why do cooks act like they're hardcore motherfrickers? because you do stuff with your hands? so do surgeons but you don't see them represented as handsome muscular chads in the media so often
>so do surgeons but you don't see them represented as handsome muscular chads in the media so often
What're you smoking, any given hospital drama proves otherwise.
not sure, but the stereotype of them being up their own ass is entirely true. I worked as a bartender for most of my 20s and without fail, the chef at any restaurant or bar is a total fricking self-important dipshit
Right, unlike bartenders. Literally all you have to do is hand someone a beer. Ive been on both sides of the house. Cooking is insanely more difficult, and you make way less.
>I never had a stick up my ass about how hard bartending was
Im sure you didnt sweetie. You were the one bartender in the world who worked for four hours each night and didnt cry about it
The one and only restaurant I worked at, the chef was on vacation during my 2 day work, the personnel had no problems talking shit about he was someone with anger problems.
This is a mere anecdote, there are thousands of restaurants in the world, still it seems that being a chef tends to be a terrible job, they make a Master Chef her in Italy and the chefs there seems to be using it as a outlet for their pent up stress.
It does. Even if you're a decent person going in, the shit pay, working conditions, the culture, it rots you and steals your life in a way no other job does, because even if you want to improve yourself and maybe study on the side, after work you'll either be exhausted and head straight to bed or go out with your coworkers that aren't complete buttholes. Suddenly it's 10 years later and you're still in the same place, just worse.
Finally decided to quit the business alltogether, became a forklift operator and it's chill as frick.
It's a miserable job with a ton of gatekeeping and there's a part of it that's "creative", it attracts fricked up people from shitty backgrounds who have little to no self-control, the prevalence of substance abuse is a proof of that.
Bunch of insecure morons with inflated egos larping as artists.
Professional chiefs have their heritage in being army staff (hence the uniforms) and so a lot of the behaviour is taken from that but they don't have the same discipline anymore so it just devolved into hieratical bullying now
"the customers are ordering foooddd?!! are they insane?!?! AHHHHH THE PRESSURE, THE STREESSSS! YOU MEAN I HAVE TO COOOK?!?! OMG ANOTHER CUSTOMRE JUST ORDERE FOOD??!! AAHHHH I AM GOING INSANE!! NO ONE KNOWS MY PAIN!!"
imagine if the average bricklayer, electrician or plumber was even half as much a drama queen about his work conditions and pressure... and they actually have a reason to get pissed.
Unless you have worked such a job, you are incapable of understanding the soul crushing existence of having to shovel food into the insatiable, moronic maw of the public for 14 hours straight, day after day, with terrible pay, and having to work with and rely on the other useless dregs of society the entire time, the vast majority of which are incredibly lazy and can't handle being told as much.
unless you have worked any other job other than cook you are incapable of understanding the soul crushing existence of dealing with cooks on forums that think they are doing something more noble than the rest of us. shut up and make my food bawd
I've done roofing, deck building, loading/unloading planes, and furniture delivery. Preferred every other low-skilled idiot job to kitchen work, but there are some kitchens where you make tip money so it's the best wages someone like me can get.
I'm trying to put myself in the shoes of a chef and I guess it can't be that hard, just put some fish on a fry pan and flip it after 2 minutes. Or boil pasta for 5 minutes while you dump some tomato sauce and water in another pot. Or fry some steak for a few minutes depending on how the customer wants it. Seems like there should be a lot of downtime in between these short high burst periods of preparing food.
Okay, now do that but as fast as you possibly can while cooking 10 other things at the same time, many of which will need special treatment at the customer's request (so don't forget and frick it up), and then when you finally get to close spend the next two hours on the mountain of dishes and cleaning the entire kitchen. Also, there really isn't any downtime except during winter months. When you're not making customer orders, there's always shit that needs to be prepped or cleaned, and your co-workers are always calling out or not showing up or disappearing for 45 minute smoke breaks during dinner.
Honestly, that sounds pretty horrible but I'm sure with an organised system in place you could make it run like a well oiled machine where multiple chefs stay in their stations churning out their specialised food. Otherwise it just sounds like you're juggling shit for hours on end trying to keep up with demand.
