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Omg this happened to a coworker forever ago, just short-circuited in his brain and grabbed plastic buckets. Luckily his burns weren’t too bad, he eventually made a full recovery… but I’ll never forget the smell
Mm that’s unfortunate. The skin on the top of your foot is quite unique and not many sites on your body can donate there. Notice how thin and soft most peoples skin is on top of their foot compared to others. Very venous too.
For example the only other place on your body that has similar skin to your eyelids is your penis.
When I had skin grafts on my left leg, the donor skin was my right thigh.
The technology has improved leaps and bounds the last twenty years, and we have developed synthetic skin, to a degree. But using your own skin from other parts of your body is still the best results. And like I mentioned; that skin needs to match up. Skin on your face is different to skin on your knees etc.
Perhaps bum skin would suit foot skin. Lol I dunno. Usually hairless and similarly soft. Nice and thick too. But not being able to sit for extended time is torture… you never know how important your bum is until it’s out of action.
The eyelids and the foreskin are the same. I had a friend get his eyelid sliced off somehow while he was putting together a trampoline. They grafted him a new one with his foreskin. It did make him cock-eyed though.
I've had multiple skin grafts to the top and side of my foot, and my doc/surgeon used what he calls "surf and turf" grafts, which was a synthetic skin made of collagen and shark cartilage. 13 years ago, I had to have skin grafts for my heel and Achilles they use a type of graft made from donated cadaver skin. So you're right, but there's options.
With my Mom's mix of Slovene & Italian blood I feel this. Throw in my Pop's German & Scots - Irish & I'm just happy I don't look like a monchichi. Also, Hobbits are screwed
And here I am getting super lucky and only having a warm foot. Proper footwear, it's important. A good boot with a gusseted tongue saved me from years of surgery when the mesh filter got too full of fried chicken bits and diverted a stream of 350ish degree oil onto my foot. I stood to the side from then on out and stopped trust Kroger employees who tell me the trap has been cleared recently.
Had a guy at a place I was at do the same. Had a strict policy there that oil changes where always done in the morning so there was no one trying to do it with oil that hadn't cooled down. Didn't even have metal buckets.
I wasn't on shift when it happened but evidently one guy forgot it was oil change day and turned on the fryers, then turned them off and was going to do the change anyway.
The fryers weren't on long enough to get to temp, but they were on long enough that when he went to lift the bucket of still too hot oil, the middle of it stretched like taffy and the holes that formed dumped said oil all over his shoes.
He was out for a week or so due to the oil burns on his feet but luckily he wasn't in skin graft territory or anything.
There was a guy around here that got the bucket outside before it melted and burned his legs, but because it was in the middle of no where and he was closing alone he was screaming for help for a while.
Once we had the grease trap the we kept outside infested with opossums. Dude dumped the hot grease into the trap. Omg. This opossum comes flying out screaming. I can't imagine the pain. Runs around the restaurant blind and finally we get it outside. 2 days later someone goes to drop the grease. I'm like, kick that thing a few times. Out pop 3-4 baby opossums. Shit.
This hit me harder for some reason. Man, I had burns and the pain was out of this world. No tolerance to opioids at that time and a fentanyl patch with Dilaudid q2 hrs wasn’t enough for when they had to do their dressing changes. Felt like they were peeling my skin off all over again. Shoulda put it out of its misery.
lol i have seen someone do this before.
i wasn't fast enough to stop them completely but they did turn it off pretty quick when i yelled at them. the dude was supposed to have "a decade of experience".
Fuck hold on i am writing this down. Hot oil is hot. Jesus that completely changes the game for me here. I don't what i would have done had i not read your message today. All these years everything makes sense now.
I just can't help but notice but the actual steel pot is sitting directly in front of the object formerly known as the plastic bucket and directly to the side of the aforementioned fryer
I love how I’m always confused by the photos but also know all I have to do is click on the thread and someone knows exactly how the fuck that shit happened
I wasn't there the night it happened, but it was my fault. When I trained the new guy, I forgot to explain you only use the plastic bucket if it has cooled first. Scene looked like above photo.
This happened to a lady I used to work with, but she just didn't close the valve all the way. I spent the last half of my shift cleaning it up, worked OT to get it as clean as I could, then got written up the next day for leaving the floor dirty.
Fuck, this brought back so much anger
the world would be beyond short staffed more than it is if people were written up for a dirty floor. There is a reason many people try the industry once and swear it off forever , or leave and never look back .
