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How do restaurants chop up garlic?
If I buy dishes, such as garlic chicken, from take-away restaurants, the garlic appears to be in small white particles in the meal.
How do restaurants chop up the garlic for this purpose? Are they ...
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How much experience is needed to work in a restaurant?
I've always thought it'd be cool to work in a restaurant as a chef or own one (though I could be sorely mistaken). I'm speaking of small town, mom and pop kinds of restaurants; the kind you'd see on ...
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Spotting frozen seafood in restaurants
We've just been to Spain and while we were there we ended up in quite a touristy restaurant. There we ate paella which was terrible, at least in my opinion. Then I was wondering how fresh (or not) it ...
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How to organize a walk-in fridge for a mid-size kitchen?
I have worked in two kitchens which served about 50-75 clients a day. Each had a walk-in fridge that was about 8 feet square with metal racks, and neither had thought much about the organization of ...
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Is Indian food more expensive to prepare than Chinese food?
Based on my subjective experience, Indian food at restaurants is more expensive than Chinese. This seems to hold across restaurant classes, low end takeout is a buck or two more then Chinese takeout, ...
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how often is cleaning done in a professional kitchen?
Today I saw Gordon Ramsay Kitchen Nightmares. Regardless of the alleged nature of "reality", he said that fridges at his London restaurant are cleaned twice a day. Is that excessive or in line with ...
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How is mass egg-frying performed?
I'm currently at a hotel in Spain. We are having a buffet breakfast and one of the meals are sunny-side-up fried eggs. I estimate they probably fry several hundred eggs per breakfast. I wondered how ...
