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A customer told me my pork belly strips looked like 'sad shoelaces' last Tuesday.
Started cutting them twice as thick, and now everyone says they hold smoke way better. Anyone else get a weird comment that actually improved your technique?
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the_james3mo ago
Funny how the dumbest comments can actually make you stop and think. Had a guy tell me my burger buns were "slyly stealing the show" from the patty. Started using a simpler, less sweet recipe and the meat finally became the star. Sometimes a weird bit of feedback just clicks and you realize they're onto something, even if they said it as a joke.
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I mean are you really that worried about what one random customer says? Thicker pork belly cuts are pretty standard for smoking anyway so you probably just got lucky that their joke lined up with what actually works. Not like they gave you a detailed breakdown of meat density and smoke absorption rates - they just said it looked like sad shoelaces. If I changed my whole approach every time someone made a weird comment about my food id end up all over the place.
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matthew_wilson223mo ago
Honestly, that sounds like a lucky break more than good advice. What if your customer just had bad eyesight or a weird sense of humor? Thicker cuts might work for your smoker, but someone else's setup could dry them out completely. Sometimes a random comment is just noise, not a secret tip. You ever worry about changing your whole process based on one person's joke?
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