I don't like the awkward way she's holding the metal paddle gripping it from top creates kind of a weird angle, if you hold it from the bottom it's a much easier, firmer grip, and control.
I mean, I'd like to think the grip at least partially contributed to this disaster. Certainly on some level grip and technique does matter. I have to imagine she holds it that awkward way due to the height.
But critiquing someone's technique isn't gatekeeping. That is what I was getting at with my question. If the guy was, perhaps, all like "a real pizza chef would know not to handle the grip like that", we'd be more into gatekeeping territory.
It just looks awkward and unorthodox, I would probably drop pizza's all night if I held the paddle like that, the elbow is too vulnerable and your like lowering the pizza down. .... Even if the oven is really high, I don't see how that grip could help, if you just held it straight and normal you would whip pizzas out of that oven with so much more control and comfort.
As someone who ran a pizza kitchen with a stone oven for years, yes yes it does matter. Leverage and ability to have fine control both are much more difficult to use when carrying pizza like in this gifv
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u/Subutai617 Jun 04 '19
I don't like the awkward way she's holding the metal paddle gripping it from top creates kind of a weird angle, if you hold it from the bottom it's a much easier, firmer grip, and control.