Talk about dirty Jjobs!

singh

I did a stint for a contractor who did Ansul fire systems. Restaurants was his specialty. Nasty !! Not just the chinese places , I've been in some pretty upscale places, until you go back into the kitchen.....

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Unknown

The goo...

Ever change out the motor on a giant Chinese kitchen exhaust? Eeeewww...... The thing is enclosed outside in a little leaky shed and all over the floor is greasy, wet cardboard and plastic. Then theres the dripping water and sludge stalactites. You have to duck your way down under the gooey frame to get to the working parts and naturally you have to grab it at times to steady yourself on the way in and out. Yum... I tried latex gloves but they just stuck to the goo and ripped open. I'll probably be layng off the lo mein for a while. LOL...

Tell you what though, the old thing sure did sound nice winding up with greased up bearings and the new but soon to be gooey motor and pulley.

Unknown

MPF

Man,,seen and heard a lot of scary things about Oriental restaurants, turns me-off the cuisine too, after we`ve seen-it, things are never the same! Augggg!

Dave

Ken D._4

Goo

It's even worse when the stuff moves!

Unknown

Sorry Devan

didn`t mean that to sound racial, it just came-out that way, but we all gotta eat! In reality, I guess many restaurants are "scary" period!

Dave

Unknown

OK,,,

Now I'm gettin' scared! I'll bet it was moving, at least on the microscopic level. LOL...

One of the few jobs where I feel so DIRTY afterwards, all I wanted to do was get to the shower.

Unknown

BTW...

Nothing against Chinese resturants, I['ve done all kinds of gooey jobs, burger joints, pizza joints, etc but, for some reason, the Chinese goo has a special funk all it's own...

Mike T., Swampeast MO

I've bought lots of equipment at restaurant going-out-of-business auctions, including a couple Chinese restaurants. I honestly don't eat at them anymore. When removing a cooler with remote-mounted condensing unit I had to knock a hole in a concrete block wall (building was being demolished so it didn't matter). Rat after rat after rat came running out of the hole. Took one look up into the giant hood over a row of woks and couldn't help but think there were some "extra" flavor to the food. A grease trap I bought from a Mexican restaurant was less disgusting. Last meal I'd had there was Moo Goo Gui Pan (sp?) and I'm sincerely positive that it wasn't chicken.

Another Chinese restuarant in town went out of business shortly after health inspectors found cats in a freezer.

I certainly don't envy you that job!

singh

Dave

It was'nt offensive to me at all.
Just wanted to share my experiences working in restaurants, most of them are gross, but those chinese places do have that special grease all over the place, gues that's why it taste so good : )
I also did work in the fast food burger joints. The cleanest, and I mean spotless, and each indvidual franchise was spotless also was .........(hint, name of a little girl)

Kitchen grease is nasty period, especially commercial. Once at a federal court house in Brooklyn, we changed out the biggest grease trap I ever seen, and it had to be done after hours, let's just say I tossed my boots, pants,and shirt, and drove home at 2am in just my froot of the looms. Took about a week to get that very distinctive aroma out of the nostrils.


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Steve Ebels_3

One thing you'll never see..............

All of us who have done restaurant work know how disgusting the equipment can be due to lack of maintenance and many times accessibility issues. Face it, what restaurant owner wants to (A) pull maintenance after working there all day himself or (B) pay someone to do the maintenance, "If it ain't broke don't fix it" is a quote I've heard countless times in restaurants of all flavors.

As for the one thing you'll never see..........You'll never see the guy from Dirty Jobs on the Discovery channel cleaning a hood or any other restaurant equipment. No restaurant owner in his right mind would want his/her equipment and place shown on TV. They are pretty much all disgusting unless the owner is out of the ordinary when it comes to maintenance.

The Chinese do seem to have that special grease on their stuff. I think it's the sugar content in a lot of their food. If you're ever in a restaurant where you can observe them cooking, watch them toss up a batch of sesame chicken. There's about 3 pounds of sugar in a 10 pound batch of chicken. Probably why it's sooooooo good.

AFA the Chinese go, I think some who come here adapt to our culture and adopt our standards pretty well and I think some just continue to do things the Chinese way. As has been in the news recently, some of them hold to a bit different standards than we expect. Such as antifreeze in toothpaste, antibiotics in fish, tires missing critical bonding agents, etc etc. Case and point: There are a couple Chinese places near here. One has excellent food, has been around for nearly 20 years, has been run by the same family since begun and gets high marks from anyone who eats there. The other place is geared towards a lower price and the food quality shows it compared to the older mom and pop place. The owner of the low price place ($5.99 noon buffet) has also been charged with tax fraud and what amounts to possession of slaves. Sounds like the same thing we run into in our trade, "You get what you pay for!"

Daniel_3

I just augered my bath drain and that was fairly nauseating to look at. . . but it works great now!

Jeff Lawrence_25

Greatest compliment

For a restaurant is for me to see a contract kitchen worker (refrigeration, mixer, oven, etc.) come out of the back and sit down to eat 'up front.'

