Chefspeak

[C2C Admin]

We're creating a feature for culinary students to fill them in on some popularly used chef lingo and its meaning (ie, "in the weeds," "86," etc.). We were hoping you all would share some of the lingo you use in your kitchen (with meaning).


Thanks in advance!

[Sullybob]

Fire: To start cooking or to start making something. Like a salad or a dessert.

All day: Total number of items cooking or being prepared right now.

[garball]

"What the [censored] were you thinking you dumb mother [censored]. Any [censored] monkey could've done that [censored] right. I could squeeze better [censored] tasting [censored] out of the [censored] dead [censored] dog I passed on the [censored] way to [censored] work this [censored] morning. Hell, I hope that was your dead [censored] dog. What the [censored] now? You're [censored] crying! At least you finally [censored] produce something with some [censored] salt in it. You suck!"

Translates:

"Please remake this. It is not up to standards."

[FishinChef]

"Your Mom Doesn't Work here"- Clean up after yourself

MILMF- Make it last mother******

GBD- Golden brown and delicious

[lebelage]

"The bees were chasing her and she fell"- I kicked that waitor down the stairs.

[lebelage]

"5by5"- everything's going well.

"The best part of the chicken"- the nearly inedible product from which we make the server's staff meal.

"Sabotage!"- what you whisper to the other cooks as you snag some vital mise off the saute guy whilst he's in the toilet

"La Hacienda Bonita"- the vermin infested area by the dumpsters and recycling bins where the dish washers and prep cooks congregate to enjoy cigarettes, cell phone conversations and their staff meals.

"Triple Espresso"- using a hard wet towel snap on the ear to wake up a groggy hungover co-worker. Be careful someone could lose an eye.

"Especial del la dia es pollo negro"- previous to being handed his "morning espresso" the hungover, groggy grill guy burned the chickens. Someone had best get some more on the spits.

[C2C Admin]

These are great! Keep 'em coming.

[moselle]

"End service meet me for 5 at "La Hacienda Bonita". We'll burn one down before close. Oh, and whoever the [censored] was that mummied the newbie in the walk in; your mum doesn't work here."
When it slows down a bit meet me at the dumpster for a joint before we clean up and go home. Oh, whoever the fellow was that wrapped the new hire in cling film and left him in the large refrigerator please let him go.

[firechef37]

Damn...Gar beat me to it!

I think someone posted a full list of some of these as they relate to a golf course...I know it was here somewhere as it's posted on the walk-in door.

"Kill it"-cook it so well done that it is unclear what it was to begin with.

[firechef37]

"On the fly" in a hurry (normally a recook due to a dumb member of the waitstaff or a guest being not any brighter!)

[lebelage]

Glue factory- working breakfast service

Animal farm- a kitchen that has gone union

Nero- chef that is more interested in PR than running his kitchen- as in "fiddling while Rome burns".

Pre fab- crap that chefs buy in that they should be making/prepping themselves.

Henry Ford- a chef that uses so much pre fab that his kitchen is nothing but an assembly line.

Wanking- indulging in hijinks with food that gives pleasure to no one but oneself.

Snowflake- the guy who asks when he gets to take a break during his stage. Or the waiter that causes problems for the kitchen then breaks into tears.

MsBettySaunders- the owner's hot yet frightening wife.

Petting Zoo- a restaurant full of very unattractive guests.

Check the score- making a quiet recon foray into the bar area to see the hot women the server told you about.

"some water"- what you tell the server to get you when he will in fact be coming back with a sippy cup full of gin and tonic.

[firechef37]

Love the last three...nothing worse than knowing I have to compete with you while checking the score!

[moselle]

Not slang but one of the funniest things I heard a chef say in vein of

Petting Zoo- a restaurant full of very unattractive guests.

He said; if I walked through the dining room tonight holding a grouse every women would stand up and point

[SaraCooks]

Love the last three...nothing worse than knowing I have to compete with you while checking the score!

Ah, while you two are competing for the women, I'll sneak off with their dates

The non-petting zoo candidates

[lebelage]

Let us not forget
"Puppymill"

A very unattractive/stupid/evolutionarily malformed coworker who astonishes all with their excessive and continuous production of ill bred babies.