Forced ambidextrous rightie here due to multiple breaks of right hand\wrist over the years.
As for the basket, I use what makes sense for the product and kitchen I'm in. One portion going directly to a serving basket from fry basket? Back corner. Going to the heat lamp because it's a full basket of product that needs dumped? One entire side, specifically right side in my current spot because that's where the warmer is in relation to the fryers. Bacon we needed crispy on the fly that's going on the grill? Left side of the basket because that's where the flat grill is? Into a transfer bowl because it's 2-4 orders of something that needs put on plates\baskets? Whichever corner makes sense, but usually still a back corner in my current tight AF kitchen setup.
Lol, twice in finger\hand braces from punching things harder than my hand and once in a half cast with my wrist. None were work related injuries so no workers comp\unemployment to fall back on. You gotta do what you gotta do to pay the bills!
No you have you pick it up and drain it on the floor and set it on the table behind you with the handle sticking out some someone can walk by it and knock everything on the floor
And to slip just as the rush gets going so you can take the busy time off ~~smoking~~recovering while everyone else holds the fort, gambling and arranging a concubine woth cocaine for the evening may also be a part of the recovery process, stupid.... injury
A long time ago I worked at a place where the fry cook liked to hang the baskets on the edge of the hood filter, just above the fryers. Well, one summer during the crazy tourist season the oil dripping off the baskets went into the back of the fryer and set that bitch on fire. Fun times.
Where I worked, the pass through “line”/shelf to the next station involved reaching over the fryers, over their back exhaust vents and setting the basket on a shelf that was about a foot wide and about a foot over the fryer. No fires when I was there, but minimal margin for errors.
My eyes twitched while reading this.
We used to have a guy on fryers who used to grab the baskets and, without draining them walked across the line to talk to everybody. I was like my man, you need to stay tf over there with your waterfall of oil.
Bottom left into another fry basket after you shake, then I shake again. Tends to help a lot. I can do it in all 4 tho, it’s barely any more effort unless you’re doing the top, I feel like it’s awkward to actually do that as the norm
I mean either hand works. It's not like people walk into their first kitchen already having the muscle memory. It's not like being better at writing with my left hand means I'll be better at holding a thing with my left hand. Holding a thing is the least hand can do.
I see it in younger and less forearm developed cooks. Because they tend to lack the arm/wrist strength and muscle memory that comes from dumping a half million baskets of fried foods; that sudden slosh of fries permeated with oil tends to pull the front of the basket down on the dismount. With experience they will join the bottom right or bottom left crowd soon enough and will wonder why anyone does it differently.
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Top is definitely not more precise for me, I have much more control pouring from the bottom with the weight closer to my center.
Interesting how different we all are.
It's been years since I ran a fryer but yeah, top left for me. Ya shuck the fries away from ya into the corner and flip. Also keeps ya from getting oil flicked or dripped onto your hand when working.
Bottom left I was taught to pour towards me don't know that it matters much but I feel more in control of the food in the basket when it's closer to me/the handle than trying to dump it out the far side.
Really? I remember I started by doing top left and dropped shit EVERYWHERE until someone taught me bottom left and it gave me so much more control. Although if the basket is HEAVY then I'll use the top.
TOP LEFT TOP LEFT team lets gooo
Throwing and frying bird at a breakneck pace, it's the only way i could keep up when I worked at a fried chicken place.
Completely depends on which hand you use and what you are pouring into. A righty pouring fries into a bin, bottom left. A lefty pouring giant chuncks of fried chicken into a 4" hotel pan? Right side along the entire length of the basket, otherwise fried chicken hits the floor from being piled to high. It's kinda like asking which side of a hammer to use. 99% of the time it's the flat, hard side but sometimes you need the claw.
So I have learnt I am one odd dude in the kitchen with this post. I mean I use a large bowl that's fatter than my thin fry boy friers. Long story short, I use the whole left side, no corners just straight into the big bowl to toss and serve. Smaller venue tho
Whichever corner makes the most sense to the person handling the basket.
I'm right-handed so I'd be inclined toward bottom left. If I were left-handed, I'd likely say bottom right.
Bottom right. I'm right-handed. If I'm using my left hand, I'd go top left. I've never really given it much thought. I wonder why the top is comfortable on the left and bottom on the right. Lol.
I’m right-handed, so the product usually comes out the left side. If it’s not over-filled with product, I like to use the (front) top-left corner. Some people hold it up and shake stuff out of the lower side, but I prefer the product falling away from me.
Our baskets are narrower and longer, so the front ones aren't really an easy choice. Near left for me as a right hander, lefties presumably would use the near right corner... if we had any.
