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Even if you have your dream job and enjoy it thoroughly, it is normal that there are parts of it that are less exciting than others and maybe even insufferable. Most jobs involve more than just doing the task you like.

For example, if you’re a chef, that means you like cooking, but the downside is that you don’t cook what you want to, but what the customer wants instead, and they may ask for something that you would rather skip.

Chefs, cooks and amateurs came to this Reddit thread to vent about the dishes that they hate seeing ordered but have to suck it up and just do it. This is not their first therapy session and Bored Panda has another article you can find here if you would like to know what not to order to not burden your chef.

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers Our German Apple pancake.

First you sauté Granny Smiths in clarified butter.

Then add three ladles of our German batter into sauté pan.

Throw in oven for 15 minutes.

Remove from oven and add clarified butter and cinnamon sugar.

Flip delicate pancake with spatula and a dash of learning curve.

Return to oven and cook 5 more minutes.

Flip pancake onto plate and insure it makes it to the table in less than a minute as it deflates rapidly.

Bonus points for when it’s ordered 10 minutes before we close.

Edit: those who are apologizing for ordering it, don’t it’s our job. Kitchen staff are gluttons for punishment.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

German here: I have never heard of it * off to google the history *

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Bored Panda got in touch with Reddit user ALiteralPotatooooo who contributed to the thread and their most hated item on the menu was charcuterie boards as they are so messy and everything is falling off.

As you may have noticed charcuterie boards aren’t the most complicated things to make and many of the chefs who answered the question had a variety of reasons they didn’t like cooking one dish or another besides it just being complicated.

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers Not a chef, but when I worked for a Chinese restaurant, the chef there hated Moo Shoo anything, he always had to cut up the cabbage to order. So as a server, whenever they pissed me off at the front, I go ahead & tell the customers how great our moo shoo is that day, & we get practically every one trying it. Then I would hear the kitchen people cursing everyone out & their mother lol

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So the kitchen didn't have a food processor or shred cabbage in batches for the day??

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers Worked in a sandwich shop for a bot in college. Not fine dining by any stretch of the imagination, but a couple steps above Subway.

Every time someone ordered a PB&J off the kids menu we had to clear off both lines, change our gloves, wipe down every surface the peanut butter got close to, and wash the knife we used to cut it. Like, I get it. But having to treat peanut butter like nuclear waste in the middle of a lunch rush was never fun.

Plus, the peanut butter was too thick for the bread we used for the PB&J, so the bread ended up tearing half the time

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone with allergy could get in serious trouble if those precautions were not followed. Perhaps, if it's a strain during rush hour, it could be taken off the menu during certain hours? Just thinking aloud here

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The chef we got in contact with  told us that actually, they enjoy making more complicated dishes that could scare amateurs because not only it shows off the skills of the chef, but “also because the end product is usually delicious like you can't get anywhere else.”

They enjoy cooking in general as “It makes [them] feel human. Most people think that when you're rich and powerful you can hire someone to do your laundry and cook and clean for you but eventually those become the things you want to make time for. [They] also love to have company while cooking.”
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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers Pastry chef here. I HATE making marshmallows (just the worst texture for touching, tasting, preparing and cleaning) and tempering chocolate (fickle, frustrating & expensive).

I’ll happily flambé you a goddamn bananas foster if it means I don’t have to make marshmallows or filled chocolates.

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers Soufflés. We make the creme pate in advance but when it’s ordered the process is:
Warm creme pate over a double boiler, while that is warming you need to hand whip a fresh meringue. Once the creme pate is warm, you have about 3 minutes to fold in the whites, fill your molds to make sure you don’t touch the edges(as it makes them rise crooked). Into the oven for 3 minutes, open oven and rotate for 2 minutes. In those 5 minutes you have to plate the rest of the tables desserts, which all have 8-10 components. Soufflé comes out to a waiting waiter, has to go to the table immediately or deflates.

While it’s not the most difficult thing in the world, when you’re busy and have 4-6 on order and each one needs to pass a 3 finger test(height above rim of mold or it gets sent back and you need to restart), it can get quite hard and demoralizing when they don’t work.

And then you send out 4 at once and someone at the table gets up to go to the bathroom or have a cigarette and the tray comes back and you start again and cry inside.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was an amazing restaurant in San Francisco that served nothing BUT soufflés. Starter soufflés, entrée soufflés, dessert soufflés... it's called Cafe Jacqueline, and it's worth every penny.

