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Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses I used to work with someone who once worked as a chef at Daniel, Daniel Boulud’s flagship restaurant on NYC’s Upper East Side. She told me that the dish she most hated making was chartreuse, which is a kind of a molding of game birds wrapped in vegetables.

They only do this dish a few times a year but she dreaded it. She had to take a massive pile of tiny game birds, which were hunted for this express purpose, de-bone and de-breast each one and then pack them into vegetable wraps that had to look like a perfect little food sculpture. It is not only a very complicated preparation requiring meticulous attention to detail (that describes many of the dishes at Daniel), but she said that butchering dozens and dozens of tiny birds all day is just gruesome work.

J. Coyne , Gary Girolimon Report

Final score:

60points

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Channon Doughty 2 years ago

Yuk!

30points

Rik Osborne , Championship Catering Report

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses I utterly despise appetizers/hors d'oeuvres.

I don’t feel like a real cook when I’m making food one bite at a time.
At my age, having to repeatedly hold little pieces of food between my thumb and forefinger during preparation really starts killing the tendon at the base of my thumb (repetitive stress - I’m often doing this for groups of 200 or more people).
Spending an insane amount of time and effort putting ridiculous detail into an amazing display, when the only person who is going to care is the group’s event coordinator. She’ll “ooh” and “aah” over how stunning it is, and then the 200 people in her group will demolish it without looking at it because they’re really more interested in the open bar than the “snacks”.
Tired of people who don’t understand that “appetizers” during cocktail hour aren’t “dinner”, and complain about the tiny plates.

Final score:

59points

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Nikki Sevven 2 years ago

This is why you're more likely to see "serve yourself" type appetizers outside of a restaurant, like at someone's home or a potluck event. I'm a huge fan of "here's a bag of carbs and a bowl of flavored fat (dairy or otherwise)...have at it" style of appetizers.

3points

Kitty Pierfelice , Charles Haynes Report

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses Anything that a customer requests that isn’t on the menu.

Final score:

53points

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Eduard Korhonen 2 years ago

Don't male it. Simple. If it's not on the menu, it's not available.

21points

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses Nachos - not for what they are, just how our place did them. It was a small eatery. There was no line staff, you were the line. Which meant you were juggling things when it got busy.

Our nachos were interesting. We cut up our own tortillas and deep-fried them into chips. For nachos you put a heap of chips into a large ceramic soup bowl, drizzled a generous amount of two grated cheeses ( jalapeno and garlic jack ) over the top and then into the salamander for a few moments to melt and lightly brown the cheese. Serve with 2 kinds of salsa on the side.

The problem was the salamander. As most chefs know, it can be quite a bit more powerful than a home range’s broiler. A few seconds too long and the chips burn - forcing you to start over.

When the place got busy I just dreaded a nachos order. All the distractions going on it was too likely at least one time some corn chips turned to charcoal. A lower setting on the salamander would have been a god-send, but then sizzle-plates would have been slower to heat. All you could do is say a little prayer to the char-god hoping he didn’t want another sacrifice that day.

Gregg Schoenberger , John Verive Report

Final score:

49points

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Shyla Clay 2 years ago

I had no idea nachos could be so complicated. I did get a fun visual of a salamander holding the chips over an open fire.

51points

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses When I had my first restaurant job, the least favorite menu items was the “Monte Cristo” sandwich. It was an egg batter dipped and griddled ham, turkey and gruyere sandwich served with raspberry jam, dusted with powdered sugar. Totally ridiculous food - and a favorite of closing managers and bartenders. It required that more containers and products be re-opened at the end of the night than any other menu item. It also required flat-top cooking (or pan sautee if you were crafty) and fried accompaniments. I fucking hated those days.

Joseph Comfort , Visitor7 Report

Final score:

44points

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Nikki Sevven 2 years ago

Of all the dishes to hate, this one isn't all that difficult...unless you're making them for a dozen people.

15points

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses Poached eggs. There are seemingly dozens of tricks which all result in nearly perfect poached eggs… almost. The yolk, the hard white and the soft white, including the chalazae. Once a cook masters an attractive, properly cooked poached egg… some customers want soft poached or hard poached. There is no fast, easy, perfect way to poach an egg. It can be fast or easy or perfect but not all three.

