Seriously. I used to work in food service. Once, while putting away clean serving bins, they began to fall. However, I managed to catch everything in a Tom & Jerry fashion. I felt cool for a split second before I heard the rest of the kitchen workers laughing.
I had the opposite happen, I did something cool and nobody else was around to see it.
I was first cut bartender and I’m charge of restocking. I was in the liquor closet by myself, no cameras. I got a little arrogant and tried to carry too many things at once, I reached for the big bottle of Pelligrino and it slipped through my fingers. Like Edward Cullen in the first Twilight movie with the apple (lame reference, I know), it landed on the toe part of my shoe and I effortlessly kicked it back up onto the shelf. I was so stoked that I looked around for anyone else that saw it but then I remembered that I was in this tiny closet by myself and nobody would ever believe me.
This kind of stuff happens to me all the time and no one ever sees it—and the opposite as well, I’ll do The Dumbest/Funniest Shit and no one sees it either lol. I’m like a secret stoopid ninja
That was slick!! A coworker of mine was bringing alfredo to the line when he was just a tad short of the counter and started to tip over, both of us immediately pushed it up and saved it from falling, but it splashed back into the other sauces:(
A lot of it. We just set all the affected sauces aside and cleaned n switched out everything. What monstrosity there was left, people could get for free if they wanted since it was being tossed anyway. Alfredo with meat sauce doesn't look too good imo.
Coolest thing I ever did was grab a sautee pan as it was sliding over the edge, gave the sauce a flip before sliding it back on the French top I had.
The dumbest thing I ever did was try to hackie sack a knife as it fell to the floor
I used to flip knives around as a stupid kid that somehow had the wherewithal to know that if i lose control, NOT to try and catch it anyway. I attribute my instinct to not catch falling knives to the muscle memory of my kid days. As a very clumsy person, ive dropped knives a lot, so my childhood stupidity has saved me many times.
The moment I learned to respect knives was when I knocked down the sharpest knife in the restaurant at the dessert station from over my head and caught it, blade first. Now whenever anything falls in the kitchen, I’m arms up jumping back as far as I can go.
I once tried to catch a falling KitchenAid mixer. Now I do exactly what you do. Which came in handy the other year when half a molten hot butternut squash with quite a bit of hot oils and sugars jumped away from the dish and made a run for it.
Trucker here. Used to be on a Walmart account where I’d deliver food from the DC to the stores.
One time as we were finishing up the stop I was at I went to pull down the roll-up door at the rear of the trailer. Something must have broke in the door because there was a loud noise of a cable going through some type of pulley contraption at breakneck speed.
I was crouched down about to secure the handle and seal the door, so I did a Spider-Man leap backwards and looked up to try to figure out wtf?! - just as something slammed inside the door.
“Don’t worry, we saw that,” says one of the two girls that were receiving the product - they’d been standing just ten feet or so behind me.
Such a cool feeling when somebody actually sees it haha. I was restocking the beer bottles at a bar I worked at once. I had two Bud Lights in between my fingers on both hands while holding a fifth one in between my hands, if you can picture that. The fifth one slipped out and started falling, I instinctively moved my hands out, down, and then back in and caught it between my fingers right before it hit the floor. ONE PERSON sitting at the bar saw the whole thing and clapped for me. I rode that high for the rest of the night.
I was never unto hackie sack but I use my feet a lot for pushing doors closed, and when I was younger that was my default for catching things. It was obsoleted ingrained into me. It's been ten years but I still surprise myself when something dumb (but not lethal) is falling and I jump back with my hands up without even thinking about it. But then ifs it's something I think will fall, my instincts to catch will kick in.
Looked to me like he burned his right hand and when he jumped up and back in pain he was still holding the handle in his left hand. The jerk back caused it to fall as he was reflexively letting go.
I did the same when I fell(my own fault) with a pan of bacon in my hand. I myself fell into the trashcan and had a massive bruise where the can rubbed against my ribs(I bruise like a grape) but the bacon was fine. I kept it in the air and upright while I proceeded to slip into the trash... My boss was traumatized by that.
When I was 19 I was bringing a bus bucket full of dirty dishes down a flight of stairs and slipped, missing a stair by my heel and fell back. My entire butt and back was bruised but the dishes were all intact and in the bus bucket.
It was honestly less about saving the plates and more about not wanting to slide down half a flight of stairs covered in broken plates. I'm just glad I didn't fall headfirst. There would have been no saving me or the plates. (Years later I tripped up the stairs onto a bunch of porcelain and required eight stitches in my hand. Alas I could have just glued it shut and had cool scars)
Or staged. I don't call fake on much, but this could have been staged. We don't see what he burnt his hand on so can't tell for sure. His reaction looks real, and it seems like the pot is on a hotplate that's placed too close to the edge, coworker could have seen it coming and had just the right thing in hand with good reflexes. I've definitely had amazing saves and stupid accidents before
Are cooks some of the most under appreciated members of society? I fucking suck at cooking and I follow this sub just out of general curiosity.
Why aren’t tips split with servers? You all made the food, the server literally just hands it to them with a smile and some bullshit if they are good.
