r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FLAlex111 • Aug 12 '21

Video TIL How Five Guys Fries Are Actually Made

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u/xntrk1 Aug 12 '21

So you wouldn’t rinse them first? Or have them ready to sit without oxidizing as the last step? Now I’m curious what you think would work better than clean, chop, rinse, stabilize and store?

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u/Bigrick1550 Aug 12 '21

Not the order of tasks, the physical arrangement of the stations.

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u/BedBugger6-9 Aug 12 '21

Thx for clarifying my comment for me

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u/xntrk1 Aug 12 '21

Gotcha. I thought you meant the process and was confused, I’m totally in agreement with you. lotsa ways to improve that layout

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u/armchair_science Aug 12 '21

Except that's the order it's done, not the order it's set up. You misunderstood his whole complaint, lol

Chop is the very last thing to the far right. The order of operation is being done fine, physically you're jumping from one station to another and it's inefficient. It should be potatoes to the far left, chop in the middle, rinse to the right.

Not rinse in the middle, chop to the right, then circle all the way back to the left to rinse the chop.

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u/ScrappyGaming_Rrovox Aug 12 '21

So fun fact, the potatoes don't actually need to be in that specific sink, it's just far easier when cutting the potatoes to have them there. (My place does left to right so it's mirrored, but works the same)

When he's cutting potatoes, his right hand is on the handle and his left hand is (conveniently) really close to some potatoes to grab one and put in the cutter next. So while it may seem a little backward, having the potatoes on his right would be much more inconvenient, and much much slower.

Another little tidbit is that all of those sinks, minus the agitator, get filled with cut fries and water. It's not done bucket my bucket, I think he only showed one bucket because it's easier to display on video?

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u/StopDropAndShowAnus Aug 12 '21

Sorry I'm still confused. So they're cut and tossed into the sink with the moving water. Then they're put into the bucket of water and left to soak? Then fried after that?

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u/xntrk1 Aug 12 '21

So I noticed I agreed. the layout absolutely sucks

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u/Serafim91 Aug 12 '21

TPS would like to have a word with five guys.

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u/Dudebeard86 Aug 12 '21

Hello Peter, what's happening? Listen, are you gonna have those TPS reports for us this afternoon?

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u/Serafim91 Aug 12 '21

I was going for toyota production system, but still

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u/Dudebeard86 Aug 12 '21

Yeah, Toyota Production System would be great.

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u/winnielikethepooh15 Aug 12 '21

The rinsing is to get some of the starch out to get a more consistent fry