Lev Zohar , Katherine Lim Report

Final score:

42points

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Ripley 2 years ago

Most places will do a bulk poach and then refrigerate the eggs. They are then refreshed in hot water to serve. There's no way a busy eatery can freshly poach every egg. They may do it if someone asks for an especially soft poached egg (or they may not).

18points

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses Anything with artichokes Lol! Pain in the but cleaning those things and the yield is so little!

Tam W. Harris , Mike Mozart Report

Final score:

41points

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Shyla Clay 2 years ago

They can't help that they're tiny. At least they have heart.

52points

Shawn Ramirez , Marco Verch Professional Photographer Report

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses I find that a lot of cooks really hate making fresh mayonnaise/aioli, and lots of dressings. I'm not sure why, but a lot of them hate it. I recently told one of my chefs that I used to make 5 gallons at a time, and he thought it would take hours, but it actually only takes about 20 minutes.

A lot of chefs hate having to do hollandaise. It's really not that bad.

The thing about cooking is that everything is pretty annoying, and if you feel like letting stuff get to you then there really is no end to it.

A lot of chefs hate having to measure anything. It's easier to not measure, but they act like it's the end of the world, or some skill that takes natural born talent. That's why most chefs are convinced that they can't be pastry chefs. I don't pay that any mind. I know it's because they just don't feel like being slightly more disciplined.

Anything that is a little time consuming is ripe to be hated. Being a chef is full of things that are difficult, time consuming, demanding, irritating, excessively hot or cold, slimy, and lots more. Being successful has much more to do with being able to do those things and still smile, be polite, be diligent, etc than it does with any sort of god given talent.

Oh, and most of them hate having to use the slicer because that means two things:

1 - They probably have to clean the slicer because someone else left it dirty.

2 - They have to clean the slicer after they are done using it.

Final score:

38points

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Lisa H 2 years ago

Slicers can be pretty tedious to clean, especially if the person who used it before didn't bother. That's just bad manners.

22points

#10

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses Roasted peppers are one of my top ten most hated items. You must char the skin so it’s as black as coal, then wrap in plastic bags so they steam as they cool. Then remove every scrap of blackened skin, then cut in half and meticulously remove the core and each and every seed. Then slice into thin batons.

Youre tempted to wash that off under the tap but doing so washes away the flavor too. Of course, when roasting peppers we’re doing a hundred at a time.

Ronald Hokanson , Bernal Saborio Report

Final score:

35points

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DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago

This seems similar to how we roast tomatoes locally. We char on an open flame, scrape off the blackened skin (not all of it) then crush and season to taste. I've seen my dad wrap it in foil also when charring so to avoid the blackening but it just isn't the same without the burnt flavor. Lol

10points

#11

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses Cheese plates, hands down. Every time one of those orders comes through, it’s a show stopper where the person making it needs to stop doing everything else they’re doing and focus only on that for several minutes, which in the kitchen is a really long time.

David Williamson , Sarah Stierch Report

Final score:

30points

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Peggygirl 2 years ago

i don't get it. can't you just slice ahead of time, like i do?

17points

#12

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses Eggs Benedict.

As a diner operator with heavy breakfast counts on weekends, it ties up the line specially when a party of 4 orders it during heavy days. Took it out of our menu. If it was a slow morning, and a guest ask nicely, I'd do it.

Albert Sotelo , malcolm-fs Report

Final score:

29points

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Featherytoad 2 years ago

Yum, one of my favorites.

10points

#13

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses Appreciate the A2A!!! I guess most dishes can be a pleasure or a pain. Having the proper, fresh ingredients that are properly prepped makes even difficult dishes enjoyable. However, I really do not like fresh fish anything. I do like salmon steaks. But I don't enjoy the handling and cleaning of fresh fish.

Patsy Sapp , hans-juergen Report

Final score:

28points

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DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago

I was 50/50 on this until I did a class on finfish prep and we had tons for practice and then I started to enjoy it. Learning how to fillet and getting good at it was the most satisfying. I'd say if you're doing this you must have running water....and I'd recommend an outdoor sink if you have one.

