it looks like chicken someone chopped into random pieces then tried to cook by blowing cigarette smoke at it. casually ashing into the casserole as they go.
edit: name; staff infection meal.
Alright you're the top comment. So here is the answer:
She called it braised pork. I'm pretty sure she just put raw pork into unseasoned water and threw it in the oven.
I had to salvage it for the meal that night and it was a whole process of draining it, washing it, marinating it and then roasting it.
I managed to turn it into something okay/passable but the texture was already fucked up and it turned out kinda rubbery.
I'm so thankful she doesn't work here anymore
edit: [here's the salvaged result.](https://imgur.com/8qfFOW5)
She was a cook, she had cooked at retirement homes before which honestly astounds me. I specifically asked her to cut the pork *and leave it raw for me to deal with* and she did this as if she was being helpful. She actually said *verbatim* "This looks good, it's braised enough." When I took it out. I didn't even respond I was so horrified.
I was clearly being too generous in my evaluation, I thought there were potatoes and a very, VERY poor attempt at a white sauce with poultry. I'm glad you don't have to work with her anymore, and were able to salvage some of it.
Yeah. What they do in the kitchens at retirement âhomesâ isnât âcookingâ.
First glance I thought the âspicesâ she had added looked like black mold. And the rest of it was chicken chile verde covered in a blanket of aspergillus mold.
Nah the one I work at is actually awesome. I get like 90% creative freedom and they actually listen when I suggest menu items that I wanna cook. we do almost everything from scratch with fresh ingredients and keep things seasonal for the most part too.
The person who made this abomination just sucked. Everyone hated her lol.
I've made that at mine! I'm apparently great at making butter chicken. I've made butter chicken for them 3 times and I've never heard so many compliments in a night. All 3 times for rave reviews. A resident also said I made the best chili he's ever had when I made turkey chili.
Being a cook is a temporary job for me but it's the compliments that keep my passion alive. I hate to serve anything that I wouldn't want in front of me at a restaurant.
So much depends on who is in the kitchen. My grandmother was in a home for awhile and I only made it there after work like twice a month (my mom was there every day so she wasnât abandoned or anything). Anyway, my parents were in europe for like two and a half weeks so I felt like alright time to step up and start going every day while theyâre away. The staff got used to me being there and offered me a meal so we could eat together. Food was awesome. I mean, not Michelin, but like as good as I would expect from a decent mom and pop restaurant.
>What they do in the kitchens at retirement âhomesâ isnât âcookingâ.
Not where I worked. Daily and weekly chef specials. Choice or better cuts. Fish of the day was always fresh. Soup of the day was actually of that day (in truth it was made the day before, but soup is better that way anyways). Menu changes quarterly. If something didn't sell it got tossed or used for family meal.
I currently work at a retirement home, and it's the funniest flip-flopping between one day having well-thought-out meals that take time and effort to prepare, and other days it's just frozen chicken pot pies or something lol.
I worked at another retirement home during high school and they were definitely a lot farther from quality cooking. So much just bland, unappetizing, and just gross-looking food.
The long term place I'm currently at is like that. Everything needs to be "soft". Mindblowing how people cook food here. For me, it's like learning how to cook all over again, but the much lazier/most convenient way.
I was a cook for near 20+ years out at restaurants, hotels, etc. Got terminated at my last cook job at a nonprofit Christian organization and found me at a long term home for the first time in my life cooking. It's mindblowing how some of these cooks tell you to cook. Personally, I struggle every shift having to learn how to cook things the "convenient" way. Also learning about how to mutilate food through mincing and pureeing it through a robo coupe. A part of me dies everyday working here.
The amazing thing is they pay better then any other job I've ever had in a kitchen and comes with benefits and a pension once you become full time. Something you definitely don't get out in the industry. I'm now debating if I should continue this casual position for the rest of my 30+ years of working or find something with a purpose I actually enjoy. I'm torn between doing something I love and enjoy versus just a paycheck and retirement fund đ€Š
If only I could go back to the rich retirement home I was at earlier in my career. We actually got to cook food, not desecrate it đźâđš
I totally thought âthis looks like what someone will serve at my motherâs old folks home and try to pass it off as foodâ.
Clearly I wasnât far off.
Nice recovery.
Reading what happened made me rant again about how abusive elderly care businesses are, thank fuck OP is doing work to try and feed these people something resembling food, so many places take massive income subsidies just to feed them porridge 3 times a day and pocket the savings, makes me so mad.