Big kitchens where they have everybody chained to a single station with a screen in front of their face don't pay for shit, so if you want a decent kitchen job you'll have to be juggling with a few other people, or sometimes just be completely solo.
I'm trying to put myself in the shoes of a chef and I guess it can't be that hard, just put some fish on a fry pan and flip it after 2 minutes. Or boil pasta for 5 minutes while you dump some tomato sauce and water in another pot. Or fry some steak for a few minutes depending on how the customer wants it. Seems like there should be a lot of downtime in between these short high burst periods of preparing food.
I tried forcing a meme for the past 6 weeks and samegayged the threads to build demand in said meme because I'm a massive homosexual who loves me some Baskin Roberts.
Im also trans btw
perfect, I'll just need you to sign a waiver about us not being legally responsible for any shark attacks that might happen due to any surgical procedures you've undergone and we're good
I have never worked a kitchen job but my mum has gotten in the way and tried to tell me that I was doing things wrong and I got mad at her and yelled so that might make me The Bear.
cooking on the line with your bros is so much fun
the skilled coordination that comes with everyone pulling their weight is beautiful to see. all of the time and attention put into the prep is honored with the grand flourish that is service. Hours of cleaning, chopping, peeling, simmering, caramelizing, braising, pickling, deboning, portioning. It all comes down to if you can execute it well with your team when customers pour in. You have to have the mindset of a samurai. Train + prepare all day for combat that lasts a minute at most
get the charcuterie assortment to start with our kale and apple salad
pollock en croute or steak au poivre for main
creme brulee and a cheese with a nice dessert wine
Who is fricking paying you to shill this show and working in the industry? Is it the Restaurant Industrial Complex? Not enough wages so you have to fricking glorify these shitty jobs?
I worked in a kitchen as the only cook for 3 months and I quit because it overwhelmed me. It doesn't help that I had pre-existing anxiety issues already
it's fun, down to earth, no forced politics or social commentary, low stakes, very well made with characters who have faults but are sympathetic, something that is very rare and refreshing these days
also maybe one or two episodes have yelling in the kitchen
All shitposting aside this show is unironically really fricking good and the most accurate portrayal of what it’s like to grieve the loss of an addict close family member I’ve ever seen personally
I used to work in an understaffed kitchen of a shitty restaurant and I went nuts. Probably didn't help that I was already nuts but man that job fricking sucked. I ended up getting so frustrated that I thought about murdering my coworkers daily until one day I had a complete mental breakdown. I growled like an animal and my hands turned into little moron claws and I couldn't move them anymore, I quite literally acted like the bear. I think I went through pretty much every mental breakdown/panic attack cliché possible, shit was a completely unhinged scene. Never showed my face there again.
I shilled the latest streaming slop
I told a co-worker who was taller than me that I didn't need help getting down that day's worth of prepared stock, and spilled it all over the walk-in
why do cooks act like they're hardcore motherfrickers? because you do stuff with your hands? so do surgeons but you don't see them represented as handsome muscular chads in the media so often
civie spotted
cooks and chefs are civies as well my dude. you make food to eat for people who pay, prostitutes like the rest of us plebs
>so do surgeons but you don't see them represented as handsome muscular chads in the media so often
What're you smoking, any given hospital drama proves otherwise.
How often have you seen a badass juiced up tatted chiansmoking surgeon in hospital dramas?
that's not what he said
The Todd from Scrubs.
>handsome muscular chads
>badass juiced up tatted chiansmoking
because it’s a shit job that makes you miserable and drives you towards substance abuse, and some people think that’s le badass
Civ filth like you wouldn't understand *spits*
now im gonna spit in your eggs you little homosexual.
And that's all you'll ever be able to do, for the rest of your life, until the day you die. Make empty threats about cooking eggs.
it is strange that male cooks aren't treated with the same type of contempt as male hair stylists
not sure, but the stereotype of them being up their own ass is entirely true. I worked as a bartender for most of my 20s and without fail, the chef at any restaurant or bar is a total fricking self-important dipshit
Right, unlike bartenders. Literally all you have to do is hand someone a beer. Ive been on both sides of the house. Cooking is insanely more difficult, and you make way less.
cool, except I never had a stick up my ass about how hard bartending was. I showed up, did my job, made more money than you, and left
>I never had a stick up my ass about how hard bartending was
Im sure you didnt sweetie. You were the one bartender in the world who worked for four hours each night and didnt cry about it
yeah man, I was basically paid to get drunk and flirt with girls. it was the best job I've ever had and I miss it every day
Sure kid
I'm 33 years old young man
Have you tried demanding a raise
The one and only restaurant I worked at, the chef was on vacation during my 2 day work, the personnel had no problems talking shit about he was someone with anger problems.
