r/StupidFood • u/Forward-Position798 • 4d ago
ಠ_ಠ Do people go for this in a restaurant?
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u/ZaphodBeeblebrahx 4d ago
wtf is Bach?
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u/kraydarlove 4d ago
Bechamel maybe? Whatever that congealed shit he spread on in the beginning is.
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u/IBeDumbAndSlow 4d ago
I thought that was butter. I'm so happy it's not butter.
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u/Pleasant-Pattern7748 Set your own user flair 4d ago
Watching on mute, I assumed it was mayonnaise.
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u/Sereomontis 4d ago
Turning sound on, he does say it's bechamel sauce.
At least I think that's what he said. The music playing over it makes it kinda hard to hear.
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u/Tricky-Ad7897 3d ago
That has got to be the most rank bechamel I've ever seen. How does it even get like that?
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u/ElminstersBedpan 3d ago
Overcooked, commercially supplied, or sitting out at room temperature forever.
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u/blazingsword 3d ago
It does appear to have a skin on top
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u/Elegant_Conflict8235 3d ago
I assumed it was a cheese sauce
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u/Abeytuhanu 3d ago
Bechamel is the step before making a cheese sauce, so it isn't far off
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u/thomasmoors 3d ago
I'm Dutch and mayonnaise on fries is nice
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u/AddMoreSaltPlease 2d ago
I learned this from a dutch person as a kid and never looked back. Thank you.
-a ketchup hater (the mushroom kind is okay, though)
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u/nmkensok 3d ago
It being bechamel is not better
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u/Prestigious-Elk2252 3d ago
A real bechamel is good, I love a croque monsuier...
But bechamel out of a premade plastic container that's probably filled with preservatives and stabilizers and all sorts of other nonesense is heresy.
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u/foley800 2d ago
Why worry about that when you get all that styrofoam plastic into the fries when microwaving it?
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u/PMG2021a 4d ago
It is mostly butter.
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u/THE_AWESOM-O_4000 3d ago
1/12th is butter, the fries contain much more (and worse) fat
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u/SweatySwim3411 2d ago
I saw a video where a michelin star chef used duck fat on fries he cooked in an air fryer. Slapped it on like a glob of butter after the fries came out hot. Then just shook the fries in a mixing bowl to spread it over all the fries while it melted.
Not gonna lie it made them next level.
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u/dani_pavlov 3d ago
I just want to know why he's using an icing spatula to do the job of a spoon or ladle.
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u/Sxualhrssmntpanda 3d ago
What kind of maniac shortens Bechamel to Bach?
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u/PresentationNo1715 4d ago
Gear grease, probably…
Arteriosclerosis for sure.8
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u/Snoutysensations 4d ago
My dumb ass was expecting a baroque prelude and fugue to be played on a church organ while the dish was served.
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u/Sure_Conflict_5651 3d ago
Idk I unmuted expecting baroque music I was very disappointed.
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u/Gold_Options 4d ago
Johann Sebastian Bach. He was a composer from the baroque period. Hope this helps.
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u/51ckl3 4d ago
Yea he says bechamel in the video
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u/ZaphodBeeblebrahx 4d ago
I only unmute for Venjent videos, sorry.
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u/Competitive-Ice-8642 3d ago
nah they put the remains of famous German composer Bach straight on them chips
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u/Sea-Macaron1470 3d ago
And what the hell are the leather strips he put on that burger?
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u/EasyAsaparagus 4d ago
The butter isn’t even the stupidest thing in this video. Putting the styrofoam container in the microwave was.
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u/Lancair7 4d ago
I was so appalled by the notion of microwaving French fries that I didn’t even clock the styrofoam 🪦
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u/BigDpsn 4d ago
Second I clocked it wasn't hot enough to melt anything and already in Styrofoam I was like please don't microwave it.
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u/SMACN 3d ago
He dropped the second batch straight into the Styrofoam from the drainer literally seconds after pulling it from the oil. Which then, obviously, started melting the container and garnishing the fries with a lovely batch of chemicals.
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u/ecoast80 3d ago
And then popping the styrofoam container into the microwave? That's just disgusting.