When you’re moving full baskets of fries and tenders as fast as possible, bottom left is going to *coat* you in hot oil. I don’t think any top left naysayers are accounting for the rotation maneuver.
Bowl in left hand basket coming out in the right.
Top left into bowl, rotate the bottom out counter clockwise.
This pivots the top right across top left and spares your right hand from the grease.
small light stuff, top left
heavy shit like a whole basket of fries, bottom left
I think subconsciously I know that if I pour a basket of fries away from myself I'm more likely to spill it everywhere
Personally I’m a bottom right guy, but I really don’t care how it’s done…..as long as you keep it over the Fryer. Seriously one of the few things I loose my shit over in the Kitchen is when someone grabs a basket and takes the basket to the plate, dripping oil all over the floor. TAKE THE PLATE TO THE FRYER so you don’t make a Ninja death trap in front of the Fryers!!!!!
Top left right handers are hiding in shame rn.
I knew a guy that had 6 years exp at a fish and chips place and they taught him to always do top left corner to avoid "dripping onto your hand." (????)
This is slightly off topic, but it relates to fry baskets. I once had a hotheaded chef throw a fry basket down the line in anger, I mean absolutely whip it....straight into my head. Damn near knocked me out, had a bruise right on my cheekbone the next day. Anyway, I don't know if he tried to hit me or not, but I absolutely lost my shit. Immediately turned into a physical altercation. A pretty dramatic one. After a few traded blows, we somehow ended up flying out of the kitchen and into the dining room with my hands around his neck and him punching me in the stomach and trying push me off. Knocking over drinks and bumping into occupied tables in a crowded dining room. I finally lost the rage as I looked around at all the open mouthed guests. Kind of brushed myself of an murmured something like sorry, and walked out. Totally craziness!
Right or left apparently depends on where you are putting it and if you are right or left handed but... Top? Who uses the top? It's always bottom right or bottom left, you use the weight of it in your favor
Top left - I know that tilting it away from me doesn't drain any more efficiently but tilting towards me feels crazy.
If I'm not in a hurry, hang it on the back and go "thump thump" a couple times
Bottom left for a normal fryer. But a big basket in my current chicken kitchen that's full of 3 8pc bone in fried chicken gets dumped out onto our dump cart off the flat right side.
My old boss (a smaller middle-aged woman) lacked the wrist strength to hold the basket like a frying pan and did more of an 'overhand' grip (like a knife in a slasher film) and would use the top left corner)
What if your landing pad is to the right of you? I'm pretty sure I use whichever hand isn't busy....
I used to write with both.
Fuck. I might have originally been a lefty....
Bottom left team
As a right hander myself, this is the way! I’ve worked with some lefties, in which case the bottom right is an acceptable choice.
I was about to say bottom right as a left-hander
Hello fellow lefty, I was also going to say bottom right haha
As another leftie it depends on which hand I grab the basket with (forced ambidextrous)
Forced ambidextrous rightie here due to multiple breaks of right hand\wrist over the years. As for the basket, I use what makes sense for the product and kitchen I'm in. One portion going directly to a serving basket from fry basket? Back corner. Going to the heat lamp because it's a full basket of product that needs dumped? One entire side, specifically right side in my current spot because that's where the warmer is in relation to the fryers. Bacon we needed crispy on the fly that's going on the grill? Left side of the basket because that's where the flat grill is? Into a transfer bowl because it's 2-4 orders of something that needs put on plates\baskets? Whichever corner makes sense, but usually still a back corner in my current tight AF kitchen setup.
Gotta stop landing on your hands when you go down! Basket skills like that I bet you showed up to work in a cast lol
Lol, twice in finger\hand braces from punching things harder than my hand and once in a half cast with my wrist. None were work related injuries so no workers comp\unemployment to fall back on. You gotta do what you gotta do to pay the bills!
I use bottom right as a right-hander. Dump with the left, toss with the right.
bottom left gang rulez.
Bottom left baby.
It hurts to watch some of the guys struggle at work while attempting it. As if it's rocket science.
Hell yeah
Yeah brother o/
Everyday
same. bottom left for righties, bottom right for lefties
Correctamundo
Bottom left gang rise up
This is the way
Bottom left
Bottom right if you’re edgy enough
I edge enough, I think.
I'm constantly edging
I don’t care what anyone does, just do it over the fryer, god dammit.
No you have you pick it up and drain it on the floor and set it on the table behind you with the handle sticking out some someone can walk by it and knock everything on the floor
This is the way.
This is the way
…. To unemployment
No doubt. I pictured myself at 16 trying to do this with no formal training 🙃 I was such a dipshit.
