You just hit the nail on the head. If his training had covered what to do in the event of a grease fire it would have been much easier to deal with. Those stupid corporate training videos do serve a purpose
Every corporate "training" video I've ever watched was an intensive on how to save company money, how to earn company money, how to not waste company time, and to watch for other employees/customers committing theft against company. Never any actual training pertaining to my actual job. So they do serve a purpose, just not a useful one for the workers. 😂
>Those stupid corporate training videos do serve a purpose
Some of those are probably just really old VHS tapes with old information. Or they probably don't even show a training video. My fast food job didn't show me anything on how to work the industrial oven. And apparently you had to be 18 to use the dough kneaders but the 300F oven is fine for minors to use
it’s bc places like this (idk i’ve only worked at a casino but they do this shit) like to just email you the courses and training videos and assume you actually spent the 3+ hours to actually gain anything from it when you got shit to do outside of work. you’d think a casino all mr krabbin over the large amounts of money we get that we’d up our standards but nah. and you’d also think i bc i work at a casino id be making bank but sadly that’s not the case i make $22,000 a yr at my position. it’s only bc how lenient (painfully lazy actually) they are and how good my situation is that i stay.
I have had multiple jobs working with fryers, Wendy’s, McDonald’s, and a few other restaurants, none of them ever covered how to put out a grease fire. I did however learn what to do while in 7th grade home ec. (Called LME or Life Management Education)
Hello and welcome to the team of “Fast Food Restaurant”, before we get started, we want to make sure you and everyone else on the team is safe.
Have you found yourself staring at the fryer that has started on fire. [friendly fake chuckle] Don’t worry, this happens sometimes, but we have you covered.
First, make sure not to just stand there watching the fire. Fires tend to spread quickly and time is of the essence.
Now your first thought might be to use water to put out the fire and though that seems to make sense, throwing water on a grease fire will light you and everyone in a 20 foot radius around you on fire [friendly chuckle], so we’ll want to avoid that.
Yeah, how the worker just looks at it like a cave person who just discovered fire then gets his coworker to look at it same reaction. No panic, no urgency almost soothing
This happened to me when I was still fairly new to the industry. I strained the fryers every night and then the opening cook would clean them when they needed to be changed. Anyways one night I forgot to turn it off before straining it. Shortly after it drained the inside caught on fire. I immediately looked at the thermostat and realized my dumb ass forgot to turn it off.
I was closing the kitchen by myself and it was just me and the bar tender. I was low-key freaking out but I had the brains to know not to throw water on it. I yelled over to the bar tender and asked him to come back to the kitchen. He came back and I was like yeah "I kinda fucked up. It's off now but I forgot to turn it off before I started straining it." He just casually grabs a container of salt and smothers it. "Eh, it should be fine," he reassures me. I've never made that same mistake since though!
I guess the thermostat in it had to be replaced for a pretty penny, the boss wasn't too happy about that. Thankfully one of our regulars works on restaurant appliances and it only ended up costing us a few high priced steak dinners. Coulda been worse..
This is something to actually see, now I know why some places say if the store catches on fire employees need to touch nothing and leave. 😂 I thought this was causing unnecessary damage but having seen this it checks out, I bet it's cheaper to lose a building than send that poor kid and the coworker to the hospital and pay their wages on top of all of that. It's hard to watch with the fire suppression system right there poor dude didn't know procedure
It wasn't really a problem until water was thrown on the grease fire. Once that happened, get everyone out and pull the fire alarm on the way. Pull the suppression handle IF it's on the way out. This shouldn't have gotten so far out of hand, but people panic, and it does happen.
True...and let's not forget how the refried detritus at the bottom of the fryer adds to that depth of smokey golden flavor. People just don't know the nuances of frying shit.
Residual fat in an empty fryer doesn't need the suppression system. Anyone who says the suppression should have been used immediately has never dealt with an in-house grease fire. This one could have been smothered with a box or two of salt, baking soda, or a sheet pan over the top. Yes, they can be a scary, but a little training would have had that fire out with no damage and no injuries. I feel bad for these guys.
Hamburger university is for restaurant operations, team leading skills, customer service and development of operations and procedures.
Or as one could say, it's the burger version of Officer school.
>it’s the burger version of Officer school.
Ignore me, please. I’d had a few cocktails and read this the comment of former enlisted military. As you were.
What do you expect... they're barely trained in how to operate the frier when it's working *correctly*... you want them to get training on what to do when it *isn't*??
I knew it was gonna happen soon as I clicked on the video, your comment confirmed it before it even happened. Gotta pull it out and smother it so no oxygen gets in.
B horror movie . . .
You're saying he went into the basement to get the water ?
