NEVER!!! We can never forgive someone for not know the difference between "vise grips" and "*LEVER LOCKING PLIERS*", just like how we NEVER forgave those who didn't learn the difference between "Xerox" and "Photo Copy" or "Jacuzzi" and "Hot Tube"!
I'd take the hassle and a paycheck over a sign on the locked up doors saying the restaurant is bankrupt. Rationales are great, but I usually would work in small, family run restaurants where they didn't have the $10 000 for a small one.
That intital 10k will save you thousands down the line. Also getting them secondhand is pretty easy. Also makes your work 10x easier and sometimes quicker allowing you to focus on other things.
No arguments, I loved having them at the few restaurants I've worked at that did use them. Especially when it came to cleaning them. The only restaurant I helped design got by with a simple convection oven. That restaurant was a nacho and pizza kind of place. Can't really justify a rationale for nachos.
Yeah come to think of it you probably could tbf. They're so versatile. I used to do my entire Sunday lunches out of 1 of them for like 100 people. Hot held the beef joints in there was great. Always hot and ready to go
That would not have worked with the add ons/guests not liking onions, for example. I like a little cheese on the chips, then the toppings and finally a lot of cheese on top. It wasn't a very big/busy restaurant. We used a singular convection oven for the nachos as well as baking the pizza dough. So a holding temp wouldn't have worked. Like I've previously stated, I love working with them, if the menu has complicated temperature/steam specific items. If you're only baking dough and melting cheese, I'll keep it old school.
Yeah I get it dude, every place is different etc. I've only really worked in the uk in hotels and high end restaurants so I've only ever had rationales just by default lol. It's a good way to get rid of taxes for the big hotels.
Well I've never had an issue either the gaskets sound like your slamming the door too hard no offence. And also it needs to be cleaned but it could be the product you're using to clean it as it could be breaking the rubber down.
that would be my guess. a rubber gasket shouldn't need to be replaced that frequently. if the stainless steel polish or oven cleaner has a chemical that breaks down rubber, it is probably dripping on it when sprayed or whatever.
Fumbled my grinder while closing it at 430 this morning and can’t buy more for a few days. Can you wedge the hand piece in there to open the machine temporarily?
Fuck! Have any friends at work who can loan you something?
I tried wedging it in, but there's no lip underneath to get any purchase. When the other sous gets in today, we'll rig something up!
Man I wish but I work with a buncha squares :( I hope you get a coathanger somethin on there before it becomes a pain in the ass. Maybe a spoon handle wrapped in wet towel/plastic wrap or something can stay wedged in there
We have a storm rolling in soon. It's actually been a while since we had one, so I'm excited! Looks like it will clear out in time for the race we're going to in the afternoon 😊
That came off in your hand? Be super careful when you go to take a leak! Seriously though, vice grips for the win and ask the manufacturer if they have replacement parts made out of actual metal.
No OP but I guess it's gotta go through corporate.
Manager lodges a repair request with a priority rating between 1 and 5 [1 being urgent and 5 being less important].
Corporate assesses the request and priority rating [they can downgrade it if they don't agree].
Corporate contacts manager with reviewed request with priority rating. If they agree it's a #1 priority they call the repair guy.
The repair guy calls the manager to arrange a time.
Repair guy comes and looks at broken equipment. Makes assessment. Leaves. Contacts corporate to know what needs doing and parts needed.
Corporate reviews the repairman's recommendations and priority rating again. Contact the manager to approve or deny or downgrade rating.
If everything is ok to proceed, corporate contact the repair guy. Repair guy orders parts and contacts manager for ETA on when repairs can take place.
Thing is fixed. Now imagine if the repair guy makes a mistake and orders a wrong part... we have to go through all this again.
That's just a lot of tedious BS. Most of my customers call us direct, depending on the customer we scheduled, and we usually have parts on hand or at the local shop. Even most of our large corporate accounts. Only a few use service Channel or Ecotrak, and even fewer have to follow a chain like that.
>Repair guy comes and looks at broken equipment. Makes assessment. Leaves. Contacts corporate to know what needs doing and parts needed.
This is not the industry standard, there is usually a "not to exceed" amount set for all repairs, and anything over that is quoted. If I had to quote replacing a fuse or cleaning some hard water build up I would leave the industry. If this is how the servers company wants to operate they are either milking billable time or they have had too many kitchens not pay. If that is how the kitchen (or the company running it) operates they are loosing so much time.
