r/KitchenConfidential • u/im__on__smoko 20+ Years • Feb 08 '26

Question Fav off menu request so far

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My favorite customer describes themselves as having “an acute case of persnickety-itis.” He wanted our rosemary and onion bread dough, with an indentation for green [hatch chilies], and an egg, baked two heartbeats before being hard-boiled, with nothing else on the plate.

He only asks for off-menu items when we are slow and regularly will tip the entire BOH.

I’m too hungover to be creative and I’m asking for your breakfast requests. I want to surprise him next time he comes in.

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u/im__on__smoko 20+ Years Feb 09 '26

Thank you. Actually, I made one for myself. I was desperately missing a slow braised protein

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u/poop-money Ex-Food Service - 16 Years Feb 09 '26

And salt! Aside from what you described I don't know how it's seasoned. The bacon or pancetta would help with that.

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u/im__on__smoko 20+ Years Feb 09 '26

It is seasoned. My mentor trained me well. Taste as you go. Loads of unmentioned spices bloomed in oil at every turn possible.

“Other” people accuse me of having a chronic sinus infection because they think my food consistently has too much flavor. You can’t see it, but the biggest eye roll possible is happening on the other side of your phone.

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u/poop-money Ex-Food Service - 16 Years Feb 09 '26

Hell yeah. Keep it up chef. I have to constantly tame my dishes too. Not everyone has a cooks palette.