11points

#14

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses I was a prep cook, dessert cook, and ocassional line cook,not a chef, for many years-

I liked making everything, especially new recipes, we went through about 6 chefs, so I got to do a lot of new recipes…I used to really love cooking, until I had kids…

*Except taking the poop out of the shrimp. Never grew to love “de-veining” shrimp.

Even though I’m a vegetarian I got a kind of perverse pleasure out of gutting (I called it “fisting”) the whole chickens and choppung heads off of halibut…

Being in charge of desserts for a couple of years was the best, especially when I got to do my own “specials” we had the basic chocolate torte, creme brulee, tiramisu, so I took it upon myself to uphold the family tradition and make many delicious cheesecakes during my tenure as dessert person…

*actual answer, the rest is just me waxing nostalgic about my professional cook days…

Terra Katchina , S Khan Report

Final score:

28points

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Shyla Clay 2 years ago

Poop-free shrimp is definitely preferable.

24points

#15

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses My roommate was a chef, and I think the thing he least liked to do was chop green onions because they would always roll away. He called green onions rude food.

Adrienne Boswell , Ewen Roberts Report

Final score:

26points

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Lisa H 2 years ago

I actually like slicing green onions. They're easy for me. That's just me, though.

19points

#16

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses I always hated making a signature dish to someone's picky changes. If the dish I make doesn't suit your tastes, go somewhere else. This isn’t a McDonald's or Burger King, where a cook can simply pass up the pickles in the assembly line. If you don't want a steak with a marinade, don't order it. I can't change the flavor when it comes out of the marinade. If a particular side comes with that entree, I hate having to fix a different side just for you because I have to know every menu item and how to put that item together based on the item in its entirety. I really got a laugh out of orders for no salt on an entree that contains no salt to begin with. There's a request that won't piss me off when I have 12 orders backed up. That is a reason why I hated going out to eat with my stepdaughter. She will take as long to order as everyone else in a 6-person party combined, because she has to have substitutions, and want to know if she can get the sauce on another entree on what she is trying to order, and I just sit there and grind my teeth and hope the head chef doesn't appear at our table with a meat cleaver. When I'm the guy over the fire, I have to resist the urge to do just that when I get an order with enough notes to be the last great epistle to the gourmandians.

Joseph Mccray , Naotake Murayama Report

Final score:

26points

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Nikki Sevven 2 years ago

I never do this. If the dish contains an ingredient I dislike, I order something else.

35points

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#17

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses I haven’t conducted a poll, so I can only speak from personal experience… From my observation, most Chefs love what they do, and create recipes that flow effectively in their kitchens. If a dish is found to be too complicated, it is usually taken off the menu.

The only thing we hate- this is especially a conflict for Chef/Owners- is when we get “Hit”. We “Get Hit” when a bunch of customers show up unexpectedly- all at the same time. Sometimes several large groups of people who all order different things. It is at these times when your kitchen needs to perform at top ability, and it is more likely that mistakes are made.

The only specific dish I can think of that can be “high maintenance” is the basic Egg. Though they are the first thing taught in Culinary School, even the most talented kitchens have occasional problems with eggs arriving cold. Or overcooked yolks in poached, sunny side and over-easy eggs. I recently had to send back overcooked baked eggs at a trendy LA “Celebrity” restaurant, last weekend.

The only other one I can think of is Rare and Medium Rare Steaks. Unfortunately, only the best steakhouses seem to have the ability to get them right, consistently.

Hope this info helps.

Mick

Mick Brown , tripleigrek Report

Final score:

26points

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Shyla Clay 2 years ago

Don't forget the bacon and buttered toast to dip in the yolk. Divine.

5points

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#18

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses I'm going to keep my answer short: hundreds of scotch eggs…making 12 is no sweat. Making hundreds is grueling, much like the deviled quail eggs previously mentioned.

Bryan Brown , Alan Levine Report

Final score:

24points

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Nimues Child 2 years ago

Making hundreds of anything can drive you batty. Heck, making dozens of anything can send you 'round the bend from the excruciating tedium of it all. (not to mention the RSI)

15points

#19

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses Flan was a PITA. Especially the caramel topping—we made the caramel and then poured it, hot, into the baking pan and let it cool. After the flan was baked and inverted, the melted caramel would be on top. You have no idea how many times the caramel would come out grainy or worse, burned, because some dumba*s either turned down the heat while it was cooking, or turned their back when it started to color.

