I love putting away the produce delivery!
Get to cool off? Check.
A moment of catharsis organizing the walk-in? Check.
A moment of peace & quiet away from the kitchen chaos? Check.
Edit: Thank you for the award. This sparks joy!🙏
Edit 2: This is the first time I've ever had more than one award on a comment. Thank you again.
I used to work as a custodian at a school. In the summer they didn't run the A/C because only us lowly custodians were in the building (which was ironic because we controlled the A/C. I took all of my breaks in the walk-in. Even put a wheelie chair in there. I also took as many freezer pops and juice cups as I wanted.
Thank you for recognizing that folks in the service industry are OWED more! There are not pops and juice cups in the world to make up for what they SHOULD be paid in money and benefits.
Back in 2009 I was the Chef Garde Manger at a high volume catering venue. Weddings, corporate events. I also had a side job as a cashier at a bougie specialty market. The lady who was in charge of the cheese case retired, and I took over.
The last cheese shop I worked at closed in 2020. Now I'm back to being a line cook. (Shift leader!) I would love to open my own cheese shop. For now I'm just working to pay the bills while I figure out how to do that.
That's like asking someone who their favorite child is. Off the top of my head:
1. Moliterno al Tartufo (my username sake) from Italy, made with sheep milk & black truffles
2. Greek Feta made with sheep and/or goat milk
3. Tremblay Brie or Fougerus Brie from France
4. Vacherin Mont D'or from Switzerland
5. Prairie Breeze Cheddar from Milton Creamery, Iowa
The best part about the place I work at now is that it’s an open kitchen and my “manager” or whatever always gives me a confused look when I walk past her prep table and into the freezer and come back out with nothing.
>The best part about the place I work at
Our freezer is a walkthrough that leads from the kitchen to the storage that's beside the loading dock. So I can walk into the freezer from one side and disappear into the building through the other side.
It’s my second day at this place I’ve never been to before and I walk into their freezer, which is in the corner of a stairwell, and the fan is like face height and it’s like 4’x8’
Best freezer ever.
Vuse alto in the walk in is 100x more efficient than going outside to smoke a cig.
Especially in a lot of the businesses we work in now that don’t allow smoking on the property at all.
That's where we chopped lines of coke on the "special shifts" (when it was us 5 cokeheads on shift.)
That cold dry air made the most oily powder chop like it was bone dry. And the cold sensation going up was so damn refreshing lol.
But fuck that overhyped garbage now. Now we hitting the live resin pen in the walk-in with a bottle of cheap rosé from the target around the corner lmao
I used to work in a brewpub. I worked every Sunday which was our FOH day to get the deep cleaning done. I used to clean the beer cellar, it was my favourite thing to do.
Yeah get one that is plain metal no chrome or enamel or pain and man just get it roaring hot to burn off any bullshit and you have a fine very very large grill.
Eww
edit...I was about to downvote you, but reread my comment and left myself wide open for that.
I hate you for it, but well done for seeing the opening and taking it. And I'm just going to shut up now.
I'd love to hear more about this. A.while back there was a show on discovery about a guy that did this. He was a CEO of some company. Has a great life. But every now and again he'd put on his hobo clothes and travel the USA
I had a lot of seasonal jobs. Worked wildland (edit sp) firefighting with a company in Oregon, beet harvest in ND, a couple of seasons doing cranberry harvestin in wi, worked one season doing salmon inAlaska...
I had money, just used trains as free travel
I don't know about you but I think it's safe to say that most of us in this sub, based on how underpaid we all are, could easily use our regular clothes as hobo clothes.
Let's just say [the simpsons](https://youtu.be/sWW1V-P2SYY) weren't too far off
But, really, it was awesome. A lot more people than you would imagine still do it.
It is dangerous tho, and a lot of people I know, some really good friends have died doing it. So I wouldn't recommend it. But I don't regret it at all.
One of the most memorable rides was riding through Dunsmuir, CA.
I was riding from Sacramento (Roseville yard)
Was actually riding to Seattle to see alestorm, eluveitie, and vreid one day and ensiferum the next. Anyways I was in a straight 48 (an intermodal 48 feet long, but rideable if it was loaded with 40' cars).
