Hey /ck/
I'm the "manager" at a podunk pizza parlor. I've been working on fixing some of the prep and cooking methods. I need help with the pasta.
We cook off a few lbs of ziti and spaghetti at a time and then freeze it in portions and thaw to order. The pasta has never been very good. In the past cooks have never used salt because of the increased boiling time (read on), and so our pasta was bland. Also we have had trouble with it being overcooked and coming out mushy
In the past we've only had a single burner butane camping stove for sauteeing. It would take 2 fukken hours for the water to boil so the "chef" would almost always get impatient and just dump the noodles in before it actually boiled.
That little camping stove got worn out and to make things work for the night the owner went to Walmart and got this electric burner not realizing that it's only meant to be used for boiling water (we sautee on the camping stove too). Since then we have replaced the camping stove with a new one that cooks way faster. I've been using the electric one because it doesn't use up the butane, and the added benefit that if I get an order that requires sauteeing I don't have to take the water off. Problem is it is so slow. It still takes about 2 hours for it to bring water to a boil and then when I add the pasta there's no chance in hell for it to be brought back to a boil. I've made a couple batches with this, the last one didn't come out mushy but it still just seemed subpar
I haven't had a chance to try it on the new camping stove. That thing does cook a lot hotter than the old one so maybe it will be worth a shot. I'm thinking of using the electric one just to simmer our marinara all day without using up all our butane. Looking for any tips with this problem with boiling.
Furthermore, I'm posting this thread because I work 80+ hours a week in this pizza parlor and this is basically where I learned and am still learning to cook so all I can do is keep trying different stuff and seeing what works, with whatever I can pick up on google or from asking people more experienced than me. I work with a bunch of plebs who don't give a fuck. Takes forever to drill shit into their head like, for example, cramming a ton of wings into the fryer and letting them sit there in one basket means they don't cook evenly. Or that, since we use frozen bread for subs, giving the bread a quick toast (even if they don't want a hot sub) is crucial because the bread isn't fresh. It's a long and grueling process to try to shape the place up but it seems it is something I have to go through to pay for years of sin. Point is, I don't have tons of culinary experience and it's a long story of how I came to be called "manager" but what is certain is I work really hard and I give a fuck. So any pointers are appreciated.
>>8461602
When I managed a podunk pizza place we had something like pic related. We got it used for around a hundred dollars. Hang in there, I'm in management now and that door was opened and I got the job because of my restaurant management experience. Managing people is managing people.
>tl;dr
>preheating the oven for a frozen pizza
i put the pizza in and then turn the oven on
>>8461477
>then turn the oven on
reported for hate speech
>>8461477
Go back to /pol/ you nazi loving fuck
First off I can't cook and I don't pretend to know how. I went to supercook and looked if I had enough ingredients to make a cake or something. I found a cake recipe and it was basically 1 cup of sugar, 2 cups of flour, milk, eggs etc. It said to preheat oven to 180 degrees and put it in oven for 30 minutes. I put it in the oven and nothing happens. I left it in for another 15 minutes and still looked wet. I went back online to look at the recipe again and it was 180 degrees Celsius, not Fahrenheit. Who makes a recipe using oounces and cups but then uses Celsius? Now I have sugary Hardtack.
Lol I'm surprised your oven even goes to 180 degrees Farenheit. Mine bottoms out at 250.
>>8461383
go back to wherever you came from
>>8461391
Normally when I turn it on it defaults to 350 degrees. Seemed like I was pushing the down arrow for a couple of minutes. Then the preheat bell went off in about 2 minutes
Why can't Mexicans handle spicy food?
The truth is, we Mexicans can't handle spicy food. We can only handle oily, greasy, meaty food that tastes like dirt.
The reason why we add onions and cilantro to our tacos is because we wanna make our meals slightly more refined and vegetable-y.
>>8461210
seriously OP. i never really knew any mexican people too well until i started at my current job.
>make some homemade salsa
>make a super mild batch
>the two hispanic women i work with say it's too spicy and can't handle it
>their noses were running and they had to drink a bunch of water
>mfw i normally add a shit ton of habaneros after running them through the food processor
Do you hate the environment and eat food by your local, greedy and lazy (uses tractors to plow instead of doing it by hand unlike Africans) farmer?
>>8461136
All I give a shit about is taste and freshness. The environment can burn for all I care. I don't have that many more years left in me.
