/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Listening to shit with headphones and powerblasting pans is pretty fun desu.

>>12382874
They kept shoving plates into me even after I begged them to stop.
The pay was alright.

Pretty chill, worked at a cafe from about 14-16 as a dishwasher/runner. The cool Asian cook would fry chips for lunch for me for free and I even received tips from customers for my service despite being in Australia

Hellish. Get out while you can. Protip: move up to prep cook in under a year or else.

You have to tell people you're a dishwasher when they ask what you do for work

>>12382874
It was pretty chill when we weren't busy. Pretty shit when we were. Fun summer job I had in highschool.

Its the best job in the entire restaurant. Its dirty but you get over the gross factor after about a week. Sometimes mayonnaise splashes back into your eyes, thats about the worst of it.

Nobody bothers you, youre doing your own thing, you dont have to deal with a bunch of fuckboy linecooks and waiters, except when they bring you dirty dishes, which is annoying.

But seriously its the least stressful job in the restaurant.

My life as a dishwasher and sandwich maker is pretty comfy desu.

Be careful with these fuckers.

>>12382874
3 sink is absolute garbage compared to the machine
you can hand wash and machine sanitize every single thing in the kitchen

It was alright, I got to take home any leftovers at the end of the day and the Chefs were bros who'd make me food whenever they weren't busy.

>>12382874
A co-worker made just the image to describe it.

>>12382953
>We go hard af
>Stoners/alckies in the pit again
>Nah, in reality we just chillin

>>12382980
The majority of the job was just talking about random bullshit, listening to music, and flirting with our boss.

>>12382874
I have worked as a cook in school kitchens. Pic related is a school kitchen. What school is this? You don't have to answer that but at least tell me if it's Europe or if it's America. I put my money on America

>>12383016
It's from Google

>>12383022
OP a faggot like always. Well, when I worked in school kitchens we would rotate for certain things so one person wouldn't always be the dishwasher. Now the cooking would rotate too but only within the respective job. Breakfast cooks would never cook lunch and viseversa but lunch cooks had to help in breakfast and breakfast cook would cut veggies for lunch.

>>12382874
The pay is shit, the job is dirty as hell, but you get left alone as long as you just do your job. It's a job literally built for autists.

>>12382917
>splash water all over yourself when speed cleaning
Good times....

Worked as a dish washer, server, and prep cook at a small tea house. I never did the same job every day.

It was really nice actually. Great food, good tea, good work mates, good work environment, etc. I enjoyed my job, enjoyed helping my coworkers, and enjoyed helping customers. I would go back if I could. Too bad I quit cause I had to go to school, and cause I broke my foot and couldnt walk so I couldn't keep up with the job. The place also went out of business cause not a lot of people went, a true shame since it deserved to succeed, I think.

Honestly I'm afraid of other cook jobs cause I feel like itd be pure hell shit that I don't want to put up with. Is it worth it to get another job as a prep cook or anything like that?

>>12382917
thanks for reminding me 5 years late

>>12382874
I spent a day as a dishwasher for a catering business. Their mexican dishwasher of like years quit and left his pictures of jesus on the wall behind the sink.


It was a literal kitchen full of dirty pots and pans and they said he could do them all in a shift. I busted my ass trying but did not do a great job...i only worked one day and for some reason i never got a check in the mail. I did go to chipotle afterwards and get myself a nice treat.

>>12383065
college or a school?
working for university dining halls is absolute hell with the student employees they bring in

>>12383179
Elementary, middle school and high school. This is where I saw what a sperg actually looks like irl. I mean their behavior not their physical appereance.

work with blacks and you generally can keep to yourself and fuck around when you want. i went out for smoke breaks whenever i wanted. easy chill job, but goes no where.

t. former dennysfag

>>12382953
this makes absolutely no sense at all, nor is it funny in the slightest.

you should leave

>>12382874
Dishwasher at chilis here
its not too bad. most of the time you re left alone to jam and shoot the shit with people who walk by. but if its busy, you get no rest. straight 10-12 hours of the most disgusting, intense work that youve ever done. desu, its good honest work. if it paid more id do it for the rest of my life no problem.

>>12383283
Makes perfect sense if you've been a dishwasher.

>>12382917
spray them out underwater

>>12382874
Solo or with a partner this matters a bit?

>>12382874
The cook asked me if i was stoned then threw plastic tubs at me. 7/10

>>12382874
Made friends with all the cooks so I got some good food on the house.

>>12382917
learn to aim retard

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>>12383386
have been a dishwasher for 4 years but still think its shit mate

>>12382874
comfy when it's not crazy busy but steady, and a shit show when it's a fucked Saturday night. I washed dishes for 4 months and thank fuck I moved my way onto line and further. Good starting point tho and cooks will make you hella good staff meals.

Worst experience, never again. fuck that shit.

Met my wife as a dishwasher at a country club. Didn't know her old man owned the place. First time I told her she looked pretty when she was angry she threw a steak knife at me. We were together for 10 years almost.

>>12383268
Not even trying to be racist, though it absolutely is, but working with lazy fellow employees is amazing if their problems never become yours.

