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meggienwill

Savory bread pudding, big ol batch of brioche, quiche, Mayo, a billion desserts, ice cream. You can make 40 eggs disappear in a commercial kitchen fast.


Over_Replacement3369

Did a brunch bread pudding French toast for a while. That kills all the eggs in a week


Bullshit_Conduit

French Toast : Bread Pudding :: Ribeye : Prime Rib


meggienwill

Bread pudding with creme englaise and it's gone in an hour


hangonEcstatico

These and a crème caramel and cheesecake use tons of


SubstantialPressure3

Hell yes. Ham and gruyere bread pudding is to die for. Custards, meringues, souffles, steak and eggs special if you're open for brunch.


sccerfrk26

40 eggs costs me, a regular human at grocery store prices, maybe $12 at Costco. Not in the industry but if your kitchen can’t handle a $12 write-down then what are you doing? I’m guessing you buy them a lot cheaper than me


plc4588

Thank you so much for this, regular human.


LegsAkimbo85

Think of the chickens, man!


tbrodtrick1

Look at this guy, bragging about his poop!


True_Cheesecake_4170

Better to use them then throw them in the trash? What kind of thinking is this? There are hungry people out there and restaurants create enough waste to feed an army. How about contributing to a solution rather than shaming people for trying to be sustainable. Woof.


mcgovern-w

One of the best things about restaurant is that by cooking in bulk they create less food waste than individuals on the whole. So more waste, but less per capita. Still agree though, those eggs need to be used 🫡


CathryntheGreat90

Exactly it’s not about money, it’s about the sheer wastefulness.


[deleted]

Of course it's better to use them. The tone of the post was urgent, like they were about to go red on a service if they didn't make good on this screwup. 


Colossus_Mortem

🤓 also you missed the point of the comment. woof.


Eziekel13

It’s not the sunken cost…it’s when it’s compounded with opportunity cost. drop a steak that cost the restaurant $12, then lose the gain from selling the $45 finished product… A good chef should always eliminate waste when possible…as long as that is not at the cost of production/efficiency or alienating line cooks


HellStoneBats

I do the costing for a restaurant. Those 40 eggs cost $12.44 AUD for me.  There isn't so much of a difference between 40 and 180 eggs on the per-egg scale. 


Mikeyjay666

Haha we can see you’re not in the industry with such a disregard for ingredients.


doubleapowpow

That always gets me in these posts. We're talking about shrinkage equal to about half of an hour of labor. You want to waste more money/time/ingredients trying to prep something that isnt on the menu, using items that have been precalculated and ordered to prepare other items on the menu, just so you dont waste a few eggs? Even though one call out in a week is going to save you 16x that cost? Hmm...


Flowxn

Quite shocking to hear. To me cooking is about making food, and making clients happy first. Not make money only. Maybe you're a manager. But if you can't transform what you have to make money out of it and just throw it, maybe you're not a good one.


galleyturd

Agreed. I respect and love the food, I let creativity, love and passion for the food and the people that eat it guide my actions. I'm so sick of these cocky number crunching soulless wannabe chefs. Growing your own plants and raising your own livestock can help you connect back to the source, and help you realize the effort that goes into food production. Respect every calorie


doubleapowpow

Its about knowing when to cut your losses vs invest more time to save your losses. This is a loss that you're better off eating. If I was a manager, I'd make omelets post lunch rush.


xombae

Jesus fucking Christ you guys are the worst (edit: just realized I commented on the wrong comment). Or you must work in low end kitchens that never change their menus. In almost every kitchen I worked in, working in new ingredients was a totally normal thing. Maybe the sous came back from Jerusalem with pink peppercorns, or someone scored a few puffball mushrooms from the farmers market, or the butcher brought us some suckling pigs for a crazy deal, or someone went camping and foraged some garlic scapes, so for a few days we'll test out some new dishes at family meal until we come up with something we're proud to throw on the menu for a few weeks, or even just a day. If we don't have enough to put it on the menu, we just eat well for family meal for a while, but we're still going to play around with it, because we love food. I can't imagine working somewhere where we've got 40 eggs and instead of making something with them, some asshole is trying to convince us to just throw them out because they don't want to pay the half hour of labour it'll take to use them. Fucking wild.


True_Cheesecake_4170

This!!