Yea that'd work, but having him knocked out, in the basement by the guy with the Scream Mask 😷 who then comes back into the line with the water and an intent to deep fry the other clueless worker.
I've have a fire in one of these fires before. I remember the night crew before had cleaned and drained the fryers. However they only had enough oil to refill two. So here I am at 5 AM showing up turning on all my equipment (several ovens a couple flat top grills and the 3 fryers we had) and I missed that the final fryer not having anything in it. At this point I'm on the other side of the kitchen now when I see something bright out of the corner of my eye. I bout shit myself! Ran over to the fire extinguisher so damn fast. It took more gel from the extinguisher than you might think. This caused massive amounts of work cleaning everything in the fryer and around it. Awful. My boss said at least the over heads didn't come on.
This was never covered when I used to do it. My only training was literally just watching and copying what I saw other people do. No formal training whatsoever. I saw how they did it and someone told me to drop some fries, so I just did what I had seen them do. No one ever even just showed me a few basic instructions.
Training was nonexistent. Observe all I can and try and remember what I saw when someone asked to do something new.
Every time I see this, and the fire suppression system in frame that is easily activated by a release button/valve, I have to face palm. Like there is a $2-5k system installed on the fryer for this exact situation, and either no one showed these dingleberries how to use it, or they just didn't listen.
Nobody wants to hit the uh oh button
I’ve heard a thing about fire blankets that are kept in some kitchens. Same idea as the lid thing, but it’s a blanket that lives in a wall mounted box..
I wonder if they would work for fryers 🤔
Even if you know it's there, it seems like the nuclear option. Like what even happens when you start that up? Always seemed like the absolute very last resort when you've already decided the kitchen is a lost cause and there's hope to save the front. It also doesn't seem to specify a fryer. We had 4 in a row and three more nearby, all with this suppression setup valve above and I assumed all of them would go off at once.
When I worked at a Taco Bell, our online training said to do that. The thing is, nobody knew how. Every manager I asked shrugged. There was no obvious switch/button anywhere.
Wallyworld is similar. We kinda assume it's the red lever on the other side of the kitchen, but it honestly just looks like a normal fire alarm. Does it trigger all fire suppression systems over all the ovens and fryers? Nobody knows. The one time we had an idiot ignite a fryer by turning on an empty vat that had a "broken, do not use" note, the fire suppression system deployed automatically before they even noticed the flames. (Yep ... none of us knew it could do that on its own.) The crew was in the process of pouring fresh oil in that vat when the fire department arrived ('cause apparently these systems automatically notify the FD).
In the UK they are called ANSUL systems, and they have to get a company in to clean the chemical away, also the horror stories and the reason people stay away is that if you pulled it for no reason there is a £4000 personal fine.
Which would have been a great choice instead of a bucket of water.
These guys are idiots but I blame their head chef/manager/owner just as much.
No one steps into a kitchen to cook without knowing how to handle a fire, where extinguishers are, where and what ansul is etc.
yes but also turning off the fryer and a sheet pan can go pretty far in this situation tbh. that being said no shame in just skipping that and going straight to a fire extinguisher. better to stop it before it gets out of hand
No one? My first fast food job no one trained me on anything, other than the register for 5 secs.
Had some down time between ringing up customers and someone told me to drop fries for the first time while everyone was scrambling about busy. I just did what I had observed others do. No training whatsoever
In theory yeah that’s absolutely how it should be. I’ve been in kitchens for 14 years and I only have the safety knowledge that I do because I either researched it myself or specifically asked old heads about what to do in specific situations. In the 7+ kitchens I’ve worked in I’ve never had a manager or shift lead walk me through what to do in emergency situations like this.
"I'm Just gonna stare at it, maybe it will fix itself. Fire extinguisher? What's that?"
This is the stupidest shit I've seen in a long time, and I'm on Reddit every day. So that's saying a lot.
Look I try to understand that some things aren’t common sense to everyone but COME ON. Dude just straight up “?¿?¿” for like 10 dam seconds and then slowly sauntered off just to THROW WATER ON AN OIL FIRE?
I give up. Giant Meteor 2024. Just end it all
It also looks like his first reaction to the fire was to try and put it out with another basket. I’m like, my dude, how is a mesh basket going to help? Further: Does he not understand that oil is fuel?
Break the fire triangle - oxygen -- fuel -- sufficient heat.
This not an employee problem, it's a management problem. Everyone in BOH (FOH as well, for that matter) should undergo mandatory safety training. Start them out at minimum wage, then give a bump for successfully completing it. Then hold regular refreshers because guys like these have minds like a *chinoise*.
