👨🏻‍🍳 Griddle Man: SOP #1

By: Mitch Wooderson

So you want to be the person operating the grill, making the most delicious taquitos and tacos imaginable? Well it's all not all sunshine and rainbows, there's some dirty work involved. Sweat and grease goes into this job.

At TUCKEDito, here's how we get it started, operate it, and shut 'er down.

🚨🔔🚨🔔 Most Important Parts

1. Two propane tanks always need to be connected when the gas is on. You cannot turn one propane tank on and have the other gas line unconnected to a tank.
2. Do not turn the propane tanks on while the valve in the trailer is on!
3. Always turn the valve in the trailer off!
4. Always lock up the tanks before you start moving.

🎬 Set Up

1. Turn on propane. (ya need gas!)
2. Turn on valve. That yellow thing, when it's vertical it's on.
3. Light 4 pilots (take a lighter to em')
4. Put your racks on the griddle. These are for finished taquitos
5. Turn on two burners in the middle on low (can turn to medium to get hot quicker. If you choose this method when griddle gets to around 275 then turn back to low).
6. Bring in your container of tortillas and pop em over to the left on the shelf!
7. Take caps off toothpicks (extra toothpicks in clear bin below griddle if ya run out)
8. Griddle should be like 350-375 for a nice searing temp. Hit it with the heat gun and confirm.

💪🏻 Operating Tips

• Roll the taquitos for the order and then tooth pick them.  I usually roll one and then say to myself in my head the color of the toothpick, then move onto the next and do the same until all are rolled. Then I'll have the color order in my head and tooth pick them all at the end.
• Pop some oil down for each taquito or taco you put on the griddle
• If the oil on the griddle is smoking, the griddle is pretty hot so be aware that you could get some burnt taquitos! check the temperature and adjust.
• If griddle gets too hot  you can turn it off until it gets back to the temp you need it at.
• Use the scraper to get up anything that burns to the surface.
• Finished taquitos should wait on the racks.

🧹 Clean Up

1. Caps back on toothpicks (don't forget this or you'll have toothpicks all over the trailer.)
2. Turn the propane tank off and put lock back on the door of it.
3. Turn valve in cart off. That yellow thing, when it's horizontal it's off.
4. Wait like 5 minutes for griddle to cool (do other stuff, maybe start to drain sink)
5. Now it's time for the best job! Cleaning the griddle!
6. Scrape as well as you can.
7. Put some water on so that the grime lifts off the surface and scrape again.
8. Put on griddle clean and then pour on water so it bubbles and scrub with black scrubber (do a couple rounds of this. You gotta go hard scrubbing, put some elbow grease into it!)
9. At end pour water on griddle and squeegee the water of so there’s no dirty water left on it
10. Use the small scraper to get the water out of the little trough and into the grease trap.
11. Clean griddle splash guard with towel.
12. Empty the grease trap. A Key! (only thing worse than toothpicks all over the trailer is water and grease all over the trailer!

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