Mole sauce. Dear gods, it took well over an hour to prepare a batch with the recipe we used.

Anything that required reducing a sauce. We were perpetually short staffed, so every prep cook would be working on two or three things at once, and if you turned your back after adding your stock or wine, it was easy to have nasty black shallots or garlic stinking up the kitchen.

Kitty Bound , Gonzalo Malpartida Report

Final score:

23points

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Lisa H 2 years ago

Yeah, anything that requires cooking a sugar based dish, like caramel or peanut brittle on a stove is very finicky. It will burn VERY quickly if you don't keep a sharp eye on it.

12points

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#20

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses I hate prepping squid for calamari, it's a dirty stinking job but needs doing!

Nyky Jones , c3lsius_bb Report

Final score:

21points

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Ace 2 years ago

No it doesn't. Best recipe for squid is to bypass the cooking and eating process and just bin it to save time.

20points

#21

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses This is actually a funny question because it totally depends upon person to person that what actually in my career experience as a food blogger, what I have observed is that specifically professional chefs dislike is being asked to cook someone else’s specialty or signature dish from some other restaurant.

Once I was in a restaurant and came across an incident in a restaurant where a head chef was asked to prepare a dish from some other restaurant’s menu and he got offended by that thing.

I think every professional chef would not like that thing but that again too it depends upon person to person how someone takes this thing as a challenge or opportunity.

In my opinion, anyone would feel bad if challenged but yes If I were a professional chef and asked to do such a thing I would definitely do it and try to make a tastier dish for sure. Rest hats off to all the chefs here.

Chandler Geller , Lou Stejskal Report

Final score:

17points

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Ripley 2 years ago

Wut? If you want a particular restaurant's signature dish, go to that restaurant. Don't try to order it somewhere else - that's just rude. And kinda stupid.

36points

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#22

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses Thanks for the A2A Garrick.

The question really comes down to the quality of the ingredients I am using.

As an example:

I love cooking scallops, but not out of a tin.

I like cooking asparagus, but not when they are frozen.

I like cooking chicken but not the battery chickens that are pumped with chemicals and salt.

I love cooking mushroom risotto, but not in the spring

I like making vanilla ice cream but only if I have Tahitian vanilla pods.

Mark Blaxall , Toshiyuki IMAI Report

Final score:

16points

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Great Panda Mamu 2 years ago

Why is Spring bad for cooking mushroom risotto?

5points

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#23

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses Here are my two pet peeves:

A steak ordered “well-done.”
Would you like some ranch dressing to dip that dried out piece of shoe-leather in as well? At least have the decency to beg forgiveness from God for wasting that poor animal’s precious life once you’re done.

2. Any time a guest decides to rewrite our recipes.

Why don’t I just bring you a list of all the ingredients we have in the kitchen, and you can tell me what should be on the menu.

Final score:

15points

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Alison Hell 2 years ago

People have different tastes and preferences..so they like their meat cooked thoroughly...time to get over it.. you are cooking for the people so should be happy to make a beautifully well done steak...if they like it and enjoy it..I would say that is a success.

77points

Ace 2 years ago (edited)

Quite right. I prefer a steak medium-rare myself, but only if it's a nice and tender cut to start with, if not I'd rather have in over than undercooked. Lamb chops I prefer Mediterranean style, very well cooked on a wood grill with lots of herbs and oil, done to a crisp. I get fed up with TV chefs telling everyone that there's only one 'right' way to cook meat.

17points

Sarah Pierce 2 years ago

I disagree. You shouldn't be shaming/abusing them for it but you don't need to be "happy to make it" just willing to do it without causing issues.

8points

🌵 Drazil 2 years ago

My grandfather would/could not eat any kind of meat that wasn't very well done. He'd ask for his meat to be incinerated. He was not going to eat anything (turkey, fish, steak, chicken, pork chops, lamb chops, oatmeal, frog legs, etc) unless it was extremely overdone. I watched him send back meals which I couldn't believe weren't sufficiently cooked. He had to explain to several chef's/grill masters who would shrug and try to make his meal more cooked. This not when they'd just tell the servers to throw it in a microwave. Sometimes they would cook another steak because they thought there was no way to make the first one more well done in their minds! (He was an ambulance driver during part of WWI. My mother and I believed that his experience was so overwhelming that he couldn't stand anything raw. As he aged, the servers would ask us if he understood what he ordered. That pissed both of us off! He never exhibited any dementia and was always very articulate. God I miss him!!!!!)

