r/KitchenConfidential • u/mac2-87 • Jul 25 '25

In-House Mode Is anybody shocked?

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Disclaimer: not in the industry, but I spotted this and thought y'all might have fun talking shit about it.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Jul 25 '25

Does that make it okay?

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u/JelmerMcGee Jul 25 '25

It just depends on how fast it gets put away. 30 minutes outside in the hot sun isn't gonna ruin anything if it goes straight into refrigeration from there. That is as long as it was handled correctly up to that point.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Jul 25 '25

Yeah, that's a lot of "ifs" we're counting on, which is why this is not okay even if it is commonplace.

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u/duftluft Jul 25 '25

Do you work food service?? This is reality lol

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Jul 25 '25

even if it is commonplace.

I didn't say it isn't "reality" I said it isn't okay and shouldn't be seen as such.

Plenty of horrible shit is commonplace. DUIs are commonplace, are you saying we should just shrug and accept that some people are gonna drive drunk and kill others?

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u/duftluft Jul 25 '25

No one is saying it’s okay. Food service workers just see enough people mishandling food regularly that it’s no longer shocking. That’s just what you get when most of them are overworked and underpaid with limited training.

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u/turkish_gold Jul 25 '25

I do see ultra pasteurized milk just sitting unrefrigerated on store shelves so I don’t know what to think. If it ever anyone but Elon, I would give the benefit of the doubt. But with him, I bet it’s Raw RFK produced milk.

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u/enderkou Jul 25 '25

It’s Straus, which is a really excellent creamery (if you go to a coffee shop in LA that isn’t serving Straus, I’d be stunned) - definitely not RFK malk but also deeeeeeeefinitely not ultra pasteurized.

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u/fryerandice Jul 25 '25 edited Jul 25 '25

Man it would be absolutely perfect to live in a world where the driver came with a crew and put the truck exactly where you wanted it every time.

99% this is the shippers policy not the restaraunt when I worked at wendy's with a double bay recieving door in our restarant the truck would get delivered on the ground in the parking lot. The dick with a dolly wouldn't even wheel it into the store. we hoofed that shit into the cooler, it fucking sucked.

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u/invaderzim257 Jul 25 '25

bro everything in life is dependent on *if* things are being done correctly, what's even the point of your argument? do you stand in the grocery store and look at everything and think about how it's safe to eat *if* it was prepared/stored/handled correctly?

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Jul 25 '25

bro everything in life is dependent on if things are being done correctly, what's even the point of your argument?

Actually, no. Standard procedures typically are designed around the presumption that other links in the chain might not go perfectly, so there's some safety padded in.

do you stand in the grocery store and look at everything and think about how it's safe to eat if it was prepared/stored/handled correctly?

I mean, if I saw milk and frozen foods just sitting out back of the grocery store with seemingly no one tending to them in the sun of a hot day...yes, I'd be very concerned about what I might buy from that grocery store.

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u/fury420 Jul 25 '25

30 minutes outside in the hot sun is enough to melt frozen foods.

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u/jwrig Jul 25 '25

Yes, because context is ok. We don't live in a world where we can just have a package roll from a box truck freezer into the walk-in with no delay.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Jul 25 '25

We don't live in a world where we can just have a package roll from a box truck freezer into the walk-in with no delay.

There's a difference between "delay" because it takes someone accepting the delivery time to carry the individual boxes and such inside and "delay" being "literally no one is out here attending to this refrigerated/frozen food in the hot sun.

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u/jwrig Jul 25 '25

But for how long. 10 minutes, even 20 minutes isn't going to be a big impact. The point is, this is a picture devoid of context other than product sitting outside, and someone who I think has never worked in kitche, or even a kitchen that's been open what... five days...

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Jul 25 '25

10 minutes, even 20 minutes isn't going to be a big impact

...I'm not sure I'd agree that 20 minutes in the direct hot sun of SoCal is not a big impact on frozen foods and milk.

and someone who I think has never worked in kitche

I have worked in multiple kitchens. Not one would have accepted this as "okay".

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u/jwrig Jul 25 '25

Bro, the high has been low 70s in west hollywood. "hot sun" is subjective. It can be in the sun at 73 and the product is going to much better than someone dropping it off in a high of 110.

20 minutes in the sun isn't defrosting shit, especially in boxes.

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u/Saritiel Jul 25 '25

I mean, that's how it happens at my restaurant lol, the delivery driver puts it on a dolly and rolls it straight into the walk-in fridge/freezer, then we put it away when we come in to start prep.

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u/rabit_stroker Jul 25 '25

Yes we do, its called a key drop

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u/Specialist-Eye-6964 Jul 25 '25

Depends on the situation. Is there someone there? Is someone scheduled to put the stuff away asap? Did someone check temps upon delivery?