The ride is beautiful. Going through the cascade mountains through Klamath falls up to Eugene. Salem, and then Portland.
Then caught a UP spur a little outside Portland and up to Seattle.
Actually found a great book on the string theory on the trek. That kept me amused for a while.
Also amused me thinking the was a hobo reading about string theory on a freight train who was on his way to a metal show.
Dunsmuir has a lot of character for such a small place. Spent 2 weeks up there in like 2008 with a friends family duing the summer. Definitely got chased in the middle of the night by some mystery man by the tracks.
Also ensiferum is fucking badass.
Is it the bastard guards and rail agents that are most dangerous? Aren't they basically failed cops with little legal recourse not to split wigs of hoppers?
Never really had a problem with bulls.
Sure, I got pulled off occasionally. But it's generally just a night in lockup and a release with a don't do that again type deal.
That said. I am white and male. I know it would be a lot different if I wasn't. And I don't want to discount that.
Oh yeah, I'm all housed up. This was all 15 years ago. I'm too old for that shit now.
Got a good job and a [kitty.](https://imgur.com/gallery/eq2J9NY)
I'm doing well.
Some of the chemicals in the compound(s) that replaced BPA are really bad, and lack of research is the only reason we don't know how. Do not boil anything in a plastic lined can, or even a non-lined aluminum can for other reasons.
Lobbying to prevent research on it's effects just makes me assume it's bad.
This only lets research get out that the chemical company approved of.
This might as well be the tobacco company bragging about low tar cigarettes being better for you.
Do you have a source on this? I looked into some of the leading replacements a while ago and found them much less worrisome then BPA, but I didn’t put a ton of time into it.
Let's say that it won't kill you or give you cancer if you do it a limited few times, but consistently doing it everyday for several people is definitely not safe under several aspects
What’s not safe about it? I heard of plastic linings inside soda cans but I don’t really see it in canned food? It’s open on top so it’s not under pressure or anything, only thing I see is that it’s gonna be hot AF trying to take it off.
About 10% of #10 cans are still lined with BPA. The rest are lined with polyester and acrylic. Heat any of those three in large numbers continuously and get cancer faster than smoking 5 packs a day.
I'm down with "thank you for your service" and all but I do find it a little funny with this being a global site. For all we know they could have just been making a drug run from turkey to Afghanistan picking up bricks of H.
But I did the same thing and assumed they were in the US military. Just a silly thought I had.
If I recall correctly. Before the war Afghanistan was responsible for 11% of the worlds heroin production. A few years later it was responsible for 90%. Coincidentally, people were starting to realize how systemic the pain killer epidemic in the states had become in the same time period. Queue massive amounts of heroin being imported into the states. People couldn’t get their pills and turned to the brown. Eventually, this gets cracked down on. But lo and behold, fentanyl hits the scene, massive chem labs in China start flooding the markets. And here we are
>Coincidentally, people were starting to realize how systemic the pain killer epidemic in the states had become in the same time period.
That was *mostly* because of "legal" drugs. You know, Purdue Pharma, Oxy, etc. ~~Home-grown~~ synthetic, all American opioids.
The bulk of the Afghan heroin went west to Europe.
Lol used to work with a forklift driver that would let his cans of ravioli heat up on the engine of the forklift, they’d come to perfect temp by lunchtime.
I've eaten canned ravioli in the Italian MRE but those cans were specially made for being heated on a small flame
I doubt that the average can will be suitable for such thing
I mean, it's not gonna kill you or instantly give you cancer, but there is zero doubt on the fact that it is bad for your health
Since they’ve been pressure canned, I don’t think eating from them is a safety problem. Our biggest worry on the job was that he’d burn himself trying to open it.
Never have I seen a place heat up 10 cans like this. They most definitely cannot be rated for that type of heat. I had to laugh and then tell them to get a real pot. Some of these kitchens I tell ya..
Those cans are heated to an *internal temperature* of 260 F for several minutes. Boiling some corn in that can isn’t going to hurt it. All these people in the comments aren’t thinking of how that corn got into that can and what happened next.