4points

Viau Anna 2 years ago

Yeah, you're right. Even people with crappy tastes are allowed to not only live, but also to eat out... sigh...

2points

The leech 2 years ago

If you don't know how to make a well done, but still juicy, steak. Then that is sad. My mom knows how to do it and she is not a chef.

19points

Notyomama 2 years ago

My Grandmother made then delicious and juicy too. When I was young, I would only eat well done. Now, I like them just slightly past medium rare. Basically, I like red center, but no puddles of blood.

3points

Emma Starr 2 years ago

I don't know why people get so hostile over this. I like the taste of meat that is completely cooked....no pink. Why have a coronary over it??

14points

Glitterati 2 years ago

I HATE this. Just cook the food how the person who is paying for it would like it. You’re not the steak police. My husband asked for cream in a jug on the side of a desert the other day and the waiter told us that the chef had a tantrum over it. It was a beautiful desert that actually didn’t need the cream. We won’t eat there again as the chef acted like a petulant toddler rather than just let my adult husband work out for himself if he’d like cream with his food. It really ruins your night to know someone was cursing you out behind the scenes. If it matters the meal was nearly $200AUD for a very special occasion and I left sad.

11points

Cashme Outside 2 years ago

Yeah, Id have asked for the Chef to come out and discuss it with me personally if he has such an issue with it. Take your attitude and stuff it. Its a simple request and if Im spending that much at your restaurant and want some cream, put it there. If it has a surcharge, fine, I expect that, but I also expect a) your staff to know when to shut their mouth about an issue in the back of the restaurant, and b) if a simple request throws you into ranting and raving you need to get therapy and a new job.

8points

Christopher Bowers 2 years ago

So many like well done steaks and they can be done right if the chef takes the time to make them right. One can make a tender and juicy well done steak too in various ways, they need to have more patience with people. And as for the recipes, some may not be able to eat certain things within them due to allergies or possibly gives them acid reflux or even due to doctors telling them not to eat certain things as well. So again be more understand chefs you don't know what a customer could be going through.

8points

Jen 2 years ago

With the recipes, most are premade and ready to be heated up before the restaurant opens, asking for a change means going back to the prep work that was completed hours before. I have severe allergies, if the recipe contains something Im allergic to I ORDER SOMETHING ELSE that doesnt. And if you tell them you have an allergy tbey will happily tell you want is safe on the menu.

1point

Melanie Kirk 2 years ago

I am not allowed to eat undercooked meat. Let me know where you work so I don't frequent your establishment. People who shame others for wanting not bloody meat are just jerks.

6points

Jen 2 years ago

Rare isnt undercooked, it is cooked exactly to the temperature the CDC recommends to kill all pathogens.

0points

Yourname942 2 years ago

Well done steaks are genuinely the best though (to me) I've tried the same steak at different rarities and found it to be my favorite.

6points

iseefractals 2 years ago

Chef's cook for other people. Not themselves, so ultimately when someone is paying for a meal, what you think, want and feel doesn't really matter, does it? Your job is to make what someone orders as best as it can possibly be, if it's not something that you would personally eat, well good news! YOU AREN"T THE ONE EATING IT. Sometimes people just have different taste preferences, sometimes they have allergies or just don't process certain food well or don't process them well unless cooked to a certain doneness, and sometimes some aspect of the menu is just repulsive, but the details really don't matter, because you aren't paying for the food. If you want to give it away for free, than you can do whatever you want, short of that so long as it's something reasonable...stfu and do your job.

5points

Seedy Vine 2 years ago (edited)

I promise that well-done steak will not go to waste with me around! I just... I don't wanna get worms lol raw meat makes me paranoid https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/taeniasis/gen_info/faqs.html#:~:text=Taeniasis%20in%20humans%20is%20a,raw%20or%20undercooked%20beef%20(T.

