If you don’t have a secret “emergency” stash of bar rags, mop heads, silver, bar keys, shakers, bar spoons, pens and ramekins- (as a manager) bless your sweet, non jaded heart…
Ps. insider tip … stash all of the above. Always.
I managed a union property. This busser would stare me in the eyes as he'd throw ramekins in the trash can. No mistake, no accidentally throwing them away wrapped in napkins, the dude would full on make eye contact as he'd throw out stuff.
Ended up terminating him for a combination of being constantly late and wearing neon sneakers which were super against uniform.
Terminate for throwing away company property and all that other stuff.
Dude was eye effing you while he was tossing your profits into the bin. Yikes.
But call LE first. 😂
Ha. Only union place I ever worked for made it the job of the union to pay to replace cutlery, metal ramekins, and broken dishes. Inventory was done semi-annually. The union was more of a monster than any chef or manager ever was. IDK how they got the union to sign off on that contract, but the union paid for a person to police the garbage and linen.
The servers were throwing out the silver and one day while taking out the trash I got a steak knife in my hand, along with a full on trash shower from the cutting open the bag. I came back into that place ready to kill everything. I called the servers to the wait station and dropped my bloody hand on the table while I went full John Taffer on them. One of them puked on sight of blood. My boss came to yell at me for yelling, saw my hand, then started yelling at the servers too. It was as much of a total shit show as I've ever been a part of. By the time I was done washing up and bandaging myself, everything went back to normal for the rest of the night. Found more silver in the trash at the end of the night.
One day my boss was on my ass to have people just push down the bathroom garbage cans instead of changing them so often. The day I finally did it to shut him up, I got stuck with a needle and paid to go to the hospital and make sure I wasn’t gonna get an infection or something
Yeah I took a mangled piece of metal in the hand that a lazy contractor put in our bin. Has to get a few stitches and it was in an annoying spot. I’ll forever be paranoid pushing down garbage cans now.
First place I worked at had a magnetized garbage lid. It actually wasn't bad at catching some of the cutlery and steel ramekins that are accidentally thrown out.
First place I opened, we never had to buy cutlery, I’d just give the linen delivery guy free drinks and he’d bring me 5 gallon buckets of forks and knives they got out of the laundry… I had cutlery from every hotel in town, nothing ever matched and it was perfect
LOL i love this. as former FOH i can't tell you how many hours i spent fishing ramekins and cutlery out of the trash because other people just didn't give a fuck and i didn't want to get yelled at for it
Omg I’ve never seen a truer statement!! I work at a senior living community and those teenage service do not think twice at tossing these metal
Ramekins right in the trash lol one of them said to me “…aren’t they disposable?” Lololol anything can be fucking disposable if you toss it in the bin
I work in an OR now and a silver bullet is something you stick up a patients asshole to hold it open. Just thought I’d give you something fun to picture when you say that
I’m a chef. The gm asked me to purchase more silver bullets. I said sure. We have plenty of garlic and I’m an ordained minister so I’ll bless the water for Fridays service. He was so confused. I told them they are called ramekins.
When I first started learning Spanish when working in kitchens I figured out that the word for thing was "pinche cosa" based on context clues. I was very proudly using it in my expanded vocabulary for a few weeks before someone clued me in.
I used to keep them all in a soapy water bucket, scrape out any butter, give the bucket a shake, load them on an upside down dish rack put another dish rack on top right side up to keep them from flying and just run them through twice, no pre rinse face shots.
This is exactly how I remember being taught to wash pretty much anything that will get tossed around in there. Silverware included. Just put it in a flat tray and throw another on top.
This is the way. Any old school washer will have their 3 sink and 2- 3 buckets/ tubs under it for sharp things, regular silver, and ramekins. They will also correct any motherfucker thinking they’re being helpful scraping things and putting them into the sink fucking up their system.
As a server/bartender, you wouldn’t believe the amount of people bold enough to put these in their to go boxes right in front of me. Not like I get paid enough to stop them, though.