>>12382874
Shit work

getting yelled at by line, being told to wash this first becuse they need it
then getting yelled at by the servers who want more cups and say 'fuck the line' etc
hot, sweaty, smells bad

Pros include*: being stoned at work, free food (and really good food at that), made some good friends

*experience may vary

>>12382874
I know exactly where that picture was taken. Same floor same layout same everything. Who are you OP

>>12382874
Hectic. Easy to get burned or scalded. Managers breathing down your neck. Getting told that five different things need to be the absolute priority and nothing else should get washed first. Always the last out after closing because prep and line will wait until the very last minute to give their shit to dish, and it all has to be cleaned before the lazy fucks in the morning shift come in. Usually cool people, though, and if you get into a groove it isn't the worst. Most of this probably changes depending on location, though.

>>12382874
its awful
but at least i was able to get all the free food i wanted
i will still never understood why they hired a midget before me to become a dishwasher whene he couldn't even reach anything

>>12382953
I dont get it

>>12382887
I hated working with pussies like you. The pots and pans will stop sooner or later. So Just shut up and scrub faster.

>>12382874
It sucks. Imagine how much a chore washing dishes is at home and then think about doing that 30 times in a row.

I'm honestly happy to just have a job. The only time I don't like the work is when I'm not working. Headphones for music while loud machines quick wash trays of dishes making me near deaf, tasty food and get to eat scraps of steak, sausage and onions off the cooking pots, but you would be a disgusting AIDS riddled faggot to eat off customer plates.

The worst part that isn't told in this thread; the back pain. Having to bend over slightly to pick up the plates at the bottom of the sink over and over again really puts a strain on the muscle, and it gets agonizing after a year.

>>12384290
It'll make you look goofy af, but you should try bending from the hips instead of your spine. It takes a lot of stress off your back muscles.

>>12384303
>>12384290
This; you can get golem status as a neet or a formula racer. Just mind your spine.

>>12382917
Spray them upside down

>>12382874
>Be soldier
>Want to give some back to the country I live in and to the people who make up the country
>Put as support in a battalion
>Share a room with a guy who arrived a few weeks before me
>He practically broke his back in the kitchen cleaning duty
>First kitchen duty had to manually wash dishes for a battalion in cold water while it was snowing outside
>Hypothermia
>Continue service, more kitchen duties
>Platoon soldiers get the sense our platoon does the most kitchen cleaning and most guarding shifts
>We list and count shifts over a month or two
>We had the most out of all platoons
>I had the most out of my platoon
>Multiple times called to the base from home for nothing other than a couple guarding shifts

Whenever we were sent to kitchen cleaning duty, we were subjugated to the cooks, who were subhuman neanderthals at best. They felt like big important bosses, and they didn't take "no" for an answer. Cleaning dishes was the worst. I once or twice had to scrub a banged up giant pot's bottom from omelette residue with degreaser. For like a month I couldn't even get near the omelettes served at breakfasts because the smell made me what to puke.
Eventually I made deals with other soldiers on duty so I could avoid cleaning dishes and focus on the dining room cleanup. About halfway through the service I clashed way too hard with the cooks, to the point where they started bullying me. I didn't accept that, cursed them and their mothers, threw chairs around in rage and refused to go back to kitchen duties, commander orders be damned. I got exempted from kitchen duties after talking to a psych, until the rest of my service.

>>12382953
>Mfw i get to play my own tunes and get paid to exercise

It aite

>had this "slow" guy wash dishes at this Outback I used to work at
>Would always have to go back and help because he would be backed up during service and would run out of plates/ramikins
>One time he randomly walked up to me and said "Anon, when is your parent's anniversary?"
I just stared at him and told him they divorced when I was in kindergarten and that was a stupid fucking question to ask anyone.

>>12382953
>>12383283
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>>12383591
Tremors just means it gets shittier the longer you do it? All the good people leave? Michael Gross is still going to die no matter how much we love it?

>>12383890
>10 years
Damn. What happened?

>>12384368
Probably got casted as the weakest caste to be recruited/drafted, to be honest. That does sound like shit work and I would have rapidly become pissed, myself. I might have broken and done something stupid like stabbing the loudmouth.

>>12384235
Not him, but my only pet peeve was chucking in hot pans into the sink without saying anything while I was scrubbing, it was standard procedure to say when because you can fuck your hands touching that shit.

Followed chef's orders otherwise, I knew pans and tools were the priority.

>>12382887
Of all the fucked gore I've seen the non-stop dinner rush dishes might be the thing to fuck me mentally. But easy pay for brainless work.

>>12382874
Your hands will shrivel up like raisins from being wet for so long. They will actually start to hurt after a few hours like that.

I was a linecook that occasionally did dishwashing cause the main dishwasher is a literal deaf brown guy that sometimes goes MIA and obviously cannot answer the phone, hes old too so he doesnt do texting. Shit was pretty chill, although it was pretty stressful cause the restaurant I worked at gets so Goddamn busy where if I dont wash fast enough, the cooks easily run out of plates

>>12384433
We had a retarded guy in his 50s who would wash dishes before I came in. He'd mix bleach in with the water to 'disinfect' everything and I got the shitfuck burned out of my hands after the first couple days of work. Made them pink and shiny.

