r/KitchenConfidential • u/dreadbadger420 Kitchen Manager • 2d ago

Photo/Video Rate the breakfast cook's "pie"

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For context, this cook has been employed here years and all attempts to teach her anything other than breakfast have gone in one ear and out the other. EC and I have been repeatedly blocked from terming her by admin. šŸ™ƒ

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u/dreadbadger420 Kitchen Manager 2d ago

So, brekkie Cook took raw pie shells... baked them for about 5 minutes in the combi (so still raw) filled them with vanilla pudding mix.... and froze them. She said she thought the filling would stay set. Baby girl.... frozen pudding isn't gonna stay frozen when it aint in the freezer. Secondly, there are INSTRUCTIONS ON THE BAG TO MAKE IT PIE FILLING! When I threw them away, she still didn't understand.

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u/YupNopeWelp 2d ago

Wow. And how? Not one of my kids ever had a kitchen job. Every single one of them can make a basic chocolate cream pie from a standard box of pudding mix. Was it instant pudding or cook & serve?

Is there an ESL issue (perhaps she needs directions translated)? If she's a native English speaker, could there be a reading disorder at work?

The crust is an abomination. Until you explained what she did, I didn't let myself contemplate it.

It's both tragic and infuriating that she wasted the chocolate sauce and the chocolate "fan decorettes" on her plates of slop.

(I'm still trying to wrap my head around someone who has worked in a kitchen for years producing something like this. Even if you accidentally put in the "pudding" amount of milk instead of the "pie" amount of milk, pudding sets if you make it far ahead enough and refrigerate it.)

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u/dreadbadger420 Kitchen Manager 2d ago

Shes native english, American citizen 3rd generation. Shes in college. It was instant pudding that we use for snacks for the assisted living residents.

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u/YupNopeWelp 2d ago

She's in college. My word.

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u/WellOkayMaybe 2d ago

College means literally nothing unless it's a top 50 college. There are a lot of unemployable.college grads from mediocre colleges.

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u/wemustburncarthage 10+ Years 2d ago

top 50 colleges mean nothing. A lot of really common-sense challenged people get into the best schools in the world and leave no wiser.

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u/FLongis 2d ago

Next time someone talks about the merits of a "top 50 college", remember that Dubya has a BA from Yale and an MBA from Harvard.

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u/WellOkayMaybe 2d ago

Seeing a lot of sour grapes stuff here. Dubya became president.

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u/FLongis 2d ago edited 2d ago

And he's a fucking moron. If you think becoming president is an indicator of intelligence, I'd suggest you google who the current POTUS is.

As an aside, I'm not sure where the "sour grapes" bit is coming from. This isn't "I don't like highly-ranked colleges because I couldn't go to one", it's "I don't like this attitude that going to a highly-ranked college makes you an intelligent person". If you doubt that, this may be helpful reading. It's basically the same as saying "All rich people must be smart to make all that money!" with some Greek letters and a few extra football teams thrown in.

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u/wemustburncarthage 10+ Years 2d ago

I went to UBC, where Justin Trudeau also went. No one cares. No one will ever care. In Canada if you ask someone what the top law school is, they'll have to look it up and even then they'll just shrug because it doesn't matter. Either you learned stuff and got the degree or you didn't.

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u/GrunkleCoffee 2d ago

Dubya himself leaned into the identity of an affable moron, constantly forgetting his lines, going on silly non-sequitirs, etc, etc. Either it was a character he played excellently, or it was just him.

He was "the guy you could have a beer with" and that's what won him the vote. He worked real hard to look like a fucking idiot and you ought to respect that.

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u/bird9066 17h ago

Remember him clearing brush in Texas in August? So many Texas ranchers said nobody on a working ranch was doing that shit in the August heat

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u/Sea_Negotiation_1871 15+ Years 1d ago

Too young to remember the hanging chads?

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u/IamHydrogenMike 2d ago

My cousinā€™s husband has his masters degree from MIT, he asked my uncle on time if he was afraid that his contacts would freeze to his eyes when heā€™s outdoors in the winter. Heā€™s dumb as hellā€¦

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u/wemustburncarthage 10+ Years 2d ago

A friend of mine from fencing club went to Stanford and became a fur animator. Then he lost his job when the studio imploded over trying to retouch the assholes out of Cats. Whooo Stanford.