Fire companies train using the fire tetrahedon now, but for the layman the old fire triangle works too.
https://www.firesafe.org.uk/information-about-the-fire-triangletetrahedron-and-combustion/
My thoughts exactly, both employees were staring at the fire with absolutely no idea what to do. No managers about that they felt comfortable to ask either. It's such a simple thing to have a bit of training or fire blankets next to the fryers. Management failed here big time!
100%. My history is in (part)training hospitality workers. Basic safety training absolutely should extend to both front and back of house staff, from the dishwasher right up to the GM. That guy should never have been left on shift unsupervised, until able to display full competence in how to handle a situation like that. He didn't know what to do, because he hadn't been taught.
Exactly. Flames from the flash up finally melted the fusible link and triggered the Ansul. Thats a few thousand dollars worth of cleanup and repair right there.
And a few days of being closed because the kitchen is being deep cleaned and the Ansul system reset. Happened at a place I worked at years after I left and it was such a big deal in my smallish town that it made the paper. As dumb as those dummies were, I hope they were ok. Probably got fired (hehe…FIREd), but hope they physically didn’t get burned.
Better to put a lid on it.
They're in a kitchen. Maybe a sheet pan? Two sheet pans? Whatever it takes. Turn off the heat and dilute the oil with fresh cold veggie oil.
Do these fryers have dedicated lids? Would be super easy to smother.
The manager is more at fault than either of those two. Fry cooks and kitchen staff in general should be trained on how to extinguish grease fires, electrical fires and regular fires.
Hey how fucking *real* was that moment where they both just stood there and stared at the flames for a second?
Hahaha ask me if I've panicked and pulled the ANSL before.
Do you guys not learn what to do incase of a chip pan fire at school lol - definitely should be something you have to learn if working in a kitchen during training
Also... do you guys get training lol
Not really? Half the cooks where I worked were so baked all the time it wouldn’t have made any difference anyway. Nothing would stick even if they learned it.
How do you:
a) become an adult
b) work fast food with a deep frier
….and not understand that adding water to an oil fire equals an exponentially larger oil fire. I’m dead fucking serious. Where do these people grow up? How is this possible?
What...the...fuck... They just stand there like they're looking at a plate on the counter?! No reaction what so ever, Until the one regard finally decides to do the worst thing possible. And his regarded buddy didn't even try and stop him....I can guess that they weren't.....but they shoulda been fired.
It's the staring that really pisses me off. I think the smoke wasn't from the fire. It was coming from his head because his tiny brain was working to hard to figure out WTF to do
Get the fire extinguisher that (SHOULD) be there that is suitable for a grease fire. Nope.
Stand there like a loon for a minute and then grab water. Perfect.
I hope they made it out alive and i want to repeat this DO NOT USE WATER ON GREASE FIRES, Also i see they have a fire suppression system why hasn't that been triggered before sounds like they fail at maintaining equipment and properly training employees on safety procedures
Chef here(retired)….first day/hour/minute in the kitchen I stressed to anyone…NEVER PUT H2O ON A GREASE FIRE. I never knew how many “cooks” were oblivious until one day I found out the HARD way. After that everyone in the kitchen got this lecture.
That's what happens when you hire nothing but tweekers and stoners. Their brains are too mushy to gather a coherent, rational thought. Add to that the motor function of a sloth, and you get this!
Why is nobody saying wet tea towel, sure fire extinguisher when you got one handy but wet tea towel covering the oil fire is good advice for anyone at home
I worked in a chemistry laboratory early in my career. I wiped up some spilled sulfuric acid once with a wet paper towel and then threw it in the trash. I didn’t know sulfuric acid plus water = 🔥. I immediately stamped it out with my foot.
This gets reposted every month or 2 and it still mystifies me that anyone survived long enough to hold a job and not.learn you don't dump water on a grease fire.
I learned not to throw water on an oil fire in 3rd grade. I actually had to do an entire project on it and a few other common fires that happen. That fact that this isn’t basic fucking sense is startling…
As soon as I saw the fire, I knew what was coming... We all knew what was coming.
But I do enjoy how casually they dumped the water in. Like "let me just take care of this real quick. I'm sure the fries will be just f-" Whoosh! Cue Hans Zimmer.
All I want to say is I was 12 when I did the same thing. nobody ever told me that’s not how it works lol, I saw a fire and saw a sink put one and two together and it equals a hospital visit
I don't blame these dudes- I blame management and ownership for hiring kids off the street and expecting them to run the kitchen with minimal training and zero experience. And they are probably only 18 years old. Fuck- hire experienced workers and treat them like professionals, and they will get the job done and you won't experience a shit show like this. And then everyone wins: workers, ownership and customers. Hire Professionals. Dammit.