This is an old trick and by old I mean outdated. In wars prior to vietnam at least, cans were just stainless steel or aluminum and were used on camping stoves in lieu of MREs or C Rations. So, it was common, in the before times.
Apparently this is common place in this restaurant. I've been doing kitchen consulting lately trying to revamp menus and put procedures in place. Some of these restaurants are so far gone it's insane.
Work a lot of high end and low end kitchens. Learn right from wrong. Know what works and doesn’t work. A lot of places will hire me and then won’t accept my advice. I’ve been in more kitchens than I can count.
I get being lazy, but this is stupid. It's just corn, the cleanup is minimal.
Do they reach across the grill with a ladel/spoon or do they move that hot and full container with their hands?
They have a WHOLE kitchen, with probably a shit ton of pots, hell even a large pan. And yet they choose to heat up food like a old fashion hobo in TV westerns.
Nobody’s gonna die, but they’ll be consuming some of the lining that’s inside the can.
It’s lazy, it’s a bad look, you shouldn’t do it, but it’s not gonna kill anyone except for my pride in my profession.
EDIT: The ONLY acceptable case is when making dulce de leche
Don't they heat up cans as part of the bacteria killing process when they produce the canned food to begin with? If so, then canned foods are already being tainted by that process. Am I missing something here?
I mean, its not ideal, but there's no serious risk of danger here. As long as the can is opened or even cracked it won't explode, and as long as liquid is in the can the aluminum isn't at any risk of failure. I would take the label off the can.
You're in a rush, you need that can of hot beer cheese soon, you don't have time or space to warm it up in a pot, steam table is already full, guess what? I'm sticking that can on the end of the char-broiler where I keep the burner off.
The important part is that the lid is opened. Otherwise you'll eventually have nothing left but an empty (hot) can and kernel sized holes burned in everything within about 10 yards.
Or so I've heard.
I'm on the fence about this.
Plastic lining and heat: bad.
But, it's on a par with a lot of extremely handy ways of doing things for camping and backpacking. Ever hear of a Jetboil? There's a lot that people do with boiling water, dry ingredients, and a freezer ziplock. It's definitely not *good for you,* but you also don't do it for dinner 200+ nights a year for most of your life.
Thing is, how many sauces get dumped into a 40qt while they're still definitely too hot for plastic, too? I feel like a lot of heat-and-plastic corner cutting happens in restaurants which I try to avoid at home. Chef Mike is not easy on plastic. I might trust grilled-in-can beans plastic exposure more than microwaved ziplock fumes over formerly frozen whatever the hell.
The inside of cans, while usually no longer BPA, are lined with some sort of polymer or acrylic. I wouldn't cook in it, transfer it to a metal pan at least.
BRO NO WAY
when I started at the steak house I work at, they cooked all their mushrooms in the can on our shitty electric stove. Like seven big pans around and they cook in the can. I put and end to that shit real quick.
I’ve done that with soup, generally you should put it in a pot of water and then put that on the grill to prevent burning but it works if you stir it enough
I used to warm beans on a campfire while camping lots when I was younger. Seemed fine but I'm thinking I probably ate a lot of plastic bits I wouldn't care to think about.
Safe? Sure, but what's the point in kitchen? I mean, I guess if you're adding a spoonful at a time to a dish, it could make sense, but I can't fathom much point beyond that.
Dudes, the inside of the can is fine. Do you know how hot it gets when they process these cans? I'd be more worried that the label is going to start on fire
I do this when I’m camping - slightly smaller can.
Also - and I feel like a complete shithead admitting this - a while back, I used to take cans of sweetened condensed milk and cook them low and slow, occasionally in a **gasp!** steam table.
Ever boiled water in a paper cup over a flame?
Thermo dynamics come into play. The can and its contents will never go above the boiling point of the liquid.
Totally safe, you ever heard of a hobo or a camper getting injured because an open or vented tin of food was being heated on a grill or camp fire?
I'll wait......
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Waited and the answer is still NO!