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers When I briefly worked as a waitress in a restaurant the chef would always scream at me when someone ordered that one meal we served. It was a type of schnitzel but in a very special dough that would burn very quickly when fried, so he had to watch it very carefully and couldn't work on anything else for a few minutes.

(Sorry if I butchered some words, english is not my first language)

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But the Redditor admits that shills are way more important than passion and to make something delicious passion isn’t needed. However, “the experience wouldn't be as gratifying without it. Skills are way more important, though.”

As the chef enjoys their job themselves, they have a suggestion for those who would like to enjoy it more as well, “Forget the recipe. Just imagine what something would be like to eat to make something great. Also, just extensive experience helps prevent the hassles and mistakes that disappoint younger cooks. Just keep learning and maybe even read a cookbook in your free time.”

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers Worked at a kitchen after high school. Some guy orders f*****g lobster on Valentine's Day and we were this low-midrange fish and chips chain where high school kids hung out and the most fancy thing most people ordered was probably swordfish collar. We didn't even know we had lobster in the menu. I remember the head chef swearing and actually taking out the restaurant's recipe book to see what was needed. We actually didn't have some of the ingredients and we had to send one of the cooks out to take a cab to the next outlet a few streets down to pick up the stuff. The rest of us dug through the freezer and actually found lobster that we didn't know we had. Cooking it was pretty much referencing the recipe book all the way. On hindsight it was hilarious. Why you would you order lobster at a restaurant like this? The head chef was pissed as hell the rest of the day.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why would "a restaurant like this" have something on the menu that they don't expect anyone to ever order?

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers I used to work at McDonalds. Years ago we had this promotional burger we called the ‘lean beef burger’. It was aimed at people who wanted to be more healthy - haha.

Normally the meat patties are cooked on the grill, but this one was nuked in the microwave. When it was heated, it looked grey, and it smelled so putrid no one wanted to work near the microwave so they wouldn’t have to smell it.

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers When someone is just “big” enough to be able to get away ordering off the menu

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's a pizza that's discontinued at a beloved eatery, my dad loves this pizza. We ask very politely if the chef would make us one even though it's no longer on menu and they always do. Can't hurt to ask kindly! Worst they can say is no.

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Do you like cooking? Why do you enjoy it? Are you good at cooking? Maybe you don’t like cooking but every dish you make is both beautiful and delicious? Let us know in the comments!
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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers People ordering fillet steak cooked well done. ☹️ They will always send it back because its like a 'rubber boot' or 'too tough' well DUH what do you expect, fillet is not the right cut to be served well done in the first place. Takes a good 30-45 minutes to butcher the steak without burning the outside, order a thinner cut if you would like well done. It's my job so I still fulfil the requests as that's what I am paid to do but I do die inside when I see that on the ticket 🤣

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry to say this but I think medium is the last possible level that a steak should be cooked. Anything beyond that will make it seem like you are trying to consume a piece of leather (spoken from experience, sorry)...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then you have never been served a proper well done steak, and that is on the chefs.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can't eat any meat that is grilled less than med well I Will puke ,all over. You have been warned. LoL.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes. I stopped eating proper meat because anything still remotely pink makes me nauseous and everything cooked to death tastes awful. I'll just take my processed meats thanks.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People can order their steak anyway they want. Stop being so snobbish about it. I like mine medium, but I used to like it well done when I was younger.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If the chef follows the order exactly and the customer doesn't like the result (as is explained in the post), then I would say that the customer is mistaken about what they want and the chef has every right to be annoyed about the waste of food. The waiter should probably suggest a well done thinner cut (as mentioned in the post). Did you actually like well done fillets or well done thinner cuts?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fillet steak doesn't have to be thick. If they want it well done (and that's their choice) you could just cut it into thinner pieces.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well I guess so... well done fillet or chop it into pieces. So either way your destroying a beautiful cut of meat. If you want well done and/or thin may aswell order a minute steak.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know you are all going to hate me but I am not interested in bloody meat. I like mine well done. If I eat a filet I ask them to butterfly it so it can cook through. I know chefs hate me but I just can't swallow bloody meat.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is my money I am spending, it is my food I am eating. You can butterfly the steak for all I care. I CANNOT eat it pink. I have never sent a steak back for being overcooked, only seriously undercooked.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mother got diagnosed with acute leukemia. One of the things she is no longer allowed to eat is red meat. She can have steak but it needs to be well donev while she used to like it medium. Not everyone has a choice in the matter unfortunately :(