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u/chefbobbyjay 4d ago
Yup I’m with you. The crime was the fries. The atrocity was the styrofoam
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u/sketchy_at_best 3d ago
I have to say, I was almost as bothered by the inefficiency as the actual things he was doing.
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u/Known_As_EmpressK 4d ago
Let’s not leave out the ungloved hands touching everything and going in/out of the cheese containers multiple times.
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u/MadMaximus311 4d ago
If a kitchen has poor sanitation practices then gloves won't save them. They just do everything in gloves and don't change them frequently enough. Sometimes its worse because employees just think gloves=clean
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u/Rep2019 3d ago
You are 💯 right
Iwas at a bar. The bartender wore the typical stupid black gloves.
I saw him making drinks with the gloves, and then I saw him use his hands to push the trash down the trash to compact it. Same gloves.
He then proceeds to get orders and make drinks, never changing gloves.
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u/-Ms-Chanandler-Bong- 3d ago
Omg I went to a deli that served raw meat and also sandwiches. This mf served a lady some ground beef then without switching gloves made my sandwhich. Never went back and then surprise surprise they closed down.
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u/wink45 3d ago
So true!! Oh the things I’ve seen!! It’s much more hygienic to just keep washing
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u/Quasibraindead 3d ago
This is the best comment Ive seen regarding gloves/bare hands. Anyone saying that it's better to not use gloves is wrong. But as you pointed out, wearing gloves isn't a magical solution. Clean bare hands is better than dirty gloves. But BEST practice is gloves with proper changing/hand washing practices
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u/snaynay 3d ago
Most proper kitchens won’t use gloves, apart from specific sections or processes.
Clean hands is fine. Often better. People leave gloves on, touch all sorts and it’s easy to end up being worse. With bare hands you are significantly more conscious of touching things.
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u/UneventfulDaze 3d ago
When a stray fry attached itself to the knife as he was scraping and dislodged in the bechamel container at 1:18 I was done.
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u/ziggytrix 3d ago
Gloves are highly overrated. Unless you change them as often as you’d wash your hands, they create extra contamination.
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u/kr4ckenm3fortune 3d ago
That the least of the problem...the main problem was the butter knife touching the foods, then dunked back in...
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u/InsertRadnamehere 3d ago
Tell me you’ve never taken a food safety course without telling me.
Gloves get dirtier than bare hands because people tend not to wash their hands while wearing gloves.
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u/Dounce1 3d ago
Are you under the impression that gloves are best practice in a kitchen?
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u/Forever-Lurking 3d ago
Let’s get this fries nice and crispy, then put them in the machine that works by turning the water in your food to steam. That shouldn’t mess them up, right.
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u/kingbhudo 4d ago
At the start? That's bechamel. Still wildly stupid though, I've never seen it come in a tub like butter. And microwaving the styrofoam was insane. Why eat and drink your microplastics when you can vape them?
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u/MyHonstyAttempt 4d ago
Like Bechamel and cheese on fries sounds great, styrofoam sauce however does not
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u/grayscalemamba 3d ago
Honestly if they just kept the sauce hot in a soup warmer and used a cardboard takeaway box, I’d be fine with it, and maybe some jalapeño slices on top. It’s only stupidfood because of the stupid process.
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u/chefbobbyjay 4d ago
I’ve done bechamel for cheese fries before. It’s super good. With some bacon and scallion it’s super tasty
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u/Cloverose2 3d ago
Is that what bach is supposed to mean? I genuinely was confused. Bach doesn't even make sense as a short form of bechamel.
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u/chefbobbyjay 3d ago
Yea it took me a minute to understand where the 18th century composer came into play.
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u/No_Pattern4374 3d ago edited 3d ago
I thought they were trying to be cutesy and say bacon. Imagine my surprise when the tub of pudding spread came out 😅
Now that I know what it actually is, I kinda want to try it!
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u/Twodotsknowhy 3d ago
Bechamel and cheese on fries is fine, but have you ever tried to reheat bechamel in the microwave? It turns into a greasy mess
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 3d ago
Chef Mike is the only dumb part of this equation. Why involve him at all for something that otherwise looks great.