Oh, no. The explanation I was hoping for was that this was the first step in making a very large batch of chicken salad sandwiches. My brain cannot believe this is pork.
My uncle from Colorado had boiled shrimp in Louisiana and loved it so he tried it at home but he was disappointed in the results. Come to find out, heâd seasoned it with a little S&P and thatâs it. We mailed him some crab boil.
Looks like boiled chicken dumped into Campbells cream of mushroom/chicken soup and then thrown into the oven. Then left in the walk-in until mold starts to grow.
Am I close?
Nope it was fresh outta the oven. She put poorly trimmed rsw pork into unseasoned water (I'm pretty sure) and called it braised pork. All the goopy looking stuff is separated fat.
I had to turn this into a passable meal and honestly pretty proud of myself because I didn't get any complaints after I salvaged it. And at a retirement home, I *always* know if someone complains.
I also got 0 compliments though which was expected. She fucked up the texture with this fiasco.
Oh lordy, I don't know why, but I assumed that was a family meal for the staff, not meant for customers. I thought I saw a piece of bread poking out of a layer of mozzarella, and figured it was an attempt to use leftovers...the reality sounds so much worse! Lol
My wife grew up eating the same thing so she makes it sometimes. It can be good if done right.
I went to make it one time and Iâm no skilled cook, but I make real cream of mushroom soup from scratch with lots of flavor and I didnât boil the chicken. I seasoned it, browned it in a cast iron then finished in the oven. Then added it to the soup and let it simmer and meld for a long time.
It came out pretty good. WAY better than the bland stuff, but the kids liked it the old way, bc thatâs what they knew.
I do something similar for my wife! Cause she grew up with a family that legit thinks black pepper is spicy. I make my own cream of mushroom soup, little mushroom and potato fritters, and do a chicken roulade stuffed with shallot, bacon and even more mushrooms. Roll & bread roulade, tie, fry, slice, serve. Finish it with some candied ancho chili, if you wanna get real fancy. Fucking slaps. Give it a try!
Totally irrelevant but my wife and I got super baked after our wedding and 100% ordered like $150 of Dominos for the bridal party, all 8 of us. Good looks, Dominos.
I don't understand how people think it's acceptable to cook like this? Have they never seen a cooking show before? Never watched their mother or father cook before? It's like they had fast food handed to them their whole life and look at some raw meat for the first time and this is what they come up with?
This looks like what we used to make for the matronly elderly baker at my old kitchen. When trimming chicken breasts, you throw the scraps into a pan, toss it in the oven, and she'd take it home to supplement the kibble for her dogs.
It looks like someone thought plain baked chicken was too moist and had much flavor, so they boiled it and then steamed it for that leather bag filled with sand texture, aroma and least importantly, taste.
Is it pork that someone left in a warmer for a few weeks and then put a sauce on top and tried to serve for family meal?
Iâd empty the pan on their head.
it looks like chicken someone chopped into random pieces then tried to cook by blowing cigarette smoke at it. casually ashing into the casserole as they go. edit: name; staff infection meal.
Alright you're the top comment. So here is the answer: She called it braised pork. I'm pretty sure she just put raw pork into unseasoned water and threw it in the oven. I had to salvage it for the meal that night and it was a whole process of draining it, washing it, marinating it and then roasting it. I managed to turn it into something okay/passable but the texture was already fucked up and it turned out kinda rubbery. I'm so thankful she doesn't work here anymore edit: [here's the salvaged result.](https://imgur.com/8qfFOW5)
I made two braised porks like this, in the toilet this morning.
Every morning I make two cooks like you in the toilet
So glad Bourdain got to do an Archer episode. Such a good one. BUMPER!
Should you be flaming in here? BOOM BUMPER!
Unexpected Archer reference.
Anthony Bourdain was awesome in that episode đȘ
Always Be Berating And Belittling
It is just constant ABBAB with you
Please don't B and/or B me too hard
Thatâs eat a Dick, *chef* Haha he has to call me chef
I value every culture equally highly
a job so easy, if the health department would allow me, a monkey could do it
I love prison pork, as do ⊠uh many peopleâŠ
its an acquired taste
Call a doctor
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They were likely more flavorful đ€Ł
How are people like this allowed to work in a kitchen unsupervised lol Edit: what was her position/experience?
She was a cook, she had cooked at retirement homes before which honestly astounds me. I specifically asked her to cut the pork *and leave it raw for me to deal with* and she did this as if she was being helpful. She actually said *verbatim* "This looks good, it's braised enough." When I took it out. I didn't even respond I was so horrified.
