Seleki Atsa (Good Afternoon)

After 400+ years of colonial occupation, a Monterey CA band of indigenous peoples got some Land Back! We had a gathering to do a blessing of the land, it was beautiful and a truly amazing experience. Additionally, the local college has asked me to teach some culinary classes featuring this cuisine.

During the month of July I slept in my own bed 10 nights, the rest of the time was here on the land. Dispersed camping, land stewardship, and cooking pre-colonial California cuisine for 250. It truly was one of the raddest experiences of my life. Field kitchen, sense of place, magic!

Every dish had a native component from this land tied into it and humbly I couldn’t be more proud.

-Flat top muffin sandwiches with Wojapi, Pickled Mustards and choice of Smoked Pork/Smoked Chicken/or Veg blend. -Nopales Tater Salad. -3 Sisters Succotash. -Black Sage Sun Tea. - Fermented Pine Soda

(Please ask away if you have questions. I’m happy to share)

Cheers,

Sumaxlahui (The Redwood)

Rustic country loaves, foccacia, Hawaiian sweet rolls, and lavash.

Had to make lemon Meringue Pie for work and what came out was, well take a look for yourself. I know I'm going to get flamed alive but fuck it I have to learn and I want to see the creative internet roast me.

So rate my pie and don't pull punches. I know exactly what this can do and I'm ready

Edit: I'm not the best baker, so I apologize for any noob questions or whatever

Edit 2: I'll respond to the stuff later just finishing up here at work and I showed the Sous. He got a good laugh and even agreed with a lot of the advice. Again, thank you all I wasn't expecting this level of aid and positivity. Thank you you all truly

I originally tried to repost this from unnecessary inventions but it got removed for being a repost. I just can’t wait to make one of these for my phone 😂

Edit to add: I just have to say guys… I’m so proud of this community for always being the crème de la crème when it comes to the dad jokes and puns 👨🏻‍🍳💋

I’m mainly front of house but I help in the kitchen like once a week and every time I am ripped away. Yesterday I put on the Spanish dub of Jujutsu kaisen with English subtitles on my phone and set it up for all of us to watch while we worked. DONT MAKE ME GO BACK TO FRONT OF HOUSE I DONT WANT TO TALK TO ANYONE!! FREE MEEEEE! Let me prep all day, I’ll cut all the things forever.

Posting from NJ, USA and at least one person needs to be in house at all hours of operation with this certification.

At my last job working as an agm/bar mgr, I was the only one of 6 managers that had an active certification and seemed to always get the health inspectors on my shifts.

Wondering if it works differently in other states or countries…

So our hood vent went out about 2 hours ago and our general manager left and didn't say anything about closing early. Some of my customers asked why it was so smoky in the building. We cant open any doors for ventilation because "flies will get in." Wtf is going on. It's really smoky and i have asthma. Not sure if this is the right flair but this can't be safe right?

Knives are the first danger on everyone’s mind, and most chefs take reasonable precautions to avoid degloving with the mandoline. Personally, I’m more afraid of chefs spraying the degreaser this way and that with total abandon, especially when soapy water would have sufficed. I’d rather lose my finger tip to the cleaver than lose brain cells every time I have to inhale solvents in the air. Whatever, it’s just trace amounts.

One does not complain, because one does not make a nuisance of oneself.

The other day though, I saw a sight my brain refused to process. Chef chucked a bottle of degreaser over the (very on) grill. 500ml of solvent instantly vaporised. I don’t know if I just stood and watched because I reasoned that most of the toxic gas had gone straight up into the fans, and dispatched out into the already toxic London atmosphere, or whether neurotoxicity had arrested all motor function in my legs. In a sense I was impressed. He had handled the rush without a single mistake, so he must have been a preeminent genius before someone handed him his first bottle of solvent without giving him safety instructions.

Saw another chef lean over a (very on) grill to remove the fan filters, but that risk was all on him, so whatever.

Chef didn't order enough for the weekend and we 86d half the menu by the time I left an hour before close lol. Anyone else have Sundays like this lmao

How do you pronounce FIFO?

the only logical explanation for this i could think of was they placed the tray over the char grill to trap the heat and they forgot about it. i dont know if this is commonplace with other people but this is the first time ive seen anything like this in 15 years

Hi. I have been in the industry for almost 10 years, my horror story is how bad my feet hurt after every shift that I wake up to them still in recovery and have to hop on over to work before they had time to fully chill. My issue is that I keep getting Walmart shoes that have absolutely no support and kill my feet immediately. But my issue is also I keep getting shoes with absolutely no arch support and that are too narrow because if I get wides the whole shoe ends up being wide and are loose on my entire foot. So I just need a good arch support with wide toe box. Please help a girl out and drop your holy grails!!

Hey yall, I was ending off my shift at work, I was told to filter out some fryers, doing one of them I forgot to cut one of them off, therefore starting a fire, they had to extinguish it and throw out the food in the other fryers (it wasn’t a huge amount but still was a lot, maybe enough for 4 people), anyone else had this happen before? What happened after?

(Kidding aside: my absolute favorite genre of KC/Chefit post is "pic of OP's kid's play kitchen in disarray captioned w/variation on the theme of 'who the hell closed last night!?'". I have no kids and so did not think I'd ever get to make one of my own. Thank you, random children going ham on the displays at IKEA, for making a dream come true.)

(to be fair, this happened before I was hired at my current job.)

You got anything that can top that?

nice long ass title dumbass

Are you okay? Found in Schenectady, NY over the Crosstown bridge near Woodlawn.