>>12382874
just quit my first job last month fucking cook janitor dishwasher combo and by the end i was serving it as i was making it.

>>12384447
I don't use gloves when washing dishes, but if I were doing it 8+ hours a day I'm pretty sure I would.

>>12384427
I don't know understand your first sentence, but yeah. I generally did my professional work well without much resistance or complaints. I got recognized as a great soldier by several high ranking officers.
But yeah, I got pissed quite often. The cooks blasted their shitty music in hearing-damaging volume right next to the dishwashing room so they could hear it in the rooms they cook in at the far end of the kitchen. I refused to work as long as they don't reduce the volume. I had quite a few clashes with them. For one, I had a doctor's order to take regular breaks, and the cooks didn't appreciate me sitting around. And it ended up with a bang.

>>12384435
Never minded the customer facing shit (plates, cups, utensils), but the breakdown at the end of the night always sucked.

>>12383952
there is a midget dishwasher at my work who always comes in drunk and/or stoned and is slow as hell
we have been trying to convince him to climb in the lift instead of using the stairs

>>12384426
Meth, probably.

>>12382874
That is a poor design you'll need a left handed dishwasher then. To move the racked dishes into the machine. Should be the other way around.

>>12382874
the shower thing didn't work so i had to wash dishes normally which was gay

>Working at a restaurant ever

For like a month until I got put onto the line. However during the slow weekdays we didn’t have a dedicated dish washer and I’d wash dishes when we weren’t busy

I learned to keep an apron on because of all the splashing back. Also when spraying with the hose there’d be the cup that would launch all the water back at you

>>12385199
You’re on the wrong board fat

>>12382874

I work at a regional Tex-mex restaurant similar to chipotle or does, where you pick your toppings. I roll burritos for the first 5 hours and at then end of the night my coworkers bring me all the dishes. It's super comfy, listen to music, high af blasting serving spoons, the only thing I hated was how my hands felt afterwards and how much food I had to throw out

I had a friend (aged 25) whose first job was washing dishes at his dads restaurant. He quit after 2 days because he said it made his hands hurt. I remember we all made fun of him "nigga just wear some gloves"

>>12382874
Worked in a nursing home kitchen as a dishwasher for 10 months after dropping out of college. First few weeks were hellish. Developed carpal tunnel, developed permanent numbness in my pinky toes and the insides of my big toes. Powered through it and became easily the best dishwasher for PM shift. There was a 2 hour shift overlap. In the 2 hours that the AM dishwasher was still there, all of the breakfast serving dishes, lunch prep dishes and returned breakfast dishes were complete before the AM person even left. I'd give myself 3 hour lunches and just go fuck off while still on the clock because I could. It was pretty fucking based honestly. I'd blast death grips, joy division and the sex pistols in the dish pit while steel wooling literally fucking everything. Comfy memories desu

I'd recommend this job to anyone as a first job. It's fucking hectic. You're constantly moving and covered in sweat.

I'd SERIOUSLY recommend working in a kitchen of an establishment with structured mealtimes, I.E nursing home or something similar. The workload is predictable every day and you can get what you do down to an exact rhythm day in day out. You know what is coming, how much of it, and when it's coming.

>>12383919
Not OP, but this looks exactly like the dish pit in a certain Western WA nursing home that I worked at for a little under a year a few years ago.

>>12385177
I was a left handed dishwasher. Was based.

>>12382917
steel wool the bitch and into the hobart it goes. i don't give a fuck

>>12382874
it entirely depends on the kitchens setup

most places we rotated the duties depending on nights so the more experienced cooks would be dish washing on the slower nights while the ones who cant keep up are dishwashing during the rushes instead of burning shit and pissing off customers

some places everythings by hand and the waitresses are fucking awful shitlordes who just dump the plates covered in food and napkins into the long trough they call a dish pit, clogging the drains and ruing the water

the hobarts that swing down like in your pick are pretty good if they're properly maintained but we had one that some moron slammed down and bent the bar somehow so the one door didnt shut all the way and if you didnt towel it, would shoot water out onto the floor infront of the swing doors where the waiters rush through

support staff as super important and appreciated in any industry, but if you do a bad job, you're hated, if you don't improve quickly, you're gone.

Garbage work, same as any other food service jobs. Quit my overworked underpaid job as a prep cook/dishwasher for a job at kroger working night shift, best decision I ever made. Good pay for basically doing nothing and it's super chill. Not working there anymore but if I ever lose my job for any reason and need to stay afloat quickly that's where I'd go

Currently work the line in a low enough position that I'm one of the people who has to pick up dish shifts at a mcalisters deli

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>>12382899
I skipped dishwasher and went straight to busboy, then prep cook, then waiting, then line cook.
Bussing at a post-bar restaurant that closed at 3am, working, drinking, and getting high until 4am, them partying until dawn were the best parts of my HS life.

All I did was party and get laid.

Even had a (shitty) classic Mustang. You will never know what it was like to grow up before the crushing horror known as modern surveillance society, desu. I mourn for your balls.