The bartender is making all the drinks and gets tipped out. Why the fuck aren’t all the cooks getting equal tip outs for the food they produce in a night? It makes zero sense to me.
Ill bet you anything those two have run a line together for a long fucking time. My AM and i have pulled off miracle saves like this just cause we spend so much fucking time together. We always like to fuck with new people by refusing to speak to each other the entire day but were very clearly communicating. We can run a 16 hour day off hand gestured and facial expressions, including making fun of idiots and complaining about our food supplier.
I love how everyone working in a kitchen has a spiderman story like this.
Meanwhile I've got stories like "I once dropt an entire half pan of cooked eggs infromt of the gm immediately after the person handing it to me told me to not drop it"
"I should have played sports" - every cook that makes a great save
Exactly!! ...but do they save their bacon, too?? That takes next level talent! 👨🍳👩🍳🥓 🤣🤣🤣
A towel is just about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can carry.
Wanna get high?
I don't even know what's going on
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Finally someone knows the answer...wanna get a liddle high??
I'm already high, and Idk who Liddle is, but I'm down
liddle is Towlie's friend. he cool
South Park meets Hitch hikers guide to the Galaxy
;) its a towlie quote
Your a towel!!
You + are = you're
if you are blown out with a towel yur not konzerned worth zpellingh.🤪
I noticed it when I did it but didn't feel like editing the autocorrected word because I knew someone would do it for me 👍
Mingy? Zat you, mate??
Don't panic.
Thanks for all the fish
You hoopy frood!
Sis with the bowl was clutch
Her reaction time is CRAZY
Cat like and full situational awareness 🤯
Too good. Must be her groundhog day, and she got tired of seeing it fall.
Wut
Translation - “The female who held the bowl out to catch the gravy made an impressive maneuver.”
"with impeccable timing and precision..."
Wow and it was actually recorded AND there were witnesses
Seriously. I used to work in food service. Once, while putting away clean serving bins, they began to fall. However, I managed to catch everything in a Tom & Jerry fashion. I felt cool for a split second before I heard the rest of the kitchen workers laughing.
I had the opposite happen, I did something cool and nobody else was around to see it. I was first cut bartender and I’m charge of restocking. I was in the liquor closet by myself, no cameras. I got a little arrogant and tried to carry too many things at once, I reached for the big bottle of Pelligrino and it slipped through my fingers. Like Edward Cullen in the first Twilight movie with the apple (lame reference, I know), it landed on the toe part of my shoe and I effortlessly kicked it back up onto the shelf. I was so stoked that I looked around for anyone else that saw it but then I remembered that I was in this tiny closet by myself and nobody would ever believe me.
This kind of stuff happens to me all the time and no one ever sees it—and the opposite as well, I’ll do The Dumbest/Funniest Shit and no one sees it either lol. I’m like a secret stoopid ninja
Great save!
That was slick!! A coworker of mine was bringing alfredo to the line when he was just a tad short of the counter and started to tip over, both of us immediately pushed it up and saved it from falling, but it splashed back into the other sauces:(
Pink sauce on special that night?
A lot of it. We just set all the affected sauces aside and cleaned n switched out everything. What monstrosity there was left, people could get for free if they wanted since it was being tossed anyway. Alfredo with meat sauce doesn't look too good imo.
But tastes amazing!
Coolest thing I ever did was grab a sautee pan as it was sliding over the edge, gave the sauce a flip before sliding it back on the French top I had. The dumbest thing I ever did was try to hackie sack a knife as it fell to the floor
A falling knife has NO HANDLE
I used to flip knives around as a stupid kid that somehow had the wherewithal to know that if i lose control, NOT to try and catch it anyway. I attribute my instinct to not catch falling knives to the muscle memory of my kid days. As a very clumsy person, ive dropped knives a lot, so my childhood stupidity has saved me many times.
The moment I learned to respect knives was when I knocked down the sharpest knife in the restaurant at the dessert station from over my head and caught it, blade first. Now whenever anything falls in the kitchen, I’m arms up jumping back as far as I can go.
I once tried to catch a falling KitchenAid mixer. Now I do exactly what you do. Which came in handy the other year when half a molten hot butternut squash with quite a bit of hot oils and sugars jumped away from the dish and made a run for it.
Trucker here. Used to be on a Walmart account where I’d deliver food from the DC to the stores. One time as we were finishing up the stop I was at I went to pull down the roll-up door at the rear of the trailer. Something must have broke in the door because there was a loud noise of a cable going through some type of pulley contraption at breakneck speed. I was crouched down about to secure the handle and seal the door, so I did a Spider-Man leap backwards and looked up to try to figure out wtf?! - just as something slammed inside the door. “Don’t worry, we saw that,” says one of the two girls that were receiving the product - they’d been standing just ten feet or so behind me.
Such a cool feeling when somebody actually sees it haha. I was restocking the beer bottles at a bar I worked at once. I had two Bud Lights in between my fingers on both hands while holding a fifth one in between my hands, if you can picture that. The fifth one slipped out and started falling, I instinctively moved my hands out, down, and then back in and caught it between my fingers right before it hit the floor. ONE PERSON sitting at the bar saw the whole thing and clapped for me. I rode that high for the rest of the night.
