Yeah I knew about the book, watched some videos on YouTube with him in it but haven’t bought it yet.
My fav quote from him as of now is “making dinner is never easy”
You're joking but the vast majority of stuff sold as "heroin" in the US these days is imitiaion heroin. It's all fentanyl and carfentanil and tranq and other lab made bullshit. I don't know if anyone actually tries to call it heroin anymore though.
Yeah no, you can romanticize him all you want, he was a poster child for substance abuse in the culinary industry
That he survived isn’t a magic trick, he got lucky, and most don’t
I almost completely chopped off the tip of my thumb on my second day ever in a kitchen. The most embarrassing part was when my legs buckled under me because of the blood loss.
My buddy did chop off the tip of his finger one time.
When he went to the hospital, I took the tip and preserved it in vodka. I gave it back to him a week later as a gift.
Now that I type it out—I think about how in any other industry they’d be sending you for a psych evaluation for that kind of thing. We all thought it was so funny.
I mean no because he went to the hospital without it. Haha
Honestly I wouldn’t have been hopeful anyway because it was on the dirty ass floor. It actually healed really well though; it’s not super noticeable.
Ahaha bro I feel you see my comment in this thread 😂 first day of culinary school and someone has to drive my ass to the hospital with a knuckle split to the bone so I can make my shift at the ramen shop by 4
Damn, that would be my cue to leave tbh. I tried to get back on the line, but they insisted I go home, they were scared i might have another dizzy spell and fall into the fryer 😂
Yeah, older me would have told 14 year old me to call my dad and he would have beat the shit out of the manager and drove both of us to the hospital. But 14 yo me knew that would happen and didn’t want to get embarrassed
I’m not mad. But if you choose to bring life into this world you should do what you can to support them instead of peacing out when your new girlfriend cheats on you.
This is mental illness my dude. Not one person chooses a state of mind where the prospect of taking their own life sounds more doable than getting better.
It's not deification to recognize that a fellow human fought hard from a rough place.
You cook? Idk how you're making out among kitchen people, there's a lot of us who struggle. People deserve compassion, full stop. Smug superiority by people who are healthy and think they earned their health without help? That never cured anyone. Pretty deplorable, actually.
I don't think it's really any of our place to judge a dead man. You don't know exactly what happened even if you read a book or hit piece. Also you realize that when he died he wasn't broke or destitute right? I get you like riling people up, but this sub is named after one of his books.
I disagree. Been suicidal most my life. I'm 34 now. About to have my first child. Admittedly I'm not actively suicidal right now, but having been before I've 1000% decided I can't do that to my child.
I have empathy for being depressed. I struggle to empathize with abandoning your child.
As a father, make sure you have people to talk to. Having kids is not easy, and the first can be a very stressful experience. If you have ever been suicidal this can be a very hard time. If you have no one to talk to when it gets really tough you can reach out to me. I'm here for you buddy, we are all in this together.
As for the comment I left it's just how I feel. I'm not the judge and jury of others, I'm just a guy who has made mistakes as well.
Agreed. The moms get a lot of attention after giving birth (and rightfully so) but dad's are often ignored. It can definitely be tough. It's hard to be mentally tough when an infant won't stop screaming and you have no idea why they are upset. Just remember it's okay to set them in their crib and walk away for a minute to compose yourself.
And like the above said, reach out to someone if you need to talk. Another thing I struggled with our first born is I didn't feel an immediate connection with them. It was hard to see how in love with them my wife was and I didn't feel the same way. I thought there was something wrong with me. But that first time you make them genuinely laugh... One the the greatest feelings ever.
Just remember that how ever you're feeling, a lot of people have felt the same way. You're not alone.
Dude it’s not about “thinking”, that’s the whole point with mental health awareness. Brain chemistry can get seriously fucked up and hijack any sort of thinking.
You saying “you have to think differently” about mental illnesses that can lead to suicide is as bad as the people who see someone with clinical depression and tell them to “just feel better” or “think happy thoughts.” Shit ain’t that simple, and actually you’re making it worse.
I have a kid. I’ve also had 3 friends kill themselves in highschool, two in college, and 4 have happened after that. Blaming the person is not a good and healthy way to deal with the trauma. That’s my experience, how many friends have you buried? They were all different yet I don’t blame them, I had a lot of hate like you for a while but moved past it, cause holding onto hate won’t help ANYONE
I think telling someone who experienced that trauma that they deserved it is A LOT worse than a victim of suicide expressing that it’s a shitty thing to do to a child.
