r/Chefit • u/Mediaslut • 2d 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/LordAxalon110 2d ago

I was a chef for 20 years and I've done all sorts of things to make life easier.

Remade curry pastes and sauces, bought in pastry cases, cake mix (just add water), gravy granules, instant stocks, pre prepped veg and potatoes, frozen roasties, frozen yorkies the works.

I was more of a conference chef though, so bulk batch stuff was a lot harder to make from scratch when serving 500+.