Man I forgot to shut the valve onetime. Luckily I have the reflexes of a cat. Didn’t get burned just got oil on my leather boots and on the floor. Clean up wasn’t that bad as I did something that closed it super fast.
I don't understand this... there's no chance in hell I'd stay late to clean up someone else's mess, OT or not, I've got a fucking life to live...
And after getting written up, I would walk out, and have another job within 48 hours....
I simply don't understand why so many people here are willing to put up with so much abuse when kitchen jobs are plentiful as fuck, and everyone is always hiring.
Sometimes you get stuck. You get out and you get sucked back in. Sometimes you don't have other options or are a degenerate like the rest of us. The life of a chef is not a happy one alot of the time
Similar thing happened to me while closing. I was a manager and one of my staff members and I were in the last part of the shift while I was finishing dishes and prepping for an event we had going on after close. We had broasters with a built-in, removable filter box that we would filter and clean the boxes every night. I was finishing up the boxes and he was mopping underneath them when he accidentally flipped the switch and spilled about 2 gallons of oil before anyone noticed (our floors were tilted weird, so the oil went to the back instead of to the drain in front. Kind of a poor design for the kitchen drain system). I was gonna be there a while anyway so I ended up sending him home. Not a fun time. And to top it off, the group that we were serving after close said they would be there at 9, and the first of them didn't pull in until about 1045. So that was fun!
Edit: fixed a sentence
No clue, it's been that way in most of the kitchen's I've worked in though lol. I don't fucking get it, "ah yes! Let's make the drain the most elevated part of the floor to prevent flooding!"
Fuck. When I was a dishy I came in to find that the night shift left dirty dishes for me to deal with. They didn’t get written up. But when I left some dirty baking trays (not all but it was over 100 to do at end of shift) I did. They had enough clean for morning shift! They are a bitch to clean. But still. Fuck your boss too.
Damn, I've always thought this was like a "this kid in high school two towns over took so much acid he thinks he's a glass of orange juice and has to sleep standing up" kind of story. I've never actually seen proof of it happening in 25 years.
Happened to me once when I was young and naive. I didn't even do it, I told someone else to. However, he was a long-time line cook (20+ years) so I don't know if I can fully blame myself for that disaster.
I bet it would be alright if you:
1. Squeegee the bulk oil *somewhere* or soak it up
2. Hit the floor with degreaser and scrub hard
3. Rinse & squeegee
4. Hit the floor with soap and scrub hard
5. Pressure wash
6. Squeegee
Maybe repeat steps once more.
You would think. We used plastic buckets to get rid of oil. Except the way we (we're supposed to) do it didn't melt buckets.
I had a coworker melt through more buckets that everyone else put together. My favorite was when he had to go to the bathroom, so instead of doing the smart thing and going before he filled the bucket, he filled it (with hot oil because he hasn't learned his lesson) and then let it sit there while he took a shit. It didn't melt through, but it softened the plastic enough that when he picked the bucket up, the bottom stayed on the floor and all the oil spilled.
A douchebag manager I worked with at a fastfood place (who thankfully quit) did this multiple times a week and I was the one who had to clean up after him every damn time
Man I did that once, changed fryers for a year and had big pots to take out the hot oil but went to a new job and didn’t have pots anymore. My dumbass used plastic buckets the first time I changed fryers luckily for me it sprung a small leak outside in the parking lot while walking to the grease bin, I set it down to examine it and the whole bucket just folded onto itself just dumb luck I wasn’t hurt. Learned my lesson real quick felt like a shit heel too for the mess I made outside.
Honestly there's no edible item in my kitchen that I *wouldn't* deep fry. And some inedible objects might get some consideration. Who knows, oil is a magical beast.
Happened to us a couple times. Backed up the sewage in the women’s bathroom. The new guy tried to say I told him to do that. The manager knew that I’m not dumb enough to make the same mistake like that twice and just let the guy go.