4points

Jen 2 years ago

The minimum temperature to kill off anything dangerous is rare - that isnt raw it is cooked just enough to prevent food poisoning without destroying the flavor or texture of the meat.

0points

Miranda Whitehead 2 years ago

I like it well done because I don't want food poisoning

4points

Jen 2 years ago

A properly cooked rare steak also wont give you food poisoning, that is the temperature needed to kill all bacteria.

0points

Tony James 2 years ago

A couple of years ago I took my brother-in-law and nephew to dinner at Delmonico's, a famous and storied New York restaurant, to celebrate my nephew completing his exams. It's old-world dining - crisp white tablecloths, waiters with long aprons. What it's really famous for is its steaks - the steak part of the menu takes up 2 pages - every kind and weight you can think of. My brother-in-law, because he's a philistine, ordered fillet mignon - well-done. Fillet mignon has almost no fat - all meat, nothing to baste itself in. Thus, typically served on the rare side of medium rare. It should moo when you cut into it. What he'd ordered might just as well be a very expensive piece of shoe. I went for a smoke, and ran into the waiter. He told me straight out to let him know if my BiL was coming again so he could switch shifts so as to avoid taking that order again.

3points

Bree Piper 2 years ago

I once saw a sign in a steak house: Rare: red center Med Rare: pink center Medium: brown center Well Done: order chicken!

3points

H M 2 years ago

Just because you have no idea how to cook well done without incinerating it. Learn. You can and I do.

3points

Denise Lewis 2 years ago

some people don't like there steak still mooing

3points

Trisha Howson 2 years ago

It should matter how a person like there stake to rare to well done you get payed for that you should be happy someone is ording from the restaurant

3points

iblewsheep 2 years ago

how would you like your steak?..."Just show the cow a picture of a flame and bring it here!"

2points

PizzaRyan 2487 2 years ago

If so many restaurants and diners didn't undercook medium and learn that some people don't want bloody steak, maybe I could order a cut cooked below medium well, but I'm constantly reminded how useless some people are in the kitchen. By the way, god liked his lamb well done too, lest we forget.

1point

Susie Kamper 2 years ago

Why don’t you just make the steaks as your guests want them and get on with your life?

1point

Jknbt 2 years ago

oh well!

1point

Patrick Whittington 2 years ago

Wondered when this one would get here

0points

J 2 years ago

This is why I never order steak, I'm never eating meat that[s pink or oozing blood 🤢

0points

Mer☕️🧭☕️ 2 years ago

If you're not the one chewing the meat, your opinion of the doneness of said meat is irrelevant. Get the fk over it already.

0points

JP Purves 2 years ago

It's a matter of taste with the steak. I like mine medium well done. e.g. still pink in the middle. I nearly hurl when someone orders rare steak. It's just barely singed meat floating in a pool of blood!

0points

Andrea 2 years ago

For any woman who is pregnant it is essential that the meat is cooked through. She needs protein not judgment in how she eats it.

0points

Jordan Harcombe 2 years ago

Well done steak doesn’t have to be dry, you just have to be patient and not f**k around with it constantly (flipping, turning, pressing)

0points

Tony James 2 years ago

Ordering your steak well-done seems to me to be an insult on a number of different levels. First, to the animal. It died so that you could eat. What an affront to cook the thing to the point at which is delicate marbling, its majestic layers of muscle, assume the texture of kitchen lino. If I were a cow I would march into the dining room and demand to know what the hell the diner was thinking. Secondly, to the chef. She/he has taken great care to select the finest steaks to serve to the diners. The steaks should be served at the pinnacle of the chef's art - ordering it well-done suggests that any short-order cook from the worst greasy-spoon/diner could do the job.

0points

Norman Woelk 2 years ago

You will always get someone who wants their Filet Mignon well done. A good restaurant (AKA expensive steak house) will even say they do not guarantee the quality of meat ordered well done. It takes a long time to cook that way without incinerating it unless they will let you 'butterfly' the steak. I have thrown them in the deep fryer and micro wave to get them done fast. They will also ask for A-1 sauce.

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Jen 2 years ago

I love A-1 sauce - on my fries. Much better than ketchup but it has definitely gotten an appreciative laugh from restaurant staff when they saw how I used it when it was on the table.

