Have you ever watched people in the kitchen at a restaurant?
Posted by Pam on 12 Jun 2007 at 10:35 am | Tagged as: Food, Pam Rants
I think if you did, you’d never eat at a restaurant again!
I went to a local steakhouse to buy some salad dressing. Sound odd? Well, I don’t like the bottled dressings you get at the grocery store and the homemade never comes out quite right. I ate at this particular steakhouse once and their Italian salad dressing was really good, and they told me it was homemade. I took some home and now I buy it all the time. It’s much more expensive than store bought but well worth the extra cost.
So, I have to wait a while as they package it up for me, so I view the open kitchen. First a chef took a steak out of a refrigerator, then sprinkled it HEAVILY with whatever type of seasoning they use on their steaks, but one would assume it contained a healthy dose of sodium. Then he salted the other side … and then took a brush full of oil, brushed it on the grill, and slapped on the steak. Over the next few minutes he poked and prodded the piece of meat rather than just letting it cook.
He turned it several times, then put it on the open flame grill. He moved it around a bit, poked it with a fork (NEVER DO THAT TO MEAT!) and then finally put it on a plate.
So, you have a greasy salty heavily seasoned piece of steak that should have been unmolested, but instead was ruined.
Then I watched them making rolls, putting the dough into a massive mixer, then kneading the dough. A pan came out of a proofer and were brushed with oil/butter and put into the oven. A pan was removed from the oven and again, painted with oil/butter.
I would say that meal, sans veggie, has more fat in one meal than I eat in several days!
I C K!!!









A great book about this is “Kitchen Confidential” by Tony Bourdain. They re-use bread!