All Blog Posts Tagged 'Kitchen' (4)

Of all the issues that one can single out for criticism in a ‘professional’ kitchen, the topic that irks me the most is the misuse of equipment.  I’m not talking about the occasional sheet pan drafted into use as a deep fryer cover; it’s the wholesale misapplication and underutilization of the tools of the trade that gets to me. 

 

Rolling-pin-tenderizer-users aside, who’s responsible for (not) training people this way?

 

I won’t mention the patently dangerous,…

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First I posted:



Patti Hauffe: I am sorry - you know I love all my chef buddies,but "Hell's Kitchen" is a joke. It does nothing but make a mockery of the Restaurant Business, chefs, servers, clients &all concerned. No one would take the most well experienced chef into a new kitchen & not orientate them and expect a full service given.Just like throwing a non swimmer in the deep end of the pool and say sink or swim!



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Christopher… Continue

Should have fired three. I think he is keeping Matt and Jen for entertainment purposes.

How about the sweat soaked pasta Matt cooked~



Since they are not skilled where are the thermometers that would have eliminated Lourosses undercooked meat..



I can't wait till next week and see Rock. Now that was a good season. I am glad to see he has been successful. None of these people are ready to be a 250k executive chef.



Come on Matt I can smell your ending. Sooner… Continue

I've been getting into the new show Kitchen Nightmares lately. Regardless of what you think of the show, Gordon Ramsay's vulgar tone, or the editing, it does have a few lessons. The main thing that I've taken out of the show is that the definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over because…

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