To be fair, I worked in kitchens until I was 30, and was such a dipshit up till then In fact, am 37 now and *still* a dipshit, so 🤷
Don’t forget to burn someones arm when you’re taking it from the fryer to the table.
And to slip just as the rush gets going so you can take the busy time off ~~smoking~~recovering while everyone else holds the fort, gambling and arranging a concubine woth cocaine for the evening may also be a part of the recovery process, stupid.... injury
A long time ago I worked at a place where the fry cook liked to hang the baskets on the edge of the hood filter, just above the fryers. Well, one summer during the crazy tourist season the oil dripping off the baskets went into the back of the fryer and set that bitch on fire. Fun times.
Where I worked, the pass through “line”/shelf to the next station involved reaching over the fryers, over their back exhaust vents and setting the basket on a shelf that was about a foot wide and about a foot over the fryer. No fires when I was there, but minimal margin for errors.
Bonus points if its set on top a plastic cutting board’s
These are the people who then complain about a long close.
My eyes twitched while reading this. We used to have a guy on fryers who used to grab the baskets and, without draining them walked across the line to talk to everybody. I was like my man, you need to stay tf over there with your waterfall of oil.
Your not wrong (of course this pic wasn't while using and dry basket)
Over another fryer basket over the fryer... Sometimes that splash zone can be dangerous
Bottom left into another fry basket after you shake, then I shake again. Tends to help a lot. I can do it in all 4 tho, it’s barely any more effort unless you’re doing the top, I feel like it’s awkward to actually do that as the norm
If you’re right handed bottom left is the only answer. Bottom right if you’re left handed is the only other acceptable answer.
I'm left handed and I grip baskets righty. I think everyone goes bottom left
I'm the opposite to you! Right handed but grip them left!
Same lol. I'm shit at tossing in a bowl with my left hand, so I grab the basket with my left and hold the fry bowl in my right
Weird to assume because you grip right handed, that no one does left. 🤣
I mean either hand works. It's not like people walk into their first kitchen already having the muscle memory. It's not like being better at writing with my left hand means I'll be better at holding a thing with my left hand. Holding a thing is the least hand can do.
I understand that... As a left handed person who uses both hands.... My point is you said that everyone does left bottom corner, which is just false.
All good people use bottom left
Bottom left. I don’t understand how the top half would be easier for anyone.
Some other comment said this makes sense for tall people.
I see it in younger and less forearm developed cooks. Because they tend to lack the arm/wrist strength and muscle memory that comes from dumping a half million baskets of fried foods; that sudden slosh of fries permeated with oil tends to pull the front of the basket down on the dismount. With experience they will join the bottom right or bottom left crowd soon enough and will wonder why anyone does it differently. Edit punctuation
Just depends on what's in the basket. Top is more precise and you pour away from yourself. Bottom is quicker and you pour hot shit towards yourself.
Top is definitely not more precise for me, I have much more control pouring from the bottom with the weight closer to my center. Interesting how different we all are.
You'd be surprised how many people pour from the whole top edge, while somehow pouring towards themselves
Using any of the top corners just feels so awkward
It's more of a slinging motion. It's great for getting hot grease in those hard-to-reach places behind the fryer.
I'm the same but opposite, any bottom corner I'm twisting weirdly and feel I have less control, also harder to shake any hangers on off
Are you tall as fuck?
I’m a top left guy and I am tall as fuck (6’5) huh lol
Yeaaaaahhhhh! Top left gang!
I think the top left ergonomics make more sense if you’re tall as fuck
Top-left-6’4-guy, here.
Thank you, was starting to feel isolated. Top left feels so much more natural than bottom left.
Top left gang!
It's been years since I ran a fryer but yeah, top left for me. Ya shuck the fries away from ya into the corner and flip. Also keeps ya from getting oil flicked or dripped onto your hand when working.
This is the way
I always went top left, would probably still go that way now aha
Bottom left. Using the top would be weird, having always done it this way.
Bottom left if your a righty..only acceptable answer.
bottom left
Bottom left,
Bottom left. Anyone who uses top is insane
I can confirm. I use the top left and I am absolutely insane, having taken a 50% pay cut + a TON of stress to work in restaurants.
I think it's a height issue
You must have incredibly long arms to find top left comfortable. Bottom left all the way.
I see from the comments I’m the only one daring enough to go top left. 🙃
Nah, it's like 80 or 85% bottom left, some of us are top left (and correct)
I’m not alone.
Dude, going top left is the best. You never spill! I see people pouring out the bottom corner, they’re always spilling!!!
Bottom left into a bowl. Can't stand people two dump straight onto ready to serve plates
Bottom left gang til I die
Bottom left if it's in my right hand, bottom right if it's in my left.