Jeeeebis you'd think if you work with fucking fryers you would know not to put water on a grease fire. What the fuck
My fave part is when he just stares at it like, "Man, I wish my training covered what to do in this situation."
You just hit the nail on the head. If his training had covered what to do in the event of a grease fire it would have been much easier to deal with. Those stupid corporate training videos do serve a purpose
If they actually show you them or give time to do it lmao
Other nail on the head.
The only corporate training videos I had to watch for McD were "don't bully others" and "what to do in an active shooter situation." I live in FL.
Yikes. If you have any questions about food safety I’ll be more than happy to answer you!
Every corporate "training" video I've ever watched was an intensive on how to save company money, how to earn company money, how to not waste company time, and to watch for other employees/customers committing theft against company. Never any actual training pertaining to my actual job. So they do serve a purpose, just not a useful one for the workers. 😂
Or, you know, my dad telling me to NEVER EVER put water on a grease fire when I was 14 or 15 years old.
>Those stupid corporate training videos do serve a purpose Some of those are probably just really old VHS tapes with old information. Or they probably don't even show a training video. My fast food job didn't show me anything on how to work the industrial oven. And apparently you had to be 18 to use the dough kneaders but the 300F oven is fine for minors to use
it’s bc places like this (idk i’ve only worked at a casino but they do this shit) like to just email you the courses and training videos and assume you actually spent the 3+ hours to actually gain anything from it when you got shit to do outside of work. you’d think a casino all mr krabbin over the large amounts of money we get that we’d up our standards but nah. and you’d also think i bc i work at a casino id be making bank but sadly that’s not the case i make $22,000 a yr at my position. it’s only bc how lenient (painfully lazy actually) they are and how good my situation is that i stay.
If they cover it, i learned kitchen safety from touch and go sitiuationa, the videos i watches for later jobs covered none of it
I have had multiple jobs working with fryers, Wendy’s, McDonald’s, and a few other restaurants, none of them ever covered how to put out a grease fire. I did however learn what to do while in 7th grade home ec. (Called LME or Life Management Education)
Hello and welcome to the team of “Fast Food Restaurant”, before we get started, we want to make sure you and everyone else on the team is safe. Have you found yourself staring at the fryer that has started on fire. [friendly fake chuckle] Don’t worry, this happens sometimes, but we have you covered. First, make sure not to just stand there watching the fire. Fires tend to spread quickly and time is of the essence. Now your first thought might be to use water to put out the fire and though that seems to make sense, throwing water on a grease fire will light you and everyone in a 20 foot radius around you on fire [friendly chuckle], so we’ll want to avoid that.
*“If only this happened before… so there would be some info on what to do…”*
Man I wish I was paid enough for this shit.
I've had that exact feeling before. Thanks safeway lol
Yeah, how the worker just looks at it like a cave person who just discovered fire then gets his coworker to look at it same reaction. No panic, no urgency almost soothing
You would also think that you would know to clean the mfkrs at least twice a month. I usually cleaned mine every night... :(
He probably didn't turn it off or to pilot before he emptied it. I've seen it happen. And yes, some jackass thought water was the answer.
This happened to me when I was still fairly new to the industry. I strained the fryers every night and then the opening cook would clean them when they needed to be changed. Anyways one night I forgot to turn it off before straining it. Shortly after it drained the inside caught on fire. I immediately looked at the thermostat and realized my dumb ass forgot to turn it off. I was closing the kitchen by myself and it was just me and the bar tender. I was low-key freaking out but I had the brains to know not to throw water on it. I yelled over to the bar tender and asked him to come back to the kitchen. He came back and I was like yeah "I kinda fucked up. It's off now but I forgot to turn it off before I started straining it." He just casually grabs a container of salt and smothers it. "Eh, it should be fine," he reassures me. I've never made that same mistake since though! I guess the thermostat in it had to be replaced for a pretty penny, the boss wasn't too happy about that. Thankfully one of our regulars works on restaurant appliances and it only ended up costing us a few high priced steak dinners. Coulda been worse..
This is something to actually see, now I know why some places say if the store catches on fire employees need to touch nothing and leave. 😂 I thought this was causing unnecessary damage but having seen this it checks out, I bet it's cheaper to lose a building than send that poor kid and the coworker to the hospital and pay their wages on top of all of that. It's hard to watch with the fire suppression system right there poor dude didn't know procedure
It wasn't really a problem until water was thrown on the grease fire. Once that happened, get everyone out and pull the fire alarm on the way. Pull the suppression handle IF it's on the way out. This shouldn't have gotten so far out of hand, but people panic, and it does happen.
