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As someone currently working as the head night shift cook in a rickety old bar that nobody else other than myself seems to take the time to try and clean; I am insanely paranoid that this exact scenario is going to play out there one of these days.. Only it'll be because one of the pilot lights decided to randomly go out for too long before being turned back on. 😳😅😭
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Bro I had a pilot light fuck up in the kitchen like 3 weeks ago. Loudest gas explosions I've ever heard in person. Shit was out of control for a few mins before the fryer got it's pilot sorted out on its own.
Fuck those new fancy fryers with control boards and piezoelectric self ignition. Gimme a 40 year old pitco that I light with a match and I can see all the mechanical parts.
I just waited in the back trying to decide if I should call the fire department. Scary shit though.
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Jesus fucking Christ. 😳 See, the problem with all of the appliances at the bar I work at? They're too new to have been quality built, but they're too old to have any sort of safety features. Bossman bought them all second hand on the cheap too. (It's the first restaurant he's ever tried running. The guy used to be some sort of plant manager for Bausch & Lomb. [I like Randy though; cool guy – if maybe a little loopy]) I can't tell you how many times during a shift I have to turn the flattop back on because the right side went out, and I didn't know until I tried [not] toasting a bun on it. They're constantly acting up. I've gotten to a point where about every 30 minutes to an hour, I'll go through and double check them all, just in case. And like I said, I'm the only one there who actively tries to thoroughly keep up with keeping the place looking at least halfway respectable. Nobody else gives a fuck. The amount of grease buildup behind and underneath everything is f.u.c.k.i.n.g. d.i.s.g.u.s.t.i.n.g. But he's been losing so much money there lately, he doesn't want to close the place for a day, or have a couple people come in on an off day to do a deep clean. (Not for nothing, I tried one particularly slow day, and it was right back to how it was before within about a week anyways. I was pissed. 😑) That place is literally falling apart, and nobody but Randy and I seem to care. I feel bad for the guy.
That's insane though dood. I'm glad you didn't blow yourself sky high man. Because for real, that's some scary shit. I don't think a lot of people realize just how dangerous some of that shit can be. Even if your kitchen is up to snuff, all it could take is one particularly strong draft from the door opening, and a few minutes later?... Just out of curiosity though, (and I'm sorry for typing you out and entire short story) you said it was loud, right? Was it like, an actual Kaboom kinda like a lightning strike, or was it more like a really big * Whooff * like when you light up a stove?
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No worries about the long post I absolutely get it. Spent almost 6 years in a place like that. I loved it for a lot of reasons but yeah, gross and scary a lot of the time too.
As for this gas mishap, yeah it was full on loud booms, basically sounded like someone hitting a steel prep table full force with a thick leather strap. The whoofs aren't too bad they happen occasionally, this one was so much worse. The fact that it didn't even open the fryer door was surprising though.
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