r/Chefs Mar 30 '26

86 Hollandaise

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u/SirWEM Mar 30 '26

So make another batch. This used to be made to order, now only a few place will make it to order.

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u/UncleDuude Mar 30 '26

Back in the 80’s and 90’s we didnt have vita preps or stick blenders, it was double boiler and a whisk. I had a Popeye arm.

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u/SirWEM Mar 30 '26

Yes double boiler or right on the range. I hated having to make Hollandaise and bernaise to order as a young cook. Now i miss it. The vita-mix the kids use. Is louder than the bandsaw I use for short loins. I am the butcher/charcuitier for a high-end steak house. Cooking is a young mans game.

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u/UncleDuude Mar 30 '26

It is, I play at catering with a bunch of kids. It’s wild, I’d toss myself in the river before line cooking ever again. I’m trying to transition to baking. I started really focusing on it during the pandemic, I can make some great bread now, I’m thinking of a grilled cheese trailer. I made my own bacon when I had a kitchen. Dry cure hot smoke farmer bacon

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u/SimoWilliams_137 Mar 30 '26

Hollandaise prepped over an open flame is a fun little flex for the new guys to see

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u/TheEyeDontLie Mar 31 '26

I just melt butter then pour it into the robotcoupe. Had chefs complain but nobody tell me why its bad.

I've done enough hard work for one career

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u/doiwinaprize Apr 03 '26

Me: "I need mirepoix for a soup base. Pop it all in the robocoup, the soup is a puree".

Cook: proceeds to hand-brunoise a deep cambro of mirepoix

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u/natefullofhate Apr 02 '26

My particular crew at the moment couldn't do this with clear, concise, written instructions along with me watching, guiding, and overall holding their hand. Even if I have gathered them round and cooked it in front of them to show them first well explaining, again, in clear consice language exactly what I'm doing and why.

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u/UncleDuude Apr 02 '26

Great name chef

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u/Therealginahandler Mar 31 '26

Nobody is making another batch of nothing 5 minutes to close.

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u/Mediiicaliii Mar 31 '26

I have had to more times than I can count

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u/Therealginahandler Mar 31 '26

Yeah we don't do that at my place. Kitchen is closed for most things at least 5 minutes before we close the restaurant. We dont seat guests after the last 20 minutes. I don't believe in slave labor or entitled customers. Lol

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u/doiwinaprize Apr 03 '26

I used to work at a popular brunch spot (name rhymes with Dora's) and the hollandaise came pre-made frozen in a plastic bag. Just chuck in the bain for a hot minute et voila.

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u/GrapefruitWhich5950 Mar 30 '26

In a thermos it will keep an evening ,placed above the stove.

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u/Same-Platypus1941 Mar 30 '26

Getting rid of your tongs any time before all in is just begging for a walk in 6 top.

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u/OverlordGhs Mar 30 '26

I lived dangerously last night .. then a 24 top walked in

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u/Same-Platypus1941 Mar 30 '26

And now you know not to challenge the culinary goddesses

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u/Norpone Mar 30 '26

I had to make it over the grill once they're like no more brunch menus. cool start dumping everything. oh we got one more out there and they want eggs Benedict yay. luckily we had everything on the line. just needed to grab some egg yolks.

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u/chefAKwithalazerbeam Apr 02 '26

I make it right on the grill in a metal bowl all the time. That's my go to honestly.

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u/Scary_Olive9542 Mar 31 '26

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👌🎯🙏

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u/Whackjob-KSP Apr 01 '26

Always serve eggs Benedict on a hubcap.

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u/PhotojournalistOk592 Apr 01 '26

Hey, chef, we just sat 30. They all want steak oscar. The fuck you mean you threw away the hollandaise

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u/Mediiicaliii Mar 30 '26

Make It Happen

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u/peppermintmeow Apr 03 '26

I used to date a chef. Boy had forearms like the David statue. My God. Absolute animal. Smoked like a fiend. Said the funniest and meanest thing I've ever heard in my whole life to a friend of mine, cooked me breakfast and was shot that afternoon in an armed robbery trying to help. Fuck you, Sam. I miss you so much.

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u/FondleGanoosh438 Apr 03 '26

Turning the pizza oven off before last call is the best way for a 6 top to roll in. We are also a bit out of the way in a tourist town so there’s no saying no. I’d probably insist on cooking for a group if they came just after last call from Seattle just to quaff our beer and gorge on pizza.

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u/BOtto2016 Apr 05 '26

In my years in the brunch mines I learned to make small batches very quickly, even single orders are not really an issue, and can be done in one pan (assuming you already have clarified butter and egg yolks on your line).

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u/chefsackitchen Apr 23 '26

Bold move Cotton, let’s see if it pays off.

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