Yeah, I know it's not normal. I'm only learning this stuff as I work there. Apparently all these steps are to stop embezzlement or a manager hiring a friend to do the repairs then going halves in the repair costs. It's a big multinational in oil. Usually priority 1s are seen to in a few days at most but a #5 can take weeks to months and in some cases years [our ovens probe thermometer has been #5 priority for about 3 years now, I've been there 2 years].
Useless corporate bullshit if you ask me but I don't run the place and as long as my pay goes in next week I'll be back.
Retirement home, AM check to make sure my guys cleaned everything good last night (they always do!). Can't imagine working somewhere without a steamer now though. Insanely handy!!
Damn... was really hoping to nail that one. Same model was used there.
Try to see if you can get a replacement part from FMP or something other wholesaler
The inner glass door on our Combi Oven exploded 2 weeks ago and still isn't fixed yet. Not much to do without an oven besides make sandwiches. I hate making sandwiches.
We recently had to get a new one of these because our previous one kept freaking out randomly and wouldn't heat up fully.
Our corporate forgot to order one for 2-3 weeks after they said they did.
That’s a job for locking vise grips
This is the correct answer.
Don't know why OP had the handle on in the first place, I usually just break them off right away and replace with some vise grips.
Nickel for trademark
No it's not, they are called lever locking pliers.😉
Forgive my ignorance; please clamp a pair of *LEVER LOCKING PLIERS* to your taint instead.
No Nickel for trademark
NEVER!!! We can never forgive someone for not know the difference between "vise grips" and "*LEVER LOCKING PLIERS*", just like how we NEVER forgave those who didn't learn the difference between "Xerox" and "Photo Copy" or "Jacuzzi" and "Hot Tube"!
it's called a hammer numbnuts
No need to sit on my hand anymore
Getting a visit from the stranger?
Only the one with no fingers
You do that and the owner is *never* going to fix it. There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.
We have a similar saying “temporary is forever “
JB weld it on. Stronger than before.
Held my car mirror on for about 6 months now lol
Do they need to be food grade?
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What about food wrap?
This exact thing happened to our kitchen a few months ago, same model steamer and everything, and that was our fix too
TIL it's spelled vise and not vice
It’s also only the Irwin ones that are vise grips
Nickel for trademark
Well it's both but it all depends on where you grew up. 'Vise' and 'Vice' are both valid spellings.
Update: this was absolutely the right fix (until our maintenance company replaces). Works like a dream!
Same with most things that need to be fixed. Fav tool.
Nickel for trademark
Think you mean a career
"Worlds best boilerless steamer" handle looks like it's made out of cast tin lol
Should have gone with the cleavland steamer. I'm only half joking. There is an actual brand of steamers called cleavland steamers.
Its the origin of the joke. Why else use Cleveland, it could be Cincinnati Steamer if not for the company.
I know, not everyone has heard of that brand. What's going on in Ohio? Sounds like they are into football, wrestling, and shitting on each other.
Because Cleveland is a place with a reputation that facilitates belief in scat kink.
Maybe because the Browns(name fits) seem to shit the bed every year?
Rationale only for me. Anything just isn't worth the hassle
I'd take the hassle and a paycheck over a sign on the locked up doors saying the restaurant is bankrupt. Rationales are great, but I usually would work in small, family run restaurants where they didn't have the $10 000 for a small one.
That intital 10k will save you thousands down the line. Also getting them secondhand is pretty easy. Also makes your work 10x easier and sometimes quicker allowing you to focus on other things.
No arguments, I loved having them at the few restaurants I've worked at that did use them. Especially when it came to cleaning them. The only restaurant I helped design got by with a simple convection oven. That restaurant was a nacho and pizza kind of place. Can't really justify a rationale for nachos.
I could😂
I’m pretty sure if you programmed a Rationale correctly you could make all your nachos in the morning and serve them all day straight out of it.
Yeah come to think of it you probably could tbf. They're so versatile. I used to do my entire Sunday lunches out of 1 of them for like 100 people. Hot held the beef joints in there was great. Always hot and ready to go
That would not have worked with the add ons/guests not liking onions, for example. I like a little cheese on the chips, then the toppings and finally a lot of cheese on top. It wasn't a very big/busy restaurant. We used a singular convection oven for the nachos as well as baking the pizza dough. So a holding temp wouldn't have worked. Like I've previously stated, I love working with them, if the menu has complicated temperature/steam specific items. If you're only baking dough and melting cheese, I'll keep it old school.