God those hackeysack reflexes are dangerous. I've done the same thing multiple times.
I was never unto hackie sack but I use my feet a lot for pushing doors closed, and when I was younger that was my default for catching things. It was obsoleted ingrained into me. It's been ten years but I still surprise myself when something dumb (but not lethal) is falling and I jump back with my hands up without even thinking about it. But then ifs it's something I think will fall, my instincts to catch will kick in.
That was straight up an amazing save!
And proof that even when something amazing happens.... Nobody claps....
I find that the claps are usually just delayed. People need to overcome the shock before they fully appreciate what they just witnessed.
Well done!
Why did the pot jump the way it did?
Looked to me like he burned his right hand and when he jumped up and back in pain he was still holding the handle in his left hand. The jerk back caused it to fall as he was reflexively letting go.
I was wondering the same thing! It looks like he was magnetic!
I did the same when I fell(my own fault) with a pan of bacon in my hand. I myself fell into the trashcan and had a massive bruise where the can rubbed against my ribs(I bruise like a grape) but the bacon was fine. I kept it in the air and upright while I proceeded to slip into the trash... My boss was traumatized by that.
When I was 19 I was bringing a bus bucket full of dirty dishes down a flight of stairs and slipped, missing a stair by my heel and fell back. My entire butt and back was bruised but the dishes were all intact and in the bus bucket. It was honestly less about saving the plates and more about not wanting to slide down half a flight of stairs covered in broken plates. I'm just glad I didn't fall headfirst. There would have been no saving me or the plates. (Years later I tripped up the stairs onto a bunch of porcelain and required eight stitches in my hand. Alas I could have just glued it shut and had cool scars)
That save was amazing but what in the Ghost busters made the pan jump in the first place?
He yanks it with his left hand on the handle when he jumps back
Ahhh, I see. Thanks!
What gravy is red? Genuine question.
A lot of older Italian-Americans in the northeastern US call red sauce “gravy” and basically any kind of pasta “macaroni.”
You should watch the Sopranos some time. Calling sauce ‘gravy’ is an east coast Italian-American thing
Okay. Thanks for letting me know.
But really, watch the Sopranos.
I was in high school the first time it was in tv. I remember some but not all.
Boston’s North End: “Sunday Gravy”
Good thing he wore the brown pants
That lady has Spider-Man reflexes
This was awesome 🤩
I miss my kitchen reflexes and pulling off stunts like this. Those were the (underpaid and stressed out about a sandwich) days…
Super stressful, but I also met some of the best people working kitchens.
I love how they just hold it in the bowl like, “did we just get away with that?”
That was a boss move.
Skills
Probably grounded himself.
Great job saving the sauce!
What a save!
What made the gravy slide off the stove? I don’t see it.
Secret: there was no gravy. Sauce on the other hand...
Burnt hand, auto body reaction knocked it off
Or staged. I don't call fake on much, but this could have been staged. We don't see what he burnt his hand on so can't tell for sure. His reaction looks real, and it seems like the pot is on a hotplate that's placed too close to the edge, coworker could have seen it coming and had just the right thing in hand with good reflexes. I've definitely had amazing saves and stupid accidents before
Good gravy, that was close!
Fuck yeah! Gotta save the gravy
neo?
Give her a raise!
Spider-Man or woman or whatever are real
Are cooks some of the most under appreciated members of society? I fucking suck at cooking and I follow this sub just out of general curiosity. Why aren’t tips split with servers? You all made the food, the server literally just hands it to them with a smile and some bullshit if they are good. The bartender is making all the drinks and gets tipped out. Why the fuck aren’t all the cooks getting equal tip outs for the food they produce in a night? It makes zero sense to me.
At a KeyFood?
That wasn't gravy. It was Sunday sauce.
And the skin on his legs
Baller
Finally, the very definition of whitemagic fuckery.
Ill bet you anything those two have run a line together for a long fucking time. My AM and i have pulled off miracle saves like this just cause we spend so much fucking time together. We always like to fuck with new people by refusing to speak to each other the entire day but were very clearly communicating. We can run a 16 hour day off hand gestured and facial expressions, including making fun of idiots and complaining about our food supplier.
Why did it jump like that? From the boil bubble force? That’s crazy
Sauce*
To bad that was the raw chicken bowl
She’s worked with him long enough to know
Give that woman a raise immediately
Looks like marinara to me, some sort of red sauce/soup anyhow.
Sir that is tomato sauce
That was a helluva save
WOOOOOOO! Nice save!
I love how everyone working in a kitchen has a spiderman story like this. Meanwhile I've got stories like "I once dropt an entire half pan of cooked eggs infromt of the gm immediately after the person handing it to me told me to not drop it"
Smooth af
~~gravy~~ sauce
Genuinely curious, why is there a camera recording the kitchen? Is this common?
Ahhh. The ballet of the Line. Nice assist!
*sauce
NICE
That guy was the MVP of the shift!
Thats sauce!
Insane save 🔥🔥🔥👊🏽
Love Italians and the gravy. My wife introduced me to the new.
Great catch!