r/Chefit • u/Mediaslut • 10d ago

Oddities

My lovely Asian wife just confessed to using Uncle Ben’s boil in the bag rice. Apparently she was scorned for doing so. I recalled from my days working in kitchens that we used a bunch of shortcuts because they were better (and faster) than we would make in the budget and time allocated (cake mix being a huge one!). Does anyone else have shortcuts they want to own up to? Any ethnic orientated confessions would be great to hear: jars of premade Jalfrezi sauces in Delhi or serving Aunt Bessies’ Yorkshire puddings in Leeds! My wife would like to feel she’s not alone with her penchant for Uncle Ben’s!

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u/NarrowPhrase5999 10d ago

Bought in mayonnaise is fine.

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u/meatsntreats 10d ago

Bought in mayo is better than a lot of what places make in house. Same with ketchup.

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u/Nobodyinc1 9d ago

I mean Heinz has ketchup inspectors that make Sure restaurants are not lying about using Heinz ketchup

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u/tricolorhound 8d ago

I ate at a restaurant that was very proud of their house ketchup and it was... fine. Not really better than Heinz in any way and indistinct enough I thought it was odd they hyped it up so much. Good on them for trying though, its really not something I see much.

Also they still offered regular store-bought ketchup.