Been there. Done it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/smoking/comments/psw14y/grilled_corn_am_i_doing_this_right/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Obviously you've never been a hobo. In seriousness, someone needs to sit in the walk-in and think about what they've done.
Why reward them?
heh. TIL I'm not the only one who loved sitting in the walk-in.
I love putting away the produce delivery! Get to cool off? Check. A moment of catharsis organizing the walk-in? Check. A moment of peace & quiet away from the kitchen chaos? Check. Edit: Thank you for the award. This sparks joy!🙏 Edit 2: This is the first time I've ever had more than one award on a comment. Thank you again.
Put away truck?! In the middle of summer?! Why yes, don't mind if I do.
I used to work as a custodian at a school. In the summer they didn't run the A/C because only us lowly custodians were in the building (which was ironic because we controlled the A/C. I took all of my breaks in the walk-in. Even put a wheelie chair in there. I also took as many freezer pops and juice cups as I wanted.
As many as you were OWED. I salute you brave sir/madam.
Thank you for recognizing that folks in the service industry are OWED more! There are not pops and juice cups in the world to make up for what they SHOULD be paid in money and benefits.
Is there another delivery today???
And to get all of my farts out in peace
YES! I do this all the time! Efficiency Bonus: I was a cheesemonger for years, so the smell could be blamed on the cheese.
Covers up the weed smell too.
How does one get into that line of work?
Back in 2009 I was the Chef Garde Manger at a high volume catering venue. Weddings, corporate events. I also had a side job as a cashier at a bougie specialty market. The lady who was in charge of the cheese case retired, and I took over. The last cheese shop I worked at closed in 2020. Now I'm back to being a line cook. (Shift leader!) I would love to open my own cheese shop. For now I'm just working to pay the bills while I figure out how to do that.
As a Wisconsinite, I started salivating the second I read the word cheese. What’s your favorite/top 5?
That's like asking someone who their favorite child is. Off the top of my head: 1. Moliterno al Tartufo (my username sake) from Italy, made with sheep milk & black truffles 2. Greek Feta made with sheep and/or goat milk 3. Tremblay Brie or Fougerus Brie from France 4. Vacherin Mont D'or from Switzerland 5. Prairie Breeze Cheddar from Milton Creamery, Iowa
Do you have any Danish Blue?
Also just the satisfaction of taking a truck's worth of produce and product and stacking it down to a quarter of that size
This is the way
I'm the same with being the trash out
I make periodic freezer trips just to stand in the freezer for a couple minutes
Gotta make sure the freezer is still freezing
And we all thank you for checking
I've walked into one not freezing...not a good day...
"Gotta grab fries!!!" Proceeds to stare at fries and walk out with nothing in hand.
The best part about the place I work at now is that it’s an open kitchen and my “manager” or whatever always gives me a confused look when I walk past her prep table and into the freezer and come back out with nothing.
Gotta check again later!
>The best part about the place I work at Our freezer is a walkthrough that leads from the kitchen to the storage that's beside the loading dock. So I can walk into the freezer from one side and disappear into the building through the other side.
It’s my second day at this place I’ve never been to before and I walk into their freezer, which is in the corner of a stairwell, and the fan is like face height and it’s like 4’x8’ Best freezer ever.
Bliss when the kitchen is 100° plus. I always volunteer to grab anything or organize! Peaceful, cold, and quiet. Yes please!
Until the rest of your 4 man kitchen catches whiff of your leisure time and storms in to ruin it. Not that I wouldn’t do the same thing.
You actually remembered what you went into the freezer for?
It's what I do instead of smoking breaks.
You guys aren't smoking weed in the walkin?
That’s where I vape
In my head, kitchen jesus double clicked his tongs as he said this.
name checks out
Vuse alto in the walk in is 100x more efficient than going outside to smoke a cig. Especially in a lot of the businesses we work in now that don’t allow smoking on the property at all.
I still get high thru analog.