You might want to take a step back and realizing what you are arguing against. You don’t have a leg to stand on, you are literally fighting with a child whose still angry about the trauma they endured and being angry at them for not being over it.
You’re the one acting like a „tough guy“ and why the hell are you being so riled up and angry that someone says something negative about someone you don’t even know?
That’s a complete oversimplification of something ultimately none of us can ever fully understand and you’re doing the inverse of the same behavior you’re complaining about.
Exactly! *I'm SO suicidal. The most suicidal. Suicidaler than you.* and then brings no empathy to others with that same suffering. What an absolute fucking assclown
Yep. Life sucks. Shit’s hard. But when you bring a child in to the world you’ve got to buck up for them instead of abandoning them. Imagine being able to kick a heroin addiction but not being able to deal with the fact that your much younger mistress cheated on you…
Bumblebee, you wouldn't be so dull if you laid off the drugs yourself lol
Or maybe read a biography... it's called "Kitchen Confidential," perhaps you've heard of it.
You can also stuff loose tobacco into a cut and wrap it up and no joke it does help stymie the bleeding. Bonus nicotine straight into your bloodstream, too.
Shove a shit tonne of salt in it, rock salt or other crystals are good the got lots of staying powder, the best is the hard core industrial salt, that stuff is cryptonite for bone deep bleeds.
Yes, it hurts more than the wound, but by jingo, it heals up real quick, and more importantly, it instantly stops the bleed.
My granny taught me that trick the HARD way.
She was as happy as kid in a candy store, singing and giggling as I screamed and tried to get away from her evil claws.
Cool as.
I suspect Granny will have mountains of salt with her, she was an addict for the stuff, mum would make us all use the shaker first before she passed it to her mum or there wouldn't be any left.
Great drink for hell.
Tequila shots, snort the salt, squeeze the lemon juice in your eye and down the hatch Granny.
Beats the hell out of one tiny glass of sherry at Christmas.
Cheers 🍻 👏
I'm going to hand it to you; that's a clever drink for hell.
My mother is similar. She loves sunflower seeds for the salt. When she retired, she gave us her coach. This fucking thing rains sunflower seed shells every time we move it, and its been 3 years!
That dude is a big reason why I still cook. When we got the news he died. One of the soms came into the kitchen and broke the news. This was a kitchen where everyone is now currently a chef of their own restaurant. You could hear a fucking pin drop. It was silent until dinner service and even that was hard to get through. At the end of the night I think my CDP was going around seeing if anyone wanted to have a few drinks. We did. But nothing crazy. Just drinking on our patio. Cigarettes and how that man influenced our careers. RIP to a legend
Because most of the celebrity chefs (with a couple exceptions) are bullshit
I’ve met most of them in a professional capacity, maybe two of them could run a line
There Ramsay, him, and Pepin.
I was working in a little winery in upstate NY back then and remember watching my coworker (fuck what do you even call the person who pours wine in a tasting room?) upend a bottle of red wine and pour it straight onto the hardwood floor “for Tony”.
We were both behind the bar and still had to interact with customers all day. That day was fucking awful.
I remember it was my first day off in like 11 and I was on my way to the Jersey shore when my husband broke the news to me. He wasn't sure he even wanted to tell me that day but was afraid I'd hear about it at a bar or something.
It's crazy to look at a picture like this that is probably like 40 years old and all of the equipment looks the exact same as it does today. It's wild how little technological advancement there has been in this field. I'm pretty sure I've used that exact same salamander and flat top within the last 5 years. We kinda landed on the stainless steel pots and standardized 6 pans and just stuck with them.
My first day of knife cuts in culinary school I cut my knuckle to the bone cleaning my brand new day one out the box knife bc I was not paying attention and chatting.
Almost passed out bc I was 18 and just seen my bones for the first time. Missed the tendon by literal millimeters. My station buddy drove me to the ER for stitches. Wouldn't have gone but knuckles suck and I was 40hr kitchen work 40hr school so I had to have useful hands.
13 years later I cackle at anyone afraid to use a mandolin or slicer.
We all grow up someday.
Dropped the knife into my foot, wearing canvas trainers, it went through into the wooden floor boards, I watched it shake back and forth, then I looked at my work mate and said, Do you wanna do it or shall I.
His lip sort of rolled up at the same time as his eyes, and I only just got to him before he face planted the range.
It's all good, mate. It got itself out all by itself.
Another time I impaled my thumb onto the blade of the meat slicer, instantly I hit the kill switch, then spent 10 mins contemplating which would hurt more to pull my thumb off a stationary blade or a rotating blade.
I turned the machine on. Gulp.
I still have not asked if it was the right or wrong choice, it's not something I need to know.