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have been to restaurants that in the menu says that they will not cook steak well done and not to even ask.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always get that "People should be able to order their steak the way they want it" spiel. Sorry, but if you order a mignon, a ribeye or an NY strip well done, you're a steak hating heathen and should order the chicken! LOL!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A little exaggeration on the cooking time. Most good restaurants will not guarantee well done and say so on the menu. Just butterfly the damn thing and let the idiot who ordered it choke on it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Southwestern US -born here. I want them to just slap the cow's a** as it moves through the kitchen, and when I stick my fork in, it moos and climbs off my plate.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry it IS possible to cook well done steak, but chefs try to do it the same way as rare and of course it doesn't work.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They expect you to know how to cook a steak that is cooked through, because that is what is meant by well done. Overcooked is not a well done steak, and I feel sorry for every pregnant woman who gets presented with your overdone mess.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is definitely possible to make a well done fillet that's not rubbery. My father ordered his this way and it was always ok and never rubbery. I personally prefer my steaks rare, but every cook that can't cook well done steak is just not a good cook.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've seen restaurants include the disclaimer "If you order your steak Well Done, we give no guarantees as to its quality"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I grew up eating well-done steak, roast, and burgers. Mom took food safety VERY seriously. First time I ate a non-crunchy burger I nearly lost my mind.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly, I don't care is someone wants to order a well done steak... I am just cheap. When I see someone order a filet well, I just think: Awww! You could have had a sirloin much cheaper and it would taste better...

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people who order a filet well done shouldn't breed

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers I worked as a chef for a long time, I worked in a cafe in a really sort of rich area. We had a few people who were CEOs of big companies in my city, my boss treated this one guy like royalty even though he was a slimy piece of s**t. He would always make him an egg white omelette with various vegetables. Something that was absolutely not on the menu, we only offered fried, scrambled or poached eggs.

One day the boss didn't work in the kitchen anymore and low and behold, that a*****e guy came back asking for his omlette and the manager asked me to make it.

It was in the midst of a very busy rush on a Saturday. F**k that guy.

He owns cotton on and even though I know it doesn't impact anything, I refuse to buy from them.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This would have been a huge pain to do during a rush if your restaurant doesn't have omelets on the menu. The cook probably had to dice the vegetables as well as separating the egg whites from the yolk in a separate bowl (you can't just dump the whites one at a time on the grill if it's an omelet). During a rush, that would absolutely throw a wrench into the rhythm of the kitchen.

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers I'm not really a chief, just a Taco Bell line cook. Think what I've got to say is relevant though.

I hate making quesadillas. Especially multiple in a row. First off, because of their shape they need to go in the largest bag on the bottom, meaning that if it's ordered last I have to let food pile up taking up space so that I can put it in the bag first. It requires two scoops of cheese, being the only item that does, taking up extra time. It then has to be melted inside a hot steam machine that's finicky and doesn't want to work sometimes. Then it is carefully removed, folded, and plopped onto the grill where the jalapeno sauce likes to leak and make a mess on the grill. After grilling it has to be slipped into a sleeve, put in an open space and cut, and finally put into the bag. Having more than one makes it harder, as there is a limited number of steam machine and grill spaces so they end up backing up and taking up space. Finding the space to cut a quesadilla when you have many items taking up space is really frustrating. People hate how expensive they are here, but I think it's justified.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Taco bell there needs to put you all some more space and an extra one those things to make it easier on you all. I know how that goes though they never do the things they ought to just like every place to make it easier. I'm sorry this sounds like it is annoying to make and I like what you said about the price. I'm glad they did that so people may not order as much I know that may be rude to say to some people to say. However fastfood is not a joke. You get paid to get treated bad sometimes and work your self to the bone. It more then just making food. Please treat fast food workers good they work real hard.

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers Not a chef but a butcher, and i can't even begin to express how much i loathe c**p like ham salad and chicken salad.

I love when new customers come in for the first time, but my heart always sinks when they say "i heard this place has great ham salad!"
Sorry but if you like ham salad it's all gonna be great, because what you actually like is an obscene amount of mayonnaise and sweet relish.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not all chicken salads are the same, they very so much, I assume ham salad is too, I just don’t eat much of it. I have places I will get chicken salad from and places I will never get it from again. And I absolutely hate making it so I will buy it sometimes when out. Sorry lol

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers I used to work at a grocery store and I was the person who made all those pre-cut fruit boxes. I didn’t particularly mind any of them all that much except clementines. We had to peel clementines and put them in a box. First, it was a huge waste because no one ever bought them (why would you pay $5 for 6 peeled clementines when you could buy a whole bag unpeeled for the same price) except for old people who couldn’t peel the fruit themselves, and secondly because the acid would eat through our gloves and then destroy our nails and leave orange smell on your fingers for days.

