Your Least Favorite Prep Task

[Merlot]

Originally Posted by Suzanne

I am definitely with Plongeur on cleaning calamari! Used to spend all morning doing it when I was externing. Disgusting. But at least then I got to cook it later.

Had to tear apart lobsters at the same place, but I enjoyed that. No thought to whether or not they "felt" anything. In fact, I especially like doing it in front of the kitchen window that opened onto the hallway leading to the restrooms: give those customers an idea of what went into their fancy food.

Now that I only cook at home, I hate hate hate cleaning lettuces for salads. Fortunately, my husband -- who eats huge amounts of salad at every dinner -- enjoys it. So it all works out well.

I agree with the cleaning of lettuce. I need a good salad spinner because I always lay mine out on paper towels to dry...

[Blade55440]

Originally Posted by foodnfoto

What do you think is the worst task you have to do to prep a meal? I have several that I try, like anything, to pass off onto someone else.
Mine is cleaning fresh monk fish and squid. You wouldn't BELIEVE what I've pulled out of them!
What are yours?

It may seem stupid...but for an event recently we had to shuck, shave, and milk about 6 cases of fresh corn.

From then on I officially hate prepping corn.

[dean]

Cleaning wild duck Oh the feathers and the smell of scraping the insides out yuk!