[Pastachef]

That bucket of steam thing just totally tickles my funny bone. An ice fight would have been just the thing in my hot kitchen today.

[CWK]

Send 'em to the Exec. for more spatula wax.
Or the dough patch kit.
In the kitchen restroom we put folded ketchup pc's between the seat and the bowl of the toilet for the morning guy (First place he went to)to plop down on with his sports page.

[Nick.Shu]

a couple of good ones:

the top chocolate ganache ball filled with dark green food dye for the FOH manager (its her own fault, never asked if she could eat my prep)

Bread rolls substituted for roasted potatoes with the oven turned up - most wouldnt know the difference

toasted bread rolls painted with melted butter and liberally sprinkled with cayenne and chilli powder (you know, the lips burn the most and is one of the most sensitive parts of the body)

telling wait staff that "a scampi is a yabbie (freshwater aussie crayfish) that is sea going and returns to the freshwater to spawn (somewhat like the steelhead salmon)" and then watching the aforsaid waitress attempting to explain this to a diner.

telling a danish waitress that " (oh, i cant really tell this one here)"

etc, im a little hard on the FOH staff sometimes. - but i have matured a little.

[Pastachef]

CWK, I love it! The next time the girls at the sorority ask me to do pancakes I'm going to tell them that I can't, because we're out of spatula wax!!! They'll buy it

[thebighat]

I once told the waitresses that the saucisson en croute we were serving was a boned-out rolled up fetal calf. They nearly mutinied. One other time we took a pair of checked pants and stuffed them with newspaper, positioned them on the toilet in the men's room, in the only stall, put some shoes underneath, locked the door and crawled out. that guy was in there for hours.
Plastic wrap over the toilet bowls is also fun.

[monpetitchoux]

Showed this thread to my Pastry Chef yesterday. He hinted that I should share his pranks with you. He pulls more stunts than I do.

Convinced a cocktail waitress that the name of our tropical fruit sorbet was Shonga Monga after we described it to her. She came down ten minutes later and ordered a Shonga Monga saying that she couldn't find the modifier for this flavor on the computer.

As he pulled a sheet of coconut dacquoise out of the oven, he convinced another cocktail waitress that it ultimately turned into a phyllo crisp that we use for another dessert. She wasn't going for it so he said that the sheet pan had to go into the oven two more times and during the third time, it would collapse into the thin and crispy phyllo pastry that we use. We had her going for three days!

Then there was the stocker. He was this tiny little man that everyone couldn't stand because he was the restaurant snitch. The snitch rested a tray of utensils on our station while he bent over to tie his shoe. The Pastry chef quietly took it and put it where the snitch couldn't see it. He was running all over the restaurant looking for the utensils. We gave it back to him when he started looking very worried.

Then I played a trick on the Pastry Chef when I was refilling the sauce bottles (I don't know what it is with me and sauce bottles). I used the old raspberry coulis dripping down my hand trick. He seriously thought I had cut myself badly. He wouldn't talk to me for four hours.

[CWK]

Pastachef,
If your really bored let them see you pour
a little crepe batter on the flat grill (like
a pancake)and when they see it's flat tell them your out of CO2.

[Pastachef]

ROFL! You sound as mischievous as I am. I don't think the girls would go for this one, but the housekeeper would

[Pastachef]

I almost forgot one. Does anyone remember the little counter top washing machines that used to be advertised on tv a couple of years ago? It was a sizeable drum with a handle on a base. I took it to work to try it out on my kitchen rags. When the girls asked what it was, I told them it was a salad mixer. They believed me and thought it was neat.

[Pastachef]

I have to say that I sure am enjoying this board. I just got a new toy. It's a remote controlled gas machine. I'm having a blast embarrassing the girls at the sorority. If you really want to see something funny, put one in the mailbox and wait for the mail man

[Pastachef]

Here's one I've always wanted to do for years. Have a pizza delivery man bring a large pizza box to the sorority with no pizza in it. Just a dozen live mice.

[Pastachef]

But I won't. I'm afraid the mice would get hurt as the girls scamper and scream.

[angrychef]

Sometimes staff goes into my walk-in to filch my brownies, and since the lock is on the outside we lock 'em in for 5 minutes and turn off the light. Suddenly they hardly come back...Giving the receptionist a big spoonful of "mango puree" at his insistence when in fact it was frozen pasteurized eggyolks. He really gagged and washed his mouth. Sneaking in a jalapeno into chocolate chip cookies...

[Pastachef]

Angrychef, you really are a rascal! Eggyolk puree....yuck Whenever I get mad at our housekeeper at the sorority I get back at her by buying the girls a large bag of bubble gum. It must be the age, because inevitably they spit it out just anywhere! Jalepeno chocolate chip cookies? What a great idea as a gift for a fraternity house that sometimes wreaks havoc on ours

[Nick.Shu]

i do believe that once in a blue moon, an occaisional prank keeps the staff on their feet.

My kitchenhand/cook decided one day that it was a good idea to have a beer after finishing up.

So what did i do, i told him that the smoke detector hidden above the false ceiling was actually a surveillance camera put there to watch the staff to see if they were goofing off.

Heheh, a flashing red light will put everyone on their guard no matter what.

Oh the look of horror on his face!.