/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>cook for a living
>McDonald's
fucking yikes, dude

>>14667470
It's simple food but the same experience. It's the rhythm of a real kitchen.

>>14667347
>line cook
>McDonalds
kek

>>14667347
>be op
>cook for a living
>for a few years
>in McDonald's
>Mc fucking lovin' it

>>14667509
No. No it's not
You would die your first night in a real kitchen

>>14667590
FAST food means fast pace in the kitchen.

>>14667347
If you aren't trolling, get yourself the fuck out of McDonald's and go stage at the best restaurants in your city/town. If you show some initiative you might get a job out of it, but if not, at least you'll know how good kitchens are run and what to look for when getting a real kitchen job.

>>14667636
Where do you work? Post restaurant.

>>14667347

>>14667509
You'd get raped in a proper kitchen

>>14667784
Where do you work?

>>14667790
A proper restaurant

>>14667792
I doubt it. Post location and prove it.

>>14667820
Post your mcdonald's location first. I want to know if you make a good big mac

>>14667848
You're the one screaming "I'm better than you" but you can't back it up with anything.

>>14667850
Dude you literally just premake hamburgers and keep them in a hothold. It's not proper restaurant cooking. You could argue about preparation but no self respecting chef would do this either.

should I do training to become a line cook? In NYC

Why are you retards taking this obvious bait?

>>14667347
I've worked in food nearly my whole life. Did every position in the biz. Kitchen work is the best especially when it's busy.

>>14667850
Different fag here, do me a kindness, and tell the downy, cross eye nigger spic that builds the BigMacs, to not that fuck up. My cheese was "under" the sandwhich.

>>14667936
Because they're retards.

>>14667347
Been a sous chef at Burger King for about eight years now. Can't imagine doing anything else. Every day is so challenging and fulfilling. I get you bro

>>14667917
hellish conditions, brutal hours, underpaid.

>>14669778
>sous chef at Burger King
kek

yeah, i work in a japanese joint. the crew is great and the work is fulfilling, especially when you push through a busy service. it's just the pay that sucks ass. i could be making twice the amount i make here over in japan FUCK CORONA

I’m a sous chef ask me anything

>>14667623
I legitimately worked with a guy fresh out of McDonald's at a PF Changs, he was fired/quit after a couple weeks

>>14669724
Don't have to. We have business constantly regardless meanwhile the restaurants where all the "real" cooks on /ck/ works are struggling, soon out of business and not even making more money than me. Stay mad.

>>14669859
why do all waiters hate all dishwashers?

This is why home cooking will always mogg industry cucks.

>>14667347
I used to work in a cinema so I'm basically a chef

>>14667347
>mcdonald
same fucking recipe everyday. Put your stuff in a machine that times it for you, and accomplish the extremely intellectually straining task of stacking legos. If the order is late the manager will kick the customer out

Literally the exact opposite of a kitchen. You wouldn't even last as dishwasher lol, not even prep work

>>14667347
see a lot of assholes shitting on op here.
in his defense these chains usually have a near flawless production line and prep method.
just because op isn't calling his prep work "mise en place" or some snobby shit.
i guarantee op has a better sense of timing and pace to crank out tickets than all the culinary school fags itt

>>14667347
I worked at McDonald's when I was 15.

>>14667347
I worked on the line for a restaurant/catering group for awhile. Work is fun but brutal, degeneracy is rampant, pay was low.

>>14671477
Did your coworkers do weed or crack after each shift?

>used to do prep at a ramen place w chinese friends before covid
>i will never smoke a fat joint with my boss after a 13h shift again

>>14671472
>the extremely intellectually straining task of stacking legos
you just described most fine dining executive chefs' tasks in the BoH, a lot don't even do any prep and just show up for dinner service to plate and routinely taste check. some don't even do anything and they just fucking stand there and give a quick glance at the plates before they go out. i wish i was meming.

>>14671473
There's no timing working in any fast food. It's just "hard" enough for dunning krugers to think they're good. Fast Food employs teens and retards because it's so easy

>>14671484
Well that's the usual progression paradox. Lowest level work is barely related to the field, just paperwork. Mid-level is where you're closest to your job, not high enough to get the easy stuff, but high enough to get the interesting work. High level seniors just do management, so more paperwork. Just like how it is in engineering, it's so in cooking.

>>14670797
not him but i've worked both jobs. as a waiter who has to constantly replace tableware it's a pain in the ass if the dishwasher isn't moving fast enough and i don't have any clean glasses or silverware to put out. meaning i basically can't do my job until the dishwasher is done his.