The only other thing I hated making was 5 mix. We have a mixture called “six mix” which is just 6 different kinds of fruit together, but this one guy would come in and ask for six mix without the cantaloupe in it. We actually started calling him 5 mix. When he walked in someone from a different department would ring us and let us know 5 mix was there and to start making some 5 mix. I hated it because when he asked we’d have to go get a whole watermelon, a whole honeydew, and 3 other fruits and cut them all up just so he could have like 5 cut up pieces of each instead of just eating around the cantaloupe. And he always showed up right as our department was starting to close down for the night too. So we had to them rewatch all our surfaces after five mix came in

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If it makes you feel better, he was probably on lifetime meds for his kidneys or heart. Some of them, if you eat cantaloupe, it can land you in the hospital or worse. Other melons no probable but grapefruit and cantaloupe could kill. But it never would have occurred to me to special order the six mix versus just making it at home myself.

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers Baker here...cinnamon buns are the majority of our business but so f*****g time intensive and while the finished product comes out SO good they take 3 days to make between dough, proofing, and baking by the time the customer gets them (warm) I swear they owe me much more than $5 a bun lol. Exhausting

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked in a bakery myself and that's just not true. They don't take 3 days. A few hours tops but definitely not 3 days. And while they're proofing you do other stuff. You don't sit there and watch the dough rising! This is just not true.

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers Charcuterie boards. Stuff falling off all over the place.

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers Slightly different take, but I was a chef at a nursing home and anything puréed for people who are on that dietary restriction was gross to me. I literally had to take whatever meal I made, throw in a blender and put it in a bowl. I always felt so bad.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was on a soft diet for a while following gsatric surgery and blended foods tasted foul to me unless it was a dish that 'ought' to be quite mushy and all the elements eaten together (a cottage pie, for example.) The texture of foods really affects the taste.

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers When I was working as a waiter, we had one customer who we called "The Spaghetti Lady".

She came in 1-2 times per week for lunch. She always ordered spaghetti with sauce on the side. Salad with Pepperoncini and ranch on the side, Coke/no ice, breadsticks/no butter. She camped for 1.5 hours, then stiffed the tip.

Lunch was always a nothing shift, so tying up one 4 top for all of lunch killed the whole shift.

Most of it was side work, but the breadsticks were a huge pain. Chain restaurants aren't really built for special orders, they break the rhythm like a car slamming on the brakes on a highway.

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers Making crepes .. and boning quail for pate’ .. things young chefs do in training .. mind numbing .. yeah, about those crepes, so many of you mention the finished product (filled, etc) or using a crepe maker .. I’m talking about making them in a pan, in large amounts , like a big catered event where you have hours pouring and flipping .. beyond boring ..

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are served on every fest, fair or Christmas market. They prepare everything and make them in minutes. My sister, who lives in France, often made them, too. Can't be that hard to make.

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers I’m a chef working in a lunch cafe. I absolutely hate it when someone wants a panini.

Not because it would be a hassle to make one, as they’re all premade, store bought, but because that is exactly why I hate them. All I do is open the packet, slide the bread into the bag it’s served in, pop it onto the grill for three minutes and serve.
If I could make them myself, I probably wouldn’t hate them at all.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I jink your hand made paninis would taste so much better and definitely more enjoyable!

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers Fondue, it’s a ball ache to make well even if it is just melted cheese, customers rarely eat everything before it burns if using a chafing dish and it’s hell to clean. Also it’s dated and not that nice.

Any order with a genuine allergy concern. (Not because it’s difficult but rather it’s added stress and responsibility for one guest that’s potentially life threatening in a job that’s all about speed and stress already) kitchens are usually very small and while they have adequate measures in place for allergens, the kitchen as an environment is easily contaminated meaning that an allergen order needs to have that section cleaned down and all the equipment cleaned before it’s used for this one guest, even if there is dedicated equipment for allergens, it’s not worth someone having a reaction. I wish there were better ways to do it but the truth is, if you have allergies your food is going to be slow and not as good as the main menu because of this delay. It’d be great if there were more restaurants that were operating as “free from” certain foods specifically for these guests so everyone can have a great time with out the worry. Like a nut free place, or gluten-free place as we are seeing more vegetarian and vegan places being setup.