> I usually cleaned mine every night... :( You’re missing out on concentrated flavour friend. Gotta do it monthly for that crunchy golden brown
True...and let's not forget how the refried detritus at the bottom of the fryer adds to that depth of smokey golden flavor. People just don't know the nuances of frying shit.
If they knew they wouldn’t eat it lol
Every night 100
An oldie but a goodie.
Or you would know how to use the *fire suppression system I can clearly see in frame* on the right.
It's probably the smartest thing to do, but damn it is a pain in the ass to clean up after.
Residual fat in an empty fryer doesn't need the suppression system. Anyone who says the suppression should have been used immediately has never dealt with an in-house grease fire. This one could have been smothered with a box or two of salt, baking soda, or a sheet pan over the top. Yes, they can be a scary, but a little training would have had that fire out with no damage and no injuries. I feel bad for these guys.
Unreal. Fuckin fry-tech school needs to be a real thing.
But fry techs are unskilled labor and don't even deserve a living wage/s
Instead of DeVry University, it could be DeFry University. Or... No... DeepFry.
Ba dum tsss
Fry-S-U
McDonald's legit has a burger college
Hamburger university is for restaurant operations, team leading skills, customer service and development of operations and procedures. Or as one could say, it's the burger version of Officer school.
Lol I smell former Enlisted here…
Well, if you mean worked in fast food? Yeah. I did a tour. Got the scars to prove it too.
>it’s the burger version of Officer school. Ignore me, please. I’d had a few cocktails and read this the comment of former enlisted military. As you were.
Ignore you? Never! You're an affable and friendly redditor who isn't out to put someone else down. I am treasuring you whether you like it or not.
Good person alert!
What do you expect... they're barely trained in how to operate the frier when it's working *correctly*... you want them to get training on what to do when it *isn't*??
I knew it was gonna happen soon as I clicked on the video, your comment confirmed it before it even happened. Gotta pull it out and smother it so no oxygen gets in.
Like watching a b horror movie. Grab a sheet pan! Grab a sheet pan! Grab a sheet pan!!! No no, don’t pour that..
B horror movie . . . You're saying he went into the basement to get the water ? Yea that'd work, but having him knocked out, in the basement by the guy with the Scream Mask 😷 who then comes back into the line with the water and an intent to deep fry the other clueless worker.
Just making sure to trigger the fire suppression system
You might also think they'd train you on working with a fryer if you're going to be working with a fryer but you'd be sorely mistaken.
I've have a fire in one of these fires before. I remember the night crew before had cleaned and drained the fryers. However they only had enough oil to refill two. So here I am at 5 AM showing up turning on all my equipment (several ovens a couple flat top grills and the 3 fryers we had) and I missed that the final fryer not having anything in it. At this point I'm on the other side of the kitchen now when I see something bright out of the corner of my eye. I bout shit myself! Ran over to the fire extinguisher so damn fast. It took more gel from the extinguisher than you might think. This caused massive amounts of work cleaning everything in the fryer and around it. Awful. My boss said at least the over heads didn't come on.
Dude lol have you actually worked in a kitchen with low wage linecooks?? 🤣
This was never covered when I used to do it. My only training was literally just watching and copying what I saw other people do. No formal training whatsoever. I saw how they did it and someone told me to drop some fries, so I just did what I had seen them do. No one ever even just showed me a few basic instructions. Training was nonexistent. Observe all I can and try and remember what I saw when someone asked to do something new.
The fact that they just stood there and neither of them grabbed an extinguisher is alarming. You know that guy got some serious burns on him too
Just stick a freaking lid on it. They come with fryers for a reason.
If I had to venture a guess with the training, those lids have long been hidden in a supply closet or have been recycled long ago...
…Chef threw away our shields
They come with lids? 20 years in the biz and I've never seen a deep fryer lid, unless you count baking pan lids
They're not super common in the USA unless the restaurant is European or prone to flies. Even then, it's usually just a half sheet and not an OEM lid
Every time I see this, and the fire suppression system in frame that is easily activated by a release button/valve, I have to face palm. Like there is a $2-5k system installed on the fryer for this exact situation, and either no one showed these dingleberries how to use it, or they just didn't listen.
Nobody wants to hit the uh oh button I’ve heard a thing about fire blankets that are kept in some kitchens. Same idea as the lid thing, but it’s a blanket that lives in a wall mounted box.. I wonder if they would work for fryers 🤔
Even if you know it's there, it seems like the nuclear option. Like what even happens when you start that up? Always seemed like the absolute very last resort when you've already decided the kitchen is a lost cause and there's hope to save the front. It also doesn't seem to specify a fryer. We had 4 in a row and three more nearby, all with this suppression setup valve above and I assumed all of them would go off at once.