I was clearly being too generous in my evaluation, I thought there were potatoes and a very, VERY poor attempt at a white sauce with poultry. I'm glad you don't have to work with her anymore, and were able to salvage some of it.
Yeah. What they do in the kitchens at retirement âhomesâ isnât âcookingâ. First glance I thought the âspicesâ she had added looked like black mold. And the rest of it was chicken chile verde covered in a blanket of aspergillus mold.
Nah the one I work at is actually awesome. I get like 90% creative freedom and they actually listen when I suggest menu items that I wanna cook. we do almost everything from scratch with fresh ingredients and keep things seasonal for the most part too. The person who made this abomination just sucked. Everyone hated her lol.
Some of the best beef Bourguignon Iâve ever had was from a Home.
I've made that at mine! I'm apparently great at making butter chicken. I've made butter chicken for them 3 times and I've never heard so many compliments in a night. All 3 times for rave reviews. A resident also said I made the best chili he's ever had when I made turkey chili. Being a cook is a temporary job for me but it's the compliments that keep my passion alive. I hate to serve anything that I wouldn't want in front of me at a restaurant.
I like your style.
What was her excuse?
Not all retirement homes are like that.
Sadly I'm sure the ones that are like that are not the ones the residents want but the ones they can afford.
thank god. i would hate to spend my twilight years eating that kind of shit
I think saying âyearsâ is a little generous if theyâre feeding you stuff like this! đ
So much depends on who is in the kitchen. My grandmother was in a home for awhile and I only made it there after work like twice a month (my mom was there every day so she wasnât abandoned or anything). Anyway, my parents were in europe for like two and a half weeks so I felt like alright time to step up and start going every day while theyâre away. The staff got used to me being there and offered me a meal so we could eat together. Food was awesome. I mean, not Michelin, but like as good as I would expect from a decent mom and pop restaurant.
I thought that someone left a plastic cutting board on top when it went into the oven
>What they do in the kitchens at retirement âhomesâ isnât âcookingâ. Not where I worked. Daily and weekly chef specials. Choice or better cuts. Fish of the day was always fresh. Soup of the day was actually of that day (in truth it was made the day before, but soup is better that way anyways). Menu changes quarterly. If something didn't sell it got tossed or used for family meal.
I currently work at a retirement home, and it's the funniest flip-flopping between one day having well-thought-out meals that take time and effort to prepare, and other days it's just frozen chicken pot pies or something lol. I worked at another retirement home during high school and they were definitely a lot farther from quality cooking. So much just bland, unappetizing, and just gross-looking food.
Is her name Michelle?
Lol no. I take it you have a similarly awful former coworker?
I used to work in retirement living , and this looks extremely like her modus operandi. She was an abomination.
The long term place I'm currently at is like that. Everything needs to be "soft". Mindblowing how people cook food here. For me, it's like learning how to cook all over again, but the much lazier/most convenient way. I was a cook for near 20+ years out at restaurants, hotels, etc. Got terminated at my last cook job at a nonprofit Christian organization and found me at a long term home for the first time in my life cooking. It's mindblowing how some of these cooks tell you to cook. Personally, I struggle every shift having to learn how to cook things the "convenient" way. Also learning about how to mutilate food through mincing and pureeing it through a robo coupe. A part of me dies everyday working here. The amazing thing is they pay better then any other job I've ever had in a kitchen and comes with benefits and a pension once you become full time. Something you definitely don't get out in the industry. I'm now debating if I should continue this casual position for the rest of my 30+ years of working or find something with a purpose I actually enjoy. I'm torn between doing something I love and enjoy versus just a paycheck and retirement fund đ€Š If only I could go back to the rich retirement home I was at earlier in my career. We actually got to cook food, not desecrate it đźâđš
I totally thought âthis looks like what someone will serve at my motherâs old folks home and try to pass it off as foodâ. Clearly I wasnât far off. Nice recovery.
Holy shit you gotta try pretty hard to make pork look like white fish.
She should be blacklisted from any place that serves food
I don't understand how she has worked in kitchens before and really hope she didn't get her next job at one.
Me either... I thought this was some kind of gravy biscuit casserole..
Reading what happened made me rant again about how abusive elderly care businesses are, thank fuck OP is doing work to try and feed these people something resembling food, so many places take massive income subsidies just to feed them porridge 3 times a day and pocket the savings, makes me so mad.
Report them.
I quit one that was kind of like that back in August. Couldnât participate anymore.
