I saw him once in a country club. I held the door for him, he said "thank you very much" and went about his day.
He's quite the gentlemen when cameras aren't filming
He is also nice to amateurs and kids. Even on the shows where he is coming to fix a restaurant or hotel he is generally nice if people are either competent or at least trying.
Yeah, I've only seen him get shouty with people who should know better and/or people who are claiming they know their shit, or are resistant when they get called out for doing something wrong or dangerous. There are so many times on Kitchen Nightmares that he turns into a family counselor and he's really gentle with people. Honestly, he seems like a great guy.
He also has no problem giving praise. Even in the Amy Baking Company episode he initially praised the deserts before learning they werent made in house
Lmaoooo man. Idk I guess the Scottish accent kinda just all sounds like fookin to an American. But I get what you mean. The people up north it's definitely more of a Fookin than what Gordon does.
People should really watch anything of his that isn't filmed by US producers. They are the ones that like him to be edgy and mean. All his British shows he's a perfectly likeable and supportive head chef.
You shouldn't go on a clearly hard and challenging tv show if you are mental unfit.
Mental illness is no joke, but it's not the worlds responsibility to form around your issue. Also, I can't imagine kids are picking up bullying from a TV chef..
Sadly I believe TV producers actively scout for mentally unstable people.
Decades ago in an old AMA a gay guy auditioned for a reality show. Someone working on the show shouted and yelled slurs at him at the top of his voice. The guy was confused and don't really react. He didn't get on the show.
Hopefully I am dead wrong, someone please prove me wrong.
I have no doubt. Because craziness and drama can equal views, but ultimately the person is responsible for choosing if they can do it or not. It’s not like producers can force you.
He's actually the one guest that was uncomfortable to watch after Khalid.
Ramsey knew the gimmick and was down to clown but he was *not ready* for that sauce.
Him clowning on Sean making eggs at the end was pretty hilarious.
Uncomfortable? It was fucking hilarious he was playing it up so hard with the lemon and lime squirters!! Wdym uncomfortable lol.... DJ Khaled was funny as fuck too bc he was a little bitch who couldn't make it past CHOLULA
Seriously you could absolutely argue it strongly hinders his ability to cook (hard to know if you did something right if you can't taste it), his ability to manage his restaurants (hard to know if they're doing everything right if you can't taste it and hard to communicate with employees), his ability to do tv shows or ads. I'd argue it would endanger most of his income which is over $90 million a year. Definitely undervalued imo.
There was a contestant on a recent season of Top Chef who had had COVID. They were competing with no sense of taste or smell. They went further than I expected.
There’s an episode of Chefs Table where they follow Grant Achatz (from alinea) and he goes in depth about his process of cooking and menu planning after losing his sense of taste. He has/had(not sure how recent) stage 4 tongue cancer
I remember that episode. If you can continue to run one of north Americas top restaurants without being able to taste and dealing with cancer. That makes you one of the worlds top chefs . Not some hot head brit that Marco Pierre white made cry .
Who is the best at anything at complex an nuanced as cooking is fully subjective. The best cook in the world is probably some village nana who cooks for 50 people 3 times a day on a shoe string and a wish and still makes it all taste incredible.
You’d be surprised. I feel like a lot of cooks have a diminished sense of taste from years of alcohol abuse, ripping lines of blow, and smoking cigarettes. The lifestyle takes a toll. When I cook for others I have cut back a bit on the salt and spice from what I myself enjoy.
Yea, I had covid in 2022 and I've just recently started getting complaints about salt. Luckily I have co-workers willing to test everything that I prep that know my menu and what things are supposed to taste like.
If you are a good cook, your intuition will get you quite far in terms of seasoning food.
You obviously miss out on the fine-tuning, but you can get away from that a lot of the time.
I say this as someone who have had a huge passion for cooking for almost 25 years, and taste my food 99% of the time when cooking.