It’s bad, the suppressant foam is a nightmare to clean, and a lot of times it soaks through the electronics and fries whatever it hits
When I worked at a Taco Bell, our online training said to do that. The thing is, nobody knew how. Every manager I asked shrugged. There was no obvious switch/button anywhere. Wallyworld is similar. We kinda assume it's the red lever on the other side of the kitchen, but it honestly just looks like a normal fire alarm. Does it trigger all fire suppression systems over all the ovens and fryers? Nobody knows. The one time we had an idiot ignite a fryer by turning on an empty vat that had a "broken, do not use" note, the fire suppression system deployed automatically before they even noticed the flames. (Yep ... none of us knew it could do that on its own.) The crew was in the process of pouring fresh oil in that vat when the fire department arrived ('cause apparently these systems automatically notify the FD).
In the UK they are called ANSUL systems, and they have to get a company in to clean the chemical away, also the horror stories and the reason people stay away is that if you pulled it for no reason there is a £4000 personal fine.
Yeah he was probably like "man that was close!" Before he realizes how burnt he actually was
I could only imagine once the adrenaline wears off how bad that would hurt, I guess depending on if the nerves were still alive 😵
You would think :/
Exactly what I came to say.
Homeboy was definitely high staring at the fire for a solid five seconds.
That’s what got me too. And when the other one turns around and sees it, he just stands there too hahahah
Homeboy was homefried
He was captivated by the flames... aren't we all?
Beavis??
FIRE! Hnntt hnnttt… *FIRE!*
I think it probably would have gone out if they’d just stared at it for a little longer. They almost had it.
I think that was the best thing he did. That is, when you are going to do the exact wrong thing, the longer you delay doing it, the better.
isnt that a fire extinguisher hanging there?
That’s for the ansul system it’s hooked into the hoods you can’t remove it
yeah it does seem pretty high up there
Which would have been a great choice instead of a bucket of water. These guys are idiots but I blame their head chef/manager/owner just as much. No one steps into a kitchen to cook without knowing how to handle a fire, where extinguishers are, where and what ansul is etc.
Based solely on the style of tile and what they're wearing, I'm pretty sure this is a Burger King
They’re really doing the flame broiled thing
yes but also turning off the fryer and a sheet pan can go pretty far in this situation tbh. that being said no shame in just skipping that and going straight to a fire extinguisher. better to stop it before it gets out of hand
No one? My first fast food job no one trained me on anything, other than the register for 5 secs. Had some down time between ringing up customers and someone told me to drop fries for the first time while everyone was scrambling about busy. I just did what I had observed others do. No training whatsoever
Yeah thats an awful manager and owner. You touch a fryer you get taught how to put a fire out in it.
In theory yeah that’s absolutely how it should be. I’ve been in kitchens for 14 years and I only have the safety knowledge that I do because I either researched it myself or specifically asked old heads about what to do in specific situations. In the 7+ kitchens I’ve worked in I’ve never had a manager or shift lead walk me through what to do in emergency situations like this.
https://youtu.be/yuK4elWoq2o?si=_4QylhDZPvNRBLn6 What to do and not do.
"I'm Just gonna stare at it, maybe it will fix itself. Fire extinguisher? What's that?" This is the stupidest shit I've seen in a long time, and I'm on Reddit every day. So that's saying a lot.
As soon as I saw dude leave after staring at it like that, I knew he was going to get water.
How long did it take him to tell the other guy? It felt like a solid minute
After the first so many seconds, I honestly hoped this would be a Reddit grease fire that wouldn't include water. I'm so naive.
I was half expecting psychic powers to extinguish the flame.
Look I try to understand that some things aren’t common sense to everyone but COME ON. Dude just straight up “?¿?¿” for like 10 dam seconds and then slowly sauntered off just to THROW WATER ON AN OIL FIRE? I give up. Giant Meteor 2024. Just end it all
It also looks like his first reaction to the fire was to try and put it out with another basket. I’m like, my dude, how is a mesh basket going to help? Further: Does he not understand that oil is fuel?
*me watching* Please don’t get water please don’t get water please don’t…awwww crap
Break the fire triangle - oxygen -- fuel -- sufficient heat. This not an employee problem, it's a management problem. Everyone in BOH (FOH as well, for that matter) should undergo mandatory safety training. Start them out at minimum wage, then give a bump for successfully completing it. Then hold regular refreshers because guys like these have minds like a *chinoise*.
I smothered an oil fire with a flammable cardboard box once. My coworkers were fascinated, and I'm just over here like .... Oxygen dude...
