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Costco Auto Saucer
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u/charmingUbluntly 10d ago
Sneak this into r/vinyl without being noticed?
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Sounds like the guy was making his own sauce while filming this.
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u/TheySayImZack 10d ago
lmao I was trying to figure out how to word it myself in a reply, but you hit on the head.
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u/nullterm 10d ago
I guess you could say that I was also hitting it on the head...
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u/thisismybirthday 10d ago
this mildly satisfying, and you're oddly overenthusiastic about it
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u/AbsolutelyUnlikely 10d ago
Did he... did he say that for us? Like was he filming it while thinking about this sub, and then added satisfaction related commentary? Because somehow that feels wrong.
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u/BrocolliBrad 10d ago
That is absolutely what happened. We're dealing with a category 4 redittor here.
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u/averyfinename 10d ago
don't you ever see something out 'in the wild' or on tv and start naming subs it would fit in to?
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u/cantwaitforthis 10d ago
I’m more annoyed that I could sauce a pizza way faster than this.
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u/mkamo243 10d ago
It’s not about time it’s about hands on time.
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u/Crohnies 10d ago
I thought it was about using the same exact amount of sauce per pizza
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u/TheBeeTells 10d ago
I thought it was about getting the guy filming to cum in his pants.
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u/pistoncivic 10d ago
does the saucer need healthcare, sick leave, the overbearing threat of homelessness or a bathroom? I don't know, but our mechanized replacements gotta be cheaper in the end
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u/mgbenny85 10d ago
Costco employee checking in: the food court (especially post-Covid) functions as a loss leader to get people in the door so they can impulse buy $200 of cool shit while they walk to the rotisserie chicken case (always strategically as far as possible from the entrance).
The less payroll they can run the food court on, the happier it makes them.
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u/PacificCastaway 10d ago
Then why do only some Costcos have ordering tablet kiosks? My Costcos only have humans taking orders and lines a mile long. Can you tell I was in line for over 15min for a pizza slice a couple days ago?
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u/mgbenny85 10d ago edited 10d ago
Not sure of the logic behind how it’s rolling out, but my understanding is that it’s all moving that direction.
ETA: depending where you are located, you can probably order at the main checkout if that looks faster, and then take your receipt to the pickup window. Before my warehouse installed kiosks, that was pretty consistently the faster play.
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u/Exodia101 10d ago edited 10d ago
I hate to break it to you but roombas already have jobs
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u/Inigomntoya 10d ago
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u/CharderVR 10d ago
r/financiallyunstableroombas
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u/Jilijou 10d ago
I clicked on all these subreddits, hoping one of them would lead me somewhere and here I am, still here and betrayed by all of you
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u/Additional_Score_929 10d ago
Costco pizza is bomb
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u/GetSchwepped 10d ago
So sad they got rid of the combo pizza
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u/slapFIVE 10d ago
I think they changed their churro recipe too because now they taste like ass. They used to be my favorite, what a tragedy.
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u/slapFIVE 10d ago
Did some scrubbing on the Costco subreddit and someone actually wrote to them about it. They did change the recipe; here’s their response:
Hello Valued Member,
First of all, we would like to thank you for taking the time to send us your feedback. We value our members’ opinions and always strive to take action, when possible to meet expectations.
We are constantly reviewing our offerings to our members to continue to improve quality and provide the best products with great value. We developed a new style to our Churros that we find to be an improvement compared to the previous one.
Our new Churro is now 20% larger and the dough is enrobed with butter and cinnamon flavoring.
We know that this may not be the answer you are expecting but we want you to know that we take each comment seriously and reply to our members as much as possible. We hope that during your visits, you are able to enjoy our Churro and other offerings.
Thank you for being a loyal Costco member.
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u/Ccracked 10d ago
Nobody ever tells you, you get a free churro when your mother dies.
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u/strshp_enterprise 10d ago
They changed up their recipes as a cost cutting measure.
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u/MauiWowieOwie 10d ago
Nearly everything that had sugar as and ingredient in the 90s/00s has been replaced with high fructose corn syrup. Butterfingers used to be delicious, now they suck. Try a Mexican coke(still made with cane sugar) side by side an american one, world of difference in taste.
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u/Mongoose_Blittero 10d ago
Those Mexican cokes were tested in a lab and they switched it out for corn syrup at some point even though the bottle still says sugar.
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u/DBNSZerhyn 10d ago
Yeah, if I remember right Mexican coke hasn't used cane sugar for about a decade now according to those tests, but people are still going around saying it tastes way better.