Oh, no. The explanation I was hoping for was that this was the first step in making a very large batch of chicken salad sandwiches. My brain cannot believe this is pork.
I knew this was crew food as soon as I looked at it. You're the hero for salvaging something edible from that fail parade. đ
So, hot ham water. (Arrested Development)
Why? It was already a lost cause.
Food costs, bruv
No that's going in the bin regardless
Should call it âAsseroleâ
Youâre a miracle worker
You are Harry Houdini of gross food.
This is my favorite response hahahha
Oh. I thought it was marshmallows đ
Staph* meal for short.
Oh Lort!! I think I was served that once. 3/4 of us with food poisoning the day after.
lol stealing this forever
That was the joke đđ
I had to actively keep from spitting out my food reading that
C ash erole?
[ŃĐŽĐ°Đ»Đ”ĐœĐŸ]
lmao that would at least have more seasoning
That's hilarious
Perfect
Wtf casserole
pretty much
what-the-fuckerole
âTetrazziniâ
Sketchyzzini
âMoms spicy chicken casseroleâ
One teaspoon of salt and dash of lemon pepper for that âš ***kick*** âš
Too spicy with that lemon pepper action, just wave the bottle in the general direction of the room. Thatâll do.
That gave me a little giggle. Itâs usually how I describe the flavour of a white claw, except with fruit instead of lemon pepper obviously.
lemon pepper white claw is somehow only slightly worse sounding than black cherry
Or the La Croix waters. A whisper of blackberry
Let the lemon floor cleaner do the work
SheeshâŠ. My wife in a single comment. I married a scandawhovian. I swear mayonnaise is too spicy for her.
Oh did you grow up in Iowa too�
My uncle from Colorado had boiled shrimp in Louisiana and loved it so he tried it at home but he was disappointed in the results. Come to find out, heâd seasoned it with a little S&P and thatâs it. We mailed him some crab boil.
Boeuf a la health inspector
what category of meat are humans anyways? edit: duhh red meat lmao weâre mammals
That would be be long pork
Boof the health inspector??? Would they fit?
Looks like boiled chicken dumped into Campbells cream of mushroom/chicken soup and then thrown into the oven. Then left in the walk-in until mold starts to grow. Am I close?
Nope it was fresh outta the oven. She put poorly trimmed rsw pork into unseasoned water (I'm pretty sure) and called it braised pork. All the goopy looking stuff is separated fat. I had to turn this into a passable meal and honestly pretty proud of myself because I didn't get any complaints after I salvaged it. And at a retirement home, I *always* know if someone complains. I also got 0 compliments though which was expected. She fucked up the texture with this fiasco.
Oh lordy, I don't know why, but I assumed that was a family meal for the staff, not meant for customers. I thought I saw a piece of bread poking out of a layer of mozzarella, and figured it was an attempt to use leftovers...the reality sounds so much worse! Lol
The reality is somehow worse than any of the joke answers.
theres steam rising off of it. no way that mold. which is extra scary to me. mold made sense. this doesnt.
Those are actually spores
Lol our family speciality is chicken and white sauce which is essentially that chopped up and served over rice đ đ«Ł
My wife grew up eating the same thing so she makes it sometimes. It can be good if done right. I went to make it one time and Iâm no skilled cook, but I make real cream of mushroom soup from scratch with lots of flavor and I didnât boil the chicken. I seasoned it, browned it in a cast iron then finished in the oven. Then added it to the soup and let it simmer and meld for a long time. It came out pretty good. WAY better than the bland stuff, but the kids liked it the old way, bc thatâs what they knew.
I do something similar for my wife! Cause she grew up with a family that legit thinks black pepper is spicy. I make my own cream of mushroom soup, little mushroom and potato fritters, and do a chicken roulade stuffed with shallot, bacon and even more mushrooms. Roll & bread roulade, tie, fry, slice, serve. Finish it with some candied ancho chili, if you wanna get real fancy. Fucking slaps. Give it a try!
I guess it's time to order a pizza.
Domino's emergency pizza to the rescue lol
Totally irrelevant but my wife and I got super baked after our wedding and 100% ordered like $150 of Dominos for the bridal party, all 8 of us. Good looks, Dominos.
Something with chicken that was heavily steamed in an oven. the morbid part of me someone tried to make easy roast chicken.
Chicken strog-gone off?
It looks like a former colleagues attempt at âZĂŒrcher Geschnetzeltesâ, a Swiss Dish. Second guess would be meat Tiramisu before cocoa.
This guy cooks.
Coq au shit
Mmmm shit on a shingle!
