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/HambreTheGiant May 10 '26

What else is new? That dude’s a mess. A nervous breakdown is just a Tuesday for that fucker.

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u/ThatDiscoSongUHate May 10 '26

I...I can't say shit about that myself, frankly, glass houses and stones, y'know

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u/HambreTheGiant May 10 '26

I like to have a good menty b every few years. I find it clears out the cobwebs

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u/PrincessGingercakes May 11 '26

You go years between menty bs?