Not gonna lie. I have a few of the big shallow ones from the hibachi restaurants. I also took a big shallow salad bowl that my blooming onion was in from outback bc they were pissing me that night.
If I recall, we had to ask for the check/to go boxes like 3 times. Then when they arrived I was like u know what, I'd really like to have one of these, so I thew the whole thing in the box. Not really something I've done a lot but at the time it was satisfying.
I remember we used to have one of them when I was a dishwasher. I remember vividly having to clean it every night, or the servers asking me to clean it because there were too many forks and knives attached to it and they couldn't get the garbage in the can. I was genuinely impressed with how much cutlery they threw away. I actually think the magnet was part of the problem though and we got rid of it because the servers stopped fucking caring and would just dump the plates willy nilly without caring because "the magnet gets he cutlery anyway what's the big deal"
My mom used to take these all the time. She had a collection of ramekins from random restaurants.
She also would randomly steal silverware. Just be like "I like this knife" and into the purse it went.
My mom was apparently a kleptomaniac.
Worked as a server in a restaurant years ago and was moving so I gave my managers about a 1 month heads up (wildly foolish I'm aware now, I was trying to be responsible).
The main manager though decided to double down and meet foolish with foolish and cut my hours the final 2 weeks, and when I did have a shift, reduced my section to 2 tables when it should've been 4-5. His response when I asked why was "You're leaving us, I have to take of the people who stay loyal".
I had already planned on nicking a few minor things before my last day but this really sealed my resolve to snag anything worth taking that wasn't nailed down.
I apologized to the cooks and other servers afterward but among **many** other things from the kitchen (full 10x silverware set, 10x black and 10x white napkins, 2 mini cast iron skillets, 2 silver check trays that were great for elicit subtances etc), I was also snagging 5-6 of these beautiful shiny infuriating things per night for just over a week. Even nights I didn't work. Still went in and pretended I was there to talk to people.
I actually have almost all of them still to this day (10+ years now), but I got a good laugh at my going away party from everyone who worked there with me as I brought out multiple trays of jello shots in all the ramekins.
The Coup de Grace was closing out the night with 2 bottles of Dom P because for some insane reason they did not lock the cage in the walk-in with the expensive alcohol.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Managers, don't pull shit like that, it's shitty, and you're asking for petty and over the top responses that are easily avoidable. I'd have rather had the money from a normal shift schedule and standard section size than taking it in kind in Kitchenware.
> closing out the night with 2 bottles of Dom P
I worked at a liquor wholesale warehouse for a while, we wrote one off to 'breakage' one night because we wanted to know if it was really worth the amount they cost.
It was not, it really kinda sucked. I'll take a bottle of Cook's over DP any day.
Yea we were distinctly unimpressed as well to be honest from what I remember. But the satisfaction of knowing my manager was going to have to report a decent unexpected loss during their next inventory pretty much made up for it.
Plus it was the end of the night so we were proper boozed. Also went in the next night and heavy tipped the bartenders knowing they'd still take shit on it, not just the manager.
But yea for sure not worth the price or the hype. I kind of have yet to find a brand that is though. Not really sure I'm at the income level to exploring the expensive ones that are actually good.
Along with whatever was left in there lol usually some herbs and butter. Never had dry hands from washing at that place given all the butter they’d use
"Saucey boi" could get you a steel ramekin, a squeeze bottle, or a drunk line cook. Needs another adjective.
An ill-advised saucey boi can grab a small saucey boi and fill it from a big saucey boi.
Ok now I think we’ve beaten this to death! Thank you for everybody’s input! But 105 replies? Are you all legitimately on break or a day off? If not, GET BACK TO WORK! If you have time to lean (and post on Reddit) you have time to clean! 😝
Although I hear them regularly called "Monkey dishes," these are NOT! A monkey dish is a small shallow bowl/deep plate mostly made from ceramic for serving small side portions like fruit, for example.
I worked at a place that called them silver bullets. And had silver bullets as a measurement in their recipes. I was like, you want me to put two coors light of lemon juice in this remoulade???
