We supreme 18 oranges on weekdays and 30 on weekends for one of our most popular salads. The last couple cases of oranges have been full of fucking seeds which makes the process so much more tedious. Any of you all have anything similar or alternative options that aren’t canned mandarins?
by Get_Basted
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Kumquats
Navel oranges
Just buy those Halos or whatever Lil fresh mandarin oranges that you pack in a lunch box are called in your area. Ez peel and barely any seeds.
Look into pectinase. It can dissolve the pith and membrane for mandarin segments. It might save you tons of time.
Pectinase
Its unfortunate brother. Git gud is the only solution for real supremes. My chef got mad at me before for it taking forever, and I just showed him how much pith and bullshit and peel I was removing. I can go fast, but I cant control the yield these rat fucks are giving me.
Finger limes
So one year we had a winter salad that had blood orange and regular orange segments on them.. very high volume restaurant and id be doing like a case of blood oranges and a half a case of oranges every day sometimes. So i got mad good at it and now anytime my exec chef or cdc wants orange segments for a special they ask me to do it lol i happily do it tbh i hated it for so long that now that it’s not on the menu i miss it sometimes 🤣
That sounds awful. I’ve never supremed a fruit and I hope to keep my streak alive.
Just buy cuties?
Stop trying to find a way around the work and get it done right.
Thanks for the laugh
gotta get on that pectic enzyme shit
https://www.instructables.com/Perfect-Citrus-Segments-Using-Science/
That may help
Lmao making supremes sucks ass but I’ve never heard of an alternative.
Although, my last prep lead (nepo hire btw) would just skip that step for our citrus salsa and put stringy ass chopped oranges and limes in there.
See if your produce company sells them done already. I used to get half gallons of grapefruit and oranges
With the way HLB has been spreading you may not have to worry a out this problem in the near future
Leave the seeds in and change them to “Rustic” on the menu?
Read that as funeral oranges at first.
I don’t know where you’re at. But I think it was East coast foods. You can purchase 5lb buckets of supremes of oranges and grapefruits. Also Sysco has mandarins supremes in #10 cans.
I have also done toss by hand. hundreds working in GM. You get good at it pretty fast.
So. 10-20 a day isn’t that bad.