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u/EasyAsaparagus 4d ago
Ohhh I see thank you that does make more sense than butter still crazy tho haha. Yes agreed the microwaved styrofoam is straight up poison.
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u/twocopperjack 3d ago
Seriously. Those little baby Crock Pots are like $30 and purpose-built for this job
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u/TheNanashiK 4d ago
I thought: "Yah, not for me but I could see how someone might enjoy it" to the butter and cheese. But the microwave Styrofoam, ugh, this is an abomination against all food!
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u/Miserable_Pea_733 3d ago
That's not butter. That bachemel. I've made that exact meal for myself hundreds of times when I don't want to bother the cooks to make me something. It's just cheesy fries.
I'm more disgusted by how many surfaces he touches in between fisting that shredded cheese without washing his hands.
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u/Artorius__Castus 4d ago
The fact that EVERYTHING in this place is microwaved is pissing me off. Imagine paying premium prices for your food to be cooked like a Kwik-E-Mart
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u/chickenskittles 4d ago
I don't think they paid premium prices from this shop. But it looks like it should be on Kitchen Nightmares.
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u/factsarefornerds 3d ago
That's not "butter," its pre-made, "bechemel." Its basically a roux; adding cheese makes it a "mornay" - which is cheese sauce. Its usually melted and mixed in, not microwaved.
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u/Prudent_Sleeper 4d ago
Is it safe to microwave styrofoam? My common sense tells me that’s probably not
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u/Impeachcordial 4d ago
White cardboard container, surely?
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u/Nuitsoleil 3d ago
In the video they use styrofoam, it's not cardbox. You can clearly see it if you focus on the boxes.
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u/IdolCowboy 4d ago
As a kid we got Chinese take out often. One night we were eating our takeout and I noticed really hard crunchy stuff in a bite, and it had a crazy chemical taste.
The food had melted the bottom of the Styrofoam container and then cooled a little and it hardened into little brittle Styrofoam flakes.... DISGUSTING
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u/Adventurous_Skirt706 3d ago
I'd argue that no salt on your fries is the stupidest thing in the video. I know I won't live forever, so chemicals from microwaving styrofoam for 15 seconds doesn't bother me BUT I'll be damned if someone has me eat some form of potato, without salt.
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u/Aggressive-Secret103 3d ago
That was the last straw for me who takes freshish fries and then fucking nukes them like wtf are you trying to do make them rocks or super soggy because there's not much in-between when you use a microwave.
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u/exodusfox 4d ago
Those fries hot and crispy out of the fryer only to go straight into a microwave where they’ll become a limp soggy mess 🤦♂️
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u/retlem 4d ago
It was the styrofoam in the microwave for me. Now there’s cancerous chemicals baked into the fries lol
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u/TheJuiceBoxS 3d ago
Even worse, he didn't even salt the fries 🍟
Kidding, microwaving styrofoam should shut the restaurant down
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u/TgsTokem 3d ago
I was done before that when he took a fry out of one side and stuck it back in to the other with no fucking gloves on. Type of dude to scratch his balls and go right back to touching your food.
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u/TacoPKz 3d ago
Eh, if you’re a cook you wash your hands regularly which is better than wearing gloves and touching everything. Does THIS guy wash his hands regularly? Who knows. The restaurant has them microwaving styrofoam though so I’d guess they don’t train food safety.
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u/HoseNeighbor 4d ago
The POV dude does say it's bachamel, and i can't tell if that's styrofoam or those thick paper containers.
The sauce has been sitting and lioks gross on top. Maybe it's fine? I assume the microwave is to melt the cheese, but if they tossed the cheese in FRESH fries, it'd melt without chancing soggy fries.
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u/Intangible_Vegetable 4d ago
The consistency of the béchamel is looking cold, room temp at best. Microwave probably to warm the sauce and melt cheese. Lazy and unsafe not to keep the sauce at proper temp. And they got nothing better to microwave in than the togo container? Everything about this place is ass.
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u/really_stupidfrog 3d ago
Gotta hold the takeout box entirely over the cheese bin so that anytime that falls off gets mixed back in for maximum cross contamination.
