Stuff I didn't know about restaurants until recently

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I am very old, but I only learned this year that hotel buffet scrambled eggs are usually made from powdered egg. That explains why they are a uniform colour. Scrambled eggs made from scratch have yellow and white bits.

On the plus side, I also learned recently that the chicken (or at least the "Original Recipe" pieces) at KFC is made from scratch in the shop every day from fresh chicken pieces, flour, and herbs'n'spices. I had imagined it was all done in a factory somewhere and then cooked from frozen.

What are some other bits of restaurant knowledge that surprised you?

It's just a bit of cooking chat. It's a thread about restaurants and Bourdain knew a lot about them.

PC Nonsense?
This is about someone’s choice to live or die without judgement

It's actually supposed to be a thread about what you didn't know about restaurants! 🤷🏼‍♀️

@FanofLeaves I also have a meal like that! Stuffed goose neck. That was in Krakow in 2006. Never seen it anywhere else and I know I'd never get it to taste like it did, even if I could source the ingredients! It was absolutely beautiful!

Not on this thread, it isn’t. I don’t like how it’s been hijaked because of malapropism. It was a very interesting chat about catering and restaurants before that.

Try it with a bit of finely diced cucumber and guava if you can get one.

To make garlic dip, crush one bulb of garlic, stick it in a bowl and add a 50/50 mmix of mayo and Greek style yoghurt.

I was enjoying this thread so much until it got side-tracked by one-upping and huffing.
But… on the suicide question, most news organisations no longer say someone “committed” suicide, because it implies illegality and is unnecessarily judgmental. We tend to say they took their own life or killed themself.

I have a great dislike of cucumber unfortunately so do both my children, it takes like face mask to me 🤣

When did you eat a face mask?

You sound like a complete snob. That was very patronising.

i was being patronising in response to the very unpleasant patronising way the pp responded to me

its not true that hotel buffets use powdered egg. I used to work in a hotel kitchen and we used “wet egg” which is just a big bag of pre cracked eggs. It’s scrambled on a big hot plate. This is very commonly used in catering

Why not?
isn’t that the verb? To commit suicide?

I don’t think she was.
Your insistence that vegetables left out for God knows how long, are then fine to be used to make soup for paying customers the next day, did not shine a very good light on you.

"did not shine a very good light on you"
lol. Sounds like a serious moral judgement rather than an opinion on veg!!

No, it was the way you were insistent that it was fine and that chefs breathed and you’d been in all these top restaurants.
“shine a light” was just an expression. What I wanted to say was quite different.

I need to know how to make the maccies eggs. I love them. I'm a bit funny with runny yolk and love a mc muffin

I like my eggs runny but not in my home-made McMuffins, otherwise you end up with what in the British Army is called an "egg banjo". So I crack the eggs into well-creased egg rings and after a minute I break the yolk. Then when the white is mostly set I take the ring off, flip the egg, and give it another 30 seconds. That way I get a soft-ish but not runny yolk.

You can get egg rings from Amazon for a few quid and the taller ones are also great for making crumpets, which are very easy to do (basically a pancake batter with yeast and no egg).

’commit’ in this context does refer to criminality - taking your own life used to be a criminal offence (with surviving family made to feel enormous shame that the deceased had committed a criminal act). It is now de-criminalised (and has been for some time) with the preferred, accepted phrase just ‘suicide’ or ‘died/ death by suicide’.
It’s never been about ‘commit’ being committed to / determined to follow through with a course of action.

No but the "commit" part has lost its meaning of criminality as nobody views it as such.
How would you use the term with just "suicide"?
You can't say " he/ she suicide".
"take your own life" makes sense.
Anyway, my beef is being told what to say by someone offended unneessarily so it's staying" commit suicide" for me

“Died by suicide” is another option, @Mightymoog

Me too!

Omg so did my husband haha maybe you knew him??

I guess so but commit suicide is deeply entrenched so will carry on with that.

Committed is also commonly used for other things that aren't crimes, such as adultery or a social faux pas. In its broadest sense, 'committed' just means 'done'.

I know those examples are still considered negative actions by many, but as much as you may be at pains to understand and not blame the person who has seen no alternative but to take their own life, it is virtually always considered a very negative situation or set of circumstances as far as the vast majority of people are concerned.

A chef in Austria told me it was forbidden to reuse any food items that had already been offered to guests.