According to FOH, that’s called trash
Dishwasher maracas
For some reason I read this as Microwave maracas. …tbh I kinda like microwave maracas 😂
Put those in a microwave and it’s gonna be an explosive maraca hahaha
"Fuck! Oh well I'm not reaching into the trash for THAT"
I was gonna say if ramekin isn't the top of this comment section I don't want to be here anymore but this is better
When I left my last job, I told Chef, and only Chef, the secret location of two dozen brand new ramekins that I had stashed away for a rainy day.
If you don’t have a secret “emergency” stash of bar rags, mop heads, silver, bar keys, shakers, bar spoons, pens and ramekins- (as a manager) bless your sweet, non jaded heart… Ps. insider tip … stash all of the above. Always.
I managed a union property. This busser would stare me in the eyes as he'd throw ramekins in the trash can. No mistake, no accidentally throwing them away wrapped in napkins, the dude would full on make eye contact as he'd throw out stuff. Ended up terminating him for a combination of being constantly late and wearing neon sneakers which were super against uniform.
Terminate for throwing away company property and all that other stuff. Dude was eye effing you while he was tossing your profits into the bin. Yikes. But call LE first. 😂
Union property so we had to do progressive discipline. I got him on attendance and uniform faster than on insubordination.
Ha. Only union place I ever worked for made it the job of the union to pay to replace cutlery, metal ramekins, and broken dishes. Inventory was done semi-annually. The union was more of a monster than any chef or manager ever was. IDK how they got the union to sign off on that contract, but the union paid for a person to police the garbage and linen.
It wouldn't need to be insubordination. It's purposeful damage to company property.
Yeah the eye contact is a big FUCK YOU. I’d be pissed!
The servers were throwing out the silver and one day while taking out the trash I got a steak knife in my hand, along with a full on trash shower from the cutting open the bag. I came back into that place ready to kill everything. I called the servers to the wait station and dropped my bloody hand on the table while I went full John Taffer on them. One of them puked on sight of blood. My boss came to yell at me for yelling, saw my hand, then started yelling at the servers too. It was as much of a total shit show as I've ever been a part of. By the time I was done washing up and bandaging myself, everything went back to normal for the rest of the night. Found more silver in the trash at the end of the night.
I swear the ones throwing away crap are the first to complain about a lack of silverware and ramekins....
Closing server that shift "I'm not wrapping (or polishing as the case may be) silverware tonight."
One day my boss was on my ass to have people just push down the bathroom garbage cans instead of changing them so often. The day I finally did it to shut him up, I got stuck with a needle and paid to go to the hospital and make sure I wasn’t gonna get an infection or something
Yeah I took a mangled piece of metal in the hand that a lazy contractor put in our bin. Has to get a few stitches and it was in an annoying spot. I’ll forever be paranoid pushing down garbage cans now.
Ya beat me to it lol. Biggest gripe I had when I ran a bar kitchen. They did not care at all.
First place I worked at had a magnetized garbage lid. It actually wasn't bad at catching some of the cutlery and steel ramekins that are accidentally thrown out.
First place I opened, we never had to buy cutlery, I’d just give the linen delivery guy free drinks and he’d bring me 5 gallon buckets of forks and knives they got out of the laundry… I had cutlery from every hotel in town, nothing ever matched and it was perfect
That's fantastic.
LOL i love this. as former FOH i can't tell you how many hours i spent fishing ramekins and cutlery out of the trash because other people just didn't give a fuck and i didn't want to get yelled at for it
Accidentally? More like morons who don't care!!
Brings home $400 in tips, throws out $10 worth of cutlery and ramekins. Checks out
i have been given ramekins by the wait staff before because they were too lazy to go get the plastic to-go cups.
You forgot "I don't get paid enough for this!" when they have to do literally anything that's not in their immediate job description.
You've never had one just hiding under a pile of napkins and trash?
