While working in a restaurant can be a fun, fast-paced, hands-on job, it can also be a chaotic, stressful, and sometimes defeating test of patience...
Dealing with dietary restrictions, severe food allergies, extremely picky eaters, food getting sent back in the middle of a rush, or people who expect to walk into a business and not pay for anything are all part of the job. Servers forgetting to ring in an order, a customer forgetting to ask for the onion dish without onions, endless requests for salad dressing on the side, and that one dish on the menu that everyone hates to make--there's a reason most restaurant kitchens are hidden from customers. While the front of the restaurant is a candlelit, calm ambience of cocktails and couples on dates, the kitchen can be a rage-fueled, harshly lit, marathon of screaming, chopping, prep work, and cursing the well done steak at table 22.
So, when a Reddit user asked chefs, "what is that one dish on the menu you absolutely hate making?" people who cook professionally were ready to vent about the food they can't stand preparing.