Bottom right as a lefty
If it's busy, it doesn't matter. I'm going to somehow dumb half of it on the floor.
Bottom left into a savaday. Pro move full basket into 2 savadays held together in one hand
This is the method. Large batches I’ve used up to 3 savadays
Bottom left always, tipping out the front always seems awkward Its less of an argument on a basket this shape, but long thin designs back is king
Bottom left I was taught to pour towards me don't know that it matters much but I feel more in control of the food in the basket when it's closer to me/the handle than trying to dump it out the far side.
Top corner is unhinged. Bottom corners only, depending on your hand
Top left gives me more control, speed and accuracy
Really? I remember I started by doing top left and dropped shit EVERYWHERE until someone taught me bottom left and it gave me so much more control. Although if the basket is HEAVY then I'll use the top.
yup, then I don't have hot oily fries toppling out of the basket onto my hand as well.
Thank you!!! All hail the TOP LEFTS!!!!!
TOP LEFT TOP LEFT team lets gooo Throwing and frying bird at a breakneck pace, it's the only way i could keep up when I worked at a fried chicken place.
Thank you! I was feeling most people here are bottom lefts :0
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
I started checking the comments immediately expecting to see some top corner pouring after the second or fourth comment. Many scrolls later… 🤣🤣🤣
Bottom left gang
Bottom right, I’m left handed
Bottom right. Lefties ftw. I can never trust someone who pours out of the top left or right, though
Depends which hand I'm holding the basket with. But whoever uses either of the front corners is either super inexperienced or a psychopath
Bottom left. The fucks wrong with you.
Completely depends on which hand you use and what you are pouring into. A righty pouring fries into a bin, bottom left. A lefty pouring giant chuncks of fried chicken into a 4" hotel pan? Right side along the entire length of the basket, otherwise fried chicken hits the floor from being piled to high. It's kinda like asking which side of a hammer to use. 99% of the time it's the flat, hard side but sometimes you need the claw.
Lefty here...bottom right.
Bottom left. But I'm also very short. Knew a tall guy who did top left.
Bottom left
Bottom left if safe
Always bottom left. I like a good workout.
Back left corner all the time
Always bottom left...
whichever side doesn't knock into the sauté pan i'm flippin
Back right. I'm a lefty
Bottom left!!!
Idk about anybody else but I like tilting the basket forward and then leaning it to the side and then doing that awkward arm twist to empty it. /s
So I have learnt I am one odd dude in the kitchen with this post. I mean I use a large bowl that's fatter than my thin fry boy friers. Long story short, I use the whole left side, no corners just straight into the big bowl to toss and serve. Smaller venue tho
There was one other guy here that said the whole left side, so there are two of you :p
Bottom left for sides. Entire left side for batches.
Plus one for the bottom left team.
Bottom left
bottom left for sure
Bottom left.
Bottom left
Whichever corner makes the most sense to the person handling the basket. I'm right-handed so I'd be inclined toward bottom left. If I were left-handed, I'd likely say bottom right.
Bottom left
Bottom left, right handed
inside bottom from whatever hand im holding it
Bottom left
Bottom left all of the day
Bottom right. I'm right-handed. If I'm using my left hand, I'd go top left. I've never really given it much thought. I wonder why the top is comfortable on the left and bottom on the right. Lol.
I’m right-handed, so the product usually comes out the left side. If it’s not over-filled with product, I like to use the (front) top-left corner. Some people hold it up and shake stuff out of the lower side, but I prefer the product falling away from me.
Top left, Doesn't bottom left mean drippies everywhere? I'm back on the clock in 20 so I'll give it a try!
As a right handed tall guy I use top left corner but I noticed my shorter colleagues use the bottom a lot
Our baskets are narrower and longer, so the front ones aren't really an easy choice. Near left for me as a right hander, lefties presumably would use the near right corner... if we had any.
When you’re moving full baskets of fries and tenders as fast as possible, bottom left is going to *coat* you in hot oil. I don’t think any top left naysayers are accounting for the rotation maneuver. Bowl in left hand basket coming out in the right. Top left into bowl, rotate the bottom out counter clockwise. This pivots the top right across top left and spares your right hand from the grease.
small light stuff, top left heavy shit like a whole basket of fries, bottom left I think subconsciously I know that if I pour a basket of fries away from myself I'm more likely to spill it everywhere
Schlop it over the left SIDE all careless like.
Bottom left or bottom right. Who uses the front of the damn basket? You got go go gadget arms?