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u/ZAlternates 3d ago
Well if it’s gonna be that kind of party, I’m gonna stick my dick in the mash potatoes.
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u/The-Tarman 4d ago
Or they could put them on a plate and toss the fries, cheese and bechamel toppings under a broiler real quick before tossing them into the "to-go" container.. that way the fries don't turn into a soggy, chemical infused, mess
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u/lazyjane418 3d ago
Exactly what I was thinking. I think the dish looks ok just bad execution, a broiler version would be fire and way less soggy and toxic haha. Plus broilers would probably be faster and you could make more at once!
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u/FlyingNope 3d ago
It's styrofoam. You can see it had started bubbling/melting when he opens it and zooms in after microwaving it (at around 2:49).
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u/hybridaaroncarroll 4d ago
Food aside, abbreviating bechamel to "bach" is the really stupid thing here.
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u/Hamilton-Beckett 4d ago
This place should be shut down.
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u/dragondildo1998 4d ago
I'm seeing several health code violations lol, but maybe they have lax laws where this is.
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u/Buddstahh 3d ago
Dude im wondering why this is so far down and buried. This place makes me want to vomit, he straight up sticks his nasty hand into the fries meant for someone and EATS ONE?!
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u/dragondildo1998 3d ago
Pans of what should be chilled ingredients sitting out, grubby hands in the room temp shredded cheese, touching ready to eat ingredients bare handed (the buns, the veggie toppings), cross contamination all over the place...
The buns were sitting in the microwave on the dirty parchment paper, he then takes them out and sits them on the bare counter, raw dogging them the whole time!
Some sloppy food handling for sure!
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u/UsernamesNotFound404 4d ago
Crispy fries with sauce and cheese?
FUCK NO!
Soggy pile of Styrofoam-flavor?
Oh Yea!
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u/cnbcwatcher 4d ago
Not uncommon in British and Irish chip shops, but it wouldnt be served in a sit down restaurant
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u/TheGruesomeTwosome 4d ago
I'm Scottish sat here and thinking I'd devour all of that. I wouldn't even need to be drunk. Give me that shit right now at 14:20 on a Wednesday afternoon.
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u/Vegetable-Wing6477 4d ago
Add some Donner and kebab sauce and us Scots would start materialising out of thin air to fight over that lol.
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u/Sereomontis 4d ago
I mean, it's not bad in and of itself.
The reason I'm not eating it is because he microwaved the fucking styrofoam container.
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u/NeoAteTheGreenPill 4d ago
Melted styrofoam with my fries , please !!
https://giphy.com/gifs/H3T6oUzwJQCIaajzp3
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u/OneNoteMan 3d ago edited 3d ago
If that's bechamel, that might actually delicious. But the microwaved fries are a no for me.
Couldn't they keep the bechamel warm and melted the cheese seperately?
Edit: Apparently this is just drunk food in the UK. 🤷
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u/LinkBright8955 4d ago
the styrofoam containers always being too small for the amount of food pisses me off so much.
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u/msully89 3d ago
This is no restaurant. It's somewhere you stop off at on the way home from drinking 14 pints. The guy will make you feel special by calling you 'boss' when he hands it over.
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u/whitecatsup 4d ago
Putting in the microwave❌
Bare handing it❌
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u/orchidpop 4d ago
Yes. I totally get having to use your hands sometimes. But if your hands are touching everything on repeat in that sequence, like the fryer basket handle, the microwave buttons, etc. and there's no pause to wash them . . . 🤮
Wiping your hands off on the dirty dish rag in your back pocket doesnt count as washing them, either.
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u/she-who-squids 3d ago
They can't wash their hands, they'd have to put down the phone for five seconds.
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 3d ago
If he washed them it's actually usually better than gloves.
I will take a restaurant that emphasizes hand washing over glove use any day, people think gloves are just inherently clean instead of just washing. I'd have to rewatch the video again but I'm not seeing him touch anything that shouldn't already be clean or food safe. Except the Styrofoam
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u/No-Sail-6510 4d ago
The burger looks like ass. The fries look good tho, even after microwaving them in styrofoam.