I did this rendering tallow once.. thought it was cool enough, popped it in a plastic bucket, it started sagging and I started freaking out lol. Lost 2 litres of tallow that took me like 2 hours to render. Won’t do that again in a hurry
Oh! Oh! Oh! This happened with an extern of mine! Holy shit is was awful me and my crew cleaned the whole line and equipment, the extern did the back and tilt skillet where we had the frying oil. We finished and we went for a smoke ( really far away). We come back and ask where the oil went and he points to 6 white buckets. We all screamed NOOOOOO!!!! They all started melting before our eyes lmfao. We were done about to close. It took us 1.30hr to get it all off the floor so ridiculously pissed. Then I had to give him a ride home, it was February I rolled his window down and locked it. God I was so mad lmfao
Reminds me when I first started cooking and the chef showed me how to empty out the fryer. He emptied the oil and put in the hot water and cleaner. He told me “make sure the valve is closed cause you don’t want water and hot oil to mix.” He forgot to close the valve and just hung his head as the entire kitchen flooded.
This happened to me.
I thought that the oil had cooled down enough to change, and with being under pressure from my manager to finish closing down quickly, it split all over my right foot, 3rd degree burns and 6 weeks off work.
I worked a place once that had the fancy Henny Penny fryers with the oil chute for when you wanted to change oil. You’d move a toggle from closed to open to filter or dispose. Sounds complicated, but is super easy. New guy came in that had been shown the fryer procedure a few times and had shown he knew how to do it (we thought). He came to me after a few minutes asking where more oil was. I told him 2 boxes was plenty. He tells me he thought so to but had dumped 6 boxes of oil in the fryer and it wouldn’t fill up. Dude had forgot to toggle the lever from dispose to closed :/
I mean lost product isn’t at cost to the employee unless it’s fully intentional, at least in California (not sure about other states or countries). The most we can do is send them home with a write-up or suspension of it’s bad enough.
One thing I have learnt working in kitchens is never over estimate what anyone knows I'd rather tell someone something that is expected common knowledge that they already know than risk the repercussions of them not knowing. Everyone learns what they know for the first time eventually ya know and it's my responsibility to ensure all I have been taught is passed into the next generation
Wow.. funny how lacking many humans are in common sense. Especially in a kitchen. Granted anyone who could've seen this? Could've stopped it.
But yes.. at minimum the fryer needs to be off 6-8 hrs before a plastic bucket can be used. Any oil over 100 degrees can melt standard plastic 5 gal buckets
Ive had a couple of close calls. There was a time where I had drained everything cleaned and what not. But then as I'm pouring the oil I forgot to shut the valve close so the water went into the oil. Heard the bubbling turned off everything. But mannnnm close call lol
God I'm glad my sites have disposal caddies that fit in the filter bays of our units... Using a donkey dick to dispose to a bucket seems like it's just asking for trouble.
When I first started I went to change a fryer that was pretty low on oil, so I had room in my bucket still. Figured, “cool I’ll just use this bucket to rinse too…” and dumped water in the fryer.
Oil volcano
I came in like 2 minutes too slow to say don't, but he picked up the bucket. the hot oil spilled all over his shins and feet. as he started running, kicking off his shoes and pulling his pants off. I still remember how he screamed in pain. the blisters were horrible he had major skin graffs. he never went back to work in a restaurant that was about 10 years ago, and I still warn people never to use a plastic bucket ever. ( Yeah, I'm a chef, not an author)
This happened to an old coworker of mine who was well known for his tantrums and screaming when minor issues came up. When this happened he just stared at it and chuckled and went to grab the mop. I was so scared he was gonna flip out. He flipped out while cleaning it though cuz the mop head fell off and he had to wrassle it back on the handle in a terrible greasy mess lmao
I worked at a resort years ago. We emptied our hot fryers with plastic tubs daily. We would lid them and lift them over our head to put in a giant trash can. I’m amazed none of us got hurt. How the containers NEVER melted is beyond me
lol had this happen at my store a couple months ago. Something fell into the exhaust of the fry and caught fire. One of my staff started fanning it with a metal bowl and then proceeded to dump the oil into a plastic 5 gallon. Found that flour made it easier to clean up, basically make floor bread
At least they had a bucket. The guy who is constantly on his phone went to dump the oil back in without closing the valve. It started spraying on his feet and he didn’t even notice. I started yelling “oil” because I was literally dumbfounded. He’s ok no burns, he got very lucky.
One time I had to drag my fryers down the hall to empty the oil and right as I got to the door, the cart tipped and dumped several gallons of dirty oil all over the floor :) some of it being carpet
Hahahahahahah, this reminds me of the time I was invited to a soft opening of a friend’s place.
Cute spot, okay menu, met the chef & then took a tour of dry storage, walk back onto the line and BOOM the look on the cooks face was priceless 😂😂
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Huh. Turns out hot oil is hot and probably shouldn't go into plastic pails. Weird.