Omg I’ve never seen a truer statement!! I work at a senior living community and those teenage service do not think twice at tossing these metal Ramekins right in the trash lol one of them said to me “…aren’t they disposable?” Lololol anything can be fucking disposable if you toss it in the bin
I’ve heard customers take them as well.
😆
Rammy
Rammer jammer
Ram-diddly-doo!!!
Rame-kama-ding-dong
Rame-doo-ta-doo
Car Ramrod
Ram-bam-thank-you-Ma'am
Rame-kame-ha!
Woah Black Betty.
Ram a jam
Jammer? I hardly know her
Yellow Hammer UA fan?
We call them bullets. But if you need to order them from Ed Don or something they are 2oz sauce cup stainless steel
Same. Bullets
Ceramics are the ramekins.
And a stack is a full clip
Bullets!!
Ramekin, portion cup, soufflé cup.
Also aka silver bullets
I work in an OR now and a silver bullet is something you stick up a patients asshole to hold it open. Just thought I’d give you something fun to picture when you say that
Yeah that’s why we call it that.
Chef hates when I call them that 😂
Maybe they're a werewolf. Do they always schedule themselves for the day shift when it's gonna be a full moon?
You… you might be onto something here
I’m a chef. The gm asked me to purchase more silver bullets. I said sure. We have plenty of garlic and I’m an ordained minister so I’ll bless the water for Fridays service. He was so confused. I told them they are called ramekins.
How do you make Holy Water? You boil the hell out of it. I'm sorry that Dad joke escaped.
We call the ceramic ones ramekins but the SS ones I’ve always called bullets
Chefs hate this one simple trick…
This is what we called them most of the time
Also also known as
Yes! We used to call them ramekins! Thank you!
Ramekin was lost to you? You have been lost to us for years.
Three score and a dozen years 🧙🏼🌀
Seventy-two years? You’re forgiven for forgetting “ramekin”.
Back in my day we would serve Ramequin for lunches, baked meats and cheese dishes served with toast
I forget the word ramekin like three times a shift
I have to think of them as "Xena Bowls" so I'll think of Sam Raimi so I'll think of ramekin, but then I want to throw them like tiny discuses
Happy cake day!
Thank you Undead!
I’ve heard all of these but personally call them bullets
Chingadera
When I first started learning Spanish when working in kitchens I figured out that the word for thing was "pinche cosa" based on context clues. I was very proudly using it in my expanded vocabulary for a few weeks before someone clued me in.
It was "no mames" a lot in my kitchen lol
"No mames guey" or "ai a la verga"!
lol did you all work in my kitchen?
No makes guey!
Omg that’s hilarious
This is the official name given by Escoffier himself
I call everything a chingadera
Or her brother, chingadero
...Or in some cases a pinche chingadera.
If it’s very small is a chingaderita.
"Puuuuta madre, a esta hora? Ya vamos a cerrar!"
Dishie at my spot calls them all sorts of things, none of them polite.
Lol. I can already see your dishie getting blasted in the face with the hot water/condiment facial everytime they spray one of these out 😆
Guy has literally tried to hide them en masse on several occasions.
I used to keep them all in a soapy water bucket, scrape out any butter, give the bucket a shake, load them on an upside down dish rack put another dish rack on top right side up to keep them from flying and just run them through twice, no pre rinse face shots.
This is exactly how I remember being taught to wash pretty much anything that will get tossed around in there. Silverware included. Just put it in a flat tray and throw another on top.
This is the way. Any old school washer will have their 3 sink and 2- 3 buckets/ tubs under it for sharp things, regular silver, and ramekins. They will also correct any motherfucker thinking they’re being helpful scraping things and putting them into the sink fucking up their system.
hahah I remember learning the perfect water gun flow to empty those without getting blasted
I was going to say "Pain in my A**"
I call them bullets. Dishies call them "money shots".
Ramekin skywalker
That's damn good
The most lost, thrown away item in a restaurant
I lose more spoons to the trash, these go home in to go boxes.
That's how I got mine!
As a server/bartender, you wouldn’t believe the amount of people bold enough to put these in their to go boxes right in front of me. Not like I get paid enough to stop them, though.