Reminds me of how in a blind test everyone would pick Pepsi over Coke for taste, but then refuse to drink Pepsi after anyway.
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u/Tacoman404 10d ago
Coke IN Mexico doesn’t always have cane sugar. Coke De Mexico made for US markets DOES.
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u/lunarmantra 10d ago
Yes, the churros are so dry and bland now! I used to bring home a bundle of those fuckers like a bouquet of roses and eat off of them for a few days. No more sadly!
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u/rosealexvinny 10d ago
Can’t go wrong with a jumbo pizza for $9!
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u/tetragrammaton19 10d ago
Magnum dong and soda for a buck 5? A solid place to fill up, especially in this economy.
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u/ncktckr 10d ago
A single Magnum from a three pack costs $0.17 more than Costco's hotdog + soda combo… nuts.
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u/Witty-Pomegranate954 10d ago
To be fair, it's latex from the rainforest vs local pig guts and and corn syrup water. Not exactly luxury ingredients 😹 altho much more filling than eating a condom.
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u/7_62mmFMJ 10d ago
The Costco combo was the best....until Covid. My Costco stopped making the combo during Covid but never resumed making them. And to top things off, they got rid of the onion dispenser for hot dogs!
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u/Comprehensive_Lie572 10d ago
These are my two biggest beefs with Costco now
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u/billthecat71 10d ago
Mine also includes the (RIP) Polish Sausage. Bastards.
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u/PacificCastaway 10d ago
And the chili is gone! But that was lost pre-pandemic. I used to load it with onions and cheese.
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u/theraf8100 10d ago
I miss the Caesar salad. That shit was the bomb. Yes i know they have other ones... That cost like 3x the price though.
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u/Inferiex 10d ago
I think that's what happened pretty much in every Costco. I've been to every Costco in my state and none of them have the combo pizza or the onion dispenser :(
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u/FridayNightFreedom 10d ago
I am surprised to hear that. I know the price is right.
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u/ABCHI-STC 10d ago
Everything at Costco is awesome. I always got hotdogs till my wife introduced me to pizza and chicken fingers, both are better than any restaurant near me
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u/THftRM1231 10d ago
Where you got chicken fingers?!?!
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u/frederikdahlhansen 10d ago
Canada
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u/SCS22 10d ago
time to reconsider all these years of Canada being our closest brothers and allies if they're hoarding all the costco chicken fingers for themselves
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u/undercoversinner 10d ago
Wait until you hear about the Costco food offerings abroad. So jealous.
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u/MisterKrayzie 10d ago
Canadian Costco food court is so much better. Makes the US ones look like absolute dogshit in comparison.
The sundaes, for example, at the US ones use some garbage cheap ass chocolate syrup. The Canadian ones use actual hot fudge.
They also have fries, poutine (duh), chicken tendies, chicken sandwiches and other shit that vary by location.
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u/SmoothRide 10d ago
Everything at Costco is awesome
Oh yeah? Then why the hell do they have 2 full soda dispensing machines and 4 fucking flavors?!
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u/kylegetsspam 10d ago
Probably for a similar reason as to why they don't take Mastercard.
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u/Luxpreliator 10d ago
Do they sell it take and bake style or is this only at the cafe? Hyvee used to have a great one better than any franchise pizza after adding a few vegetables. They cheapened it during covid and it's junk now.
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u/annies_boobs_feet 10d ago edited 10d ago
Sucks that you have to be a member to get the food now, as of about 1-2 years ago. I'm a single person so it doesn't really make sense for me to get a costco membership, but god damn do i miss getting a slice every month or so for like $1.50
fun fact: a slice of cheese pizza at costco actually has more calories than the pepperoni slice. at least it used to. been a couple years since i've been able to chomp down on that delicious grease monster, because of the aforementioned reason
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u/bobs_monkey 10d ago
Dude even when I was single I still had a Costco membership, if not just for certain groceries, household stuff like trash bags, TP, paper towels, and then gas. Of you know the balance of getting certain groceries at the store and certain things (mainly non perishables) at Costco, you can save a bundle of money. And their rotisserie chicken is the shit.
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u/Freeman7-13 10d ago
I buy mainly the rotisserie chicken and gas and the savings from that has paid the membership for me. Their gas is always the cheapest
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u/pippifax 10d ago
You don't have to be a member at the ones here. The "for court" and window to buy the food is outside by the exit. They have tables set up, soda fountains, condiment stations, etc. out there and they never ask for membership, whether paying in person or at the self check kiosk outside. I used to go before I was a member when I needed some cheesey pizza comfort food.