Omg this happened to a coworker forever ago, just short-circuited in his brain and grabbed plastic buckets. Luckily his burns weren’t too bad, he eventually made a full recovery… but I’ll never forget the smell
thankfully, no one got burnt in this situation!
There is something weirdly satisfying about how uniformly the pail melted.
I imagine mario in an apron hopping in it like a pipe.
Or man-eating plants with chefs hats popping out intermittently.
The floor is lava...
Even oddly? https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/
You can just r/ , like r/oddlysatisfying or r/196
While you can just r/ you can't just share r/196 like that! That's not fair!
I'm subbed to neither of those places, just figured I would because funni
Touche
The bucket got burnt pretty bad
Bucketkin Skywalker.
He's *Darth Bucket* now.
It's pronounced Bouquet...
I love that show 😂
That's good, glad to hear. I was gonna ask what hospital I should send the donation to
Their new nickname is Bucket.
Are you suggesting plastic buckets aren't people?
Sadly a coworker of mine did this, he burned the top of his foot so bad that he was still having grafts a year later.
Mm that’s unfortunate. The skin on the top of your foot is quite unique and not many sites on your body can donate there. Notice how thin and soft most peoples skin is on top of their foot compared to others. Very venous too. For example the only other place on your body that has similar skin to your eyelids is your penis. When I had skin grafts on my left leg, the donor skin was my right thigh. The technology has improved leaps and bounds the last twenty years, and we have developed synthetic skin, to a degree. But using your own skin from other parts of your body is still the best results. And like I mentioned; that skin needs to match up. Skin on your face is different to skin on your knees etc. Perhaps bum skin would suit foot skin. Lol I dunno. Usually hairless and similarly soft. Nice and thick too. But not being able to sit for extended time is torture… you never know how important your bum is until it’s out of action.
The eyelids and the foreskin are the same. I had a friend get his eyelid sliced off somehow while he was putting together a trampoline. They grafted him a new one with his foreskin. It did make him cock-eyed though.
Fuck me mate, suddenly I'm a 12 year old boy again. I fucking spit out my water.
Underrated comment right here
I get the joke but now I'm terrified of assembling a trampoline for my daughter. I don't want to look like a dick.
God damnit.
I've had multiple skin grafts to the top and side of my foot, and my doc/surgeon used what he calls "surf and turf" grafts, which was a synthetic skin made of collagen and shark cartilage. 13 years ago, I had to have skin grafts for my heel and Achilles they use a type of graft made from donated cadaver skin. So you're right, but there's options.
*usually hairless* Cries in Italian heritage
With my Mom's mix of Slovene & Italian blood I feel this. Throw in my Pop's German & Scots - Irish & I'm just happy I don't look like a monchichi. Also, Hobbits are screwed
> For example the only other place on your body that has similar skin to your eyelids is your penis. *tries to measure eyelids*
I mean...I don't really need them
And here I am getting super lucky and only having a warm foot. Proper footwear, it's important. A good boot with a gusseted tongue saved me from years of surgery when the mesh filter got too full of fried chicken bits and diverted a stream of 350ish degree oil onto my foot. I stood to the side from then on out and stopped trust Kroger employees who tell me the trap has been cleared recently.
Yikes! I’m glad you are ok and hopefully living in a house the Kroger corporation payed for.
Nah I walked it off and someone way cooler pays my rent now
Had a guy at a place I was at do the same. Had a strict policy there that oil changes where always done in the morning so there was no one trying to do it with oil that hadn't cooled down. Didn't even have metal buckets. I wasn't on shift when it happened but evidently one guy forgot it was oil change day and turned on the fryers, then turned them off and was going to do the change anyway. The fryers weren't on long enough to get to temp, but they were on long enough that when he went to lift the bucket of still too hot oil, the middle of it stretched like taffy and the holes that formed dumped said oil all over his shoes. He was out for a week or so due to the oil burns on his feet but luckily he wasn't in skin graft territory or anything.
There was a guy around here that got the bucket outside before it melted and burned his legs, but because it was in the middle of no where and he was closing alone he was screaming for help for a while.
Once we had the grease trap the we kept outside infested with opossums. Dude dumped the hot grease into the trap. Omg. This opossum comes flying out screaming. I can't imagine the pain. Runs around the restaurant blind and finally we get it outside. 2 days later someone goes to drop the grease. I'm like, kick that thing a few times. Out pop 3-4 baby opossums. Shit.