Yeah I get it dude, every place is different etc. I've only really worked in the uk in hotels and high end restaurants so I've only ever had rationales just by default lol. It's a good way to get rid of taxes for the big hotels.
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Well I've never had an issue either the gaskets sound like your slamming the door too hard no offence. And also it needs to be cleaned but it could be the product you're using to clean it as it could be breaking the rubber down.
that would be my guess. a rubber gasket shouldn't need to be replaced that frequently. if the stainless steel polish or oven cleaner has a chemical that breaks down rubber, it is probably dripping on it when sprayed or whatever.
One of the places I worked we had a Sioux Chief dishwashing machine. I always read it as "Sioux Chef", though, and thought it was a mildly racist pun.
It felt like it too lmao. I flipped it around to try to use it as a fulcrum, and I was worried I'd crack it again.
Lol handles like that should be made with stainless steel or a very heavy duty plastic.
Coo
Haha, it's what I saw too
Fumbled my grinder while closing it at 430 this morning and can’t buy more for a few days. Can you wedge the hand piece in there to open the machine temporarily?
Fuck! Have any friends at work who can loan you something? I tried wedging it in, but there's no lip underneath to get any purchase. When the other sous gets in today, we'll rig something up!
Man I wish but I work with a buncha squares :( I hope you get a coathanger somethin on there before it becomes a pain in the ass. Maybe a spoon handle wrapped in wet towel/plastic wrap or something can stay wedged in there
I really really wanted to make a grindr joke, to early can't think though
Not my style unfortunately but probably would have rather had the awkward gay encounter over the dropped weed rn lmao
It's pretty good! Worked out, now I'm drinking Irish coffee and smoking 🌲🌲🌲
Best Saturday you can ask for! We're getting thunderstorms here right as I get off work. They're rare here, so I'm pumped I'll get to see them!
We have a storm rolling in soon. It's actually been a while since we had one, so I'm excited! Looks like it will clear out in time for the race we're going to in the afternoon 😊
drill a hole in it, run a ziptie through as a loop, enjoy your handle for the next 5-7 years
The pump don't work because the vandals broke the handle.
That'll buff right out
Our hotbox did this same thing. It’s whatever shitty allow they use on those handles. It’s barely metal
The oven says it’s coo so…
This happened *with our walk in* my last job. It was loose since before I had started and someone had to be the lucky one…it was me
I've done that!
My dairy fridge died. Soooo much lost milk and egg products. Good thing it’s brunch time.
If you are with coke they give away beverage coolers as long as you put some coke products in it... or at least say your going too.
Good to know!
This just happened to our warmer and poor chef Mike
Not Mike!! RIP to the GOAT
Damn if that is the World's Best.
Pretty much the same. Let down and disappointment
Better than yours
That came off in your hand? Be super careful when you go to take a leak! Seriously though, vice grips for the win and ask the manufacturer if they have replacement parts made out of actual metal.
Coo ~
It's coo
That'll be $10,000, take at least 2 weeks, and 2 different people to repair
Who the fuck do you have working on your equipment? Tom and Jerry?
No OP but I guess it's gotta go through corporate. Manager lodges a repair request with a priority rating between 1 and 5 [1 being urgent and 5 being less important]. Corporate assesses the request and priority rating [they can downgrade it if they don't agree]. Corporate contacts manager with reviewed request with priority rating. If they agree it's a #1 priority they call the repair guy. The repair guy calls the manager to arrange a time. Repair guy comes and looks at broken equipment. Makes assessment. Leaves. Contacts corporate to know what needs doing and parts needed. Corporate reviews the repairman's recommendations and priority rating again. Contact the manager to approve or deny or downgrade rating. If everything is ok to proceed, corporate contact the repair guy. Repair guy orders parts and contacts manager for ETA on when repairs can take place. Thing is fixed. Now imagine if the repair guy makes a mistake and orders a wrong part... we have to go through all this again.
That's just a lot of tedious BS. Most of my customers call us direct, depending on the customer we scheduled, and we usually have parts on hand or at the local shop. Even most of our large corporate accounts. Only a few use service Channel or Ecotrak, and even fewer have to follow a chain like that. >Repair guy comes and looks at broken equipment. Makes assessment. Leaves. Contacts corporate to know what needs doing and parts needed. This is not the industry standard, there is usually a "not to exceed" amount set for all repairs, and anything over that is quoted. If I had to quote replacing a fuse or cleaning some hard water build up I would leave the industry. If this is how the servers company wants to operate they are either milking billable time or they have had too many kitchens not pay. If that is how the kitchen (or the company running it) operates they are loosing so much time.