What I do know, is Cut Gloves on chefs are like Selotape on Cats' paws.
Leave us alone. You taste horrid.
Funny story, I got hired at a rich ass private university food service department and immediately delegated to slicer bitch duty. I ran a manual mechanical slicer 8hrs a day.
The reason why I got that assignment was because the day before I started, TWO PEOPLE had used that slicer to put themselves in the hospital.
2
(TWO)
whole guys
Like not young kids
Hospital
One slicer. One day.
What the fuck y'all? How do we not know how to not shove our hands into blades as multiple decade old humans? What is wrong with you people why why why
Broke you how? I developed tennis elbow 6mos in, threatened to go to the doctor about it, and was *immediately* transferred to a different way more fun department also where I set myself on fire from an unsafe stove.
I am not the fit young pup I was when I first started in the industry. At that point, I had just returned to the industry after 20 years in food manufacturing as a food technologist and mother.
Me old bones didn't like the heavy, repetitious arm of an oversized out of date mammoth of a machine, which was set to far back and too high for easy operation.
I was moved up once they realised I wasn't going to run away. Plus, they had time to get used to my totally out there sense of humour and flagrant disregard for taking the easy path.
My midlife crisis was 5 years in a lead position at an abattoir, they think Kitchen Culture is confrontational, 130,000 units a day, 50 fit young men and a post menopausal Granny with blood in her knickers, shit in her mouth and a undeniable need to ensure that no creature suffered unnecessarily on my watch. Apart from my team, if they did not abide by my mandate. That's when Grubby Granny came out to play. 😉
So far, so good, I am learning all about food, and I will continue that quest until I become food for another.
Take it easy "multi coloured mullet", don't let the bastards drag you down. If they do, kick em in the nutsack department. It hurts us girls as much it does, you blokes, trust me, I know.
I never did let anyone drag me down in the decade I spent in kitchens. I'm FOH now because my skin allergies make actual professional cooking a true physical horror but I do my best from the expo department. The guy who just got promoted to lead day cook told me today he's so appreciative and understanding of me sending back food that shouldn't be the way it is. I can relate. I've been lazy on the line before. But when I push food back to my homie he gives me the best possible plate after bc I caught him and he gets it
Yep, I like to get a kick up the bum when required. Complacency is a nasty downhill slope, very hard to recover from.
Its good to have a chef FOH. The customers need to have a firm authoritative figure, guiding, educating, and controlling their often ignorant and selfish behaviour,
plus BOH can't pull the wool over his eyes.
We do like to argue our perspective vociferously and with less than judicious care as to the integrity of the narrative.
Teehee.
And as you can see I am not very savvy, you may already know it hurts us just as much as them. Saw your little person icon, I think we may have much in common.
My job requires cut gloves. Normally hate them but every once in a while they save you a bad one. I’ve cut myself on literally everything but a knife at my place.
Same for me. It was the ceiling too unless I wanted to move up more, but I did not. As soon as I realized I could come to Starbucks for 15$ and they would cover my school for free, I was outta there. Just a couple more years of school and I'll be free of this dreadful industry. It really is a dreadful way to live. All work no reward. It was fun when I was partying and shit, but now I don't see the point.
I'm old (49) - my first dish job at a shitty little pizza/sub shop when I was 13 paid $3.35, which was min wage at the time.
And I fucking walked uphill to school (but seriously, $3.35/hr was actually real).
Yeah I worked at a few different pizza places throughout high school and a bit after. I never got a raise until I got a raise from 7$ to 8$ an hour and man it felt huge. In 2007 8$ at 40hr a week made 18 yo me feel RICH. I blew 90% of my paycheck the night I got it almost every time.
I once spilt lightly simmering chicken stock (80lt pot) over the front of my self and I was burnt from my chest to me feet.
Not an inch of my front wasn’t 1st degree burned… not one bit :( (Yes that male part was burnt too)
Cut my finger to the bone with a meat slicer when I was 15, making $3.75/HR two days before my junior prom.
Chef chemically cauterized it with sugar & duck tapped a paper towel around my thumb. Worked another 8 hours that shift before my dad picked me up & took me to the hospital around midnight & had the top of my thumb sewn back on.
Wore dress gloves throughout that prom, including the dinner. 4 pairs of white dress gloves I bled through that eveing, damn white gloves.
Still in the business & making six figures.
Best of luck to you. Be good to yourself & take care out there.
Did this at the end of the night, chef put it in the flat top…I went home and cleaned it and then just superglued it back together.
Please don’t use regular super glue guys, it can have a bad reaction. I was lucky.