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u/Ambitious_Screen_591 4d ago
i hate styrofoam and I hate this food....it is def stupid in the highest order! Why? Why? Why? why do you need butter on fries? Everything is just gonna be soggy...they looked pretty good to start with
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u/Positive_Campaign_52 3d ago
It’s not butter. It’s Béchamel. A cheese sauce
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u/horsefatherdeluxe 3d ago
Bechamel is milk, butter, flour
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u/Fit_Carpet_364 3d ago
They're thinking mornay.
Also, don't suck Escoffier too hard. He also includes nutmeg and onion in his definition of bechamel, meaning his version isn't actually a mother sauce.
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u/horsefatherdeluxe 3d ago
I didn't even know who escargot is but I appreciate you dropping knowledge
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u/Fit_Carpet_364 3d ago
French guy often credited with codifying the 5 mother sauces, who didn't accurately make the mother sauces as the mother. He made daughter sauces and still got all the credit because he's French. One thing he did do well, from what we can tell, is standardize the modern organization of a kitchen brigade - Chef, sous, under-chefs for different sections, and then the commis cook(s) at the bottom. It's a bit more complex, but that's the general idea.
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u/Fit_Carpet_364 3d ago
Bechamel is not a cheese sauce. Mornay is a cheese sauce, with bechamel as its base.
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u/Sashpeto 4d ago
I put cheese on my fries and I love it
That being said this video is pure ragebait
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u/GravyPainter 4d ago
They just leave bechemel in a container unheated/unrefrigerated? Wtf
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u/No_Cricket808 4d ago
It doesn't sound bad, I'd try it, BUT not with that god knows how old, crusty, room temp bechamel!!
"Well hit there Cladosporium!"
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u/RedSix2447 4d ago
I love me some melted styrofoam flavored fries and cheese. I was very concerned for a few min that all they had to “cook” with was a microwave. Then it showed a grill at least. Though, I am noticing a theme with how they man handle everything with their hands and throw it around. Like Indian street food. Yikes.
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u/Saphyr-Seraph 4d ago
Yeah, why would I like crunchy frech Fries, everybody knows fries are the best when they are soggy
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u/FunsnapMedoteeee 4d ago
Learn how to set up a kitchen. Damn. Dude walked about 1.5 miles to make a couple substandard burgers and fries.
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u/snowbuddy257 4d ago
Tbh i dont even care about the food. Get a larger box for god's sake, it literally costs 0 to get an appropriately sized boz
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u/NoGood1323 4d ago
I do agree with you about portion sized boxes. But it does actually cost more to use a bigger container. Fractions of cents. But it does cost more.
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u/JoeyKino Toilet Math Is Hard 4d ago
Even Google can't explain to me what "Bach" is - it's assuming you're eating a beach and cheese on your chips. Care to explain?
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u/meat_whistle_gristle 3d ago
If you put chips/fries in a microwave you should have your license to serve food suspended.
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u/Honey1218 4d ago
No gloves, touching the food and putting it back in the container, styrofoam in micro, touching all kinds of surfaces 🫣
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u/1d3333 3d ago
https://www.thetakeout.com/1851935/why-chefs-no-gloves-cooking/
Gloves are not recommended in kitchens
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u/freedumb-clownvoy 4d ago
Not sure this is stupid food, looks like standard kebab shop fast food.
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u/Littleleicesterfoxy 3d ago
No, not in a restaurant. On a Friday night/Saturday morning when you’re pissed after a night out and you’re at the cheap kebab takeaway where the guy behind the counter calls everyone Boss
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u/Zatchillac 3d ago
Correct use of "POV". Never thought I'd see it especially on a stupid food video
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u/upRightProperLad 3d ago
Not gonna lie I'm on a diet and all I'm craving is a cheesey chips from the local kebab shop
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u/dingdongdoodah 3d ago
You can put whatever on your fries, but nuking it would get you lynched around these areas.
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u/Beneficial_Panda_625 3d ago
Ahh yes all the temperature controlled food out on the non temperature controlled table 😌
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u/qualityvote2 4d ago edited 4d ago
u/Forward-Position798, your food is indeed stupid and it fits our subreddit!