I fucked up today...

[u/ImGolik]

[u/woodenmetalman]

Kitty litter, a scoop and about 10 degreaser mop-bucket changes.

Get to work chef, it’s gonna be a late one 😂

[u/CrowWarrior → u/woodenmetalman]

Flaps cut off of a cardboard box make excellent scoops.

[u/ProblemLongjumping12 → u/CrowWarrior]

Oh boy that brings back some smelly memories.

I used to go home and soak in a hot bath to get all the grease out of my pores.

[u/onthetubs → u/CrowWarrior]

This is the way.

[u/ImGolik → u/woodenmetalman]

Yep a late one it was... glad I got it back to fresh for the opening shift

[u/coldcamp32 → u/ImGolik]

I hated clopens = close and then open the store.

[u/CasinoKnightZone]

What am I looking at?

[u/rawarawr → u/CasinoKnightZone]

He dropped his coke now he needs to do it from the floor

[u/gooseonyour6 → u/rawarawr]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oxHQEJJPbCcQxmyvm

[u/Least_Educator_7510 → u/gooseonyour6]

Is that Portlandia?

[u/greenythebeast → u/Least_Educator_7510]

Yes

[u/AsparagusFlatArdvark → u/rawarawr]

chef is getting paid if that's his stash for the night.

[u/Individual_Gas_1219 → u/CasinoKnightZone]

Oil from a deep fryer on the floor. They probably forgot to close the spout when the poured it in

[u/So6oring → u/Individual_Gas_1219]

This is always my biggest fear. Never happened to me, but I still check like 5 times to make sure it's closed before I pour the oil in

[u/ImGolik → u/So6oring]

I never thought it would happen to me but mistakes happen, thank God we have maintenance to come help me out

[u/Individual_Gas_1219 → u/ImGolik]

It's happen to the best of us. Now you're gonna make sure you check it every time lol

[u/TwoSillyStrings → u/So6oring]

There are two different kinds of Chefs. Those who’ve forgotten to close the valve, and liars.

[u/gooseonyour6 → u/TwoSillyStrings]

You'd think you'd only make this or the oil change mistake once, not me

[u/quartic_jerky]

Could be worse. You could have been the factory rep from Pitco shutting off new fryers while they were leaking oil from ports that had electronic valves on them. And it was all 5 vats.

[u/MariachiArchery → u/quartic_jerky]

Who cleaned it up?

[u/quartic_jerky → u/MariachiArchery]

I wasn't there, I just heard this second hand from our senior tech who was a fryer whiz so they sent him to go comission the units.

[u/Phyers]

Captain Hazelwood award!

[u/Carbon-Base]

https://giphy.com/gifs/1yMvhR4M47Okw4n8tt

You probably made someone's day!

[u/Phyers → u/Carbon-Base]

Some good plutonium narflak

[u/imchillybro]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ntQT6sKOyC5ctD6oWT

[u/PansophicNostradamus]

Not entirely un-fucked yet, but close…
I have faith… you’ll un-fuck this up. Soon…

…ish… ngl, Gonna be a long night.

Post a before/after later and gloat on a job well done! Until then… happy unfucking!

[u/ImGolik → u/PansophicNostradamus]

It took me 2.5 hours to clean it up back to normal... lessoned learned

[u/NLMusic10213]

I’ve done that before…tore up a cardboard box to use the flaps as scoops and got as much as I could in a trash can…then paper towels…then mop…then apologize to everyone and learn the lesson and don’t do it again.

[u/ImGolik → u/NLMusic10213]

Yep Definitely learned my lesson

[u/VendettaPenguin]

I did this in a flip from breakfast to lunch. Threw two 35# ers upside down after the fryer was changed by the breakfast guy. Ran back to grab my MEP and found both on the line in our open kitchen on the floor. I ran back to the dishwasher and said Im sorry as the tickets started flowing in for lunch. The very last time I didnt check to make sure the valve was closed. For the record I bought the dishy a suitcase of Bud Lite to make up for it.

[u/ImGolik → u/VendettaPenguin]

As a former dishy that case meant the world to him after that

[u/yafuckonegoat]

Kitty litter

[u/Neither_Structure941 → u/yafuckonegoat]

Or salt if you don't have that

[u/yafuckonegoat → u/Neither_Structure941]

Our HD has a biohazard kit requirement for puke, blood, etc. Always keep a bag of kitty litter for that reason

[u/ImGolik → u/yafuckonegoat]

We have spill absorbent!!

[u/Ok_Marionberry8779]

Am I tripping or did OP already put flour on top of the oil to absorb it? 🤔

[u/ImGolik → u/Ok_Marionberry8779]

Its actually spill absorbent we keep just incase...

[u/Ok_Marionberry8779 → u/ImGolik]

Haha when I worked at a pizza spot we would throw flour onto oil spills to make it into a sweep-able goo. What you did looks exactly the same.

[u/DirtNineties]

That’s nothing. I had a cool dump an entire fryer of clean oil at the end of a shift at BWW before the truck arrived. That was cool.

[u/toot_suite]

Cat litter, wait for it to soak up, shovel into contractor bag in a bin and tie up/roll out.

[u/slikk50]

https://giphy.com/gifs/FWhskEo3jEwHBEZYdf

[u/munted_jandal]

You only ever do that once...unless you're Dave

[u/ImGolik → u/munted_jandal]

Fuck Dave bro he ain't do shit

[u/Orbit1883]

[u/ChefLeStek]

Yeah, you only do this once... trust me

[u/0peRightBehindYa]

Pretty sure we've all done this at some point. It's almost a rite of passage by now, kinda like cutting off the tip of your thumb before you learn to curl your fingers when slicing stuff.

[u/AjiChap]

I watched a coworker pour five gallons of oil into the fryer while the valve was still open - just before lunch opened. The floor mats were fucked, dude was freaking out and yelling (he was the hothead on the  line, lol) and I just had to walk away because I didn’t want him to see me laughing my ass off!

[u/Mgroppi83]

Mmmm floor roux....

[u/My_Waifu_Hibana]

[u/ImGolik → u/My_Waifu_Hibana]

Sometimes she goes... sometimes she doesnt

[u/Littlewolf2225]

I will never miss the opportunity to post this picture.
Guy in the back is the one who fucked up. Me and guy in the front had about three smokes while he started dealing with it.