>>14671482
it was a medium sized city, so weed/coke/pills were all pretty common, as was every other stereotype

>>14671495
Fuck off at least you get tips

>>14671477
/thread
working on a kitchen is bad for your physical and mental health and your wallet but it's fun

>>14671499
How much did you take?

>>14671502
Eh physically I'd say it's in a sweet spot. Provides enough exercise from moving full pots and chopping, but not back-breaking like say package sorter at UPS

Pay is shit though. For minimum wage never again.

>>14671500
like i said, i worked both jobs and i identify as BoH.
also where i worked as a dishwasher we got tipped out so get fucked.

>>14671510
being on your feet from 7am to 2am on a weekend is fucking brutal. but at least we can agree the pay is shit.

>>14667347
Why not just work for a smaller burger place?
Its more family like

>>14667347

>>14671491

>>14667850
Both of you are faggots. It's fucking noon and you're sitting on your fucking asses bitching about who is an actual cook. I'm not even halfway done with the rush you fuckboi pansies ^_~

>>14671486
im not saying they are good at cooking because most fast food shit makes it so streamline that the lack of cooking is uncomfortable. and because the cooking is virtually non existent all your focus (as little as that may require) is on consistently churning out orders of fries and burgers, which is definitely more difficult than working the drive thru phone and placing orders.

>>14667347
11 years. 3 pubs and a sports bar. Currently a sous chef at a pub/restaurant doing classic British stuff. Just been offered kitchen manager job at a new place.

im head chef at a ramen restraunt

I'm an assistant manager at an auto zone. I'm basically a sous chef at this point

>>14667347
Chef D'Cuisine at the QuickChek on Route 1, AMA

Also how cringe is all the 'chef life' shit, like it's some secret fucking club? Everyone has stupid busy shifts and gets fucked up after, everyone's seen horrific injuries, everyone pranks each other. Kitchen stories are boring as fuck.

>>14667347
Fuck no. Shit pay, absurd hours, work holidays, no respect, shitty conditions.
I love to cook but the industry is nothing like comfy home cooking

>>14672503
Not all of us are tatted-up drug-addicted lifers. Most are, though. Cardiologist told me this year that this job is literally killing me and that I need to get out as if I didn't know it already.

>>14672525
People who do all that shit and treat 70 hour weeks like it's a badge of honour are just fucking idiots.

>>14672642
True. Nobody really gives a fuck about us and we get so used to it that we end up not giving a fuck about ourselves. There are a few exceptions I've worked at. Few being a key word here.

>>14672431
Imagine bragging about being a cook. Zozzle

>>14667636
>Real job
>In a kitchen
Pick one

>>14667347
Nice bait. Your KM approves

>>14671500
>Dishwashing
>not getting tips

Find a new job lmao.

yeah i worked for two years in a restaurant
pleasant experience and good to think about but i would never recommend it to anyone.

>>14672431
No one's impressed.

>>14671516
Imagine putting up with any place that allows you to do 19 hours shifts, that's retarded.

>>14667347
Line cook at a school cafeteria checking in. It's hard work but I love seeing the kids enjoy their food.

It's done, for today. At least my FOH has a sense of humor. We're gonna load this bitch up and wipe it down. Gonna play some Pokemon go on the way home. It's mega week or something. God, I need a bath.

>>14667347
I have a interview for line cook job tomorrow and only experience I have is cooking at home. How fucked am I?

>>14671472
>Literally
People who use the word "literally" incorrectly all the time do so because they lack the vocabulary to express themselves properly using the correct language.
It must be frustrating being this much of a dunce.

>>14672431
>filename
Are you trying to trick me again?

>>14667347
Used to be a chef rotisseur at a higher class restaurant for a while. Shit hours, shit pay, but kept me doing what I loved, so pretty decent overall.

Nowadays, along with a few mates, I run a sort of crowdfunding platform for commercial real estate, specifically catering to restaurants and bars, with the aim to provide them with a sustainable location where rent won't immediately triple the moment the presence of decent restaurants and bars gentrifies the neighbourhood.

>>14674198
You aren't, unless you lied on your application.

>>14676027
?
I wasn't up to shenanigans, just posting something relevant.

>>14676070
I'll show you , I don't need work experience to get the job I'll charm them

>>14676084
How open minded are you to being friendly with the boss?

>>14673408
yeah its dick when you have to open and close. thats why i dont work in a kitchen anymore

ive done a cake decorators for about 6 months
various fast food from pleb to management for a total of 5 years

now im in a commercial cookery course and should have a job in a kitchen at the end of the year, pending the downfall of humanity

>>14667347
when i was in college i had a job making sandwiches at a deli. fucking loved it, wish i'd stuck with the sandwich life

>>14667636
cringe

>>14673276
>/ck/
>someone has job in kitchen
>"bragging"
kek