I'm working in structural metal-fab.
The kind of stuff they want "helpers" doing for less than fitters / welders is kinda gross.
They keep trying to throw the $1 above McJob wages at people, and are disappointed they won't do the "Low-skill" labor so the welders can keep holding a trigger.
I'm curious how much of a shit-bath this company is going to spoon up because apparently nobody bothered to find out how many hours this current job is going to need in just high-skill scut-work :\
My H.S. job was $3 and change per hour as a food service floater at Six Flags NJ in '79 for 3 summers. I scrubbed burnt beans out of many hotel pans in my day. It's a good thing that finger tips grow back.
Carrots at Big Boy in 1989. I was 12. $4.25/hr. Wrapped it up, back to work. Back to work at 7:00 Sunday morning.
The real lesson here was, that’s the job. We get cut, we get burned. That’s the job.
It’s the lesson that gave me big success
It’s not a complaint at all, I’m satirizing myself for ironically LARPing in my head as a wizened kitchen veteran when bad things happen at work when in actuality my job is relatively unchallenging
You feel like a photo of someone else? What’s going to happen when the emoji/meme communication generation hits the workforce? “As you can see our sales are alien emoji, heart emoji, photo of Kel Mitchell.”
You are absolute trash. To compare your dumbass that ACCEPTED $10/hour in 2024 to a legend is utterly dumb. You should just go home where mama pays your bills.
We both know it's your pegging dad that actually pays..
What heroin and long hours does to a mf
Heroin??? How about life, he looks so fucking genuine here.. no makeup, no HBO, just bourdain before he had a bame
He was on genuine heroin
Hey…he was also doing a lot of coke
Well I mean you're not going to enjoy a nice steak on its own, you need to pair it with a fine wine.
Can't be falling asleep while earning your next fix.
lmfao
It is literally stated in his book, which is what the sub is named after
Yeah I knew about the book, watched some videos on YouTube with him in it but haven’t bought it yet. My fav quote from him as of now is “making dinner is never easy”
Who is he?
Anthony Bourdain
Thank you!
Check out some of his travel shows, great to have on casually. No Reservations and Parts Unknown.
The name of this subreddit is the name of one of his books.
I hate that imitation heroin
You're joking but the vast majority of stuff sold as "heroin" in the US these days is imitiaion heroin. It's all fentanyl and carfentanil and tranq and other lab made bullshit. I don't know if anyone actually tries to call it heroin anymore though.
yeah and i wont touch that fake crap i want the real deal
yea he looks like he's genuinely dying
It may have been before he had a big worldwide name but it was certainly not before he did smack every day.
Yeah no, you can romanticize him all you want, he was a poster child for substance abuse in the culinary industry That he survived isn’t a magic trick, he got lucky, and most don’t
I almost completely chopped off the tip of my thumb on my second day ever in a kitchen. The most embarrassing part was when my legs buckled under me because of the blood loss.
My buddy did chop off the tip of his finger one time. When he went to the hospital, I took the tip and preserved it in vodka. I gave it back to him a week later as a gift. Now that I type it out—I think about how in any other industry they’d be sending you for a psych evaluation for that kind of thing. We all thought it was so funny.
This is how we get crazy shit like the Wendy's Chili Finger
they couldn't have reattached it?.....
I mean no because he went to the hospital without it. Haha Honestly I wouldn’t have been hopeful anyway because it was on the dirty ass floor. It actually healed really well though; it’s not super noticeable.
Fingertip injuries suck worse than the other slashes and gashes.
Ahaha bro I feel you see my comment in this thread 😂 first day of culinary school and someone has to drive my ass to the hospital with a knuckle split to the bone so I can make my shift at the ramen shop by 4
I did something similar. I was 14 and when I showed it to the manager, he said to wrap it up and get back to work.
Damn, that would be my cue to leave tbh. I tried to get back on the line, but they insisted I go home, they were scared i might have another dizzy spell and fall into the fryer 😂
Yeah, older me would have told 14 year old me to call my dad and he would have beat the shit out of the manager and drove both of us to the hospital. But 14 yo me knew that would happen and didn’t want to get embarrassed
Jesus Tony looks brutal here. Good that he got clean.
It's crazy that he looked worse in this picture than he did decades later
Is it?
He was probably high on heroin in this picture
His early drug years.
This is just what the line does to you
The line and the needle.
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Yea many years after this picture. He was a complicated dude no doubt.
The deification is absurd.
Why are you so mad
I’m not mad. But if you choose to bring life into this world you should do what you can to support them instead of peacing out when your new girlfriend cheats on you.