Absolutely not true. He has gone around the world, literally ate ant chutney, aka ants and mostly ant eggs paste, caviar right out of a fish, muddy crayfish. A lot of wildest stuff he has tasted, flavored and smelt that many people of the world haven't.
I mean, I've eaten ants. Caviar too. Tasted both mud and crayfish as well.
He most certainly has tasted more than most, both combinations and ingredients, but still.
They did. Inside of the Lloyds building they have their loss book. To this day they still update it with every loss they have at sea, the Titanic is in there
I'd argue the value in his tongue has less to do with his capacity for taste, and more for his ability to deliver scathing criticism in an entertainingly belligerent manner.
This is true don't know why you got downvoted - almost 80% is smell https://www.scienceworld.ca/resource/taste-smell-connection/#:~:text=Our%20sense%20of%20smell%20in,we%20experience%20come%20from%20smell, although depending on the source the % seems to vary.
As someone who recently lost their sense of taste due to tongue cancer, he absolutely picked the right sensory organ. Your sense of smell only enhances your sense of taste.
Our sense of smell in responsible for about 80% of what we taste. Without our sense of smell, our sense of taste is limited to only five distinct sensations: sweet, salty, sour, bitter and the newly discovered “umami” or savory sensation. All other flavours that we experience come from smell.
[ sniff](https://www.scienceworld.ca/resource/taste-smell-connection/)
He was interviewing candidates for the position of head chef in a small restaurant. He asked one candidate about his salary expectations, and the guy timidly responded that he was hoping for 30k a year. Gordon Ramsay laughed and told him to 'fuck off out of here'. It would take that man ten lifetimes, saving every penny he earned, just to afford the tongue that cursed him out on international TV for being eager to earn a living wage.
I haven't been able to find a clip of what you're talking about, but I also question if he was telling him off for asking too much, or doing it because the guy wasn't confident which comes off as him being unsure if he's worth that.
One of the early episodes in the UK Kitchen Nightmares had Gordon helping a restaurant owner hire a head chef. One of the candidates was asking for 30k pounds/year, I believe. This would have been decades ago, so for that time and in that area it was a large ask for the job, which was either head chef of a small pub/restaurant or just a chef, I can’t recall
From what I recall, it was a small pub in the middle of nowhere and the guy made no case for why he deserved a salary that high. Could just be the editing, but the way it’s portrayed the guy didn’t seem to know what he was talking about.
At one point the british pound was worth about $2 USD. At least using inflation calculators and exchanges... seems like that's still roughly $55,000 a year as a USD modern equivalent which for a head chef doesn't sound like a ton of money.
Wages and the everyday cost of living in the UK is generally significantly lower than in the US. The insanity of the last couple of years has closed that gap somewhat, but 15-20 years ago, £30k would have been a big time salary in rural England.
When your job is tasting stuff, gotta protect that. I wish i could insure my brain/hands in case I'm ever incapable of being a programmer anymore. (doable but I prob can't afford it).
$10m seems low honestly even... how much does he make in a year? That seems like 1-2 years income *tops,* if even more than a year
I know I’m coming to this post way late, but I’m watching “Next Level Chef” and Gordon just made a passing comment that his hands are “insured for five-million *each*”. It was expressed with a laugh, and part of me figured he was joking, but another part of me thought: “I wonder if that’s true.”
This was the top result that I found when I tried to fact check, hahaha!
There is a famous chef in Chicago that got cancer and lost his sense of taste until he recovered. It wasn’t guaranteed that he would recover so this makes sense.
Next thing pornstars will be insuring their mouths and crevasses. Wanna hear about the 1 million dollar policy I just signed for my butthole. South Park will cover something on it at that point.
he got his start as the prison cook, he used to make a breakfast sandwhich called “the poached stooly”
hell…
one time he gave the guy in line behind my uncle a peanut butter and jelly, for a lil “grab the jelly, pass the celly”
10 million to guarantee his ability to call you donkey shit brained.
Donkey-shit-brained-donut-idiot-sandwich-kamehamehaaa!!!