We see the nasties in the back and have to really think when the spouse asks to go there to eat.

Darrell

Our Responsibility?

Anybody ever had any luck turning some of the worst offenders in to the local authorities? Do we have a professional responsibility to the un aware public? Or do we have to turn a professional blind eye to the situation? I s'pose turning them in is a good way to lose work...

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Unknown

one of my few nasty...

Was learning the trade way back then, custumer called the pool company after noticing the depression in yard after the pool was installed... They brought a load od dirt to fill the depression. Come late fall, sewer backed up in home, the septic tank cover collapsed and fill with dirt... My job? Inside the tank shoveling the s.... and broken concrete into the backhoe... 20 some years later samething happened at differnet location, this time I'm on the backhoe,upwind....

lee_7

Vicks vapo rub works great to combat the smell. Just a little under nose and you are good to go. Found this trick in old profession, EMT on ambulance. Lots of fat smelly people and dead people in homes for days with no a/c and 100 degrees outside. Seen a rookie cop loose it and could not figure how we did it.

Bruce Stevens

I worked in

sewer manholes and cut in new manholes on live sewers, but the nastiest was when a sewer pump came on for the meat packing plant in a 14 ft deep manhole luckily I was up top looking down that day.

Unknown

yup,

I've heard of this. The EMTs used it when they dragged the week old corpse of the guy next door many years ago. I'll forgo the details.

Unknown

Rat feces...

Took a shower in that once. Opening the suspended ceiling in an ice cream shop of all places. It was baaaaaad. When you walked in you could smell it immediately. Fortunately I was not looking up with my mouth open. Got all in my hair and stuff though. Gnarly.

Steamhead (in transit)

I think we do

some time ago I had a no-heat call in what turned out to be a filthy house occupied by a nice guy with bipolar disorder- I notified the authorities, anonymously of course, after bouncing the situation off the Wall. This is the same type of thing- a danger to the public and to those working in the store.

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Al Letellier_9

dirty jobs

The absolute worse one of all.....been doing P&H work for 45+ years and have seen a lot of stuff, but this is the only one that made me lose lunch......an old creamery building on a farm had backed up. We opened the old cesspool, put a snake thru 50 feet of 6" clay tile, only to find it just slid thru without catching anything, so.....we put a pressure bag to it. OMG did that stink !!! Over 50 feet of 6" round fermented whipped cream, over 50 years old.......!!!!

Daniel_3

oh my! That must have been quite unique to enjoy with your five senses.

Don \"Grumpy\" Walsh

Worst ever!!

My worst ever experience was having to change a jammed and burnt out commercial garbage grinder on an autopsy table.

Unknown

Ding Ding Ding...

We have a winner!

I recall a very foul smelling leaky drain trap on a dentists spit sink once. I only had to find it, some poor unfortunate plumber had to fix it.

Jim Bennett

Just desserts...

On my way to a gathering at a friends house recently, I stopped at the grocery store to find a dessert offering.

Stopping by the pastry aisle, I made a tasty looking selection.

On my way to the checkout, I noticed that the pastry was made at a commercial bakery I worked at a short while ago.

I put the pastry back and got a bottle of wine instead!

Eeeeewwww!

Jim

Noah

Not too bad,,but bad enough,

lifted a toilet once to replace the lead stub in a very small apt. Put it down in the hallway outside while I cut up the floor,,guess what? Yep, someone came along and used-it for #2!
Some people have alot of nerve, but NO scruples!

Dave

Unknown

That's ok...

cause guess what. The Chinese resturant called. Even though I put in the exact same motor and pulley they don't think it works as well as it used to. Sigh...this oughta be good.

mtfallsmikey

Corn

The undigested kind...floating down a drain line which served bathrooms in a manufacturing plant which I used to P.M. once a week. along with some pieces of tomato skin on the side. Worst grease I ever saw???...Only from "The Colonel".

helpingothershelpthemselves_2

old beer

As an apprentice for the families business it seemed it was always my calling to clean out the grease receptors and beer dispensors in the Red Lobster Restaurants.
May not sound so bad until you felt the slime and got a real wiff of old rancid beer and grease .
Dad would remind me that the white chunky grease and brown slimy beer by products were "GREEN" , as in money green $$$$$$.
In the cab of the trucks was a sign he had placed in them .... it read "Keep America Green , Spend Money "

Ken Resnick

clammy

sausage and meatball factory

It's probalby a bad 3rd or 4th but mant years ago myself and another mech where sent to change a roof top exhaust fan for a conveyer oven which cooked meatballs for packaging we also got sucked into replacing some 14 rd pipe also which was packed with grease so much that all that was left was about a 5 or 6 inches internally and that sucker weighted alot nearly yanked me off the extension ladder ended up lowering it with some rope lashed around there cieling joists totally gross all tools required a gasoline cleaning and clothes and shoes where tossed in the garbage that smell linguesd on the ladders for weeks and i did not eat meatballs or sausage for about 6 months and still refuse to buy pre cooked meatballs but as for the sense of smell try a fragrence factories (the imatation butter room puke)peace and good luck clammy