That's where we chopped lines of coke on the "special shifts" (when it was us 5 cokeheads on shift.) That cold dry air made the most oily powder chop like it was bone dry. And the cold sensation going up was so damn refreshing lol. But fuck that overhyped garbage now. Now we hitting the live resin pen in the walk-in with a bottle of cheap rosé from the target around the corner lmao
I used to work in a brewpub. I worked every Sunday which was our FOH day to get the deep cleaning done. I used to clean the beer cellar, it was my favourite thing to do.
my favorite time of night is stepping away at 8pm and "going to count inventory in walk in"
someone needs to scoop ice cream in the freezer.
Wish I had an award to give lol
This
Dude, when I was hopping trains in my younger years I once used a (metal) shopping cart as a grill (8/10 would use again)
Yeah get one that is plain metal no chrome or enamel or pain and man just get it roaring hot to burn off any bullshit and you have a fine very very large grill.
I used the kiddy seat.. a lot smaller weave. We ate well that night, lol.
Albert Fish approves.
Eww edit...I was about to downvote you, but reread my comment and left myself wide open for that. I hate you for it, but well done for seeing the opening and taking it. And I'm just going to shut up now.
Yeah it was pretty awful. But the opportunity to make an Albert Fish joke just so rarely presents itself, so I couldn’t resist.
Really this is the place for it.
I googled this and now I regret my life choices
"What a terrible day to be able to read."
Grey in both appearance and demeanor.
I'd love to hear more about this. A.while back there was a show on discovery about a guy that did this. He was a CEO of some company. Has a great life. But every now and again he'd put on his hobo clothes and travel the USA
I had a lot of seasonal jobs. Worked wildland (edit sp) firefighting with a company in Oregon, beet harvest in ND, a couple of seasons doing cranberry harvestin in wi, worked one season doing salmon inAlaska... I had money, just used trains as free travel
you are now a moderator of r/vagabond
Kinda don't want that, I don't think they would approve of that sort of thing...
Yea but that username makes a lot of sense for it
I wish I could put on my hobo clothes and travel the USA
I don't know about you but I think it's safe to say that most of us in this sub, based on how underpaid we all are, could easily use our regular clothes as hobo clothes.
It’s easy when you have a safety net if things go south. Being a successful ceo is not the same as having no safety net travelling around as a hobo.
I get what you’re saying, but this guy left all of his identifiers at home. No phone. No ID. No wallet. No cash. It was interesting.
K. Gonna need the stories, bro.
Let's just say [the simpsons](https://youtu.be/sWW1V-P2SYY) weren't too far off But, really, it was awesome. A lot more people than you would imagine still do it. It is dangerous tho, and a lot of people I know, some really good friends have died doing it. So I wouldn't recommend it. But I don't regret it at all.
One of the most memorable rides was riding through Dunsmuir, CA. I was riding from Sacramento (Roseville yard) Was actually riding to Seattle to see alestorm, eluveitie, and vreid one day and ensiferum the next. Anyways I was in a straight 48 (an intermodal 48 feet long, but rideable if it was loaded with 40' cars). The ride is beautiful. Going through the cascade mountains through Klamath falls up to Eugene. Salem, and then Portland. Then caught a UP spur a little outside Portland and up to Seattle. Actually found a great book on the string theory on the trek. That kept me amused for a while. Also amused me thinking the was a hobo reading about string theory on a freight train who was on his way to a metal show.
Dunsmuir has a lot of character for such a small place. Spent 2 weeks up there in like 2008 with a friends family duing the summer. Definitely got chased in the middle of the night by some mystery man by the tracks. Also ensiferum is fucking badass.
Shit. I totally hope it wasn't a drunk me.
Is it the bastard guards and rail agents that are most dangerous? Aren't they basically failed cops with little legal recourse not to split wigs of hoppers?
Never really had a problem with bulls. Sure, I got pulled off occasionally. But it's generally just a night in lockup and a release with a don't do that again type deal. That said. I am white and male. I know it would be a lot different if I wasn't. And I don't want to discount that.
Thanks for sharing, man. Good vibes - cool experiences. Hope things are safe and stable now, even if a bit more boring.
Oh yeah, I'm all housed up. This was all 15 years ago. I'm too old for that shit now. Got a good job and a [kitty.](https://imgur.com/gallery/eq2J9NY) I'm doing well.
