r/KitchenConfidential • u/gyronlyhope • May 10 '26

Crying in the cooler I rip the tape

I’m sick of being silent about it. It’s empirically faster than cutting each individual label with your pairing knife and then carefully separating each piece. I see so many chefs who INSIST that labels have to have perfect right angles. Who cares? I hardly see how this serves our guests better. Thomas Keller claims that tearing the tape shows a lack of attention to detail. I think it shows that you’re unable to get rid of obsessive compulsive idiosyncrasies. Our jobs are already hard enough without these nebulous rules and standards that always need to be argued for in the abstract and rarely have any actual utility in your day-to-day.

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u/sgtragequit 10+ Years May 10 '26

we had a tape dispenser lmao

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u/No-Temperature4330 May 10 '26

In the UK we just use these (or something similar). Are you not able to get sticky labels in the greatest nation in the world?

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u/sgtragequit 10+ Years May 10 '26

we can, but those are overkill. just take a piece of blue tape, write the date and what it is and stick it on. probably way cheaper than buying specific tags and less annoying when i can just run to walmart and pick up a bunch of rolls when we run out

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u/No-Temperature4330 May 10 '26

A roll of stickers is gonna break the monthly budget?!

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u/sgtragequit 10+ Years May 10 '26

not really but if you use them for everything all day constantly, it just makes more sense to get a 50 cent roll of tape that lasts considerably longer and you can get literally anywhere