Warning: a line cook in Knoxville asked why I still hand whip cream, and it hit me harder than it should have
I have been doing it with a whisk for 22 hours a week for a decade and never once questioned it until he said that, so now I am honestly wondering if the stand mixer is cheating or if I am just stubborn, what do you all actually use on a busy Friday night?
Does the man who pays your check care how the cream got whipped? Because I promise you nobody on a Friday night is sending their dessert back asking if it was done by hand. A stand mixer does in three minutes what takes you ten, and those seven minutes are seven more minutes you have to plate food that actually matters. Hand whipping is not a skill, it is a workout, and you have been doing cardio for ten years while everyone else finished their shift. If using the mixer makes you stubborn, then call me lazy and let me go home on time.