach shit-covered contactors and relays just gave me PTSD.
*Never. Again.*
Having spent most of my childhood in bumfuck, Georgia eating food from Maryland Fried Chickens (I think I’m tangentially related to the founder as there was someone from their company crying and randomly handing out branded bottles of sauce at my grandmother’s funeral in Waycross years ago) and hole in the wall bbq joints that resembled your place to a tee, my biggest complaint is less to do with cleanliness and way more to do with the lack of fried okra.
With that said, depending on the quality of the “tator babies” and hamburger steak we might still be in the clear.
In all seriousness, super cool post: the only other time I’ve ever seen a home stove in a restaurant like this was in a BBQ place where the owner insisted that his billion year old electric range and equally ancient stockpot were the key to the best Brunswick stew. I’m gonna be real, he might’ve been right because that shit was 👌🏼
We called that a Buffalo chopper. Wickedly efficient device. Hobarts last forever!
That $25 Walmart griddle wtf. This place is nasty, cleaning isn’t that hard
There was restaurant in my town with a kitchen that looked very similar to this. Ooooold school joint with old southern soul food. They had a home stovetop oven just like this and your kitchen reminded me of that immediately
Electric range in a commercial kitchen lol wow
You need to post that wash station on r/dishwashers cause I’m hoping that’s just a small mom and pop shop lmao.
Just moved to jax please tell me this is here
Broastersssss
The domestic range and electric skillet are giving me hives. More than the kitchen not being clean, it could never **be** clean.
The oven does it. That menu looks amazing but what are chili stix??
The broaster fascinates me
I need to know where this is because I bet your food is fucking dank. We got these spots all over Eastern NC and almost everyone is an absolute banger.
Broasters take me back to Bob Evans and being the only one who knew how to fix/troubleshoot them lol
Yeeeaahhhh mane