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u/fullmetalasian 10d ago
In my head I was like wow that is perfect sauceage and immediately laughed. I'm so stupid
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u/meowzapalooza7 10d ago
Looks like Lunchables sauce
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u/KeppraKid 10d ago
It's red. The resemblance is uncanny. The crust is even round, just like a Lunchables cracker!
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u/notchoosingone 10d ago
Not bad but nothing beats the Costco hotdog
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u/Thatwasunpleasant 10d ago
Except a Costco Polish dog. Those with the ground mustard were amazing.
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u/fartypicklenuts 10d ago
Why are you comparing pizza to a hot dog though, a completely different menu item. Both things can be great! 🍕 🌭
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u/acog 10d ago
I know it's not a food court item, but I'm all about their roasted chickens. Just the best.
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u/TurboShuffle 10d ago
It becomes a food court item if you take your chicken there and sit down and eat it. Me and my girlfriend often get a big caesar salad and a pack of hot ribs from instore and sit down in the food court area and eat it, we even ask for cutlery from the food court staff and they are happy to hand some over.
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u/notchoosingone 10d ago
I don't think Costco here (Australia) is quite that advanced, we only have hotdogs, pizza, and a few other things. The chicken wings are pretty good, though.
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u/TurboShuffle 10d ago
I am from Australia too, your local costco should have the ribs and salad too, I'm talking about from instore, not the food court
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u/CubicleFish2 10d ago
Sometimes I see people with 30 of those and while it is upsetting, I do understand
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u/broberds 10d ago
Let’s not sleep on the churros.
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u/slapFIVE 10d ago edited 10d ago
I think they changed their recipe because ever since they returned from discontinuation they taste like ass, imo. Used to be my favorite.
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u/lonjaxson 10d ago
The dough is almost entirely devoid of flavor.
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u/slapFIVE 10d ago
Yeah, last time I bought one I couldn’t finish it and actually threw it away. That would’ve been pure blasphemy to me before.
Mentioned it in another comment on this thread, but someone provided feedback to Costco and their reply did confirm the recipe change: https://reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/10kmvqm/_/j5scsnt/?context=1
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u/OK_Compooper 10d ago
Unless you need rock-hard, particle board slats to hold up your mattress. Then you can sleep on those churros.
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u/ShotFish7 10d ago
Know it's ridiculous, but this is one of my favorite things at Costco
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u/fartypicklenuts 10d ago
I don't think anyone would say that pizza being a favorite of yours is "ridiculous", sounds pretty normal to me!
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u/OrangeSockNinjaYT 10d ago
They use these in certain Little Caesar places as well.
(former employee)
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u/jjasmminn 10d ago
Why the machine when its slower than a person 🤔
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u/Jury_Of_Your_Fears 10d ago
So uncoordinated/new people can still make pizzas, and coordinated/experienced people can multitask. Plus corporations like consistency, they'll generally take a consistent 6 over an inconsistent 8 without hesitation.
I worked at a Pizza Hut for a while and a girl straight up quit because she couldn't spread the sauce without making a huge mess lol
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u/dzr0001 10d ago
I worked at a corporate p-hut location for a while in the early 2000s. We were a test market for 2 different saucing machines, and they were both awful.
The first one ran on some sort of air compressor system and it would constantly blow sauce all over us. The second one was somewhat better, but still not great, and they did a terrible job getting the sauce out of the bags. Worst part was, they had to cut a hole in our make table for the machine. When the trials ultimately failed, we wound up having to buy a brand new make table.
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u/chairmanbrando 10d ago edited 10d ago
I also worked for a Pizza Hut at roughly that time period. We never got considered for such things. Probably because we didn't earn it. I was there for about 1.5 years during high school, and I went through five managers.
The turnaround was bananas -- for managers and employees both. That anything made it to its destination on Friday and Saturday nights was amazing. There were times when we had stacks of order printouts an inch thick. And most of the line staff didn't give many fucks; they were the ones coming and going most frequently. I wouldn't be surprised if half of them were high the duration of their every shift.
I couldn't deal with the stress after awhile. I said I'd only work Saturday and Sunday mornings and afternoons or I wouldn't work at all. I made a lot of buffet pizzas and did a bunch of prep for the rest of my time there. The folks who worked these hours were much more sane and long-term than anyone else.
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u/Jury_Of_Your_Fears 10d ago
Prep+buffet is definitely the chillest shift you can work. I was an AM shift leader, and that was probably what kept me going for as long as I did. Unfortunately, our pm shift leader had a mental breakdown, and I took over her shifts... After about 3 months I had a breakdown too. All to barely pay rent in a dumpy apartment. Fuck fast food.
