PrintChefs Dish Kitchen Horror Stories
There may be no more terrifying setting for a horror story than a professional kitchen. Metromix asked nine chefs for their worst kitchen memories, and the answers are pretty blood-curdling: Michael Psilakis watched a line cook dip his hand in boiling oil, while one of Alain Allegretti's passed his entire hand through a meat slicer. The results weren't pretty.
My scariest kitchen moment was, at a young age, watching one cook at a Chinese restaurant chase another through the dining room with a meat cleaver. No blood was shed, but the memory still sends a chill down my spine. What's your worst kitchen memory?
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3 Comments:
Think I've posted this once before but the subject is begging for a repeat:
Stuck my head in a 500 degree oven while I was roasting root vegetables and singed the front of my hair off. Took 9 months for it to grow back (and, no, it didn't come in any thicker, dammit).
bessfour at 12:17PM on 10/21/08
I once burned off a good portion of the skin on my forearm while heating a frozen pizza in the oven while extremely drunk after the Korean v Spain game of the 2002 World Cup. My scar which after years is thankfully almost gone still reminds me of Korea's improbable victory.
I did also, though very, very briefly dip my hand into the fryer at my first "job, job," while working as a young teenager at Wendy's (a long time ago), but the other events I witnessed in the kitchen are probably best untold. If you wanna see some unsanitary horror, go undercover at a kitchen full of disgruntled teens making minimum wage. You may never eat fast food again.
Of course I've worked in other kitchens as well, which were a still pretty gross and that wasn't fast food. Just forget I said anything and enjoy your meals ;)
Young at 12:38PM on 10/21/08
My wife once brought Tofu into our kitchen. I couldn't sleep for days.
ESNY1077 at 1:45PM on 10/21/08