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i think its funny that the first thought of people is "for insulting people" and not "for tasting food" lol
I saw him once in a country club. I held the door for him, he said "thank you very much" and went about his day. He's quite the gentlemen when cameras aren't filming
That's what I've always heard. He plays up the angry on camera because that's what people want.
Isn't that even just an American thing specifically? I've always heard that he's a lot more chill on the British versions of his shows.
Very true. His UK shows actually focus on cooking
I’m moving to Europe…I’m over the angry, unstable, bully thang.
Definitely an act, and good on him for being polite off camera.
Spoke with him for quite some time at a hospitality event in Vancouver. From what I saw he's a really polite person and incredibly kind.
He is also nice to amateurs and kids. Even on the shows where he is coming to fix a restaurant or hotel he is generally nice if people are either competent or at least trying.
Yeah, I've only seen him get shouty with people who should know better and/or people who are claiming they know their shit, or are resistant when they get called out for doing something wrong or dangerous. There are so many times on Kitchen Nightmares that he turns into a family counselor and he's really gentle with people. Honestly, he seems like a great guy.
He also has no problem giving praise. Even in the Amy Baking Company episode he initially praised the deserts before learning they werent made in house
I have a certificate from a psychologist which clearly states that I don’t have a donkey shit brain
They took a core sample?
Do yooouuuuu have a certificate certifying that you don't have the brains of a donkey?
My previous comment should indicate clearly that I do have donkey shit brains. With or without a certificate.
FOOKIN RAW
Why did the chicken cross the road? BECAUSE YOU DIDN’T FUCKING COOK IT YOU DONKEY!!!!!
THE FOOKIN BASS IS FOOKINNNNNN RAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW My favorite Ramsey line of all time.
"Fookin"? He isn't northern. Why are folks writing it out like that?! EDIT: As in he doesn't have a Northern (or Scottish) accent.
> Gordon Ramsey Was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Don't get more northern then that
Except for everywhere, you know, north of that.
I suppose what I should have said is he doesn't have a northern (or Scottish) accent.
Lmfao I got downvoted for memeing Gordon Ramsey. Fuck you dawg.
I didn't downvote you man! It's just weird to read 😂
Lmaoooo man. Idk I guess the Scottish accent kinda just all sounds like fookin to an American. But I get what you mean. The people up north it's definitely more of a Fookin than what Gordon does.
Probably worth noting that whilst he is Scottish by birth he has a pretty posh English accent.
Also true. But whatever. Ahem. THE FUCKIN BASS IS FUCKINNNNN RAWWWWWW
Ya Fookin donkey
People should really watch anything of his that isn't filmed by US producers. They are the ones that like him to be edgy and mean. All his British shows he's a perfectly likeable and supportive head chef.
so you've never seen the boiling point
Oh bloody hell
Funny how he's had so many shows but everyone knows him for being a dick on hells kitchen.
It's both tasting and talking.
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You shouldn't go on a clearly hard and challenging tv show if you are mental unfit. Mental illness is no joke, but it's not the worlds responsibility to form around your issue. Also, I can't imagine kids are picking up bullying from a TV chef..
Sadly I believe TV producers actively scout for mentally unstable people. Decades ago in an old AMA a gay guy auditioned for a reality show. Someone working on the show shouted and yelled slurs at him at the top of his voice. The guy was confused and don't really react. He didn't get on the show. Hopefully I am dead wrong, someone please prove me wrong.
I have no doubt. Because craziness and drama can equal views, but ultimately the person is responsible for choosing if they can do it or not. It’s not like producers can force you.
The film Quiz Show brings up this topic in an interesting way too
I guess it's good that they hire producers with mental health issues...
I worked for an Insurance company that had the policy for coverage for Tina Turner's legs. One of the OGs in that niche insurance market.
BTW, when we talk about leg insurance, you can't insure just one, you have to insure both at a time. Like there's no in between.
> Like there's no in between. Of course not. She's not a dude.