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u/PeeonTrotsky 10d ago
Damnit, it makes me mad, but you're 100% right. I slang pizzas through college and it seriously took almost a year on the line for people to 'get gud'. Like it took a new hire 5 minutes to make a whole pie, and a oldie 1 minute. You just 'knew' the portions. We had a kitchen guide that was like, a large get 12 oz sauce, a medium gets 8 oz (or whatever, I honestly can't remember). But it took a long time to develop a really good feel for the measurements.
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u/LG03 10d ago
she couldn't spread the sauce without making a huge mess
I'm trying and failing to imagine the ways in which you could screw this up.
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u/Jury_Of_Your_Fears 10d ago
Lmao spreading with a ladle takes a little practice to nail, but her biggest problem was applying too much pressure. Pizza Hut uses these rings that cover the crust part of the pizza, and she would spread all the sauce to the edge, which just made the ring covered in sauce and left barely any sauce on the pizza. Pick up that ring with no appreciation for gravity, and you've got a mess lol
That store was a nightmare though, she made the right call lol
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u/Dealingwithdragons 10d ago
As somebody who worked in a pizza place, that machine would have made things so much easier. Walk away to do other things while you let the machine do the job. It's one less task a human has to do and when you're busy with a line of customers wanting food it definitely helps in the work flow.
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u/wunderduck 10d ago
The machine may be slower, but the worker can turn on the machine, step away, and do something else.
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u/silver-orange 10d ago
The worker's only in frame for 3 seconds.
So, yeah, an untrained worker being able to get a consistently sauced pizza with only 3 seconds of human labor is a pretty good deal.
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u/Carthonn 10d ago
Costco probably wants every pizza to taste exactly the same. This cuts out human error of the crust to sauce ratio.
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u/Woodshadow 10d ago
you would think every pizza place wants their pizza to come out exactly the same though. If anywhere shouldn't care about their pizza it would be a place that doesn't depend on pizza as their main source of revenue
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u/timisher 10d ago
This machine uses an exact measurement of sauce. The savings from that is worth more than anything else people are mentioning.
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u/Justagreewithme 10d ago
Because the machine doesn’t earn an hourly wage or workers comp, so it can go slower and still be profitable.
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u/teashirtsau 10d ago
"You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round..."
Anyone else?
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u/Trutheresy 10d ago
What's really satisfying is listening to a man with this clear of a voice declare that this is really satisfying.
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u/agiifireflame 10d ago
Way too much sauce mane
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u/wolfgang784 10d ago
We have a few regulars that ask for double sauce. Those pizza have some real heft to them. Some do also ask for light sauce as well which we can do, although it slows things down a bit.
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u/speedycat2014 10d ago
And the wells of sauce are no bueno. I learned to spread it evenly and just on the heavy side of thin. All my nieces and nephews learned from their Aunt Speedycat, 6 year pizza employee, how to properly sauce a pizza.
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u/babyBear83 10d ago
Worked in a pizza place for a long time before. I got the pizza cutting down. People stand back and watch.
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u/tanaeolus 10d ago
I used to be really good at hand-tossing pizzas. Which was over 10 years ago now, so I'm not sure how'd I'd do today, but back then my boss told me I make beautiful pizzas.
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u/skroll 10d ago
I was out of the pizza game for over 16 years and went to cut breadsticks out of some dough. Was able to do the back/forth cutting thing and slice 8 pieces in about 2-3 seconds, like it was yesterday.
You could probably do the same. That muscle memory never really seems to go away.
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u/The69LTD 10d ago
Not pizza, but I used to be a barista for many years and was pretty good at latte art. Hadn't made a latte in years and my first go not too long ago I poured a pretty damn good tulip. Muscle memory goes a long way
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u/Bicdut 10d ago
This is why I don't like fresh costco slices. Something about the heat lamp and time helps.
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u/TheySayImZack 10d ago
I get wicked shits from this, but I love it. I told my wife it was like $9/pie so she said get two (and I did) and came home. She loved it, so did I so, did the kids. My wife is a health nut so she looked at the nutritional value on her phone, and got up and threw her slice out.
I love the taste, but the fat + salt contents upset these lunatics that are trying to have 0% of body fat. I'd rather live to 80 and eat well rather than live to 85 and not have Costco pizza once in a while.
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u/iamthecavalrycaptain 10d ago
Like a 3d printer, but with a single layer. 2d printer?
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u/MEXRFW 10d ago
“My pizza was dry”
No it wasn’t. We put exactly 12.7oz of tomato sauce on every pizza, dispensed in the most efficient pattern by a robot.