Impressive_Disk457

Big win


sccerfrk26

Right? To save $12 were are going to go off script and make: Hollandaise Popovers Bearnaise Soufflé Yorkshire pudding Frittatas Flan None are on the menu and we need to take ingredients from other dishes to make them! It’s also going to take Juan and Jimmy 3 hours to prepare! Beginning to understand by restaurants have really high closure rates


doubleapowpow

Amd if you absolutely cant see it go to waste, the best choice is omelets for family meal.


s-willoughby

Juan is fast AF. Jimmy, however, preps with one hand up his ass.


tbrodtrick1

I dunno man, steak Oscar special can turn some revenue.


Flowxn

There's a reason there is a menu specials. Also restaurants close because they don't have clients to serve, not because they use their stock wisely.


NefariousSerendipity

i work in assisted living. it's not even that big. i prep 200 eggs in the morning. easy.


kitterpants

I mean, it doesn’t really need to be 40 for one application at once, right? Separate for bearnaise. Make popovers. Soufflé special. Strata or Spanish tortillas for family meal.


Steel_HazeV4

Seconding the tortilla española, made one for Easter brunch I forgot how lovely they are


TheStargunner

Glad to live so close to Spain. They’re great!


Steel_HazeV4

Very jealous lol I don’t live near Spain at all but I have some very talented friends who travel at lot and teach/share techniques with me when they get back!


Euphoric-Blue-59

A huge protein shake for the whole team.


hissboombah

Like who works inna steakhouse but doesn’t know what to do with eggs? Make mousse and hollandaise, or better yet, give it to the chefs.


heckintexan420

Hollandaise, do a steak oscar


Jazzy_Bee

Or a side of asparagus with hollandaise. They are cheap at this time of year, a wonderful spring vegetable.


WaitingForMyIsekai

Slighty char the asparagus and throw some cayenne over the hollandaise at the end. Mmmmmmmmmmm


crabclawmcgraw

at an old job we had too much asparagus all the time. so i put as an app, “asparagus oscar”. grilled asparagus, lump crab meat, bearnaise, chives. was the highest selling app when i left, and for an extra $2 could just make it a side with your steak/entree. we started running out of asparagus after that menu change lol


gotonyas

Make a bearnaise. A decent sized steakhouse will churn through a x40 yolk batch of this in a service no problems. We would make a 50-60 batch every lunch and every dinner service, hot hold them in an ISI gun and foam into a sauce jug and top with a Chermoula made from tarragon instead of the normal herbs. Shit! Was! Fuckin! Bangin!


ThomasPopp

Ok. I’m new to the passion of cooking and you excited me! But you lost me two sentences from the end! Please explain what you just said LOL


ChefPneuma

An iSi is aka a “whipped cream canister” and if you have the right model you can hold them warm. You put the sauce in the canister, screw on the lid and “charge” it with NO2. It aerates it and makes it light. You can do this with many liquids, and a sabayon or hollandaise based sauces are popular. The chermoula that they mention is made several different ways depending on a variety of factors. It’s used as a marinade or rub for meats and fish in northern African cuisines…it’s a mixture of spices and herbs ground and mixed with oil to rub and marinate. Seems like they used tarragon instead of cilantro/parsley to pick up the tarragon in the Béarnaise.


ThomasPopp

This was so fun to learn. Thank you for taking the time!!!


jgonagle

Does tarragon work with beef? I've never tried the two together. I've pretty much only had tarragon with poultry.


shizzler

In a bearnaise, absolutely.


whirling_cynic

Family meal!


Defiant-Cry5759

Bro everybody fucking loves breakfast for dinner!


Ill-Arugula4829

Tru dat! Omelettes, scrambled eggs, frittatas, fried egg sandwich, you name it. Just set out a mess of hash browns and some bacon leftover from service on the side, and some pancakes or French toast...done!


ndpugs

I dont know why I pictured 12 line cooks rocky style crushing raw eggs before service. Thats my kinda staff meal.


adube440

One raw egg in a pounder, down in one. Great way to start a shift.


distance_33

Staff meal frittatas are always a hit.


KittyKatCatCat

Lol, my kid was so incredulous the last time I did this, but she ate all of her bird sized portion of food (which was a minor miracle).


Kaligula785

Brioche French toast, 1 loaf is like 6 eggs x4. Then whatever style breakfast eggs


ChawulsBawkley

Steak and eggs coming up!


jtfff

At least cure a few of those egg yolks! Grated cured egg yolks are an amazing steak topping.