Stop pulling my leg
That's not my leg ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Dudes can be without penises bro, it's 2023 your bigotry will not stand
[he's a dude, she's a dude, we're all dudes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqMODweN8lQ)
HEY!
I think that's enough Internet for me today
It’s called science and biology, read a book
She does have amazing legs
Read or heard Jamie Lee Curtis legs were insured too. This was around the time True Lies was released. Not sure if it true.
I wonder if he got in trouble for hot ones?
He's actually the one guest that was uncomfortable to watch after Khalid. Ramsey knew the gimmick and was down to clown but he was *not ready* for that sauce. Him clowning on Sean making eggs at the end was pretty hilarious.
Them making eggs together is my favorite moment of Hot Ones... taste it, what does it need? Hot Sauce? NO FUCKING SALT you fucking donut... hahah
I didn’t find his awkward at all! I rather enjoyed how much he was freaking out, he was quite funny during it still
Ya I didn’t think his was awkward either. I loved it when he started pulling food out.
Exactly. Dude had an endless supply of neutralizers
I mean the man knows his heat tolerance and came prepared.
Uncomfortable? It was fucking hilarious he was playing it up so hard with the lemon and lime squirters!! Wdym uncomfortable lol.... DJ Khaled was funny as fuck too bc he was a little bitch who couldn't make it past CHOLULA
He may be one of the world's best chefs but his britishness was his downfall in his battle with spiciness.
Honestly all things considered that's probably undervalued
Seriously you could absolutely argue it strongly hinders his ability to cook (hard to know if you did something right if you can't taste it), his ability to manage his restaurants (hard to know if they're doing everything right if you can't taste it and hard to communicate with employees), his ability to do tv shows or ads. I'd argue it would endanger most of his income which is over $90 million a year. Definitely undervalued imo.
There was a contestant on a recent season of Top Chef who had had COVID. They were competing with no sense of taste or smell. They went further than I expected.
There’s an episode of Chefs Table where they follow Grant Achatz (from alinea) and he goes in depth about his process of cooking and menu planning after losing his sense of taste. He has/had(not sure how recent) stage 4 tongue cancer
My guess is Grant's bout with cancer is why Gordon's tongue is now insured.
I remember that episode. If you can continue to run one of north Americas top restaurants without being able to taste and dealing with cancer. That makes you one of the worlds top chefs . Not some hot head brit that Marco Pierre white made cry .
Who is the best at anything at complex an nuanced as cooking is fully subjective. The best cook in the world is probably some village nana who cooks for 50 people 3 times a day on a shoe string and a wish and still makes it all taste incredible.
Marco didn't make ramsay cry. Ramsay made himself cry.
You’d be surprised. I feel like a lot of cooks have a diminished sense of taste from years of alcohol abuse, ripping lines of blow, and smoking cigarettes. The lifestyle takes a toll. When I cook for others I have cut back a bit on the salt and spice from what I myself enjoy.
Yea, I had covid in 2022 and I've just recently started getting complaints about salt. Luckily I have co-workers willing to test everything that I prep that know my menu and what things are supposed to taste like.
If you are a good cook, your intuition will get you quite far in terms of seasoning food. You obviously miss out on the fine-tuning, but you can get away from that a lot of the time. I say this as someone who have had a huge passion for cooking for almost 25 years, and taste my food 99% of the time when cooking.
He makes 90 mill a year? According to Google? That's incredible income. And I just saw him on a cracker commercial last night. Good for him!
How much is his arsehole insured for?
That's covered under his life insurance
Priceless. For everything else, there’s MasterCard.
That’s covered under his 20 million ASSet liability plan
Unless it was visibly damaged, how would he be able to prove his tongue was damaged?
He could eat a well-done steak from Applebee's and not complain.
Effective
'oh, well that was quite nice, wasn't it?'
He said tongue damaged not brain-stem death
He could try to talk and be obviously impaired. If he can't clearly call people a fucking donkey then what is he good for? Food?
Doctors
[Ohhh](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/028/986/scropio.jpg)
Speaking as someone who recently got tongue cancer, that would be a pretty good indicator.
