'Tipped over a 5 gallon jug of organic maple syrup': 25+ Chefs share their most expensive kitchen catastrophes

Some mistakes are more costly than others, as these chefs know all too well. Professionals from the back of house shared their priciest kitchen mistakes, and some of them are surprisingly costly.

I can actually add my own story here — I'm glad it's finally come in handy after years of being one of my most embarrassing moments ever. I was working a shift at a fast food restaurant and customers were being so mean to me. It was the Sunday morning bingo crowd, and they were nasty and impatient to me, the only person working the front counter.

One of them ordered coffee, and I burnt my hand on the pot. I dropped the full coffee pot and it instantly shattered on the floor. (This was a big deal because we had literally just gotten brand new pots and were warned not to break them; so I feared for my job once the glass hit the floor.) I looked up at the customers and started crying. Then, I swung around the corner and ran to hide in the back room.

But I heard my manager calling my name after a few minutes. It turns out, when I turned the corner, I hit the "on" button on the milkshake machine, causing chocolate milkshake to pour all over the floor for a minute or two, with no one there to turn the machine off. So now the floor was covered in a massive puddle of hot coffee, shards of glass, and several gallons of milkshake. Great! It was a terrible mix of embarrassing and costly, and it took quite a while to clean up.

That was probably my most expensive mistake, but since I wasn't a chef like these folks below, it's still way cheaper than their mess-ups. U/Coastal_wolf asked the r/KitchenConfidential community about the most expensive mistake they ever made in the kitchen, and people responded with all kinds of goofs, from leaving meat out to throwing away expensive ingredients.

Next up, check out these people who had crazy secret confessions that they could only spill anonymously.

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