>>8461136
What sorcery do the Kiwis use that reduces their agricultural carbon footprint?
>>8461149
UK's growing season is probably terrible due to long cold winters.
They probably need to spend considerable amounts of energy heating and maintaining greenhouses to extend the grow season.
I make some decent coin, and I never shop at walmart, but just for shits and giggles I went there to see how the other side does things. I found this can for 80 cents. Bought it on a lark, heated it up and made it for my 2 kids. They loved it. Why do people say you can live on $8/hr? You clearly can, if you shop at Walmart. Anywho, thought you guys would appreciate my perspective. I'm off to nobu for a late dinner, cheers mates.
yeah tinned ravioli is delicious it's tomato and sugar.
>>8461115
wow ur so rich dude im jelous
>>8461164
just work hard, you'll get there.
never stop never stopping.
Got a package of chicken thighs, what should I do with them?
>>8460748
Is this a trick question?
>>8460754
Nah man, too many choices and I can't pick one because one doesn't come to mind.
put in curry or something like that
Why would people drink cold tea?
Well, I drink it because it's a fuck of a lot more refreshing than hot tea when you've been running machinery in an un-air conditioned workshop in the middle of the Texas summer.
I enjoy hot tea when the weather is cold.
>>8460693
Drink water then retard. It's literally the sugar you are tasting. Cold tea is bitter.
>>8460698
I don't put sugar in my tea.
Did you ever drive by some roadkill, took it home and cooked it? Times can be hard for anyone, we just have to remember the Mailard rules (any meat can be good or at least edible
usually only if I hit it or if I saw someone hit it. I'm not just going to leave a nice deer carcass on the road
You really should have been here for the thread where a guy brought home a dead deer and cleaned it in his tub. True classi/ck/
I have always wanted to cook roadkill. Making 'inedible' food edible intrigues me.
just tried this for the first time and wtf?
do americans actually eat this or is it another meme joke like 'go 'za?
rating: FUCKING DISGUSTING!
>>8460424
one of those things that's way better if home made
>>8460424
What'd you get? Jack Links?
>>8460424
turkey jerky is fucking delicious tho
>he buys onions more then once
WHT?
If you leave them in your refrigerator long enough they regenerate
I can not imagine how long you need to leave an onion in a cold fridge for it to sprout.
>>8460254
I cleaned out my fridge the only day and found a black mass in the crisper drawer which I assumed was an onion
>>8460254
They are less than $0.50 though
Do Americans really eat all this pizza in one meal
>>8458506
>hawaiian pizza
Fuck you and everyone else who enjoys that god forsaken abomination.
>>8458506
Do Europeans really have this much obsession over one country?
>do americans really
>read a recipe from Britain
>calls for sliced green chilies
What the fuck does that mean? I have like 4-5 different green chilies at my market. Any britbongs want to clarify for me before I make something bland or burn my tongue off?
>>8457429
I don't know what the Arabs meant but poblano is a good mild green chili with a little heat and serano is good if you want more heat but not overpoweringly hot
>>8457453
thanks for nothing namefag
i beleive it refers to the kind in the can
ITT: foods only kids are allowed to eat. i'll start
>curly fries
shit bait
try harder
Scotch
>>8457369
this is an adult site
Gonna make some pulled pork later this week, probably going to eat burgers mostly
Anyway, what kind of sauce should I make for it? Was thinking of vinegar based but I'm down for any ideas. And I guess on that note, ideas what to add to the burgers, usually I just have coleslaw, pork and the sauce. Or pulled pork ideas in general.
Usually I have made tomato based sauces but I'm kinda bored with the usual sauce I make.
>>8457324
Wish I could smoke the butt
1/8 teaspoon of parsley flakes
1/8 teaspoon of celery salt
1/4 teaspoon of garlic salt
1/4 teaspoon of onion salt
1/4 teaspoon of dry mustard
1 teaspoon of brown sugar
1 tablespoon of corn syrup
1/2 teaspoon of flavored liquid natural Hickory Smoke
1 teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce
6 1/2 teaspoons of tomatoes paste
1/2 tablespoon of apples cider vinegar
1/4 teaspoon of sauce "Kitchen Bouquet"
1/4 teaspoon of honey
1 c. tablespoon of molasse
>>8457407
this will literally make you cut a hole in your pants due to ejaculation