Took out the whipped cream to prep tomorrow's dessert and there were distinctive finger swipes in it 🤮 Luckily we had more (this tub went in the trash), but it was still frozen, so everything tonight took longer.
Before anyone yells, I know that freshly made whipped cream is better, but I am currently a cook in a low tier nursing home, so I'm lucky when I have a fraction of what I need for meals. It's been rough lately.
by DoMBe87
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The perp could at least use a clean utensil!!
This screams “I don’t give a fuck about old people”. I’d like to punch whoever did that.
I feel bad when I do stuff like this at home and I live alone, I cannot fathom doing this shit at work
Maybe they had a glove on?
Could have had a fresh glove on ?
Finger or penis?
Does stuff consistent with this happen often?
Thank you for being mad. Thank you for caring enough to toss that tainted cream and pull out some new stuff. I’m sorry its frozen state made your night more difficult.
I don’t even know why I’m a regular in this sub. While I came long before Chive guy and held culinary jobs for some years, I’ve been out longer than I was in. I just feel like you people are my people.
I just started looking at assisted living for an elderly relative right now. I’d never been open to it before. I have been handling everything alone, but the extent of my loved one’s decline, their resistance to letting me help manage things before they need to call me in as a “fire fighter,” and (frankly) the way they’ve been taking out their dissatisfaction with the suckiness of old age on me — well, it all has me second guessing if I’m up to the task. I’m nearly 60 myself, and lately each day, I’ve wondered if today was the day I’d have my fatal heart attack, right as I light my next Marlboro Light 100.
Anyhow, my point is that time and time again in this sub, I’ve seen cooks in institutional settings like assisted living, nursing homes, etc., really show us how you do the best you can (with what you have) for your “customers,” even though they’re largely a captive audience. It always touches me.
This isn’t Noma, so I can’t tell you to punch the culprit in the chest, but I’ll admit to imagining it.
Thank you for recognizing and protecting the dignity of your clientele.
Keep your head up chef! things can only get better
Thats why babysitters.
Used to work at a pizza place with a guy affectionately named “Raw Dog Bobby”. Named as such because he insisted it was faster to spread the pizza sauce onto the dough with his hands rather then use the ladle. Pretty sure he just used the brine from the olives to rinse his paws off between pies.
Like if you are going to do it, use a fucking spoon….
Or just leave the product for the clients.
Thay looks like the handle of a spoon or knife was used. You wouldn’t swipe your finger from one edge to the other. Also the inprint looks too deep. If i was gonna swipe whip cream from dessert station I would would do it this way.
Fingered that like they’re at home. Do they by chance live inside the walk in?
This is so trifling and I’d be side eyeing everybody from now on
Well, I mean, at least it isn’t room temperature lard.
off topic but this was really weird to see tonight half drunk, i work at a low tier nursing home with my pops and i shit you not had something similar happen with the cool whip the other day. Genuinely had to double take ðŸ˜
Most of us will end up in some type of care home in our later years. I hope for someone like you in my home’s kitchen. Thank you for what you do, honestly.
I mean I know people who do that, but it’s with gloved hands
Does anyone remember the reno 911 peanut butter jar where there was a dick print in dudes peanut butter
Container of Vaaeline i bouvht at drugstore looked just like this when i opened it.
I returned it. The clerk was as disgusted as i was.
And yes. I think maybe a finger, but fair chance a penis.
Off-topic and ignore it if you know more than I, which is likely (I an but a mere peasant home baker lurking on this sub, not a commerical baker) but you can add a TEENSY TINY smidge of cream of tartar to whipped cream to help stabilize it (if you aren’t already stabilizing it, which it looks like you probably are based on the texture). That plus using a completely pre-chilled bowl and whisk (I even throw the whipping cream in the freezer at home for 30-60m beforehand) and slightly overwhipping (best to do that only if you know it won’t be used right away) it will make a surprising difference in how well it holds up for the next 24-48hrs!
The internet provides many other suggestions for stabilizing whipped cream; I have always default to cream of tartar as my favourite but some sources seem to dislike it for the sour way it can impact the flavour when overused — I’ve never noticed that in my own experience; I was taught to use the smallest amount possible. It’s a little boost, not a magic fix.
And of course, the main trick is to serve it with completely clean utensils— hands or dirty spoons will make that shit go liquidy so goddamn fast. It’s ridiculous and selfish in any context to use your dirty paws to swipe from a commercial container of whipped cream, but especially one where the food in question is being served to an immunocompromised and medically complex crowd…
I saw a coworker (gloves on), … palm 3 pounds of mayo from the bucket for measuring… I watched in disgust and awe.
I may be FOH, but I respect you and cooks/chefs like you so much. Y’all are what make this job worth while.
That’s why you have some clean spoons on you, always
It def doesn’t look like finger swipes looks like a small offset spatula or handle or something was used
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