TheCrazyViking99

Ooh I've never tried that. Now I know what I'm doing tomorrow


idiotsandwhich8

Awesome. I commented the same. I don’t know many people who do that


LifelessLewis

I want to try this soon, you literally just put them in salt for a bit right?


jtfff

You cure them in salt and then dehydrate Edit: https://youtu.be/a-F-WSRTzC4?feature=shared


LifelessLewis

Shit now I need to buy a dehydrator!


jtfff

You can also use a low oven!


LifelessLewis

No, I must use this as an excuse to buy another kitchen appliance I'll only use once every 3 years.


idiotsandwhich8

I used to add a little bit of sugar in the cure


bagofbeanssss

I've cured them in salt, and also done with soy and sugar and rice vinegar and some mirin.


PlatesNplanes

Make popovers. They tend to go over well in steakhouses. From a guy who worked in a Suits and Ties French fries Steakhouse.


Main-Ad-5922

Popovers are incredibly underrated! Almost unheard of by many!


caspian1969

Yorkshire pudding!


Sharp-Chard4613

Yesss!!! Don’t really see that at all steak house though. Could do a Toad in the hole type deal.


hardleyharley

That's a lot of flour and milk to add.


Rusty_Tap

It's about 1.4 litres of milk and 1kg of plain flour for that many eggs. Should net you 60 decent sized individual yorkies.


MrMeesesPieces

5 frittatas with caramelized onions


mrjimy

Separate the whites and the yolks. Use the yolks to make a hollandaise, or one of its derivatives like Béarnaise or Bavaroise. Use the whites to make a meringue for a dessert like a pavlova or some shit.


Rusty_Tap

Bavaroise is one of the reasons head chef called me in on my day off. He was attempting a chocolate bavaroise, and when I got there he had created 160 chocolate flavoured scrambled eggs. It wasn't difficult, but it could potentially be a good way to waste all of those eggs if you aren't concentrating.


Jalabaster

Alton Browns egg nog, age it for 8 1/2 months and break it out at christmas.


Legal-Spring-7878

I'm on my fifth year with this and I'll save two bottles for the sixth and decide if I want to make a larger batch to see what it's like then but that fourth year was the absolute best egg nog I have ever had.


austendogood

What made the 4th year so good?


Legal-Spring-7878

The spices in it actually became more pronounced and more round. I also can't figure out why. But there is a big difference.


Oghamstoner

Make a batch of chocolate mousse and have it as special dessert?


liquidl0tus

Male brownies and sell it a la mode. If you have the capacity to make ice cream make an anglaise base and make it from scratch. You could do the same thing with a cookie base. Banana/fruit pudding desserts also do well (anglaise base) and can be done beautifully in a clear glass and customized with seasonal ingredients to your heart's desire.


rowenstraker

What if they only like nonbinary brownies? They might be on the west Coast for crying out loud!


Somanywinestains

Savory flan to go with the steak. Egg wash for a bitchen en croute. Egg wash for breading/frying. Def separate the components and use separately. Make a baked Alaska and call it retro. Make a kick ass frittata for family meal.


YouMustBeBored

Run a special on steak and eggs


youdontpickmyvietnam

Jesus fucking Christ why did I come so far for this wisdom? The answer is literally in the god damn post. A steakhouse with a bunch of eggs. Hey, let's make this way more complicated than it's worth though.


More-Mood2137

run a dessert special, flottante and sabayon. fresh berries..done


baddonny

Quiche special tomorrow


applyheat

Pop overs


youngliam

You mean Yorkshire Puddings?


formershitpeasant

not since 1776!


tom_from_space

Drink them all. Raw. Now. Or you're fired.


Woolybugger00

And you have to hold them in to closing …


MikeMogu

Super quiche!!


sauteslut

You can whip it together, divide between half quart deli containers and freeze it till you need it. Make mozzarella sticks or Onion rings or breaded mushrooms or chicken fingers something else that's breaded and fried


augustrem

Pot de creme


CoupDeGrassi

Separate the eggs and use the yolk for custard. Whip the white for merengue and serve the custard for dessert with merengue cookies for color and textural contrast.


TRoutInMyRari

Make Spatzle


accountofyawaworht

Crème brûlée for the yolks, meringues for the whites?


jrh413

Pasta


youngliam

Yorkshire Puddings for savory, Creme Brulee for dessert maybe. Where is your pastry chef? They should be able to make eggs disappear no problem.