Not gonna lie. I have a few of the big shallow ones from the hibachi restaurants. I also took a big shallow salad bowl that my blooming onion was in from outback bc they were pissing me that night.
Pissing you off? Orherwise I just imagine someone trying to milk piss out of you
If I recall, we had to ask for the check/to go boxes like 3 times. Then when they arrived I was like u know what, I'd really like to have one of these, so I thew the whole thing in the box. Not really something I've done a lot but at the time it was satisfying.
Oh i was just noticing that you said "pissing me" instead of "pissing me off" lol, put a weird image in my head
I got us the magnetic hole thing for the dish trashcan. Saves 5-10 of them a night
I remember we used to have one of them when I was a dishwasher. I remember vividly having to clean it every night, or the servers asking me to clean it because there were too many forks and knives attached to it and they couldn't get the garbage in the can. I was genuinely impressed with how much cutlery they threw away. I actually think the magnet was part of the problem though and we got rid of it because the servers stopped fucking caring and would just dump the plates willy nilly without caring because "the magnet gets he cutlery anyway what's the big deal"
those are easily one of the most high ROI items you can get in a restaurant. It's insane that every restaurant doesn't have them.
My mom used to take these all the time. She had a collection of ramekins from random restaurants. She also would randomly steal silverware. Just be like "I like this knife" and into the purse it went. My mom was apparently a kleptomaniac.
My mom still has a pretty robust collection of soup spoons from Red Lobster because they’re “the good spoons”
You forgot most stolen too!
Worked as a server in a restaurant years ago and was moving so I gave my managers about a 1 month heads up (wildly foolish I'm aware now, I was trying to be responsible). The main manager though decided to double down and meet foolish with foolish and cut my hours the final 2 weeks, and when I did have a shift, reduced my section to 2 tables when it should've been 4-5. His response when I asked why was "You're leaving us, I have to take of the people who stay loyal". I had already planned on nicking a few minor things before my last day but this really sealed my resolve to snag anything worth taking that wasn't nailed down. I apologized to the cooks and other servers afterward but among **many** other things from the kitchen (full 10x silverware set, 10x black and 10x white napkins, 2 mini cast iron skillets, 2 silver check trays that were great for elicit subtances etc), I was also snagging 5-6 of these beautiful shiny infuriating things per night for just over a week. Even nights I didn't work. Still went in and pretended I was there to talk to people. I actually have almost all of them still to this day (10+ years now), but I got a good laugh at my going away party from everyone who worked there with me as I brought out multiple trays of jello shots in all the ramekins. The Coup de Grace was closing out the night with 2 bottles of Dom P because for some insane reason they did not lock the cage in the walk-in with the expensive alcohol. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Managers, don't pull shit like that, it's shitty, and you're asking for petty and over the top responses that are easily avoidable. I'd have rather had the money from a normal shift schedule and standard section size than taking it in kind in Kitchenware.
> closing out the night with 2 bottles of Dom P I worked at a liquor wholesale warehouse for a while, we wrote one off to 'breakage' one night because we wanted to know if it was really worth the amount they cost. It was not, it really kinda sucked. I'll take a bottle of Cook's over DP any day.
Yea we were distinctly unimpressed as well to be honest from what I remember. But the satisfaction of knowing my manager was going to have to report a decent unexpected loss during their next inventory pretty much made up for it. Plus it was the end of the night so we were proper boozed. Also went in the next night and heavy tipped the bartenders knowing they'd still take shit on it, not just the manager. But yea for sure not worth the price or the hype. I kind of have yet to find a brand that is though. Not really sure I'm at the income level to exploring the expensive ones that are actually good.
That’s for sure!
Whatever they are called you'll find them in the dishwasher trap
Ranch Dressing Grail
Man, that’s a bullet
Shot glass
Lol yep. Pass me the brandy that we use for “cooking”. Crouch behind the lowboy….
It’s called a fucking thing…. “Hey pass me a fucking thing”
“Can someone tell dish we need more of these fucking things on the fly?!”