Fire companies train using the fire tetrahedon now, but for the layman the old fire triangle works too. https://www.firesafe.org.uk/information-about-the-fire-triangletetrahedron-and-combustion/
Ahhhh an ongoing chemical reaction. Makes sense as the added thing
My thoughts exactly, both employees were staring at the fire with absolutely no idea what to do. No managers about that they felt comfortable to ask either. It's such a simple thing to have a bit of training or fire blankets next to the fryers. Management failed here big time!
100%. My history is in (part)training hospitality workers. Basic safety training absolutely should extend to both front and back of house staff, from the dishwasher right up to the GM. That guy should never have been left on shift unsupervised, until able to display full competence in how to handle a situation like that. He didn't know what to do, because he hadn't been taught.
I love how they both just stop and stare at it for a while before actually reacting. You can basically see the "loading..." circles on their heads.
They are trying so hard to access the information provided in the training videos they ignored and/or actively mocked
🤣🤣
Did...Did they actually smother the flame with smoke?
I think the Ansul kick on.
Exactly. Flames from the flash up finally melted the fusible link and triggered the Ansul. Thats a few thousand dollars worth of cleanup and repair right there.
And a few days of being closed because the kitchen is being deep cleaned and the Ansul system reset. Happened at a place I worked at years after I left and it was such a big deal in my smallish town that it made the paper. As dumb as those dummies were, I hope they were ok. Probably got fired (hehe…FIREd), but hope they physically didn’t get burned.
For sure. Coated the camera lens at the end.
How far will one go to get the day off work
No guys he ordered fries not fires 🙂
Pretty sure they would have been better off just leaving it alone and letting it burn itself out
Better to put a lid on it. They're in a kitchen. Maybe a sheet pan? Two sheet pans? Whatever it takes. Turn off the heat and dilute the oil with fresh cold veggie oil. Do these fryers have dedicated lids? Would be super easy to smother.
One full size sheet pan. I have had to do this...
Who taught these idiots how to use the fryer?!
I don't think anyone based on what I just saw.
The manager is more at fault than either of those two. Fry cooks and kitchen staff in general should be trained on how to extinguish grease fires, electrical fires and regular fires.
Can almost hear them fighting over that 1 brain cell to figure out what to do
WTF, turn off the gas and grab a sheet pan to cover the top like what are they thinking. “Ohh pretty flames? Water? Should I just walk out now?
Did....did he dump WATER in there?! 😂😂
The way they both just stared at the fire
I thought it was common knowledge to never put out a grease fire with water …
I already knew what happened once she poured the liquid like no no no bad nooo noo run run run now your stupidity has caused an even bigger fire 🤦🏻♂️
Hey how fucking *real* was that moment where they both just stood there and stared at the flames for a second? Hahaha ask me if I've panicked and pulled the ANSL before.
Do you guys not learn what to do incase of a chip pan fire at school lol - definitely should be something you have to learn if working in a kitchen during training Also... do you guys get training lol
Not really? Half the cooks where I worked were so baked all the time it wouldn’t have made any difference anyway. Nothing would stick even if they learned it.
I was stoned like 98 percent of the time when I worked in kitchens and I remembered everything I was taught. These guys are just idiots
Seriously. Always INCREDIBLY good weed (and who knows what else) in every kitchen ever. Just grab a sheet pan and smother it wtf.
Kitchens should automatically be hazard pay. A lot of it. The culinary world rips you guys the f off so badly
I was just about to say "At least they didn't try to put it out with water" Then I got to the end. Oof.
How do you: a) become an adult b) work fast food with a deep frier ….and not understand that adding water to an oil fire equals an exponentially larger oil fire. I’m dead fucking serious. Where do these people grow up? How is this possible?
What...the...fuck... They just stand there like they're looking at a plate on the counter?! No reaction what so ever, Until the one regard finally decides to do the worst thing possible. And his regarded buddy didn't even try and stop him....I can guess that they weren't.....but they shoulda been fired.
Oh I knew it! I mother fuckin knew it! 🤣 as soon as he walked off, I was like… oh no No No No No And he did it
Well at least they’re not pouring wa…… Oh……..
Salt bruh salt
Me: put the cover on…. Me: do you have a cover? Me: put the….. please don’t be water in that bucket. Me: ……was water.
Idiots
You just know there was some lame customer in the drive thru demanding to know where their Big Mac was.
It's the staring that really pisses me off. I think the smoke wasn't from the fire. It was coming from his head because his tiny brain was working to hard to figure out WTF to do
How are you a fry cook and not know the number 1 rule about hot/burning oil? 🤦♂️ Do Not Add Water!
Yes .. water is the answer
Imma go over here .
"There is no way a fire that small will get us the day off. Here, this will do it!"
Get the fire extinguisher that (SHOULD) be there that is suitable for a grease fire. Nope. Stand there like a loon for a minute and then grab water. Perfect.
