Tasks you hate doing

[ChefInTraining]

This forum will give us industry professionals a little time to vent about tasks in the kitchen that we generally hate doing because it is time consuming and monotonous. Or any reason is fine.

I personally hate breading anything (the flour to the egg wash, to the bread crumbs Ugh!!), peeling pearl onions, cleaning baby brussel sprouts, cleaning kale and chard, fine dicing raw butternut squash, ummm what else......

[kuan]

Inventory.

[Chad Aaland]

Grill-marking 400 chicken breasts.

[SushiGaijin]

that's interesting, I really like the monotonous tasks - it's kind of a zen moment for me, the calm before the storm.

Erik.

[Nantzie]

Originally Posted by SushiGaijin

that's interesting, I really like the monotonous tasks - it's kind of a zen moment for me, the calm before the storm.

Erik.

Thank you for posting that SushiGaijin. I really like that. As a SAHM (stay-at-home-mom) home cook, I need to be reminded of the zen of a lot of things, not just cooking.

My answer to the original question would be: Cleaning the kitchen. I actually really enjoy the cooking. It's the cleaning up afterwards that I can't stand.

I used to say that if I won the lottery I would want a personal chef.

Now, I've gotten to the point where I would rather have someone who would just clean up after me.

Food-wise, I would say pre-cooking chicken for stuff like chicken salad and things like that.

Nancy

[foodpump]

Inventory....

[RAS1187]

Peeling & Deveining Shrimp

[MiseInPlace]

it used to be segmenting oranges, but now i really enjoy that now, as i do all tasks except:

Mussels-I don't know why, maybe trouble with them this summer (Maybe it was mating season, or maybe it was just the heat),but for some reason, I just can't stand cooking those lil bitches anymore...

[AprilB]

Mopping...cleaning up after the dumb a's that can't figure out how to use a sharpie to lable and date stuff...and dribbles. Chicken goo, beef goo, egg goo...argh!

I can't think of a food thing that I don't like to do other than trying to prepare good eggs in bad pans over dirty hamburger grills.

Well, that and tearing my hands up dealing with crab and lobster.

Preparing food has always been my de-stresser. Give me a mallot and I'll just think of my Ex. That crustateon is toast.

April

[Salliem]

The task I hate the most is when you have to stop what you are doing to tend to another cook's job when they are a no call/no show...

[ChefInTraining]

how about pouring the forty gallons of lobster bisque you've just prepared out of the steam kettle into five gallon buckets. What about cleaning the foot off of 40# of bay scallops.

[Jim]

Skewering shrimp/beef/chicken brochettes... nothing like the feeling of bamboo skewers running through your finger tips, 7 or 8 hundred times!

[foodnfoto]

Cleaning squid.
There's no telling what kind of stuff you'll pull out of those tubes.
Yeaccch!

[kuan]

So everyone here likes to clean the fryer?

[Blade55440]

Originally Posted by Nantzie

My answer to the original question would be: Cleaning the kitchen. I actually really enjoy the cooking. It's the cleaning up afterwards that I can't stand.

I used to say that if I won the lottery I would want a personal chef.

Now, I've gotten to the point where I would rather have someone who would just clean up after me.

Food-wise, I would say pre-cooking chicken for stuff like chicken salad and things like that.

Nancy

I have to say, I have having to clean up the kitchen after cooking a nice meal for a bunch of people as well. Thankfully the house rule is: "The cook doesn't clean."

Which is why I love it when friends go: "So what's for dinner?"

As for at work things I hate to do...

I'm gonna have to go with supreme-ing oranges.

I think it boils down to anything that would better fit somebody with smaller hands and better eyesight, nothing annoys me more than trying to pay attention to a fine detail with my horrible (and quickly getting even worse) vision.