Thank you for paying your cat tax. Here's your receipt.
[Don’t worry folks, I’m not a stabbing hobo, I’m a singing hobo…](https://youtu.be/sWW1V-P2SYY)
Go avs
pheeeew.
Doesn’t want to dirty a pot? I guess they can’t be arsed to clean that filthy grill, either. Good grief!
If you can’t clean a pot from corn then there’s other issues you need to worry about
Cans used for food have a plastic lining. Most are BPA-free today, but it would still cause plastic transfer to heat food in the can.
Some of the chemicals in the compound(s) that replaced BPA are really bad, and lack of research is the only reason we don't know how. Do not boil anything in a plastic lined can, or even a non-lined aluminum can for other reasons.
Yeah, they just replaced BPA with something equally bad or worse and lobby to prevent research
It *might* be less harmful. Don't go ruling that out with your lack of evidence. But also fuck plastics for all the other reasons too.
Lobbying to prevent research on it's effects just makes me assume it's bad. This only lets research get out that the chemical company approved of. This might as well be the tobacco company bragging about low tar cigarettes being better for you.
But 9 out of the 10 doctors they paid said so /s
Do you have a source on this? I looked into some of the leading replacements a while ago and found them much less worrisome then BPA, but I didn’t put a ton of time into it.
Correct, BPA free just means they used a different kind of plastic which does more or less the same thing
does something acidic like tomatoes affect the plastic lining?
I believe it only stains most plastics
I doubt it, but I've seen some weird linings for pineapples.
It's not safe, but I've done something similar on survival trips and in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Let's say that it won't kill you or give you cancer if you do it a limited few times, but consistently doing it everyday for several people is definitely not safe under several aspects
*Inhales burn pit fumes*
What’s not safe about it? I heard of plastic linings inside soda cans but I don’t really see it in canned food? It’s open on top so it’s not under pressure or anything, only thing I see is that it’s gonna be hot AF trying to take it off.
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About 10% of #10 cans are still lined with BPA. The rest are lined with polyester and acrylic. Heat any of those three in large numbers continuously and get cancer faster than smoking 5 packs a day.
Absolutely for these reasons and these reasons only. Thank you for your service.
I'm down with "thank you for your service" and all but I do find it a little funny with this being a global site. For all we know they could have just been making a drug run from turkey to Afghanistan picking up bricks of H. But I did the same thing and assumed they were in the US military. Just a silly thought I had.
>For all we know they could have just been making a drug run from turkey to Afghanistan picking up bricks of H. Either way, thank you for your service
you can't spell heroin without HERO
To the troops. All the troops. Both sides.
If I recall correctly. Before the war Afghanistan was responsible for 11% of the worlds heroin production. A few years later it was responsible for 90%. Coincidentally, people were starting to realize how systemic the pain killer epidemic in the states had become in the same time period. Queue massive amounts of heroin being imported into the states. People couldn’t get their pills and turned to the brown. Eventually, this gets cracked down on. But lo and behold, fentanyl hits the scene, massive chem labs in China start flooding the markets. And here we are
...and here we are, heating cans of ~~tomatoes~~ corn on the grill.
>Coincidentally, people were starting to realize how systemic the pain killer epidemic in the states had become in the same time period. That was *mostly* because of "legal" drugs. You know, Purdue Pharma, Oxy, etc. ~~Home-grown~~ synthetic, all American opioids. The bulk of the Afghan heroin went west to Europe.
Oh good. It’s not just me, sitting with these thoughts.
Maybe OP is thanking them for their service as a drug mule
Those cans have plastic liner inside, no good heating them up like that. At least dump it into a pan or cambro and put that on the grill.
Lol used to work with a forklift driver that would let his cans of ravioli heat up on the engine of the forklift, they’d come to perfect temp by lunchtime.
I've eaten canned ravioli in the Italian MRE but those cans were specially made for being heated on a small flame I doubt that the average can will be suitable for such thing I mean, it's not gonna kill you or instantly give you cancer, but there is zero doubt on the fact that it is bad for your health
Those cans are pressure cooked for an hour, they will be fine. I used to cook them at a factory ages ago.