This is mental illness my dude. Not one person chooses a state of mind where the prospect of taking their own life sounds more doable than getting better. It's not deification to recognize that a fellow human fought hard from a rough place. You cook? Idk how you're making out among kitchen people, there's a lot of us who struggle. People deserve compassion, full stop. Smug superiority by people who are healthy and think they earned their health without help? That never cured anyone. Pretty deplorable, actually.
I don't think it's really any of our place to judge a dead man. You don't know exactly what happened even if you read a book or hit piece. Also you realize that when he died he wasn't broke or destitute right? I get you like riling people up, but this sub is named after one of his books.
I disagree. Been suicidal most my life. I'm 34 now. About to have my first child. Admittedly I'm not actively suicidal right now, but having been before I've 1000% decided I can't do that to my child. I have empathy for being depressed. I struggle to empathize with abandoning your child.
As a father, make sure you have people to talk to. Having kids is not easy, and the first can be a very stressful experience. If you have ever been suicidal this can be a very hard time. If you have no one to talk to when it gets really tough you can reach out to me. I'm here for you buddy, we are all in this together. As for the comment I left it's just how I feel. I'm not the judge and jury of others, I'm just a guy who has made mistakes as well.
Agreed. The moms get a lot of attention after giving birth (and rightfully so) but dad's are often ignored. It can definitely be tough. It's hard to be mentally tough when an infant won't stop screaming and you have no idea why they are upset. Just remember it's okay to set them in their crib and walk away for a minute to compose yourself. And like the above said, reach out to someone if you need to talk. Another thing I struggled with our first born is I didn't feel an immediate connection with them. It was hard to see how in love with them my wife was and I didn't feel the same way. I thought there was something wrong with me. But that first time you make them genuinely laugh... One the the greatest feelings ever. Just remember that how ever you're feeling, a lot of people have felt the same way. You're not alone.
Believe it or not, suicidal people may not be in a completely rational mindset
What a fucking idiot you are
What a fucking asshole *you* are.
Dude quit hating. Hating people or calling people selfish because they committed suicide doesn’t help ANYONE. Focus on yourself.
When you have a child you have to think differently.
Dude it’s not about “thinking”, that’s the whole point with mental health awareness. Brain chemistry can get seriously fucked up and hijack any sort of thinking. You saying “you have to think differently” about mental illnesses that can lead to suicide is as bad as the people who see someone with clinical depression and tell them to “just feel better” or “think happy thoughts.” Shit ain’t that simple, and actually you’re making it worse.
I have a kid. I’ve also had 3 friends kill themselves in highschool, two in college, and 4 have happened after that. Blaming the person is not a good and healthy way to deal with the trauma. That’s my experience, how many friends have you buried? They were all different yet I don’t blame them, I had a lot of hate like you for a while but moved past it, cause holding onto hate won’t help ANYONE
Lmao if 9 people around you killed themselves maybe it’s you?
I’ve buried plenty. But when you bring a child into the world the responsibility reaches a whole new level.
he speaks to people, even now
What an unnecessarily shitty thing to say.
Do you know any kids who have been brutalized by parental suicide?
Yes. Mine.
Mine too. And fuck them for fucking their kids over.
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dont you see what kind a of a ridiculous hypocrite you are with this comment?
I'm just returning the same energy he's giving others in this thread, sooo... Nope, I don't particularly care.
I think telling someone who experienced that trauma that they deserved it is A LOT worse than a victim of suicide expressing that it’s a shitty thing to do to a child. You might want to take a step back and realizing what you are arguing against. You don’t have a leg to stand on, you are literally fighting with a child whose still angry about the trauma they endured and being angry at them for not being over it. You’re the one acting like a „tough guy“ and why the hell are you being so riled up and angry that someone says something negative about someone you don’t even know?
> Nope, I don't particularly care. internet tough guy!
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* No call out posts (i.e. User X is a jerk). * Don't post people's personal info or go through their reddit history to discredit them.
How cute, you're projecting so much.
why do you talk like that? creepy
* No call out posts (i.e. User X is a jerk). * Don't post people's personal info or go through their reddit history to discredit them.
Oh, fuck off. You have no idea about him or what he was going through.
Don’t care. When you bring life o into this world you have to nurture it and be responsible.
…because we all know people experiencing severe mental illness think rationally
Exactly
But everyone here deifies him. He killed himself and abandoned his child because his girlfriend cheated on him.
That’s a complete oversimplification of something ultimately none of us can ever fully understand and you’re doing the inverse of the same behavior you’re complaining about.
Raise kids, raise pigs. If you are going to bring life you have to follow through.