Source: chef for independent restaurants for 17 years.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not dated and it's very nice. Fondue is popular in many countries is and if it burns then the chafing dish is too hot. There's a fondue restaurant in the center of Amsterdam :)

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers The wing flight. Yeah, awesome, try out 4 different wing flavors on 12 wings. It's only 3-4x the effort and dramatically different plating. Oh and we offer a discount during all football games and are letting people order them to go? Completely negating the purpose of a flight so they can try our beers?


Tl;Dr: wing flights can get f****d

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can feel the stress of this post. It would suck. Bet you get slammed with those kinda orders too during football time. 😔

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers Not a chef but I worked at subway, whenever people wanted guacamole, we always spread it on one side of the bread before adding the rest of the veggies but the way the counter was designed the avocado was the last ingredient so people would always add all their veggies and then want avocado on top. This was a nightmare to spread across the uneven veggie surface and would generally just stick in clumps :( some vegetarian customers also wanted us to change our gloves to serve them but everytime we change gloves we have to wash our hands which makes the gloves near impossible to wear - this would grind our whole production line to a halt while all staff members struggled to change their gloves. I mean I’m vegetarian too so I kinda understand but like if you’re so strict about it you want fresh gloves then you shouldn’t work at subway because the “contaminated” gloves from before still went in all the veggie boxes 🤷🏼‍♀️

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The "gloves are more hygienic" logic is a lot of window dressing. If you don't keep changing them constantly they're no better than skin. Often worse, actually, because I can feel my skin being all sticky/dirty. It's irritating so I wash my hands several times when preparing food. (Rings and icky long fingernails are a kitchen no-go anyway)

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers I work at Dairy Queen. We have to cook some things to order, because we don’t get enough ordered to make in bulk. Most of these aren’t too bad, such as the cheese curds, or the onion rings, or the pretzel. But the one I can’t stand, the bane of my very existence, is the BBQ pork sandwich. It’s our only BBQ product. It starts with a plastic bucket of frozen meat. We have to scoop some out, into another container, and pop it into the booster oven for a minute. Now this wouldn’t be too bad, if we didn’t have to boost the bun separately. And that wouldn’t be so bad either, if people didn’t order it exclusively when we are absolutely slammed.

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers At my old job they had a thing called a fry sampler. It was 4 10 oz fries that couldn't be cooked together and took up either half the fryer or the entire thing depending on how many were ordered at the same time. It would suck even more when people ordered more than one during a rush because they would take forever to plate.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought a "fry sampler" was when you got that bonus stray onion ring or tater tot in your regular order of fries.

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers Chef in my own pizza restaurant. It brings me immense pleasure to serve my customers, each and everyone of them. However, when someone orders something entirely veggie I have to spend time cleaning all my surfaces and equipment. Takes a bit of time, but hey.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If it's a dietary preference as opposed to an allergy (ie, vegetarian vs celiac) you don't need to do the intensive cross-contamination avoidance routine. At least according to food code in my US state.

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers When I worked for Applebee's we had the "endless ribs" promotion. Apart from the colossal pain in the a*s portioning those ribs were, making them was even worse.

You'd grab a portion baggy and dump it into a bag of flour and shake it up, then throw it in the deep fryer for about 2 mins. When the timer dings, you throw it in a plastic container with whatever sauce, shake it around and plate it along with fries or whatever.

So that wasn't the awful part. The awful part was whilst in the middle of a rush, having someone order the endless ribs where they get it as an all-u-can-eat style and when a "refill" came up you had to stop everything to make them another serving. Those portions were smaller and we didn't have as many as the large portions, so if I ran out, I had to go back to the larger portions and portion them down into smaller ones before continuing on with the flour, deep fryer and sauce.

I absolutely hated that promotion

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers Not working in a traditional restaurant anymore but the f*****g ringmold stacked beet salad. It took like 3 minutes to make just one and if a table of four all ordered them it slowed down the entire salad line.

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers I waited tables when I was in college. I absolutely hated when certain foods were ordered because I knew it was going to take a long time. One of the worst offenders was a charbroiled oyster appetizer that had butter, breadcrumbs, and cheese on top. It took about 12-15 minutes to hit the table and that is an eternity for an appetizer.

