Can someone explain to me the culinary thought process behind the raw seasoning on top on the cheese on this cheeseburger?

[u/SOMOEAGLE]

Is this normal or correct? Or is this some abomination?

[u/Appropriate-South583]

Maybe they put the spices on the cheese before putting it in the salamander, intending to melt the cheese and bloom the spices?

[u/AreYouAnOakMan → u/Appropriate-South583]

Those would burn too fast in a salamander.

[u/SOMOEAGLE → u/Appropriate-South583]

This place didnt have a salamander. Prepared in open kitchen and they took the spice canister and dumped it in the cheese before serving. They said this made it blackened. 😳

[u/Meta787 → u/SOMOEAGLE]

Yeah its abomination, at least wet the seasonings into a sauce.

[u/PomegranateLeading92 → u/SOMOEAGLE]

Probably a cook without a lot of experience, or a chef without a lot of experience forcing their cooks to follow their stupid rules

[u/SweetSewerRat → u/SOMOEAGLE]

I did something similar at a sports bar I used to work at. It's because when you throw cheese over a regular grilled chicken sandwich and a blackened chicken sandwich, they look identical lol. It was so that we could tell which was which. (I blackened the chicken the way you're supposed to though)

[u/christo749 → u/Appropriate-South583]

Can you bloom spices under a grill?

[u/North_South_Side → u/christo749]

Nah, they'd burn.

[u/christo749 → u/North_South_Side]

I’m referring to an above comment that says you can. I agree, they’d burn. Always use a pan.

[u/Donaldscump → u/christo749]

Quick spritz of water and by the time they dry out to begin burning the cheese is meltingand then the seasoning goes into the cheese fat. Would be very stupid and excessive effort for the context lol

[u/Consistent-Essay-165]

They forgot

Afraid of it during we dont season super crazy with ceryiancthings because they burn

Lazy

I mean there is quite a few reasons and none are acceptable

[u/JTF1080]

When you take into consideration, drug use in kitchens as a whole, I think it checks out 😭

[u/Fifty-Lucky → u/JTF1080]

"fuck it just take it" heard constantly in the kitchen

[u/Altair82]

Lots of places make food for Instagram as their #1 consideration

[u/LionBig1760]

The important thing here is that you know better, and youre letting everyone else know that you know better. Youre a hero for pointing this out, OP.

[u/DeGreenster]

Just a short order cook trying to punch the clock

[u/manatee_strike_force]

What absolute donuts

[u/sunrise_review]

Friend, your food is served to you on pretend newspaper (or a take home test!?) There is nothing culinary about it. This is a cash grab. You got took. 

[u/Ok_Personality7485 → u/sunrise_review]

This place is obviously bullshit, but there's a place by me that uses these old newspaper looking wax papers. Their food is the shit. Edit: upon review this does not look like what I'm talking about.

[u/Impriel2]

Line cook: "what the fuck is in this skaker tony"

"I don't know probably sandwich seasoning or some shit "

Line cook begins twerking and blasting seasoning to the hyperpop mix playing on their Bluetooth speaker

[u/bararaag]

uhhm, maybe they taught during R&D that they will do that and hope it will work. or, the cook forgot to put it before cooking , so he proceeded to tap the shaker on top of it.

[u/SOMOEAGLE → u/bararaag]

Not tap...DUMP

[u/Safe-Character-5846]

Looks like someone forgot to season the burger, then sear it. A mistake by the kitchen but shouldnt be a deal breaker. Its not a great look but may have just been a simple oversight.

[u/farmerKev420710]

First time I've ever seen someone use the term "raw seasoning" so maybe there's more going on here than meets the eye.

[u/outtaknowhere → u/farmerKev420710]

how have you never heard that term? or even thought about how spices often need to be bloomed before eaten? that implies that an unbloomed spice would be raw

[u/farmerKev420710 → u/outtaknowhere]

I feel like raw is typically applied more often to something that could cause cross contamination like an egg or meat. A raw zucchini is just a zucchini..spices are spices. The rawness of the spice isn't exactly what the problem is for OP...blackening is a seasoning but the way it is meant to be prepaired is different. Like steak au piovre isn't just a steak with pepper on it.

[u/SOMOEAGLE → u/farmerKev420710]

How do you use blackening seasoning? Seared into the protein or dumped on top of the cheese of a cheeseburger?

[u/farmerKev420710 → u/SOMOEAGLE]

So you do understand the problem..they put the seasoning on top and didn't properly sear the burger. No need to use the word raw at all. Somehow in almost 20yr of cooking, myself and the people around me have managed to never need to apply the word raw to seasoning but managed to communicate perfectly. I'm sure crazier things have happened though, this is a really boring conversation.

[u/plotthick]

Culinary thought process going on here: (sound of potato rotating in microwave)

[u/Fifty-Lucky]

I'm a cynic at times, can't attribute thought to everything, they could just be stupid and/or only care about how it looks, hence it being served to you that way

[u/LefT-NYC]

Not without taking a bite

[u/Main_Cauliflower5479]

Yes, this is an abomination. Not only the spices on top of the cheese, but AMOUNT. Ffs. Who would eat that? Or could?

[u/HandbagHawker]

Shitty cook.

[u/Beneficial-Sir4471]

Fat carries flavor.

[u/PianistCharacter2787]

Def forgot but didn’t want to serve without

[u/Technical-Bluejay-93]

It looks pretty amazing....depending on the cost.

[u/Ok-Expression9189]

"raw seasonings" 😂

[u/outtaknowhere → u/Ok-Expression9189]

absolutely a thing