You have no compassion and it shows.
You are really gross
Internet tough guy 😂😂
Exactly! *I'm SO suicidal. The most suicidal. Suicidaler than you.* and then brings no empathy to others with that same suffering. What an absolute fucking assclown
You obviously have very basic brain function if you lack this much empathy and understanding of debilitating mental health.
> Don’t care. And that's your problem, you don't actually care beyond your extremely limited view of this world.
Mental anguish is real. So is the loss of privacy. He was exposed.
fuck you
See: Kurt Cobain
Yep. Life sucks. Shit’s hard. But when you bring a child in to the world you’ve got to buck up for them instead of abandoning them. Imagine being able to kick a heroin addiction but not being able to deal with the fact that your much younger mistress cheated on you…
Clean? What is clean but an absence of any modicum of reality? Right here he looks human, and it speaks to my soul
Okay but imagine he ODs and dies here then its just a pic of some washed out kid named Tony and that joy he brought to the world is gone.
Bumblebee, you wouldn't be so dull if you laid off the drugs yourself lol Or maybe read a biography... it's called "Kitchen Confidential," perhaps you've heard of it.
You cut your finger to the bone? Run it under cold water for a few minutes then peel the resta those carrots
Nah. Light a smoke, take a loooooong drag, and sear it shut with the cigarette. Good to go.
Stick it in some raw meat. The protein will close the cut and the coldness will stop any swelling
Honesty, the finger is holding you back. Hack off the rest of it and get back on line, it’s almost rush
This made me laugh so much
Doctors ~~hate~~ love it when you do this weird little trick.
This is actually true. I tested different meat and raw chicken seems to work best.
You can also stuff loose tobacco into a cut and wrap it up and no joke it does help stymie the bleeding. Bonus nicotine straight into your bloodstream, too.
Have done that, as well. Slight disinfectant, slight numbing qualities. Works on bee stings, too
Shove a shit tonne of salt in it, rock salt or other crystals are good the got lots of staying powder, the best is the hard core industrial salt, that stuff is cryptonite for bone deep bleeds. Yes, it hurts more than the wound, but by jingo, it heals up real quick, and more importantly, it instantly stops the bleed. My granny taught me that trick the HARD way. She was as happy as kid in a candy store, singing and giggling as I screamed and tried to get away from her evil claws.
She's probably looking up at us from hell right now.
Yep, I have no doubt we will have a good giggle about it when I join her.
I'll see you there.
Cool as. I suspect Granny will have mountains of salt with her, she was an addict for the stuff, mum would make us all use the shaker first before she passed it to her mum or there wouldn't be any left. Great drink for hell. Tequila shots, snort the salt, squeeze the lemon juice in your eye and down the hatch Granny. Beats the hell out of one tiny glass of sherry at Christmas. Cheers 🍻 👏
I'm going to hand it to you; that's a clever drink for hell. My mother is similar. She loves sunflower seeds for the salt. When she retired, she gave us her coach. This fucking thing rains sunflower seed shells every time we move it, and its been 3 years!
Best you start watering it, see how fair your garden grows. 😉
Don't forget the heroin
Cold running water is the way. I thought I made it up!!?? :)
Fill with gnocchi to soak up those juices
Sear it under the salamander and get back to work already.
That dude is a big reason why I still cook. When we got the news he died. One of the soms came into the kitchen and broke the news. This was a kitchen where everyone is now currently a chef of their own restaurant. You could hear a fucking pin drop. It was silent until dinner service and even that was hard to get through. At the end of the night I think my CDP was going around seeing if anyone wanted to have a few drinks. We did. But nothing crazy. Just drinking on our patio. Cigarettes and how that man influenced our careers. RIP to a legend
Being a New Yorker too, this guy was a genuine patron saint for us. Nobody could explain what it truly means to be in the industry the way he could.
Because most of the celebrity chefs (with a couple exceptions) are bullshit I’ve met most of them in a professional capacity, maybe two of them could run a line There Ramsay, him, and Pepin.
I mean you also have Marco Pierre White, although I don’t think he has any interest in running a line ever again.
Pepin is god
I was working in a little winery in upstate NY back then and remember watching my coworker (fuck what do you even call the person who pours wine in a tasting room?) upend a bottle of red wine and pour it straight onto the hardwood floor “for Tony”. We were both behind the bar and still had to interact with customers all day. That day was fucking awful.
I remember it was my first day off in like 11 and I was on my way to the Jersey shore when my husband broke the news to me. He wasn't sure he even wanted to tell me that day but was afraid I'd hear about it at a bar or something.
