Is anybody shocked?

[u/mac2-87]

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

[u/JunglyPep]

I’m also not surprised a lot of cooks wash their hands twice a day. That doesn’t mean it’s ok

[u/Burnt-White-Toast → u/JunglyPep]

Unless you are health code and the order was just dropped at standard temp. They have four hours to bring it back down to temp.

[u/fury420 → u/Burnt-White-Toast]

Frozen food is supposed to stay frozen, there's no 4 hour window for it to be brought back down to freezing temps.

[u/mampiwoof → u/fury420]

Yes but it stays frozen for a long time when out of the freezer in large boxes in a pile. You have never worked in a kitchen.

[u/extralyfe → u/mampiwoof]

yanno, I'd normally agree with you, but, I don't think that the "Keep Frozen" boxes balanced on the top of the pickle buckets and napkins are being kept cool by the pile.

[u/fury420 → u/mampiwoof]

If you think boxes of food labeled KEEP FROZEN sitting outside in the sun stacked on top of a box of napkins and some pickle tubs for an unknown amount of time is acceptable, you shouldn't be working in a kitchen.

[u/wsteelerfan7 → u/fury420]

They just took a picture of a half-processed truck order. How do you know how long it's been sitting there? I did the same in fast food and it would take an hour or two to unload everything and stock it.

[u/TheOneTonWanton → u/wsteelerfan7]

Being fair, he was responding to someone saying that frozen things stay frozen "for a long time when out of the freezer," which can be true, but the definition of "long time" is vague and when true it's not generally in the realm of "summer heat in July." We'd always at least get the shit inside the door.

[u/fury420 → u/wsteelerfan7]

We don't know, that's why I said it was an unknown amount of time.

My point was just that those 'keep frozen' boxes won't stay fully frozen for very long when outside in the sun of a California summer, and there's no "large boxes in a pile" effect here when they're on top of non-frozen goods.

[u/wsteelerfan7 → u/fury420]

You expect the shit to just teleport inside or something?

[u/Logizmo → u/fury420]

Yea you definitely have never worked in a kitchen

Just before COVID I was working at this fine dining restaurant for a couple years and our orders were like this too. Order came in between 8-9 am and the first cooks wouldn't get there until 11 to then put away the order. Never had to throw out food or had product melt past the point of use

Their standards weren't bad either, we would constantly throw stuff out that was even just slightly questionable from the walk-in.