r/KitchenConfidential • u/dreadbadger420 Kitchen Manager • 4d 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. 🙃

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u/dreadbadger420 Kitchen Manager 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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 4d ago

She's in college. My word.

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u/WellOkayMaybe 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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 3d ago

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

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u/FLongis 3d ago edited 3d 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 3d 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.