KFC are bastards.
I worked in kfc during my school days as a cook and the 8-head chicken cooking machines there are pretty lethal. I almost fell into the boiling oil a number of times as you had to drain it out every once in a while in order to clean the inside of the machine.

Once you had cleaned it you then had to pump the oil back in to resume cooking. There was a valve to stop the oil leaking back out, which we usually forgot to close.

Therefore we were often left with soggy uncooked chicken after the oil had leaked back out of the machine.

On one occasion I forgot to close the valve and upon opening the machine after it was finished 'cooking' I was greeted with flames in my face, as the the machine had been attempting to heat the non-existant oil for 15 mins straight.

Panicking I looked for the closest thing to use, which was one of those fire blanket things. I picked it up and when I was about to cover the machine my boss stopped me and asked what I was doing.

I informed him of my mishap and my intention with the fire blanket.

His response?

"No, don't use that it cost us £35."


We also had an automated system to call out the fire brigrade every time a little bit of steam set the alarms off. They weren't pleased after the 15th time.
( Regger, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 15:31, Reply)