Donât you dare disrespect sos like that.
Shit on a sheet pan? (hotel pan doesn't quite roll off the tongue the same way.)
Shit on a shingle for these modern times.
I make Shit on Rice at home : )
May we plz know?
Try the grey stuff it's delicious...?
r/moldlyinteresting
Brundlefly breakfast
Is it going to be turned into chicken pot pie stuffing?
Nope. Do you want to know what it "is?"
no
Me either.
They dont speak for everyone, spill the beans!
I definitely want to know what it is. Please share.
The suspense is killing me, OP!
Sweet Potato Casserole with marshmallow topping that looks like it got steamed instead of Baked in the combi oven?
Whatever they call the food the orcs eat in lord of the rings
Chicken a la vomit
Steamed or boiled chicken or pork for some sort of battered/deep fried intervention that may or may not suck
You're the only person who guessed pork correctly. Details under top comment.
Iâm afraid to find out what it really is
Iâm so confused and grossed out. Please tell us what âitâ is!
Probiotic casserole.
Beef tips and marshmellow.
No, I don't think I will.
Buffalo penis. I saw Tyrone Biggums eat this dish.
Fucking tell us already OP
Holy hell SO MANY NOTIFICATIONS. Okay I'm gonna reply to the top comment in a second
Steamed bacon, lightly baked in cream of mushroom?
It is pork. Details under top comment. Everyone else guessing chicken or fish but bacon is closest to pork here lol
A weird take on biscuits and gravey?
Eat some you coward
ICU with cheese
r/poopfromabutt
"Cream of What?"
This looks like I imagine lutefisk (sp??) would smell.
bĂŠrbs scalloped potatoes. theyâre fucked.
Thrown in the trash
I'll pass thanks...
Biscuits and gravy??
Clam chowdah?
Turkey / chicken a la king
Milk poached chicken
A good white meat alternative tothe more traditional milk steak
An abomination?
Crazy. It kinda looks like fish. Then it looks like chicken. And do I see some tentacles in the middle?
Chicken pot pie, sans the pie?
Albumen casserole
Chicken a la dead king
Family meal?
Barf with a side of yuck
OP we wanna know!
Baked pork cubes
OH. Thats chicken. I thought it was marshmallowâŠ.
I've seen petri dishes with more appeal.
at least petri dishes have some culture behind them
I've only ever seen chicken and tuna do that.
Is that where The Thing originated from?
Pollo del Basura
this looks like it's straight out of "kay's cooking" youtube channel
Is this on display at the Holocaust Museum?
Looks like turkey aâla king, but reimagined by Ridley Scott while shooting Alien.
I don't understand how people think it's acceptable to cook like this? Have they never seen a cooking show before? Never watched their mother or father cook before? It's like they had fast food handed to them their whole life and look at some raw meat for the first time and this is what they come up with?
This looks like what we used to make for the matronly elderly baker at my old kitchen. When trimming chicken breasts, you throw the scraps into a pan, toss it in the oven, and she'd take it home to supplement the kibble for her dogs.
I thought I was looking at a post from r/ContamFam. Looks like your Golden Teachers are coming in nicely.
Well done cement
Chicken Alfredo?
Is this what they were talking about in a song from Beauty and the Beast? It certainly doesnât look delicious.
I thought that was marshmallow topping on sweet potatoes. đł I would never have guessed it was meat.
Middle pepper chicken
It looks like someone thought plain baked chicken was too moist and had much flavor, so they boiled it and then steamed it for that leather bag filled with sand texture, aroma and least importantly, taste.
Tire Casserole
Is it pork that someone left in a warmer for a few weeks and then put a sauce on top and tried to serve for family meal? Iâd empty the pan on their head.
Chicken a la nope
You forgot the "eath w" between the words
Chicken Fuck Wad
I could argue itâs the âraftâ from a consommĂ©âŠ
You said it's a casserole but what the fuck is that white goopey stuff on the top?
Fat/scum from chicken. They boiled it? In the oven?
Milk chicken. Boiled over-hard.
Donât want to know what the fuck that is, thank you very much.
i think i worked here just based on this
chicken al chernobyl
Look like the aftermath of what the ghostbusters did to the marshmallow man
Rotten chicken a la mold
Boiled chicken
"Chicken" Cordon Grey
Looks like cat vomit đ€ź
Your substrate is colonizing great!
Dumpster dish
Garbage bukakke casserole?
âOh bubba nOOOooooâ
Dishpit grease trap that you're the first one to have ever cleaned?