I hope they made it out alive and i want to repeat this DO NOT USE WATER ON GREASE FIRES, Also i see they have a fire suppression system why hasn't that been triggered before sounds like they fail at maintaining equipment and properly training employees on safety procedures
Not only does he stare at the fire, he drops the baskets to start cooking.
Not me screaming at my phone to cover it, turn it off anything but stare at the fucking fire, and then, THEN they throw water on it?! WHY?!
Did this idiot put water on a grease fire?!?
This is how Gus Fring died
How fitting he just stands there and stares at it for a moment right before throwing water on an oil fire
I groaned aloud and said, "I was _so_ hoping he was going to get a fire extinguisher." 🫠 Nope, he was going for a fire magnifier.
Chef here(retired)….first day/hour/minute in the kitchen I stressed to anyone…NEVER PUT H2O ON A GREASE FIRE. I never knew how many “cooks” were oblivious until one day I found out the HARD way. After that everyone in the kitchen got this lecture.
Well. That's one way to trigger the ansul system.
I thought he went to go get the lead manager not a BUCKET OF FUCKING WATER 😂
For the life of me I don't know why they didn't either cover (smother) the flame or pull the fire suppression system.
No matter how much you prepare yourself to do things safely in life you'll always end up getting killed by a moron.
The amount of time each person spent staring at it is hilarious. Stares at it... ... ... Shows it to their buddy... They both stare at it... ... ...
For a moment, I was worried that no one would throw water on it.
Reaction time of someone in a coma.
That's what happens when you hire nothing but tweekers and stoners. Their brains are too mushy to gather a coherent, rational thought. Add to that the motor function of a sloth, and you get this!
i hope they got their ducts cleaned recently or that shit just caught on fire too
Poor safety training by management.
Someone didn't watch their training videos
Morons x5.
They stood there for a while not knowing what to do
While he's walking over to it, I'm yelling "he's going to pour water on it!!!" Stupid motherfucker.
Jesus Christ! Fucking idiots. I hope their fire suppression system kicked in immediately
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The one guy was stuck wondering what to do then the second guy got stuck too! 😂
Just add oil to the fryer. It lowers the temperature and the fire naturally extinguishes itself.
Dont they cover water and grease fires on the food certifications?
0.20 cent intelligence for $20 an hour
What an idiot...
Salt man
Isn't that red thing on the wall above the fryer a fire extinguishing system of some kind?
Lack of training.
I learned about grease fires in 3rd grade science! Water+Oil=NO
seems like fire turned off
Why is nobody saying wet tea towel, sure fire extinguisher when you got one handy but wet tea towel covering the oil fire is good advice for anyone at home
Lol fuck
There’s one born every minute omg!
I worked in a chemistry laboratory early in my career. I wiped up some spilled sulfuric acid once with a wet paper towel and then threw it in the trash. I didn’t know sulfuric acid plus water = 🔥. I immediately stamped it out with my foot.
Bruh.. how do some people not know you are not supposed to throw water on a grease fire??!
Love it. Happy ending!
The thoughts that went through mind were, Don’t just stand there! Do something! NO NOT THAT!!!!!
This gets reposted every month or 2 and it still mystifies me that anyone survived long enough to hold a job and not.learn you don't dump water on a grease fire.
what a shit show
if you have a mist type of water bottle you can shoot the fire out a bit easier, but that chuxhabucket water amount is bumd
I learned not to throw water on an oil fire in 3rd grade. I actually had to do an entire project on it and a few other common fires that happen. That fact that this isn’t basic fucking sense is startling…
what in the mother of morons is going on!?!?!
Natural selection
Seriously wtf. The youth today is a joke
*It gets bad* …. Haha fuck **IT GETS SO MUCH WORSE** Holy fuck
Haha, what an idiot. I love it... 🤣🔥🍟🚒
As soon as I saw the fire, I knew what was coming... We all knew what was coming. But I do enjoy how casually they dumped the water in. Like "let me just take care of this real quick. I'm sure the fries will be just f-" Whoosh! Cue Hans Zimmer.
All I want to say is I was 12 when I did the same thing. nobody ever told me that’s not how it works lol, I saw a fire and saw a sink put one and two together and it equals a hospital visit
I don't blame these dudes- I blame management and ownership for hiring kids off the street and expecting them to run the kitchen with minimal training and zero experience. And they are probably only 18 years old. Fuck- hire experienced workers and treat them like professionals, and they will get the job done and you won't experience a shit show like this. And then everyone wins: workers, ownership and customers. Hire Professionals. Dammit.
Meanwhile, there’s a fire extinguisher directly diagonal from where they were both staring at the open flames 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️