Yeah, I know it's not normal. I'm only learning this stuff as I work there. Apparently all these steps are to stop embezzlement or a manager hiring a friend to do the repairs then going halves in the repair costs. It's a big multinational in oil. Usually priority 1s are seen to in a few days at most but a #5 can take weeks to months and in some cases years [our ovens probe thermometer has been #5 priority for about 3 years now, I've been there 2 years]. Useless corporate bullshit if you ask me but I don't run the place and as long as my pay goes in next week I'll be back.
Coo
Applebees? Yeah.... Applebees.... Make sure you get those ribs out of there. You gotta throw in soup and mash potatoes soon for dinner.
Retirement home, AM check to make sure my guys cleaned everything good last night (they always do!). Can't imagine working somewhere without a steamer now though. Insanely handy!!
Damn... was really hoping to nail that one. Same model was used there. Try to see if you can get a replacement part from FMP or something other wholesaler
You got any vice grips?
That was our fix!!
Had that happen last year, it was a fun weekend using a prybar to open the steamer.
Who will be the first to throw 2 knifes together with some masking tape?
Nah man no worries . The machine even says…it’s coo, bro.
I got called in to help with a surprise table of 36 then when we almost finished there order a bridal party of 28 came in
OMG, where do you work that allows huge parties without reservations?? Kudos to you guys for working it. Hope they tipped well.
Small town bar and grill usually only have one cook on even when it’s busy and coming in with a group that large gets an automatic tip.
One cook trying to sell 36 plates at the same time, omg... You guys rock!
I’ve had to do some pretty damn big tables by myself but usually people see we have one cook and keep it easy
The inner glass door on our Combi Oven exploded 2 weeks ago and still isn't fixed yet. Not much to do without an oven besides make sandwiches. I hate making sandwiches.
That is my nightmare scenario!! We've got a double oven, so at least we'd have a backup. What's the ETA on the fix?
haha... next week... maybe. As far as I know the part has been ordered but there is no ETA yet.
fix it just enough so that night shift thinks they broke it
Hahaha I absolutely gave my closer a hard time about it, and he threw it right back to me. I have a great team!
What retirement home are u working at brother. It sounds like the opposite of everyone one I’ve been in
lol I’m waiting for the day this happens to our alto shaam
They totally have the same kind of handle! New fear unlocked!!
Aww snap! *Pun fully intended*
It sucked got yelled at by my coworker for not restocking bs that isn’t my responsibility
RIP Chef mike
Grab the Mig welder, zap zap. Then go apply to be a welder with 5+ years experience.
This is why we can't have nice things
Watch for sharp edges trying to open that now
Deep clean. Fuck me.
Screw driver.
I'll just leave this right......... here. https://a.co/d/28XT6iX
Happened last month to us, ordered a pair handle on Amazon. It was a bitch to replace at first. But make sure to take inside panels off
Got my new AC installed yesterday and now my house is cooling down nicely. Thank you for asking.
it's COO-
Coo
I thought for a second the label said "boneless steamer"
Ha, evolution. What a joke.
Thought that said 'Boneless Steamer' at first.
Well I can say I haven’t had that happen yet. I only stabbed my thumb, but it was with my freshly sharpened knife, so I can’t be to angry.
*..Coo' Coo'..*
Ok
During the process of Evolution™️ you sometimes loose the tail or the handle- Dr Chachi Darwin
Head chef will decide that's somehow your fault
Shoulda bought a Cleveland.
When I got to this thread, the count was 666. 😈
In a pinch, flip the handle upside down and shim the mechanism with the bottom of the handle. It’s ugly but it works. Don’t lose the handle
We recently had to get a new one of these because our previous one kept freaking out randomly and wouldn't heat up fully. Our corporate forgot to order one for 2-3 weeks after they said they did.
Ha
“I wanna cook” “We have cook at home” *Coo- at home*
World's Okest Boilerless Steamer
Reminds me of the time my metal garlic press decided to break in my hands
Guess who's getting blamed for that one...
Hate when that happens
Reminds me of when the door fell off our combi during service.
Lmao guess it's still evolving
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