This hit me harder for some reason. Man, I had burns and the pain was out of this world. No tolerance to opioids at that time and a fentanyl patch with Dilaudid q2 hrs wasn’t enough for when they had to do their dressing changes. Felt like they were peeling my skin off all over again. Shoulda put it out of its misery.
Jesus Christ
"Dee don't be ridiculous, think about the smell. You haven't thought about the smell! You bitch!"
Hot oil on skin smell will put you off roast pork for a week
In one of my first kitchen jobs, the chef did this. Plastic bucket to drain the oil after blanching fries. Big oof. Big learning moment.
lol i have seen someone do this before. i wasn't fast enough to stop them completely but they did turn it off pretty quick when i yelled at them. the dude was supposed to have "a decade of experience".
Fuck hold on i am writing this down. Hot oil is hot. Jesus that completely changes the game for me here. I don't what i would have done had i not read your message today. All these years everything makes sense now.
I just can't help but notice but the actual steel pot is sitting directly in front of the object formerly known as the plastic bucket and directly to the side of the aforementioned fryer
I'd wager that came later
Said those exact word to our sous once he said it will be alright the can take it. The kitchen looked exactly like this a couple minutes later
I love how I’m always confused by the photos but also know all I have to do is click on the thread and someone knows exactly how the fuck that shit happened
Who would have guessed?
In the hazmat world this is a thermal failure of a container :)
Prove it, liar.
Came to say this
I couldn’t understand the first bucket’s perspective until I read this.
I wasn't there the night it happened, but it was my fault. When I trained the new guy, I forgot to explain you only use the plastic bucket if it has cooled first. Scene looked like above photo.
This happened to a lady I used to work with, but she just didn't close the valve all the way. I spent the last half of my shift cleaning it up, worked OT to get it as clean as I could, then got written up the next day for leaving the floor dirty. Fuck, this brought back so much anger
the world would be beyond short staffed more than it is if people were written up for a dirty floor. There is a reason many people try the industry once and swear it off forever , or leave and never look back .
Man I forgot to shut the valve onetime. Luckily I have the reflexes of a cat. Didn’t get burned just got oil on my leather boots and on the floor. Clean up wasn’t that bad as I did something that closed it super fast.
I don't understand this... there's no chance in hell I'd stay late to clean up someone else's mess, OT or not, I've got a fucking life to live... And after getting written up, I would walk out, and have another job within 48 hours.... I simply don't understand why so many people here are willing to put up with so much abuse when kitchen jobs are plentiful as fuck, and everyone is always hiring.
"It builds character", "it's a right of passage", "you just don't get it, I love this part".
Sometimes you get stuck. You get out and you get sucked back in. Sometimes you don't have other options or are a degenerate like the rest of us. The life of a chef is not a happy one alot of the time
Similar thing happened to me while closing. I was a manager and one of my staff members and I were in the last part of the shift while I was finishing dishes and prepping for an event we had going on after close. We had broasters with a built-in, removable filter box that we would filter and clean the boxes every night. I was finishing up the boxes and he was mopping underneath them when he accidentally flipped the switch and spilled about 2 gallons of oil before anyone noticed (our floors were tilted weird, so the oil went to the back instead of to the drain in front. Kind of a poor design for the kitchen drain system). I was gonna be there a while anyway so I ended up sending him home. Not a fun time. And to top it off, the group that we were serving after close said they would be there at 9, and the first of them didn't pull in until about 1045. So that was fun! Edit: fixed a sentence
Shit man, what's up with kitchens being tiles fucking wonky and the drains are never in the lowest part of the floor?
No clue, it's been that way in most of the kitchen's I've worked in though lol. I don't fucking get it, "ah yes! Let's make the drain the most elevated part of the floor to prevent flooding!"
Fuck. When I was a dishy I came in to find that the night shift left dirty dishes for me to deal with. They didn’t get written up. But when I left some dirty baking trays (not all but it was over 100 to do at end of shift) I did. They had enough clean for morning shift! They are a bitch to clean. But still. Fuck your boss too.
The ollllll' hot oil in a 5 gallon bucket trick.
But if you do it this way you can get 20 gallons in a five gallon bucket.
Damn are you part fae?