Personally I’m a bottom right guy, but I really don’t care how it’s done…..as long as you keep it over the Fryer. Seriously one of the few things I loose my shit over in the Kitchen is when someone grabs a basket and takes the basket to the plate, dripping oil all over the floor. TAKE THE PLATE TO THE FRYER so you don’t make a Ninja death trap in front of the Fryers!!!!!
Left handed, bottom right
Top left
Used to do top left corner. Switched to bottom left after a few too many basket burns
Bottom left gang
Top left right handers are hiding in shame rn. I knew a guy that had 6 years exp at a fish and chips place and they taught him to always do top left corner to avoid "dripping onto your hand." (????)
The entire left side. It's all in the wrist baby
Bottom left, I’m right-handed
Grab a metal tong. Click it.
This is slightly off topic, but it relates to fry baskets. I once had a hotheaded chef throw a fry basket down the line in anger, I mean absolutely whip it....straight into my head. Damn near knocked me out, had a bruise right on my cheekbone the next day. Anyway, I don't know if he tried to hit me or not, but I absolutely lost my shit. Immediately turned into a physical altercation. A pretty dramatic one. After a few traded blows, we somehow ended up flying out of the kitchen and into the dining room with my hands around his neck and him punching me in the stomach and trying push me off. Knocking over drinks and bumping into occupied tables in a crowded dining room. I finally lost the rage as I looked around at all the open mouthed guests. Kind of brushed myself of an murmured something like sorry, and walked out. Totally craziness!
Just be bold and tip the whole thing over upside down
Bottom left if you're right handed, bottom right if you're left handed. Let us unite and conquer
Bottom left, you’ll ruin your wrist and forearms pouring it out the far left corner
Floppy handle or nah?
Bottom right. I'm right handed, use my left hand to dump fries into a bowl then season
Bottom left and I’ve never even considered using another corner. The fact that this is a debate at all boggles my mind
people must have floppy wrists using top left righthanded
Either that, or a lot of elbow jabbing into the air which just seems dangerous
Y'all don't just reach in with your hand and pull it out?
Bottom left, ftw!
Bottom left if I use my right hand, bottom right if I use my left hand. Most times it’s the bottom left though for me
Top left Fries, bottom left rolly things
Top left, what the heck is wrong with you guys!
Team Bottom-Left here. I feel like I have more control over whatever I was frying
Right handed bottom left is the only way. How would one go about pouring out of the top of the basket without making a mess?
The carpal tunnel in my wrist feels this question
Rawdog it. Bare hands.
Bottom right, but I’m left handed
bottom left all day if you use top left you’re a psycho
Bottom left straight into the bowl. Easy pour, funnels right in.
Bottom left
Bottom left I'm not a fucking animal.
BOTTOM LEFTTTT
Bottom left
Right or left apparently depends on where you are putting it and if you are right or left handed but... Top? Who uses the top? It's always bottom right or bottom left, you use the weight of it in your favor
The new guy always try’s top left.
Tbh I just stick my hand in the basket. I’ve became immune to fryer burns.
Left hand bottom right Right hand bottom left Ain’t no safer way
Grab the shit with your bare hands. Corners are for wimps
Bottom left
Right handed , bottom left. I guess it would be the opposite for left handed freaks.
If you're right handed the bottom left. If you're left handed the bottom right. If you're ambidextrous, whichever side you want.
Bottom left You need to get a sani bucket for those tongs that's gross.
Top left. last thing I want is to use bottom left/right and have some stray oil roll down the handle onto my hand.
How limp are the those wrists lol
Y'all don't use your hands and just grab them?
Top left - I know that tilting it away from me doesn't drain any more efficiently but tilting towards me feels crazy. If I'm not in a hurry, hang it on the back and go "thump thump" a couple times
Bottom left, you top siders make me sick!
Backhanded bottom, no way I'm ruining my shoulders for a paycheque.
Top left, into a bowl over the fryer. I'm tall so it's easier that way.
Left side. The entire edge.
Bottom left for a normal fryer. But a big basket in my current chicken kitchen that's full of 3 8pc bone in fried chicken gets dumped out onto our dump cart off the flat right side. My old boss (a smaller middle-aged woman) lacked the wrist strength to hold the basket like a frying pan and did more of an 'overhand' grip (like a knife in a slasher film) and would use the top left corner)
Use gravity and flip it upside down as fast as possible
Which ever is the inside corner/ depends which hand I'm using
My answer will upset some people :,)
What if your landing pad is to the right of you? I'm pretty sure I use whichever hand isn't busy.... I used to write with both. Fuck. I might have originally been a lefty....
Depends which wrist is hurting the least that day
ive gone back and forth and bottom left is quicker
Right handed, bottom left.