Posted By: chubbyalaskagriz
Apr 8 # 2 of 14
Oh golly. TOO many to even mention!
One I clearly recall is this: At one of my first-ever restaurant jobs I was making a huge batch of 1000 Island Dressing in an extra-large Hobart floor mixer.
I added several #10 cans of ketchup, chili sauce, gallons of pickle relish, 5 gallon buckets of mayo, etc. And without checking the mixer-speed I flipped the "ON" switch.
Well, the damned mixer was set on #3 which was the highest/fastest speed and let me tell you- 1000 Island Dresing was FLYING everywhere!
It was spilling out SO VIOLENTLY that I could not even approach the quick-moving mixing machine to turn the switch OFF! It took several of us forever to mop and clean that mess up- and years later there were still pink 1000 Island Dressing stains on the white ceiling tiles ten feet overhead!
After that, whenever I made 1000 Island dressing the other cooks would poke fun at me and ask "Got'cher helmet, goggles and Hazmat suit on, Kevin?" Ha!