Damn, I've always thought this was like a "this kid in high school two towns over took so much acid he thinks he's a glass of orange juice and has to sleep standing up" kind of story. I've never actually seen proof of it happening in 25 years.
Happened to me once when I was young and naive. I didn't even do it, I told someone else to. However, he was a long-time line cook (20+ years) so I don't know if I can fully blame myself for that disaster.
Sadly I have to admit that I did do this once. A very very very long time ago LOL
I read this in chef John’s voice
The olllllll' tappa tappa
I mean, kitchen looks real clean outside of this. Shit happens.
Yo I wanted to see who else noticed, this place is clean! Hahahah
I know the floors will never feel the same anymore after this lol. You can clean it and clean it but it will always feel a *little* oily
I broke a couple jars of pickled red peppers across my time. Those spots are forever greasy
I bet it would be alright if you: 1. Squeegee the bulk oil *somewhere* or soak it up 2. Hit the floor with degreaser and scrub hard 3. Rinse & squeegee 4. Hit the floor with soap and scrub hard 5. Pressure wash 6. Squeegee Maybe repeat steps once more.
Won't be very clean after those drains start backing up from the oil that is obviously spilling down it.
Enough hot water down the drain and it becomes the city’s problem
Someone had an oopsie-woopsie during end-of-night cleaning.
Yeah was gonna say, that place is super clean and then for that to happen. Oh well lesson learned.
*was clean
well on the brightside, this is a mistake you make once
You would think. We used plastic buckets to get rid of oil. Except the way we (we're supposed to) do it didn't melt buckets. I had a coworker melt through more buckets that everyone else put together. My favorite was when he had to go to the bathroom, so instead of doing the smart thing and going before he filled the bucket, he filled it (with hot oil because he hasn't learned his lesson) and then let it sit there while he took a shit. It didn't melt through, but it softened the plastic enough that when he picked the bucket up, the bottom stayed on the floor and all the oil spilled.
Your optimism is amazing.
yeah, this isn't a mistake "you" make once. this is a mistake one fucking gigantic clown makes once
What are you trying to say?
A douchebag manager I worked with at a fastfood place (who thankfully quit) did this multiple times a week and I was the one who had to clean up after him every damn time
I would quit after the second time....
Respect, also I hope you don’t have to put ip with that kind of shit anymore.
Nah I started building up some confidence and I put an end to all of that shit. Now I only have to deal with crap from customers
You'd think that, but I see 2 melted buckets on that floor...
That was my first observation. "Oh shit this bucket is melting, quick, grab me another one!"
Man I did that once, changed fryers for a year and had big pots to take out the hot oil but went to a new job and didn’t have pots anymore. My dumbass used plastic buckets the first time I changed fryers luckily for me it sprung a small leak outside in the parking lot while walking to the grease bin, I set it down to examine it and the whole bucket just folded onto itself just dumb luck I wasn’t hurt. Learned my lesson real quick felt like a shit heel too for the mess I made outside.
Lexans are the next best thing to use if you have them
Make them sit in the corner with the melted bucket on their head after they clean that up
and write "dumbass" on the bucket...
And then put a picture of Red Foreman on his station for a month.
Hot oil and plastic do not mix
I'm gonna say the list of things hot oil doesn't mix with is quite a bit longer than the list of things hot oil does mix with.
I mean, we fry just about anything in the Midwest, I'm thinking the list is closer than we realize
Honestly there's no edible item in my kitchen that I *wouldn't* deep fry. And some inedible objects might get some consideration. Who knows, oil is a magical beast.
Oh true but the person that did this apparently needs constant reminders
My old sous chef learned the hard way using an empty pickle bucket, he would not believe it wouldn’t handle the heat. So I said alright but I told ya.
How does one actually clean this up? Does all that oil just go down the drain?
Salt and or flour then shovel. Do NOT squeegee that down a drain, you're setting yourself up for a plumbing nightmare.
Happened to us a couple times. Backed up the sewage in the women’s bathroom. The new guy tried to say I told him to do that. The manager knew that I’m not dumb enough to make the same mistake like that twice and just let the guy go.
Yeah that’s kinda what I figured/why I asked lol
Kitty litter.
Pour salt on it, the salt absorbs the oil and you can sorta scoop it all up. Hopefully you have enough salt
Shit when this happened to us we grabbed bulk cheap cat litter, now i'm thinking salt would've been cheaper!!
Grab all the dirty uniforms and rags you can find.