This is a mere anecdote, there are thousands of restaurants in the world, still it seems that being a chef tends to be a terrible job, they make a Master Chef her in Italy and the chefs there seems to be using it as a outlet for their pent up stress.
It seems like a job that poisons people.
It does. Even if you're a decent person going in, the shit pay, working conditions, the culture, it rots you and steals your life in a way no other job does, because even if you want to improve yourself and maybe study on the side, after work you'll either be exhausted and head straight to bed or go out with your coworkers that aren't complete buttholes. Suddenly it's 10 years later and you're still in the same place, just worse.
Finally decided to quit the business alltogether, became a forklift operator and it's chill as frick.
It's a miserable job with a ton of gatekeeping and there's a part of it that's "creative", it attracts fricked up people from shitty backgrounds who have little to no self-control, the prevalence of substance abuse is a proof of that.
Bunch of insecure morons with inflated egos larping as artists.
umm do surgeons cook burgers?
i thought not
Professional chiefs have their heritage in being army staff (hence the uniforms) and so a lot of the behaviour is taken from that but they don't have the same discipline anymore so it just devolved into hieratical bullying now
I burnt toast and started screaming at my parents cause it needed to be fricking perfect
only bear i ever acted like
Yesterday i made two sandwiches, i like mustard so i felt like adding mustard to it, i've been puking all night
what a life
>Jeremy Allen White reportedly set to undergo alcohol testing in order to see his children
you don't need to undergo mandatory alcohol testing to see your children to be an earthrocker
Alienated myself from people that care about me.
"the customers are ordering foooddd?!! are they insane?!?! AHHHHH THE PRESSURE, THE STREESSSS! YOU MEAN I HAVE TO COOOK?!?! OMG ANOTHER CUSTOMRE JUST ORDERE FOOD??!! AAHHHH I AM GOING INSANE!! NO ONE KNOWS MY PAIN!!"
this is soo fricking stupid...
imagine if the average bricklayer, electrician or plumber was even half as much a drama queen about his work conditions and pressure... and they actually have a reason to get pissed.
Except most of those people do like an hour or two of real work in a day
Unless you have worked such a job, you are incapable of understanding the soul crushing existence of having to shovel food into the insatiable, moronic maw of the public for 14 hours straight, day after day, with terrible pay, and having to work with and rely on the other useless dregs of society the entire time, the vast majority of which are incredibly lazy and can't handle being told as much.
unless you have worked any other job other than cook you are incapable of understanding the soul crushing existence of dealing with cooks on forums that think they are doing something more noble than the rest of us. shut up and make my food bawd
I've done roofing, deck building, loading/unloading planes, and furniture delivery. Preferred every other low-skilled idiot job to kitchen work, but there are some kitchens where you make tip money so it's the best wages someone like me can get.
Okay, now do that but as fast as you possibly can while cooking 10 other things at the same time, many of which will need special treatment at the customer's request (so don't forget and frick it up), and then when you finally get to close spend the next two hours on the mountain of dishes and cleaning the entire kitchen. Also, there really isn't any downtime except during winter months. When you're not making customer orders, there's always shit that needs to be prepped or cleaned, and your co-workers are always calling out or not showing up or disappearing for 45 minute smoke breaks during dinner.
fair nuff, more money more probelms as they say, however for gods sake don't complain like you are moving mountains for a wage
Honestly, that sounds pretty horrible but I'm sure with an organised system in place you could make it run like a well oiled machine where multiple chefs stay in their stations churning out their specialised food. Otherwise it just sounds like you're juggling shit for hours on end trying to keep up with demand.
Big kitchens where they have everybody chained to a single station with a screen in front of their face don't pay for shit, so if you want a decent kitchen job you'll have to be juggling with a few other people, or sometimes just be completely solo.