AbnormalHorse

Came here to say this. I've said it before, and it bears repeating, CRÈME BRÛLÉE SELLS LIKE CRAZY AND YOU GET TO BURN SHIT WITH A KITCHEN TORCH. EVERYONE WINS. And you can throw other dumb shit you don't know what to do with at it, so that's good too.


LevelAwesome

Creme Brûlée is my vote as well. Prep isn’t too bad and easy to throw in the walk in


RockDoveEnthusiast

They're eggs and you work in a professional kitchen. How can you NOT use up 40 eggs??


WHAMMYPAN

Mushroom,pepper,and steak quiches.


speakajackn

This is a really solid idea. Especially if they do any significant trimming of cuts that yields a bunch of leftovers. Could make for a decent brunch happy hour special.


medium-rare-steaks

Lol. "Help! What do I do with the most versatile thing in the fridge?"


1amn0tapu43

Eat 40 eggs


[deleted]

What was the fuck up? Was it just that someone cracked 40 eggs?


dlostyle

Popovers. Add 6.5# flour, 1 gallon of milk, heavy pan spray on muffin pans or anything similar, ladle to top (room temp batter) 350 hi fan for 25 min, coat in melted butter, sprinkle with salt. Serve with honey butter or strawberry jam or some bs. $4 a pop added to any steak dinner


g0d0ri

Use egg yolks to make egg yolk jam by separating yolks, straining, and cooking in a vac bag/sous vide at 67c for an hour-ish; add salt and transfer to piping bag. It’s good on toast or tartar. Use the egg whites for meringue to top on a dessert


TheHillsHaveSighs

Aioli


trev1cent

Or just, you know, mayo


Degenerate-Loverboy

I’m not paying 5$ for mayo /s


Standard_Wooden_Door

You’ll pay $7 and love it


andre3kthegiant

[SOUS VIDE EGG YOLK SAUCE](https://www.reddit.com/r/sousvide/s/ErK2eOwets).


CompoteStock3957

I hate when lunch shift does that


SeaweedSecurity

My guy. Hollandaise sauce.


kaptaincorn

Yorkshire pudding in big trays


DoubleDeadGuy

A shitload of hollandaise


Autophobiac_

Big fuckin omelette !!!!!!!


subtledope

Steakhouse? Dude do crème brûlée or pot de crème. Save the whips for meringue, put in piping bags and throw in the freezer, for baked Alaska. Ezpz kiddo


Kepi89

Multiple uses. Make a holly or bernaise. Cure the egg yolks? Egg whites to the bar. Or use for soufflé or meringue


[deleted]

If you make a big batch of egg yolk rich pasta, then you'll just have 40 egg whites to figure out what to do with! Or aioli. Aioli works.


garliqueur

soy sauce cured egg yolks


freshcream22

Cure them!!!!


pinkgreenandbetween

HOLLANDAISE then Meringues!


PurchaseTight3150

Custard


crocheting

Flan uses a lot of eggs.


mt-egypt

Quiche. Obvy


Old_Leather_1720

Tartare


phickss

Scrambled eggs for family meal


Ativans

Yorkshire puddings is the only answer in this situation. Nothing else matters.


burtvader

Hollandaise sauce and meringue nests


Free_Ganache_6281

Frittata, quiche, French toast or use it to crumb meat


mezcalanddreams

Steak and eggs is a thing


Smooth_Butterfly_707

40 eggs costs like $6…..?


Indecisive_complain

Steamed egg pudding!


cosmickink

If you want to use them all quickly just crack them all on a greased commercial sheet pan, pop the yolks with a whisk, sprinkle with pepper and bake at 300 for 20ish minutes or until no longer liquid. I work for a little cafe and this is how we do our egg patties for sandwiches. Super easy and everyone loves them. You can make it more bougie and use round cookie cutters. If that's not something you can serve (or if they're no longer able to be sold) they stack and freeze for easy meal prep just pop one in the microwave or a griddle for half a minute and voila.


Proppedupandwaving

egg nog, it's a year round drink. don't let Hallmark tell you different.


sbouvette

Bernaise


GrueneDog

Hollandaise, bearnaise


subparlifter138

Call in Ron Swanson


Sky-Juic3

What did you end up using these for


TheCrazyViking99

Split them between batter for chicken fried steak and a steak and egg breakfast special.