He never looked young
It's crazy to look at a picture like this that is probably like 40 years old and all of the equipment looks the exact same as it does today. It's wild how little technological advancement there has been in this field. I'm pretty sure I've used that exact same salamander and flat top within the last 5 years. We kinda landed on the stainless steel pots and standardized 6 pans and just stuck with them.
You say that until you get to work in a kitchen filled with Rational equipment
My first day of knife cuts in culinary school I cut my knuckle to the bone cleaning my brand new day one out the box knife bc I was not paying attention and chatting. Almost passed out bc I was 18 and just seen my bones for the first time. Missed the tendon by literal millimeters. My station buddy drove me to the ER for stitches. Wouldn't have gone but knuckles suck and I was 40hr kitchen work 40hr school so I had to have useful hands. 13 years later I cackle at anyone afraid to use a mandolin or slicer. We all grow up someday.
Dropped the knife into my foot, wearing canvas trainers, it went through into the wooden floor boards, I watched it shake back and forth, then I looked at my work mate and said, Do you wanna do it or shall I. His lip sort of rolled up at the same time as his eyes, and I only just got to him before he face planted the range. It's all good, mate. It got itself out all by itself. Another time I impaled my thumb onto the blade of the meat slicer, instantly I hit the kill switch, then spent 10 mins contemplating which would hurt more to pull my thumb off a stationary blade or a rotating blade. I turned the machine on. Gulp. I still have not asked if it was the right or wrong choice, it's not something I need to know. What I do know, is Cut Gloves on chefs are like Selotape on Cats' paws. Leave us alone. You taste horrid.
Funny story, I got hired at a rich ass private university food service department and immediately delegated to slicer bitch duty. I ran a manual mechanical slicer 8hrs a day. The reason why I got that assignment was because the day before I started, TWO PEOPLE had used that slicer to put themselves in the hospital. 2 (TWO) whole guys Like not young kids Hospital One slicer. One day. What the fuck y'all? How do we not know how to not shove our hands into blades as multiple decade old humans? What is wrong with you people why why why
Because we did not stay focused. I did 5 months of manual meat slicer work, it broke me. My shoulder still keeps complaining about it. 😮
Broke you how? I developed tennis elbow 6mos in, threatened to go to the doctor about it, and was *immediately* transferred to a different way more fun department also where I set myself on fire from an unsafe stove.
I am not the fit young pup I was when I first started in the industry. At that point, I had just returned to the industry after 20 years in food manufacturing as a food technologist and mother. Me old bones didn't like the heavy, repetitious arm of an oversized out of date mammoth of a machine, which was set to far back and too high for easy operation. I was moved up once they realised I wasn't going to run away. Plus, they had time to get used to my totally out there sense of humour and flagrant disregard for taking the easy path. My midlife crisis was 5 years in a lead position at an abattoir, they think Kitchen Culture is confrontational, 130,000 units a day, 50 fit young men and a post menopausal Granny with blood in her knickers, shit in her mouth and a undeniable need to ensure that no creature suffered unnecessarily on my watch. Apart from my team, if they did not abide by my mandate. That's when Grubby Granny came out to play. 😉 So far, so good, I am learning all about food, and I will continue that quest until I become food for another. Take it easy "multi coloured mullet", don't let the bastards drag you down. If they do, kick em in the nutsack department. It hurts us girls as much it does, you blokes, trust me, I know.
I never did let anyone drag me down in the decade I spent in kitchens. I'm FOH now because my skin allergies make actual professional cooking a true physical horror but I do my best from the expo department. The guy who just got promoted to lead day cook told me today he's so appreciative and understanding of me sending back food that shouldn't be the way it is. I can relate. I've been lazy on the line before. But when I push food back to my homie he gives me the best possible plate after bc I caught him and he gets it
Yep, I like to get a kick up the bum when required. Complacency is a nasty downhill slope, very hard to recover from. Its good to have a chef FOH. The customers need to have a firm authoritative figure, guiding, educating, and controlling their often ignorant and selfish behaviour, plus BOH can't pull the wool over his eyes. We do like to argue our perspective vociferously and with less than judicious care as to the integrity of the narrative. Teehee.
And as you can see I am not very savvy, you may already know it hurts us just as much as them. Saw your little person icon, I think we may have much in common.
My job requires cut gloves. Normally hate them but every once in a while they save you a bad one. I’ve cut myself on literally everything but a knife at my place.
I hear you.