I'm trying to put myself in the shoes of a chef and I guess it can't be that hard, just put some fish on a fry pan and flip it after 2 minutes. Or boil pasta for 5 minutes while you dump some tomato sauce and water in another pot. Or fry some steak for a few minutes depending on how the customer wants it. Seems like there should be a lot of downtime in between these short high burst periods of preparing food.
>t, 18 year old who just started his first job and is in the fetal position out the back in tears
Get a new job dingus
>t. useless Hispanic bar cook that throws a tantrum when I ask for old bay on my French fries
This homosexual works the McDonald's fryers lmao
How is he so short?
Crushing weight of serving sandwiches to civilians compressed his spine.
Artgays don't deserve to be portrayed as though their industry is ACKSHUALLY torture
The dumbest thing about this is that there are actually music schools in the USA that teach "Jazz".
Not only that but they are considered prestigious.
Smoked cigarettes and suffer from cptsd.
That time when I fricked a twink on grindr
I tried forcing a meme for the past 6 weeks and samegayged the threads to build demand in said meme because I'm a massive homosexual who loves me some Baskin Roberts.
Im also trans btw
hey i'm starting a swim with the sharks tour group, would you like to come. Half price just for you
Sounds delightful, I'm in!
perfect, I'll just need you to sign a waiver about us not being legally responsible for any shark attacks that might happen due to any surgical procedures you've undergone and we're good
I've never been a real chef but I remember working in a college dining hall and making sandwiches once so I'm pretty much just like him.
Fake tough guys, every single one of them
Trying to cook my hot pockets while my parents cook a healthy meal for themselves and burning them.
Cooking is punk rock.
>it's for women tho lmao
Women are punk rock.
No one except braindead Black folk and 12 year olds say "cooking is for women" unironically
It's almost as if the way to make a show about a mundane job is to amplify the drama to an absurd degree.
>be me
>work at restaurant
that was my experience as The Bear
the bear is the forklift operator t-shirt of media
that time I raped leo dicaprio
im more of a boiling point type of chef
I recently ate salmon and clawed a tree to mark my territory.
I have never worked a kitchen job but my mum has gotten in the way and tried to tell me that I was doing things wrong and I got mad at her and yelled so that might make me The Bear.
You were The Bear.
cooking on the line with your bros is so much fun
the skilled coordination that comes with everyone pulling their weight is beautiful to see. all of the time and attention put into the prep is honored with the grand flourish that is service. Hours of cleaning, chopping, peeling, simmering, caramelizing, braising, pickling, deboning, portioning. It all comes down to if you can execute it well with your team when customers pour in. You have to have the mindset of a samurai. Train + prepare all day for combat that lasts a minute at most
the only fun part about being a line cook is the drugs
I cook in a nice french bistro on the coast of maine, AMA
what do you recommend i get
get the charcuterie assortment to start with our kale and apple salad
pollock en croute or steak au poivre for main
creme brulee and a cheese with a nice dessert wine
Who is fricking paying you to shill this show and working in the industry? Is it the Restaurant Industrial Complex? Not enough wages so you have to fricking glorify these shitty jobs?
How much are you making for doing this?
yo relax, all of us here have just watched
I worked in a kitchen as the only cook for 3 months and I quit because it overwhelmed me. It doesn't help that I had pre-existing anxiety issues already
>yelling in kitchens without any of the fun
Why do people watch this?
it's fun, down to earth, no forced politics or social commentary, low stakes, very well made with characters who have faults but are sympathetic, something that is very rare and refreshing these days
also maybe one or two episodes have yelling in the kitchen
All shitposting aside this show is unironically really fricking good and the most accurate portrayal of what it’s like to grieve the loss of an addict close family member I’ve ever seen personally
I used to work in an understaffed kitchen of a shitty restaurant and I went nuts. Probably didn't help that I was already nuts but man that job fricking sucked. I ended up getting so frustrated that I thought about murdering my coworkers daily until one day I had a complete mental breakdown. I growled like an animal and my hands turned into little moron claws and I couldn't move them anymore, I quite literally acted like the bear. I think I went through pretty much every mental breakdown/panic attack cliché possible, shit was a completely unhinged scene. Never showed my face there again.
I watched the show because of this meme and it wasn't even like this. Disappointing.