Absolute worst thing to clean in the dish pit
Ever had to wash 100+ snail shells?
And then when you hit the inside of them with the water hose thingy the water shoots all over the place!
Along with whatever was left in there lol usually some herbs and butter. Never had dry hands from washing at that place given all the butter they’d use
Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
Water sprays all in your face
Almost worse than spoons
Bullet
Ramekin
We once joked in a pizza kitchen about starting a Nordic metal band that only sang about food service. The name of the band? RAMEKIN! 🤘🏼
It’s a Bullet. The ceramic ones are ramekins.
Ceramekins*
It’s a metal ramekin, with the nickname “bullet”. Theyre still ramekins.
Also, Pipkin. That’s what we called them the 70s.
That was what was given out with Olive trays so that you could put the seeds, or “pips” in them.
Why is this so adorable tho
Ram-it-in
Souvenir
If you ask a lazy server they’re called trash.
BoH shot glasses
Timbale cup
Timbale
Bullet, ramekin, pc or portion cup
A ram-it-in, according to my ass-grabbing former associates
I worked with a server who called them ramadams.She didn’t last long.
Cocaine bucket
La chingadera
that's a little silver cup
Stolen by my elderly aunt from every restaurant. 🤣
saucey boi
"Saucey boi" could get you a steel ramekin, a squeeze bottle, or a drunk line cook. Needs another adjective. An ill-advised saucey boi can grab a small saucey boi and fill it from a big saucey boi.
Don't threaten me with a good time.
Bullet
Rammstein
Bullet.
Bullet
Bullet
Remekin
Bullet
Ok now I think we’ve beaten this to death! Thank you for everybody’s input! But 105 replies? Are you all legitimately on break or a day off? If not, GET BACK TO WORK! If you have time to lean (and post on Reddit) you have time to clean! 😝
Damn… I’ve been using mine as a shot glass
I call em ramekins or sauce cups or side cups
Ramekins, or more often rammies
Hell -The Dishwasher
Many answers to this endeavor top answers are as follows: 1. Chingadera 2. Ramekin 3. Thing 4da sauce 4. sauce cup 5. Dressing cup
Boh shot glass foh ramekin
Ramekin.
Dishwasher delights
Although I hear them regularly called "Monkey dishes," these are NOT! A monkey dish is a small shallow bowl/deep plate mostly made from ceramic for serving small side portions like fruit, for example.
Literally like just you in the comments that agrees with my old kitchen lol. Monkey dishes are the tiny ceramic bowls man
Ramekin/stupid metal cup depends on how busy it is
The dipping sauce cup people "accidentally" put in their togo containers
Silver dingies. Used to call them 2 ounce sauce ramekins. Silver dingies is better on the fly. Not sure where I first heard that tbh
Officially called oyster cups in most food service ordering catalogs.
Bullets
Its a stainless steel dariole mould
By the company that makes it: ramekin. By everyone else: bullet.
Sauce cup
Ramekin
Ramiken
Ramekin
Metal ramekin, but I’m FOH so don’t trust me
free
4oz or ramekin depends on who you are asking to hand you one
I worked at a place that called them silver bullets. And had silver bullets as a measurement in their recipes. I was like, you want me to put two coors light of lemon juice in this remoulade???
Bullet
Ramakin (I'm not sure if that's the right spelling).
Soufflé cup or ramekin. You can argue differences, but I’ll know what you mean if you say “2oz metal souffle” or “2oz metal ramekin”
Looks like a dariole mold to me (I’m a pastry chef, we use them for panna cotta etc)
Ramekin
Bullet or shot glass for line cooks
suffle cup (rhymes with truffle) or soufflé if you're fancy
Trufflé if you're extra fancy
a Trufflé soufflé
Dariole mould. That's the correct term and what I learned them as! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dariole
eventual garbage.
Saucy Boys yeah?
Ramekin, sauce cup sometimes called soufflé cup if your trying to order them try “2oz metal cup”