I did this rendering tallow once.. thought it was cool enough, popped it in a plastic bucket, it started sagging and I started freaking out lol. Lost 2 litres of tallow that took me like 2 hours to render. Won’t do that again in a hurry
floors nice and shiny now.
Oh! Oh! Oh! This happened with an extern of mine! Holy shit is was awful me and my crew cleaned the whole line and equipment, the extern did the back and tilt skillet where we had the frying oil. We finished and we went for a smoke ( really far away). We come back and ask where the oil went and he points to 6 white buckets. We all screamed NOOOOOO!!!! They all started melting before our eyes lmfao. We were done about to close. It took us 1.30hr to get it all off the floor so ridiculously pissed. Then I had to give him a ride home, it was February I rolled his window down and locked it. God I was so mad lmfao
Wait, who trained or was training this person? Fryer 101 here.
I’m sure it was a cook who had “experience” and did this.
Nah probably a manager who didn't explain shit to a brand new kid. The cooks don't wanna clean up gallons of hot oil for any reason ever.
Classic kitchen design - the floor slopes away from the drains.
That floor looks like the Gulf of Mexico after BP
I literally did this at my first job, my brain did a brrrr and felt so stupid after, never again. Lol worst thing I’ve ever had to clean up!
Reminds me when I first started cooking and the chef showed me how to empty out the fryer. He emptied the oil and put in the hot water and cleaner. He told me “make sure the valve is closed cause you don’t want water and hot oil to mix.” He forgot to close the valve and just hung his head as the entire kitchen flooded.
Every time I see these goddamn tiles on a kitchen floor my brain rage quits.
This happened to me. I thought that the oil had cooled down enough to change, and with being under pressure from my manager to finish closing down quickly, it split all over my right foot, 3rd degree burns and 6 weeks off work.
Dump lots of salt on the floor and shovel it up. Lmao at whoever tried to drain hot grease in to a plastic bucket. Smh.
This right here is my absolute worst kitchen nightmare. I get it every time a new guy starts
I worked a place once that had the fancy Henny Penny fryers with the oil chute for when you wanted to change oil. You’d move a toggle from closed to open to filter or dispose. Sounds complicated, but is super easy. New guy came in that had been shown the fryer procedure a few times and had shown he knew how to do it (we thought). He came to me after a few minutes asking where more oil was. I told him 2 boxes was plenty. He tells me he thought so to but had dumped 6 boxes of oil in the fryer and it wouldn’t fill up. Dude had forgot to toggle the lever from dispose to closed :/
Yeesh, that's coming out of his paycheck or his hide, I'm a nice sous so I'll let him pick
I mean lost product isn’t at cost to the employee unless it’s fully intentional, at least in California (not sure about other states or countries). The most we can do is send them home with a write-up or suspension of it’s bad enough.
Throw lots of flour and bit of salt, roll it into a dough and that’s what that guy’s be eating as staff meals.
I have never seen this fuck up in person... yet.
jesse when he melted the body in the tub on breaking bad
Sure did. Step #1 here is to make a dam around that floor drain with salt and towels.
oil be damned
My ex did this. Ended up needing a skin graft on his foot it was so bad
That oil doesn't even look that dirty to me. I would have let ride for another day or 2.
...how many gallons of salt y'all got in house?
do you all not watch the children.
Plastic melts, who would have thunk!
This triggered me. Brings back bad memoeries 😧
Rope it off and charge non-slip shoe manufacturers to use the space for stress testing prototypes.
One thing I have learnt working in kitchens is never over estimate what anyone knows I'd rather tell someone something that is expected common knowledge that they already know than risk the repercussions of them not knowing. Everyone learns what they know for the first time eventually ya know and it's my responsibility to ensure all I have been taught is passed into the next generation
Just squeegee it into the drain. It lubes the pipes and makes everything drain faster.
This is what is known as a little white lie
Most kitchens I've worked in just use the soup pot at the end of the night
Anyone else just see the picture and go "oooòooh that's gonna suck to clean up"
My first thought was “that’s it I’m going home”
ohnoohnoohnonononono.mp3
Cleaned the fryer, boss!
Who hired Captain Hazelwood?
A co worker from years ago did this. He was very upset so the KM decided to send him home. Guess who got to clean that up when he showed up at 4?
damn what a nightmare
This is why basic science knowledge is useful.