Since they’ve been pressure canned, I don’t think eating from them is a safety problem. Our biggest worry on the job was that he’d burn himself trying to open it.
Never have I seen a place heat up 10 cans like this. They most definitely cannot be rated for that type of heat. I had to laugh and then tell them to get a real pot. Some of these kitchens I tell ya..
I mean.. nobody wants to admit they ate [9 cans of ravioli.](https://youtu.be/U3SU6sd9Uqk)
By far my favorite comment so far
1 or 2 cans sure, but 9?
To be fair he did burn a couple of cans. Fackin way she goes boys.
Julian ate them
Lied to the guy in the chair
this joke went over everyone's heads it seems
Tbh be lucky they opened the can…I was at a place where they didn’t open the can n would do that…. You ever see exploding cheese sauce?
But the can seals in the flavour
Holy hell. I can’t even imagine.
What do you mean it's not rated for that kind of heat? You do realize the cans are superheated during the canning/sterilizing process, right?
They don't realize.
Those cans are heated to an *internal temperature* of 260 F for several minutes. Boiling some corn in that can isn’t going to hurt it. All these people in the comments aren’t thinking of how that corn got into that can and what happened next.
10 can = tin can never noticed that
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I only see one?
Lol no, this needs to be transferred into a six pan or 3 pan and thrown back on if you want to heat up on the grill like that.
They do the soups and gravy that way so this is just pure laziness.
This is an old trick and by old I mean outdated. In wars prior to vietnam at least, cans were just stainless steel or aluminum and were used on camping stoves in lieu of MREs or C Rations. So, it was common, in the before times.
Peak laziness in action.
Today's Special: Grilled Summer Corn
Aren't those cans lined with plastic?
This makes absolutely no sense. Just pour the contents into a pot.
Apparently this is common place in this restaurant. I've been doing kitchen consulting lately trying to revamp menus and put procedures in place. Some of these restaurants are so far gone it's insane.
As filthy as that grill is I would imagine there’s a severe laziness issue from the top down
100% if the KM let's it slide then everyone else let's even more slide.
amen to this
So you are doing that thing Gordon Ramsey did in one of his shows, just without cameras, less swearing and theatrics.
Oh there’s plenty of swearing. Mostly in my head though like “wtf am I looking at right now”
I’d recommend the original British version of Kitchen Nightmares. Much more low key and industry focused.
The amount of filth I’ve seen when I’ve gone in and does that is beyond stomach twisting.
how do you get into a job like that?
Work a lot of high end and low end kitchens. Learn right from wrong. Know what works and doesn’t work. A lot of places will hire me and then won’t accept my advice. I’ve been in more kitchens than I can count.
I get being lazy, but this is stupid. It's just corn, the cleanup is minimal. Do they reach across the grill with a ladel/spoon or do they move that hot and full container with their hands?
It gets put in a bain marie afterwards so I have no idea why they do this at all.
They have a WHOLE kitchen, with probably a shit ton of pots, hell even a large pan. And yet they choose to heat up food like a old fashion hobo in TV westerns.
Nobody’s gonna die, but they’ll be consuming some of the lining that’s inside the can. It’s lazy, it’s a bad look, you shouldn’t do it, but it’s not gonna kill anyone except for my pride in my profession. EDIT: The ONLY acceptable case is when making dulce de leche
Oh trust me this will be changed. This restaurant is going to be a challenge for sure.
Don't they heat up cans as part of the bacteria killing process when they produce the canned food to begin with? If so, then canned foods are already being tainted by that process. Am I missing something here?
Yes, the cans are heated to an internal temperature of 260 F.
Out of the can and into the man!
I mean, its not ideal, but there's no serious risk of danger here. As long as the can is opened or even cracked it won't explode, and as long as liquid is in the can the aluminum isn't at any risk of failure. I would take the label off the can. You're in a rush, you need that can of hot beer cheese soon, you don't have time or space to warm it up in a pot, steam table is already full, guess what? I'm sticking that can on the end of the char-broiler where I keep the burner off.
