What’s the most expensive thing you’ve broken lately? I’ll start
Snapped this bad boy off while pushing a stove back into place. We were deep cleaning the kitchen for the last day of class in culinary school for the year. Chef was…not pleased.
by PM-ME-THIN-MINTS
21 Comments
subtxtcan
Oooooh fuckin hell man. That is some shit. I’m glad it happened while you were IN school. They’ve got insurance, you’ll be fine.
Still, good God that must have SUCKED
j-endsville
I would say my will to live, but it turns out I’m only worth $16 an hour.
Apprehensive_Pin3536
Early last year I didn’t set up the deli slicer right and it walked itself right off the table.
liquidsmoke84
Aw shit, that’s rough. Lol, but that’s the first and last time. 😆
Doublecupbeansippin
Someone dropped a big cutting board and it landed on one of the stove and broke the glass. The head chef was so mad talkin bout “it was 8,000$.” I get the frustration with bro but atleast it came with a 15 year warranty and we got another for free. Now the cutting board are in a different location.
Old_Fart_on_pogie
My spirit. 15 fuckin’ years in house, and I’m ready to pack it in, but I’m old and too lazy to look for a new job, and I’ve 5 years left to retirement
quesobaeritto
My spirit
spytez
I just got my old cafes 3 group head espresso machine. Still worth about $7k. I had all the sheet metal off and deep cleaning it and fixing all the things the service tech they had come out and do work on it. He had broken off a plastic piece that covered the 220 heating element. Well I moved it back into place and when I fired it up a lasso that was hanging on the wall had someone wiggled between the wires and shorted out the heating element.
Yes, a real cowboy lasso hanging on the wall nearly fired my commercial espresso machine, but I got away with only having to spend $175 for the new element and fuses.
blueturtle00
Did the ansul pop off? If not easy fix
foodcooker
Your okay man. This isn’t the expensive part of the system.
GrizzlyDust
“A bus bin? That’s no big… oh fuck”
I0VES2SPO0GE
That’s not expensive. It’s all off the shelf pipe
secr3t-tunnel
I slipped and knocked the ticket printer off the counter, $900 replacement 🥲 I only found out the price months later because they know I was already embarrassed
kaelroc
I’m giving you the nickname “Ansul”
crunchy_crystal
Oh god is that the ansul system? Did it fucking spray everywhere?
DTeichroew
Damn, is that the fire suppression system?
Food_Monkey557
I broke our two stage Ice cream machine that the owner imported from Italy. You had one cauldron that could heat and emulsify (not sure if that’s the right word here) your „raw“ ice cream, once it was done it would automatically open a pipe to send it into the second stage where it would be finished.
Turns out the pipe had a manual switch which I somehow left open and the heating part ran on a dry cauldron and the whole interior insulation melted.
meseta
I’m pretty sure I caused the dish machine to explode one day through a long chain of events. I told the dish guy what his main compensation should be that day and I don’t think I told him not to put the parts waiting to go through on top of the machine.
Instantly after we all heard the boom my first thought was “triple sink!”
Andyman0110
Not me but my coworker at the time.
Worked at a hardware store, coworker had a trolley full of like microwaves and stoneware plates that had just arrived. He’s walking, pulling the trolley behind him and someone stepped in front of him but the cart had momentum, so he stutter stepped and the cart kept going. When he took his next step, the cart rolled right above his heel so when he lifted his heel to take the step, he also lifted the entire trolley with a good 1000 pounds of weight on it. The bottom of the trolleys had pretty sharp edges and it completely severed his Achilles tendon. All the goods were fine, but I’m sure that workers compensation claim was their biggest expense at the time.
pupperdole
Paco jet Idk if it was my fault of the machine malfunctioned but I turned it on the I think the blade detached itself why blending up the ice-cream and the machine didn’t turn itself off and i walked back in the kitchen to hear a loud grinding sound and smoke coming out from the machine Anyway that’s how you make smoked ice cream
Sazed_G
I’ve got some of those gigantic combi ovens that fit a whole speed rack, and they have a temperature probe that attaches directly to the oven. One time I forgot to unplug that probe before removing my speed rack, and the wire snapped. Turns out that little tiny temp probe is 180 bucks to replace
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Oooooh fuckin hell man. That is some shit. I’m glad it happened while you were IN school. They’ve got insurance, you’ll be fine.
Still, good God that must have SUCKED
I would say my will to live, but it turns out I’m only worth $16 an hour.
Early last year I didn’t set up the deli slicer right and it walked itself right off the table.
Aw shit, that’s rough. Lol, but that’s the first and last time. 😆
Someone dropped a big cutting board and it landed on one of the stove and broke the glass. The head chef was so mad talkin bout “it was 8,000$.” I get the frustration with bro but atleast it came with a 15 year warranty and we got another for free. Now the cutting board are in a different location.
My spirit.
15 fuckin’ years in house, and I’m ready to pack it in, but I’m old and too lazy to look for a new job, and I’ve 5 years left to retirement
My spirit
I just got my old cafes 3 group head espresso machine. Still worth about $7k. I had all the sheet metal off and deep cleaning it and fixing all the things the service tech they had come out and do work on it. He had broken off a plastic piece that covered the 220 heating element. Well I moved it back into place and when I fired it up a lasso that was hanging on the wall had someone wiggled between the wires and shorted out the heating element.
Yes, a real cowboy lasso hanging on the wall nearly fired my commercial espresso machine, but I got away with only having to spend $175 for the new element and fuses.
Did the ansul pop off? If not easy fix
Your okay man. This isn’t the expensive part of the system.
“A bus bin? That’s no big… oh fuck”
That’s not expensive. It’s all off the shelf pipe
I slipped and knocked the ticket printer off the counter, $900 replacement 🥲 I only found out the price months later because they know I was already embarrassed
I’m giving you the nickname “Ansul”
Oh god is that the ansul system? Did it fucking spray everywhere?
Damn, is that the fire suppression system?
I broke our two stage Ice cream machine that the owner imported from Italy. You had one cauldron that could heat and emulsify (not sure if that’s the right word here) your „raw“ ice cream, once it was done it would automatically open a pipe to send it into the second stage where it would be finished.
Turns out the pipe had a manual switch which I somehow left open and the heating part ran on a dry cauldron and the whole interior insulation melted.
I’m pretty sure I caused the dish machine to explode one day through a long chain of events. I told the dish guy what his main compensation should be that day and I don’t think I told him not to put the parts waiting to go through on top of the machine.
Instantly after we all heard the boom my first thought was “triple sink!”
Not me but my coworker at the time.
Worked at a hardware store, coworker had a trolley full of like microwaves and stoneware plates that had just arrived. He’s walking, pulling the trolley behind him and someone stepped in front of him but the cart had momentum, so he stutter stepped and the cart kept going. When he took his next step, the cart rolled right above his heel so when he lifted his heel to take the step, he also lifted the entire trolley with a good 1000 pounds of weight on it. The bottom of the trolleys had pretty sharp edges and it completely severed his Achilles tendon. All the goods were fine, but I’m sure that workers compensation claim was their biggest expense at the time.
Paco jet
Idk if it was my fault of the machine malfunctioned but I turned it on the I think the blade detached itself why blending up the ice-cream and the machine didn’t turn itself off and i walked back in the kitchen to hear a loud grinding sound and smoke coming out from the machine
Anyway that’s how you make smoked ice cream
I’ve got some of those gigantic combi ovens that fit a whole speed rack, and they have a temperature probe that attaches directly to the oven. One time I forgot to unplug that probe before removing my speed rack, and the wire snapped. Turns out that little tiny temp probe is 180 bucks to replace