Edit: The restaurant I was working in at the time usually had apps on the table in less than 10 minutes so this app was longer than most but different restaurants are going to have different appetizer timing and may take longer.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, but the image is of Drago's and those oysters are freaking LIT! SO. Damned. Good.

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers Just an occational cook. In our place, it's called 'bata'. Bata is finely ground spices and veggies to make it a smooth paste. Also, a similar dish with mutton called Halim. Very time consuming to make.

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers Not a dish but a drink

Pouring a bottle of Raboso wine is so f*****g difficult, it bubbles like crazy and those bubbles take minutes to disappear, often you will just leave the bottle filled with bubbles, do something else to kill time, and then you can start pouring again

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers I used to work at an ice cream shop in high school, and it was a pretty good gig, except for making milk shakes. To put this into perspective, the gimmick of the shop was that we made our ice cream with liquid nitrogen completely from scratch. Completely custom flavors, custom mixins. At my best, I could make a good sized bit of ice cream in 45 seconds, start to finish. Add the time to pour in extra milk, blend it up, etc. the shakes took around 2 minutes because the blenders were awful. They took so long to blend the shakes that it would hold up the whole line during peak hours. We were right outside the movie theater at a mall, so we could have 30 people in line at peak, and we had only two blenders.

One night wasn’t even that busy, but I was exhausted and at the end of my rope. A whole group of kids, maybe 8, come in after a school dance (they were all dressed up nice). They stared at the menu for a long time (too long) then walked up and said they all wanted shakes. 8 kids, each of them asking for a shake that would take 2 minutes each to make from scratch, not accounting for all the washing of the blender bowls. I flat out lied and told them our shake machine was broken because I did not have the strength of will to spend a good 20 minutes making shakes. They all left and I was spared.

One order that I had a lot of fun doing was the guy who came in and asked for every flavor and every mix in in one giant ice cream cup. We had 45 flavors and 25 mixins. We told him that for every extra mixin it would cost 50 cents more — he agreed and paid about $12 dollars for this absolutely sickening behemoth that he shared with his friends. I tasted a bit that was left over in the bowl and somehow the massive flavor overload turned the ice cream spicy. It was the most bizarre collision of flavors I’ve ever tasted.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can also feel this post, at a restaurant we had 3 flavors of ice cream and you had to get ice cream out of a bucket and then pour milk in then squirt the flavoring and put in the mixer and guide it with your hand once had an order for a whole lot of them. And women that I made them for later told me she felt bad because she felt like my manger or someone should of helped me, because there was so many. But I got complemented and actually had someone that knew how I felt because she also worked in fast food and thought my manger was a b******e for not helping me and shouldn't been a manger. But it was what it was I made them and that was that. 😜Did I feel like pulling out my hair .......yes

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers I hand make pierogi for my food truck, and they are a pain in the a*s. Making one or two batches is annoying, but making enough for a commercial operation completely sucks. The dough I use doesn’t have water in it, just egg and sour cream, so the gluten doesn’t form into very strong bonds. That means that I can’t use a pasta roller to make sheets of dough to cut into dumpling skins. I have to hand roll everything with a rolling pin, and my work surface is’t big enough to roll out an entire batch.

Last week after making pierogi for a couple hours, I raised the price in our point of sales system by another dollar because f**k pierogi.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Since it's your food truck, why offer something you hate to make so much?

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Person Wanted To Know What Are The Menu Items Chefs Hate Making And Got These 30 Answers Not a chef but I used to work at a subway. The one thing I HATED was when people ordered salads. There are several reasons for this
1- the salad bowls are in the back so you have to go get one+ a cutter
2- the salad bowls are pain to wash, and take forever to dry
3- compounding with the first 2: the salad bowls are usually lowest priority to wash so if you are doing dishes then the lunch or dinner rush comes in usually the salad bowls aren’t washed yet so it’s an even bigger interruption in the flow of things because you have to go wash a bowl and dry it as opposed to if there was a clean one, it’s still annoying even if they were clean
4- who the f**k goes to a sandwhich shop to order a f*****g salad.
5- the BIGGEST annoyance of the salads was that the bowls that the salad goes in after it’s been made don’t exactly fit all the s**t they got and are near impossible to close.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"who the f**k goes to a sandwhich shop to order a f*****g salad" People with f******g allergies/intolerances or, God forbid, different f*****g personal preferences. There are more f*****g Subways in this country than 99% of other fast food chains. Sometimes people don't have a f*****g choice.

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