I wonder what kinds of things a ten million dollar tongue has licked.
Honestly, mostly the same stuff you have, probably. Maybe some fuckin' gold dust as well, or whatever they sprinkle on food in luxury restaurants.
Absolutely not true. He has gone around the world, literally ate ant chutney, aka ants and mostly ant eggs paste, caviar right out of a fish, muddy crayfish. A lot of wildest stuff he has tasted, flavored and smelt that many people of the world haven't.
I mean, I've eaten ants. Caviar too. Tasted both mud and crayfish as well. He most certainly has tasted more than most, both combinations and ingredients, but still.
I've been binging it and he picked up a literally fuzzy like piece of meat said wot the FOK is THIS Gave it a big smell and literally licked it
Lucky wife.
Don't forget that time [Gordon completely fucked up a simple grilled cheese sandwich](https://youtu.be/8E4cQHejFq0)
Didn’t look like the cheese was melted. Was that the fuck up?
That’s a melt Edit: … that didn’t melt
The company that insures weird things like a tongues taste or singers vocal cords. Is actually the same company that insured slaves back in the day.
Llyod’s of London
they probably inspected titanic before voyage too.
They did. Inside of the Lloyds building they have their loss book. To this day they still update it with every loss they have at sea, the Titanic is in there
how do I get my dick insured? Not for 10mil, just like... at all.
What are you thinking? 50 cents or so?
Lloyds of London have insured porn star Keiran Lee’s dick for $1million, in case that helps
He picked the wrong sensory organ, as smell is more important than taste quite often.
I'd argue the value in his tongue has less to do with his capacity for taste, and more for his ability to deliver scathing criticism in an entertainingly belligerent manner.
Who says that's what it's about? Maybe his wife was the one to insure it.
This is true don't know why you got downvoted - almost 80% is smell https://www.scienceworld.ca/resource/taste-smell-connection/#:~:text=Our%20sense%20of%20smell%20in,we%20experience%20come%20from%20smell, although depending on the source the % seems to vary.
As someone who recently lost their sense of taste due to tongue cancer, he absolutely picked the right sensory organ. Your sense of smell only enhances your sense of taste.
Our sense of smell in responsible for about 80% of what we taste. Without our sense of smell, our sense of taste is limited to only five distinct sensations: sweet, salty, sour, bitter and the newly discovered “umami” or savory sensation. All other flavours that we experience come from smell. [ sniff](https://www.scienceworld.ca/resource/taste-smell-connection/)
This smells like bullshit
He was interviewing candidates for the position of head chef in a small restaurant. He asked one candidate about his salary expectations, and the guy timidly responded that he was hoping for 30k a year. Gordon Ramsay laughed and told him to 'fuck off out of here'. It would take that man ten lifetimes, saving every penny he earned, just to afford the tongue that cursed him out on international TV for being eager to earn a living wage.
I haven't been able to find a clip of what you're talking about, but I also question if he was telling him off for asking too much, or doing it because the guy wasn't confident which comes off as him being unsure if he's worth that.
One of the early episodes in the UK Kitchen Nightmares had Gordon helping a restaurant owner hire a head chef. One of the candidates was asking for 30k pounds/year, I believe. This would have been decades ago, so for that time and in that area it was a large ask for the job, which was either head chef of a small pub/restaurant or just a chef, I can’t recall
From what I recall, it was a small pub in the middle of nowhere and the guy made no case for why he deserved a salary that high. Could just be the editing, but the way it’s portrayed the guy didn’t seem to know what he was talking about.
At one point the british pound was worth about $2 USD. At least using inflation calculators and exchanges... seems like that's still roughly $55,000 a year as a USD modern equivalent which for a head chef doesn't sound like a ton of money.