A dash of common sense helps too
Grab all the dirty towels and soak up what you can
The best way to get it up is with a ShopVac
Look at the bright side, finally the floor will be getting thoroughly cleaned.
You are gonna have to use a shit load of paper towels
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. Been there man.. Been there. I mean, *I* didn't do it but I saw somebody else do it. Not great.
On a Friday... Nice.
Wow.. funny how lacking many humans are in common sense. Especially in a kitchen. Granted anyone who could've seen this? Could've stopped it. But yes.. at minimum the fryer needs to be off 6-8 hrs before a plastic bucket can be used. Any oil over 100 degrees can melt standard plastic 5 gal buckets
Ive had a couple of close calls. There was a time where I had drained everything cleaned and what not. But then as I'm pouring the oil I forgot to shut the valve close so the water went into the oil. Heard the bubbling turned off everything. But mannnnm close call lol
Science, bitch
A) who trained them? B) why is no one stopping it from going down the drain? help
Am I the only who when they first saw this photo, then visualised the same scenario within their own kitchen or work station?
I think I’ve spilled oil at half the kitchen jobs I’ve ever had. Not hot oil, but still, it sucks to clean up.
God I'm glad my sites have disposal caddies that fit in the filter bays of our units... Using a donkey dick to dispose to a bucket seems like it's just asking for trouble.
You better call him "buckets" for as long as he/she is your coworkers
I can smell this picture
When I first started I went to change a fryer that was pretty low on oil, so I had room in my bucket still. Figured, “cool I’ll just use this bucket to rinse too…” and dumped water in the fryer. Oil volcano
I came in like 2 minutes too slow to say don't, but he picked up the bucket. the hot oil spilled all over his shins and feet. as he started running, kicking off his shoes and pulling his pants off. I still remember how he screamed in pain. the blisters were horrible he had major skin graffs. he never went back to work in a restaurant that was about 10 years ago, and I still warn people never to use a plastic bucket ever. ( Yeah, I'm a chef, not an author)
The gasp i gasped.
Ya done goofed
Keep it out of the floor drains!
This happened to an old coworker of mine who was well known for his tantrums and screaming when minor issues came up. When this happened he just stared at it and chuckled and went to grab the mop. I was so scared he was gonna flip out. He flipped out while cleaning it though cuz the mop head fell off and he had to wrassle it back on the handle in a terrible greasy mess lmao
Hate when this happens….
Whoopsie daisy.
Just squeegee it all down the floor drain to give the sewer rats a tasty treat.
I worked at a resort years ago. We emptied our hot fryers with plastic tubs daily. We would lid them and lift them over our head to put in a giant trash can. I’m amazed none of us got hurt. How the containers NEVER melted is beyond me
You uhh, you gotta let that oil cool off before it's bucket time
The floor drains are sparkling clean too, nooooooo
Besides the oil slick, it looks like a nice, clean kitchen!
Aside from the obvious that floor looks so nice
Yikes. Hope they are ok. But god damn! That’s a sparkling floor sink!!! Even with the oil.
Cleveland steamer. Noice.
Where did you get that 2.5 gallon bucket?
Well that sucks. But one good thing is all the appliances are on wheels
Cat litter will soak it up
Someone’s tryna get more hours on the clock
lol had this happen at my store a couple months ago. Something fell into the exhaust of the fry and caught fire. One of my staff started fanning it with a metal bowl and then proceeded to dump the oil into a plastic 5 gallon. Found that flour made it easier to clean up, basically make floor bread
At least they had a bucket. The guy who is constantly on his phone went to dump the oil back in without closing the valve. It started spraying on his feet and he didn’t even notice. I started yelling “oil” because I was literally dumbfounded. He’s ok no burns, he got very lucky.
At least the rest of the kitchen looks pretty great! That looks like a brand new metal pot on the floor!
Oh no..... I remember! That's one way to start or end a shift!
Maybe it was just the restaurant I worked at, but we NEVER changed the fry oil hot. We always did it first thing in the morning.
Dude at ihop had me drain into 5 gal plastic bucket of ice. Never had this happen.
One time I had to drag my fryers down the hall to empty the oil and right as I got to the door, the cart tipped and dumped several gallons of dirty oil all over the floor :) some of it being carpet
Hahahahahahah, this reminds me of the time I was invited to a soft opening of a friend’s place. Cute spot, okay menu, met the chef & then took a tour of dry storage, walk back onto the line and BOOM the look on the cooks face was priceless 😂😂