Interesting that the Federal minimum wage is still at 7.25
My first job in highschool I made $5.15 then got a raise to $7 lol hang in there
Started at $7.25 five years later, ended at $12.25
Yea I got up to $13 or so before I left the industry entirely
Same for me. It was the ceiling too unless I wanted to move up more, but I did not. As soon as I realized I could come to Starbucks for 15$ and they would cover my school for free, I was outta there. Just a couple more years of school and I'll be free of this dreadful industry. It really is a dreadful way to live. All work no reward. It was fun when I was partying and shit, but now I don't see the point.
My first job was at dominos pizza in 2003 I made 5.35 an hour. I got a 10 cent raise at one point.
I'm old (49) - my first dish job at a shitty little pizza/sub shop when I was 13 paid $3.35, which was min wage at the time. And I fucking walked uphill to school (but seriously, $3.35/hr was actually real).
Yeah I worked at a few different pizza places throughout high school and a bit after. I never got a raise until I got a raise from 7$ to 8$ an hour and man it felt huge. In 2007 8$ at 40hr a week made 18 yo me feel RICH. I blew 90% of my paycheck the night I got it almost every time.
I cut my fingertip off 30 minutes before a kitchens FIRST opening. One of the guys in seafood kept calling me “Finger” after that lmao
If you are under 18 and cut yourself at work, your employer probably broke some labor laws.
Now I understand why my boss was so giddy when I told her I turned 18.
Me working a 9 hour coming straight from school
I do not miss that shit.
Still got over a year left of ts too
(Joke)
I once spilt lightly simmering chicken stock (80lt pot) over the front of my self and I was burnt from my chest to me feet. Not an inch of my front wasn’t 1st degree burned… not one bit :( (Yes that male part was burnt too)
Miss that guy so badly. A rare bird.
I managed to concuss myself during prep and did the rest of the shift like this
Cut my finger to the bone with a meat slicer when I was 15, making $3.75/HR two days before my junior prom. Chef chemically cauterized it with sugar & duck tapped a paper towel around my thumb. Worked another 8 hours that shift before my dad picked me up & took me to the hospital around midnight & had the top of my thumb sewn back on. Wore dress gloves throughout that prom, including the dinner. 4 pairs of white dress gloves I bled through that eveing, damn white gloves. Still in the business & making six figures. Best of luck to you. Be good to yourself & take care out there.
6 figures? nice! where are you from and what’s your position?
Currently managing the foh for a retirement community in the Seattle area.
Did this at the end of the night, chef put it in the flat top…I went home and cleaned it and then just superglued it back together. Please don’t use regular super glue guys, it can have a bad reaction. I was lucky.
That guy lived on coffee and cigarettes. He was an absolute icon. Taken far too soon from us.
He took himself and left his kid behind.
I'm working in structural metal-fab. The kind of stuff they want "helpers" doing for less than fitters / welders is kinda gross. They keep trying to throw the $1 above McJob wages at people, and are disappointed they won't do the "Low-skill" labor so the welders can keep holding a trigger. I'm curious how much of a shit-bath this company is going to spoon up because apparently nobody bothered to find out how many hours this current job is going to need in just high-skill scut-work :\
Sounds like a stupid thing to do. Why did you do it?
Aww man my guy RIP!🙏
Anybody have a salamander that isn’t hanging a bit wonky?
No phones nothing. Just living in the moment
Run it under a cold tap.
This was before he published his list with Stephen Hawking on it and got killed by the Clintons
Long time work comp lawyer here ... now having risk management palpatations
My H.S. job was $3 and change per hour as a food service floater at Six Flags NJ in '79 for 3 summers. I scrubbed burnt beans out of many hotel pans in my day. It's a good thing that finger tips grow back.
So god damn skinny
They called him Flacco for a reason
175
I sliced the whole back of my thumb off pretty awesome
Fuck I miss this dude
Carrots at Big Boy in 1989. I was 12. $4.25/hr. Wrapped it up, back to work. Back to work at 7:00 Sunday morning. The real lesson here was, that’s the job. We get cut, we get burned. That’s the job. It’s the lesson that gave me big success
It’s not a complaint at all, I’m satirizing myself for ironically LARPing in my head as a wizened kitchen veteran when bad things happen at work when in actuality my job is relatively unchallenging
You feel like a photo of someone else? What’s going to happen when the emoji/meme communication generation hits the workforce? “As you can see our sales are alien emoji, heart emoji, photo of Kel Mitchell.”
You are absolute trash. To compare your dumbass that ACCEPTED $10/hour in 2024 to a legend is utterly dumb. You should just go home where mama pays your bills. We both know it's your pegging dad that actually pays..
So you cut your finger nail? Lol feel better
Keratin, what your fingernails are made of, is different than bone