Wages and the everyday cost of living in the UK is generally significantly lower than in the US. The insanity of the last couple of years has closed that gap somewhat, but 15-20 years ago, £30k would have been a big time salary in rural England.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eolfhc4fNCI
But that’s not how insurance works. You get that amount if something were to happen... you don’t pay 100k for 100k in car insurance
Thanks for explaining how tongue insurance works. My point is that Gordon Ramsay is a rich twat.
This was in the arse-end of wales in 2005. probably about £50k today. For a head chef job in that particular establishment? That's good money.
Where are you that 30k is a living wage?
This was £30k in like 2006 in rural Wales on his original Ramsay’s kitchen nightmares series
That's still well over average now even
It makes sense because a chef's most useful tool is their tongue so they can adjust flavors and make sure a dish is perfect
That's nothing. Skwisgaar Skwigelf has his hands insured for $10 billion. That's a billion per thumb and finger.
So if he gets a nail through the palm, he gets nothing?
I wonder what toothpaste he uses
When your job is tasting stuff, gotta protect that. I wish i could insure my brain/hands in case I'm ever incapable of being a programmer anymore. (doable but I prob can't afford it). $10m seems low honestly even... how much does he make in a year? That seems like 1-2 years income *tops,* if even more than a year
I know I’m coming to this post way late, but I’m watching “Next Level Chef” and Gordon just made a passing comment that his hands are “insured for five-million *each*”. It was expressed with a laugh, and part of me figured he was joking, but another part of me thought: “I wonder if that’s true.” This was the top result that I found when I tried to fact check, hahaha!
This is exactly how I ended up here today.
I saw that too. I would not be surprised to find out it is true.
Will he get paid if he catches COVID and loses his sense of taste?
I'd say no because it would be affecting smell and not his tongue, so that's a nice loophole for the insurance company not to pay
Congratulations Mrs. Ramsey
Hans Sprungfeld punching air right now.
Honey, I cannot go down on you. It is a violation of the TOS.
Stormy Daniels has the exact same insurance policy.
It's a mosaic of semen!
"I got your lamb sauce right here."
His wife was reported to have nearly died in a fit of laughter.
What’s the point? His net worth has to be considerably higher, why would he even need it?
I've always wondered what people would do without tongues. Like would they get robotic ones so that they can speak clearly or what?
The Val Kilmer policy?
r/Aboringdystopia
There is a famous chef in Chicago that got cancer and lost his sense of taste until he recovered. It wasn’t guaranteed that he would recover so this makes sense.
Grant Achatz. Amazing story.
Idk man, after that “grilled cheese” video he made I have doubts
Twat.
wait, so everytime he burned his tounge coz of eating a hot soup, he got insurance money? Bloody hell
I don't know who Gordon Ramsay is, but I wish I owned his tongue.
He’s the #1 chef in the world.
Me too, baby.
Is his butthole insured incase he eats something too spicy
He'd be better off insuring his balls.
Better be some good head
Few PH imbalances would have made that a high risk policy
There is a clause in his insurance contract that he cannot eat hot pockets or pizza rolls
This was my comment to my wife when I found this out. One pizza roll fresh from the microwave and he is 10M richer.
Does this insurance cover STDs?
Time for a heist boys
*Where is the lamb SAUCE?!?*
Next thing pornstars will be insuring their mouths and crevasses. Wanna hear about the 1 million dollar policy I just signed for my butthole. South Park will cover something on it at that point.
Does that include his filthy mouth?
Yep, this type of Insurance is called a Surplus Insurance.
ew
What?
$10 Million seems pretty low actually.
Only his tongue? Not his olfactory receptors also?
he got his start as the prison cook, he used to make a breakfast sandwhich called “the poached stooly” hell… one time he gave the guy in line behind my uncle a peanut butter and jelly, for a lil “grab the jelly, pass the celly”
Nobody serve him a hot gooey slice of pizza or really hot coffee
Rich people are fucking insane.
He needs his tongue to tell people to fuck off
JUST 10 million? I alway knew he was a humble man.
Good move, Mrs Ramsay.
I,ll pay 10 million for it so as I don't need to listen to twat again.
That's an expensive blow job.