What’s y’alls best kitchen “circus trick”?
What's y'alls best kitchen "circus trick"?
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by DankOfTheEndless
What’s y’alls best kitchen “circus trick”?
What's y'alls best kitchen "circus trick"?
byu/DankOfTheEndless inKitchenConfidential
by DankOfTheEndless
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Bennihana drum kit trick.
I used to juggle grill spatulas
“Get back to work” -manager- probably
I can cut all the tips off all my fingers every day without even looking!!
Staying sober for 23 hours
I can make 14 hours of my life disappear and have almost nothing to show for it
Unscrew the salt shakers for a free meal.
Making a line disappear before your very eyes
Showing up on time.
I can look like I’m a well put together person when in reality I am a mess of a human being clinging to the last strands of my dignity while my waking life AND my dreams are haunted incessantly by the sound of the ticket machine and the fear of letting someone down.
Hey, that’s my circus trip but with sixth pans
how fast I wash dishes on 30mg adderall
Coming in beyond hungover on 3 hours “sleep” and absolutely fucking killing it for 9 hours with a smile on my face.
I mindlessly/highly did this one time out of muscle memory and flung Caesar salad all over the flattop and fry stations.
Good times.
I used to snap flies off the wall with a damp towel. Got pretty good at it:)
I can spin bowls and sheet trays on my finger, and catch eggs with a spatula lmao
I’m like a snake charmer for boomers. I just quote Andy Griffith or Bonanza and I can get them calm enough to be brushed and get their feedbag on. Even easier if I have my flute.
I consider it both a blessing and a curse.
Long time ago a place I worked at had these massive cheap-ass chef knives that were sharp as spoons – we kept them so that servers could cut birthday cakes or wtv once in a while in case of an event without giving up our expensive knives
Anyway like I said they had pretty much no edge so I used to flip them in the air cause I “thought it looked cool” (yeah I was such a hot shot)
And one time I was trying to “impress” (or spook) a new server so I went to toss it in the air but she immediately turned around because she’s sane unlike me. So I tried to get her attention before the knife landed in my hand. But of course I wasn’t paying attention like the idiot I am. Long story short it had the dull edge but still a perfectly sharp tip/point. And while not looking it landed with the tip in my fucking hand.
Felt dumb as shit. Avoided stitches but bled pretty good. Stopped doing those flips after that one hahah
If you put breakfast sausages in latex gloves with ketchup and pretend to cut off your finger you can make the servers cry.
I used to cook at a BBQ place. Line was straight across from dish, and we served on pie tins with butcher paper.
I mastered frisbee-ing dirty ones through the expo window into the pit.
Give me any item, I can tell you the weight within a 16th of a pound. I’ve been working in cheese for a few years now and have to cut exact amounts everyday. Seriously, gimme an onion, tomato, brie, gruyere, chicken breast, brisket, and I can get it cut to an exact weight. I have become a human scale.
I used to, “skate” my Sautee pan. Mctwists, “heel” Mctwist, double Mctwist, big spins front and backside and all kinds of other stuff.
I wish I had one particular pan from my old job where the handle rivets were super loose. I could do anything with that pan. I wonder if they still have it, haha.
Somewhere in my digital junk pile there is some old original Razr video (super low res) of it.
I tried basketball spinning 1/3 pans and it was fun but I never got to the point where it was particularly impressive and I could keep it going. Never thought of oiling my fingers though..
Restaurants since my 20’s. I’m 49 this weekend. No STD’s.
That’s such a tough and dangerous trick. Really takes bowls.
Trick shots into the garbage can and towel snapping accuracy were my specialty.
Sometimes when I get two orders of wings with different sauces, I’ll toss them both simultaneously with a bowl in each hand.
I’ll be like, “look! I’m dual-weilding, like Kirito!”
I can make prep… disappear.