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LeeAnne B 2 years ago

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Jen 2 years ago

It took us years but my mom, grandfather and I managed to break my dad out of his well done steak by just refusing to cook it at home (ok I was the one to put my foot down when I started cooking as a teen because I hated that it always set off the smoke detector to make just his steak). I was so proud of him last weekend when we went out and he ordered a steak medium.

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#24

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses RISOTTO!

What a pain in the butt! Even though most kitchens par cook risotto to about 80% ahead of time it still takes a cook to be dedicated to finishing it without distraction. That’s why (IMO) many restaurant kitchens don’t do risotto very well. It doesn’t meld well into the workflow of a modern kitchen.

Make it at home!

Daniel L Miller , Warren Layton Report

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The Scout 2 years ago

Risotto is more of an art form than an actual dish. You can wrap up a "fast" risotto-like rice dish in a few minutes, but a real creamy risotto takes time (unless you cheat and add things like actual cream or starch, which should never be in a risotto). Unfortunately most restaurants do not bother.

7points

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Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses My answer as would be, a dish that is not often prepared alot. The more you do of one, the better it will always be. I cannot affirm one particular dish that I do not like to prepare. This is just one persons view. I love to cook.

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Nimues Child 2 years ago

I cannot stop looking at the trio of food in the picture. Are the cupcakes in the middle for dogs?

13points

#26

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses Set pieces are a pain in the a**, where ‘it has to look like this’. Or s**t like “‘nightengales drowned in brandy’ served in a hood” (is a thing). But generally, BRUNCH!

J C Collins , Pete Birkinshaw Report

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Jaguarundi 2 years ago

I almost lost my mind laughing at the scene in the TV show "The Bear" where the two chefs were outside on a smoke break and they mentioned "brunch". The venom and hate they felt for that one meal service was palpable! I have done commercial brunch for Sunday, Easter, Mother's Day, New Years' Day, you name it. 16 hours-20 hour day if I was lucky and we had a hot staff. That was the hardest money that I ever earned!

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#27

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses Traditional stews, pies and layered which are cooked in many steps.

Dishes with too many steps basically

Shanta Sultana , Dan Nevill Report

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13points

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Shyla Clay 2 years ago

Understandable.

4points

#28

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses I asked this question to my Grandson and he said that the dishes he dislikes are the ones where the food sticks to them and that most people including his mother, prefer non stick dishes or frying pans!

Carmel Pule' , Alan Levine Report

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11points

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Whitefox 2 years ago

This one cracks me up because I could see my very literal minded nephew saying the exact same.

1point

#29

Person Asks "What Dishes Do Professional Chefs Dislike Preparing At A Restaurant?", Gets 30 Various Responses I would imagine this includes dishes either that are insanely and overly complicated , extremely simple and even fast-food, or the extremely mundane and done everywhere.

The first is well covered here.

The second you run into almost always because of kids. they have limited palates and will go to a 1-star place and dare to ask for an off-the menu thing like fish sticks or mac and cheese! They don’t yet get scallops or salmon, capers or morel mushrooms. I’ve seen them ask for a hamburger and fries in a 3-star establishment. First of all, why are parents even bringing kids into such a place. But I’m sure it peeves some cooks to make just a hamburger. You can get that at any McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy’s , Carl’s Jr, or In & Out. Worse that that, possible cooked bv some 17 year old with no culinary training. It’s an ego-killer.

The third would like ordering “Duck L’Orange” in the 1970s or Beef Tartar or Chicken al La King in the 1980s or heck anything pitched as Srirachi in the past decade. It starts off as cool and hip and a few top cooks latch onto it. The next year or two, every ‘trendy’ menu has it available. Heck, it’s like ordering ‘the souffle’ when you sit down in the 1960s. When you have 120 covers in a night and you get 90 orders for a “duck l’orange” and only 30 of the dishes you made, resentment sets in. Also, an ego-killer. The chef may soon realize “Hey, just bring some staff great at this one dish, what do you need my creativity for?”

Craig Miller , Javier Lastras Report

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Sarah Pierce 2 years ago

Please please please stop bringing your children to restaurants that aren't set up for them. If there's no kids menu and the normal menu isn't simple/kid friendly what makes you think anything else about the place is set up for kids? *All* the staff will be silently hating you.

38points