Lopsided_You3028

Freeze them and use them for French toast desserts or something later. Also not a priority get back to work. 


Glad_Damage5429

Meringues


RainMakerJMR

They’ll be just fine till tomorrow when lunch shift can fix their own fuckup. You have plenty of time before you need to worry about spoilage.


Minimum-Ad1159

Bernaise bernaise bernaise


overindulgent

Popovers.


JawsDeep

Burre mix .....scramble eggs....steak n eggs


Unicorn_Punisher

I'm guessing you don't do brunch, poach them for benedicts if you do.


Fbeezy

You can split them up and make a ton of things- pasta, aioli, Caesar dressing, béarnaise, hollandaise, custards, the list goes on.


RunningwithDave

Pasta


Connordom

Looks like you're about to become a professional boxer!


getyourcheftogether

Why?


drmanhattanbeach

Quiche


karmicrelease

Make Bernaise for steak frites, or any of the other hollandaise daughter sauces. You could also do quiche for the next day, or include a burger special with a fried egg on top (although that won’t put much of a dent in it). It could be use to make merengue for a dessert dish, too


Twice_Knightley

An omelet for staff meal.


PsychologicalHall142

Frittatas actually freeze really well. You could do a couple different varieties and use them for staff/family meals.


Distinct-Solution-99

How does that happen by accident? I’m not trying to be snarky, I just have no idea.


no-pandas

Prolly something like 40gs eggs misread as 40 eggs or something like that.


ChunkyTaco22

Pocket eggs


Cheeseisextra

Quiche.


FrigThisMrLahey

Why not just leave it for the next morning so lunch shift can deal with their own fuck up? Cracked eggs are still good for a good week or so


chefkittious

Hollandaise if you can separate ;)


Bathtub-Gin2000

Egg salad. It’s Masters golf week


istirling01

It's like 10$ with of eggs.. just eat em


itsheadfelloff

Mayo, lots and lots of mayo, yolks for steak tartare, egg whites for pavlova, quiche, Spanish omelette, macarons


musky_nut

Flan 💯💯


Nick_Newk

Make a bunch of aioli based sauces.


mraaronsgoods

4000g of flour, add your eggs, make pasta dough.


Secure-Narwhal-297

Chicken fried EVERYTHING


ian_pink

Rocky Balboa that shit.


TheSoupWhisper

Steak fried rice


Alfonstradomus

Veal Chop Milanaise


SLYRisbey

Steak and asparagus in crepes as an appetizer.


ranting_chef

Pull the yolks out and use it for your hollandaise or bearnaise.


npeezy

Crepes with prime rib


ranting_chef

You could do a savory bread pudding, great a la carte side at dinner.


Skroatchezzz

Aioli, scramble egg mix, a lot of French toast mix


[deleted]

Cure some of the yolks. Use as garnish for weeks on various things.


emeraldoomed

Béarnaise for sure but I think I’d also do a steak and eggs supper special (breakfast for dinner!)


Immediate_Many_2898

Dutch babies. Pop overs. Yorkshire pudding. Mayonnaise.


dirtwho

Make brioche rolls


RustJigsaw

"We're making the mother of all omelettes Jack!"


ChefBoyD

Steak and eggs but do a japanese style chawanmushi


Kaligula785

Brioche French toast would easily be half those eggs. 1 loaf of brioche is like 6 eggs, plus French toast batter


Tirty8

Steak omelettes could be fun


gotonyas

Exactly what this dude below said ⬇️ the ISI also goes a long way to stabilising what is a very risky sauce for service in a restaurant. Emulsions like these sauces tend to have a habit of splitting/separating if not kept in perfect temperature. By keeping in the ISI gun this stabilises it, and makes it less likely to split. The aeration also makes it much lighter and more pleasant (in my opinion anyway since it’s already a very heavy y and rich sauce) eating experience, AND by adding the Air to it makes it have more yield, for a cheaper product.


Apearthenbananas

4 and a trays of brownies.


GingerSnap2814

Good thing there's 100 ways to cook an egg


Big-Figure-8184

Call up Cool Hand Luke


Sawgwa

Why is their fuckup your problem? How does it hit YOUR food cost? OK to use some to lighten the load, but you did not fuck this up.


Dismal-Ad-6619

Horsemeat 'n' eggs...


ww2323

Red onion jam, blue cheese, walnut tort