My Worst Restaurant Mistake(s) -

[@shawnhampton8503]

I got that feeling in my stomach hearing these stories... same feeling I get to this day whenever I hear a ticket machine... and I have not cooked in a professional kitchen since 2011. You are a survivor...anyone who stays in this industry, especially now, is a survivor and a total warrior.

[@jonwiley3538]

very beautiful lesson from 11:52 - 12:43. honestly redemptive to hear. if you're trying to understand your superiors mindset in the kitchen, or have recently been promoted to this kind of position, this speaks volumes. well said, justin.

[@justincox3161]

discord would be great.. i am moving to nyc in two weeks to take my culinary career to the next level, ive been working in a fine dining restaurant here in downtown detroit, but i feel like nyc would be a better choice to excel, your videos help immensly!!

[@albornoz190]

agree, we could do a sunday 30minuts Q&A or just hanging out there to voicechat~ and talk about stuff we want to see in the channel

[@chefseiji]

yo! which fine dining restaurant? i used to work at joe muer's haha

[@peterterrence1448]

you prolly dont care but does someone know a method to get back into an instagram account?? I somehow forgot the account password. I appreciate any tricks you can give me.

[@jakealvin7049]

@Peter Terrence Instablaster :)

[@peterterrence1448]

@Jake Alvin thanks for your reply. I got to the site on google and I'm waiting for the hacking stuff now. Seems to take quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

[@adamcarlson2192]

I did... nothing in high school. I just coasted. I now have pretty impressive culinary skills, but I'm entirely self-taught. Watching food network until they switched over to infomercials at 4 am certainly helped.

[@Txchef85]

Here is a good one, on my first day at the Broadmoor I was putting a speedrack full of bacon for brunch service on Sunday away in the walk in cooler. The main kitchen was built in 1905 and they had to modify it for the coolers which mean you had to push the rack of bacon up a little ramp to get it into the cooler. Long story short instead of asking for help as it weighed a ton with all the sheet trays full of yummy bacon I tried to do it myself. Needless to say as soon as the executive chef of the whole property walks into the kitchen the rack tilts over and all the bacon ends up on the floor. yep I'll never live that one down.

[@Vante21]

Yes!! if it hasn't happened already, I'm so down for the discord idea

[@raulortiz3137]

I think it would be a great idea to have a place to get in contact with other chefs.

[@augustolipari]

I loved this video, your videos are simply amazing. A Facebook group would do it. Keep it up Justin! Your work for this community is huge.

[@MrAgisma]

Yes for discord!

[@milodawson1332]

Im planning on eventually working in the states and being able to have those connections would be amazing, I'm down for a discord or fb group. Also loving the videos as always

[@Bchang93]

The discord would be great I’m heading to Colorado in the end of oct! Would be cool to meet up or talk to people who are in the industry out there I’m wanting to stage out there to!

[@Shredchef]

Where in Colorado?

[@Bchang93]

I was in boulder! And I went to Denver a few times! I wish I was able to experience Denver a bit more! I went to black belly to eat and basta! I never ended up staging anywhere to be honest I just wanted to experience Colorado maybe next time I’m out there I will!

[@Reynaud0110]

I would love a discord server!! Catching this in July ‘21, any updates on creating one?

[@sebastianc177]

Hey Justin your guide to staging help me get a stage at on of the best restaurant in my town thanks!

[@georgewbushcenterforintell147]

The way I know I work well at a place is when they don't fire me for dumb stuff I do . I made some whip cream and put it in a plastic bag then I came up with. Great idea ...seal the bag in the vacuum chamber with the bag sealer . when I turned on the machine it started to suck the whip cream out of the bag and got all over the inside of the chamber . right before 5 pm .

[@justinkhanna]

That's the worst! Seal setting only ;) helpful lessons learned along the way, though!

[@FixMyHairline]

I have just recently found your videos and i think theyre great! I'm 18 and graduated this past year, I have had a love and passion for food my whole life and learned to cook when my mom was at work as a kid. I'm currently struggling with whether or not to go to culinary school, my family doesnt have much money to pay for school and im deathly afraid of student debt. Also I've never been huge on fine dining, my dreams are honestly just to open a mom and pop shop somewhere with nice people. do you believe its possible to gain the knowledge i want working in restaurants?

[@katlegomangope193]

Tinder for cooks 😂

[@samysiahaan]

facebook group would actually be helpful for us, or at least for me

[@burgerwitheverything9247]

What is a garde station

[@rollingpinproductions7424]

Justin it has been 25 years ago since coming out of JWU in Charleston SC,. How do you get over a Drunken Master Pastry Chef throws your tortes in the trash and says " villiams that was a B+, but not a good enough to send to the dining room! ". We paid the same amount as culinary arts students and two. My body temp is higher than the average person. So the covature did not pipe smoothly . We could not add anything to it to make it pipe able.

[@ninjalightning2631]

Love your videos I’m a jazz saxophonist/chef 30 years never had to work on day job now Becouse pandemic I am making a living as a chef keep up the good work❤️❤️🙏🙏

[@justinkhanna]

Hey thanks!

[@dpclerks09]

Apologies in advance if this has been asked/answered already, but, do you think that having to pick out the morels in front of the line was a form of abuse in some sense?

[@justinkhanna]

I have a whole mini blog post I wrote as part of my newsletter where I shared the lessons I took away from that experience: support.justinkhanna.com/posts/learning-from-mistakes-knife-buying-guide-and-a-surprise-throwback - I think there's a fine line between abuse and "a learning moment" which is dependent on the amount of shame and embarrassment...maybe that's not nuanced enough. But I certainly fell in the latter camp, where I just thought I royally screwed up and had some slight embarrassment in the moment, which quickly went away once the problem was fixed. One of those "alright, well I'll never do that again" lessons - make sense?

[@dpclerks09]

@@justinkhanna Word. That makes sense. Definitely had plenty of those. Thank you for taking the time to reply. I appreciate it.

[@andrewchen3566]

Link to this AirBnb?

[@manicmut7]

discord for sure i would join

[@Axelrun1994]

I like the idea of a discord server

[@jetzelcruz8288]

I was in the train when you did the expo call and I looked up with full attention 😂

[@mitchelll4847]

Orange juice

[@williamkarlbaker]

Jesus that fish story is traumatizing

[@joseemilianoriosfernandez1504]

I would love to have a Facebook group

[@blackjon8]

Great advice 👌 In the game 10 years

[@MrBeatboxmasta]

I thought he was being dramatic when he said his horror stories brought PTSD. After hearing the fish story, I would have wanted to crawl under a rock. The mushroom story wasn't that bad tho because it was the process being stupid, more than anything.

[@myfairyblueworld]

Stopped by to learn how to plate pasta with chopsticks ... that didn't happen.😂🤘🥢

[@justinkhanna]

Ha thanks for watching 🙌