Hi all,
I was always wondering how some restaurants make food. Recently for example I was to family small restaurant that had many different soups, meals, pasta etc and all came within 10 min or max 15.
How do they make so many different recipes quick?
– would it be possible to use some of their techniques so cooking at home is efficient and fast? (for example, for me it takes like 1 hour to make such soup)
Thank you!
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In general your meal isn’t made when you order it. Your meal is finished when you order it.
Pasta is par-cooked, or cooked partially, and finished when ordered and plated. For example your pasta takes 10 minutes in boiling water, the restaurant will cook 25 servings of pasta for 8 minutes and then dump into cold water and held. When your order comes in, the cook takes a serving of pasta and dumps it into a boiler, think a deep fryer but filled with water, finishes the last 2 minutes to get it cooked and hot and then in a bowl to sauce and on to your plate. Now your pasta order took 4 minutes instead of 15 to go from order to plated and ready.
Soups are prepared during the day in large batches, this is where “soup of the day” comes from.
Meats are cooked until rare and stored.
Sauces are prepared in advance. Veggies are cooked in large batches. Baked potatoes are made in advance.
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