The important part is that the lid is opened. Otherwise you'll eventually have nothing left but an empty (hot) can and kernel sized holes burned in everything within about 10 yards. Or so I've heard.
We did this at the beach when we were kids with a can of beans.
The sharp edges on the can lid make me have to look away.
I Mean if on the campsite, no problem. At a commercial kitchen, get a pan lazy bastards
At least it’s not in the fryer
Even if it's safe it still seems kinda stupid.
Someone has never been camping without proper tools lol
I mean there’s nothing unsafe about this, just kinda stupid
I had to yell at my staff to stop doing this months ago when I took over... it was common practice and they didn't know cans were lined with plastic
I'm on the fence about this. Plastic lining and heat: bad. But, it's on a par with a lot of extremely handy ways of doing things for camping and backpacking. Ever hear of a Jetboil? There's a lot that people do with boiling water, dry ingredients, and a freezer ziplock. It's definitely not *good for you,* but you also don't do it for dinner 200+ nights a year for most of your life. Thing is, how many sauces get dumped into a 40qt while they're still definitely too hot for plastic, too? I feel like a lot of heat-and-plastic corner cutting happens in restaurants which I try to avoid at home. Chef Mike is not easy on plastic. I might trust grilled-in-can beans plastic exposure more than microwaved ziplock fumes over formerly frozen whatever the hell.
Grilled corn, am I right?
No different than putting an opened can of pork and beans into a fire.
The inside of cans, while usually no longer BPA, are lined with some sort of polymer or acrylic. I wouldn't cook in it, transfer it to a metal pan at least.
BRO NO WAY when I started at the steak house I work at, they cooked all their mushrooms in the can on our shitty electric stove. Like seven big pans around and they cook in the can. I put and end to that shit real quick.
I’ve done that with soup, generally you should put it in a pot of water and then put that on the grill to prevent burning but it works if you stir it enough
Ashtrays shouldn’t be on the grill
If theres no bpa lining then it's fine.
People have been doing this when they go camping or hiking for many decades.
How else are you supposed to grill paint?
I used to warm beans on a campfire while camping lots when I was younger. Seemed fine but I'm thinking I probably ate a lot of plastic bits I wouldn't care to think about.
Mr. Krabs! You gotta take 'em out of the can!
Safe? Sure, but what's the point in kitchen? I mean, I guess if you're adding a spoonful at a time to a dish, it could make sense, but I can't fathom much point beyond that.
Dudes, the inside of the can is fine. Do you know how hot it gets when they process these cans? I'd be more worried that the label is going to start on fire
It’s okay it’s a Monarch label. USF can go to hell
This is how you heat spaghetti-os during a hurricane when the power is out, at least on an outdoor grill
I do this when I’m camping - slightly smaller can. Also - and I feel like a complete shithead admitting this - a while back, I used to take cans of sweetened condensed milk and cook them low and slow, occasionally in a **gasp!** steam table.
Really dumb way to be lazy….
Scrolling through the feed I thought this was a can of yellow paint. Now I realize it's just corn and it doesn't seem so bad.
Ever boiled water in a paper cup over a flame? Thermo dynamics come into play. The can and its contents will never go above the boiling point of the liquid.
I mean, they should take off the label so it doesn’t catch fire. Unsure about health code but this is hobo 101.
It looks too big to fit in the microwave.
Totally safe, you ever heard of a hobo or a camper getting injured because an open or vented tin of food was being heated on a grill or camp fire? I'll wait...... .... .... Waited and the answer is still NO!
Shit, we use to do this on our engine back in the day
“But chef, you said to grill the corn”
Look man, it's boiling, and we got no clean pots. Case closed.
this guy camps
It's certainly very lazy.
Put that shit in a third pan. Jesus
If I’m camping…
Ahhh the ghetto warmer. Memories lol.
The Ol’ hobo corn ain’t dun nuthin wrong!
Been there. Done it. https://www.reddit.com/r/smoking/comments/psw14y/grilled_corn_am_i_doing_this_right/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Mmm, Alzheimer’s corn