I spent two and a half hours making 5 sheet pans of hand twisted knots today. It was the end of my shift. My back hurts from standing in the same spot making these things. I hate making these things. I'm tired and I'm almost done. I bake them off, load up the speed rack and wheel it into the walk in. I get it in the doorway and the wheel literally falls off and they spill everywhere. I salvaged maybe a fifth of them. Check your wheels, chefs.
by crown-of-undeath
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Shit. That blows.
Fuck
R.I.P.
I did that with a hotel pan of roasted beets in water (long story, it’s one bad way to not have to spend time peeling them, it was **their** dumb trick at my first job for some real dirtbags). It looked like I’d slaughtered a unicorn or some other creature from the Feywild.
Those speed racks take so much abuse on the regular. I used to be head mechanic at a huge commercial bakery and the amount of fuckery on them was insane. Plus, if one went full failure over there it could easily have had a couple thousand worth of custom cakes and pastries, so I was super obsessed with maintaining them. Every decent sized kitchen should have someone who lubes and maintains them at least monthly.
my sympathies on your loss!
Gee, I’m sorry it happened to you.
Fuck …that sucks dude.
I had parcooked 15 sheet pans of wings and as soon as i get the last pan on the rack , it collapses, sending hot wings all over me and the floor.
One of my first f’ups at a French bistro was dumping a four inch hotel pan of pfeffer stock in the walk-in. You will make it Tovarisch.
once it happens to you, you’ll check the wheels religiously. sorry op, shit sucks.
Solodarity, my friend.
RIP knots.
THE WHEELS ARE COMING OFF!! 😱
Are you there god it’s me margaret
Oh that’s heart breaking
Man, our maintenance dept. kept just refusing to fix ours when we kept putting in requests so I finally just grabbed a bunch of chopsticks and shoved them through the joining holes and smacked it in with a pan and then broke off the excess. Was still functioning by the time I left the job over a year later. Not gonna catch me remaking an entire speed rack of hard work if I can do something about it
My. Worst. Fear.
Sorry. You are about to level up immensely from this experience. Saiyan mentality.
i did that with a massive bus tub full of prepped ranch 50 lbs worth all over the walk in
I would salvage all of them
Oh man that sucks. I feel you. I work at a bbq place and we have been going through speed racks. So much weight that the actual welded cross bars have broken. And once when it was loaded full of briskets for that nights cook.
Those don’t go there.
That breaks my heart, dude. What a tragedy.
Is that two and a half hours include making the dough?!