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u/BuckManscape 1d ago

And a lot have had all common sense things done for the their entire life and so have none.

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u/YupNopeWelp 2d ago

Agreed, except I think it would mean she could read instant pudding mix instructions.

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u/doyletyree 2d ago

When youā€™re smart, you donā€™t need to read.

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u/DragonQueenDrago 2d ago

A college kid..... that unfortunately explains alot... especially if she is like any of the college kids i have worked with in the past...

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u/doyletyree 2d ago

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u/Constant-Anything-21 1d ago

For real though +1

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u/prettylittlepastry 10+ Years 2d ago

Man this just makes me sad

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u/exquisite_corpse_wit 2d ago

who watched her plate them after all of that?

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u/dreadbadger420 Kitchen Manager 2d ago

She plated them before the other cookes arrived and stuck em on a speed rack covered in the fridge

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u/exquisite_corpse_wit 2d ago

couldve been saved if built and layered in a coupe or bowl. I understand she's been problematic. But it seems like she may have been given too much rope, if even for a confidence boost.

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u/MLiOne 2d ago

Raw pie dough? Nuh uh.

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u/exquisite_corpse_wit 2d ago

use your brain

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u/Constant-Anything-21 2d ago

Take your own advice m8. Youre about half way to a noose knot hahaha xD

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u/exquisite_corpse_wit 2d ago

gibberish

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u/Constant-Anything-21 1d ago

That's what im saying xD

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u/Remote-Canary-2676 2d ago

Porcelain Pie Iā€™d call it. Looks like semi solid diarrhea strewn over a pissed in toilet.

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u/Constant-Anything-21 1d ago

Probably the most accurate description that I easily could have lived without. +1 and well played xD

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u/Remote-Canary-2676 1d ago

Yellow and dark brown just shouldnā€™t be paired together

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u/Constant-Anything-21 22h ago

Lol agreed. I also truly dislike the yellow/green combo. I just think vomit or flu boogers lol (side glance at Brazil)

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u/Remote-Canary-2676 21m ago

Their flag is a toilet bowl of piss with a swipe of vomit on top and vomit all along the floor lmao

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u/FightingDreamer419 2d ago

I legitimately was wondering how the hell that picture happened lol. That's wild.

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u/JonasBona 2d ago

This gave me a good chuckle

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u/JenninMiami 2d ago

Pudding pie is SO EASY to make. šŸ«£

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u/MLiOne 2d ago

She fucking WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT? And to think our Petty Officer Cook (Navy) lost his shit at the baby Seaman Cook for hiding the ruined sauce for the chicken. Poor kid knew he was in for a reaming but he knew he fucked up.

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u/TheGingerSomm 2d ago

Honestly, the real question is why did you let her make it without your oversight? Iā€™m not defending her, nor trying to dig into you. But why was someone, who should already be fired, allowed to make and plate something thatā€™s not an established recipe?

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u/dreadbadger420 Kitchen Manager 2d ago

She isn't allowed to do it. She has recipes and mixes that are tried and true for the residents. She just won't stick to it. It chaps my ass but beyond continuously writing her up; admin won't let me fire her. I've had 3 opportunities to fire her that made sense, but admin blocks it each time, citing "unemployment." She works 6:30am to 1pm. EC works 7am to 4pm, and I'm 9am to 7pm. She made and plated those before I came in. (Our Sous works opposite days to me). Idk how EC didn't catch it.

Admin put me between a rock and a hard place on how I manage her out.

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u/TheGingerSomm 2d ago

Something sounds fishy with admin and her. Unemployment shouldnā€™t be an issue with firing for cause, but Iā€™m too used to ā€œat willā€ states, so that might not be your situation.

Do you think it would be worth it to try to, say, show her how wrong she did things by showing her the right way? Remake her disaster of pudding pie by holding her hand through each step, whether a traditional custard recipe, or just making box pudding the way it should be? And being gracious throughout? Also, giving her the mental tools to save a disaster, like plating the melted pie as a pudding rather than a pie, might go a long way.

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u/KilnTime 2d ago

Like, you could use instant pudding, which would set very fast, but you would need to specifically buy that. If it's not something that sets on its own, it's going to unmelt when it defrosts. Sigh

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