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Posted: Feb 17 2011 08:18 pm

Just curious to know if there is anyone else on the forums that cooks for a living, has anyone gone to school? going to school? works in fine dining? casual dining?

I personally am in my apprenticeship and work at a Casual Dining Restaruant "Moxies" for all the other Canadians and I am getting a second interview at Madisons Grill in the Union Bank Inn which is a very high regarded fine dining restaurant

so who else loves to cook???

Posted: Feb 17 2011 08:22 pm

Not a professional, but I LOVE to cook and I haven't killed anyone yet!

Posted: Feb 17 2011 09:20 pm

Id talk to Greg im preety sure he cooks for a living

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

I both hate and love cooking.

I hate prep and cleaning and I hate waiting for things in the oven... However, there is something about cooking a good meal that is enjoyable to me. I think if I enjoyed food more, I would try to cook more often. I definitely eat to live, not live to eat.

Posted: Feb 17 2011 11:16 pm

I can work the microwave.

Joined: Jan 14 2011 Posts: 107

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Posted: Feb 17 2011 11:28 pm

Kabuki chefs piss me off, all they're doing is frying stuff on a giant skillet. Sure they distract you from the fact by throwing knives and shrimp tails everywhere, and the beer is nine dollars a damn bottle, but still, I can fry stuff too ya know! Mad

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

I'm supposed to be getting into the cooking biz in a few months. I don't really enjoy it though. I just want the money.

my best friend does it though, and so did a girl I dated a while back.

Posted: Feb 18 2011 12:10 am

Cooking meth doesn't count.

Posted: Feb 18 2011 12:12 am

Blackout wrote:

I can work the microwave.

I'am not that gifted. I usally work the fast food counter.

Posted: Feb 18 2011 12:14 am

I've never worked fast food, it's not really like the horror stories I hear about balls on big macs and tainted tacos is it? Confused

Posted: Feb 18 2011 12:16 am

i ate a cursed blueberry muffin once but that's all.

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

Blackout wrote:

I've never worked fast food, it's not really like the horror stories I hear about balls on big macs and tainted tacos is it? Confused

when I worked at pizza hut I got head from a coworker in the cooler where we keep all of the food that we serve you. When I worked at mcdonalds, people would drop things, pick them up, and toss them back in with the other stuff.

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

Blackout wrote:

Cooking meth doesn't count.

well then i rescind.

Posted: Feb 18 2011 01:07 am

I don't really love to cook, but I enjoy making potato dishes a lot. I really like potatoes, so I make them all the time. Chili cheese fries, potato skins, mashed potatoes, etc. Other than that I can handle the basics like roasts, pasta, and cooking meat in a skillet.

Posted: Feb 18 2011 05:06 am

Yes.

I cook and work in a restaurant. I have been in the business for several years now.

Didn't go to school for cooking, but have been doing it for a while. I try to cook at my house when I can as well. I have done fine dining and corporate and am now at this small little place which isn't too bad.

You can check it here. http://www.portabellos.net/

Posted: Feb 18 2011 05:17 am

I've worked in kitchens and fast food, but never cooking. I love to cook in my free time though. This last week I had a dinner party and made chicken cordon bleu for 10 people. It was bitchin.

Joined: Jun 29 2010 Posts: 1818

Well, for those of you who can't cook, here's an easy recipe, taught in urban curvival classes (well, not really, but it totally should)
The Turnabout

Ingredients:
- Leftovers from up to 7 days ago

Instructions:
-Put leftovers in a frying pan
-Put said frying pan over a fire source Razz

- Turn the ingredients about

Very Happy

Posted: Feb 18 2011 07:51 am

[quote="FNJ"]

Blackout wrote:

When I worked at mcdonalds, people would drop things, pick them up, and toss them back in with the other stuff.

That's not true. At least it wasn't when I worked at McDonald's. All the spit, balls, and jizz stories you hear are just urban legends - nobody does that.

I did get laid in the women's restroom once though. I guess there is something very sexual about fast food.

Anyway, I cook often for my family and had a job for three years as an appetizer chef for Fat's in Sacramento (high end gourmet Chinese food restaurant chain). I'm studying baking now and would love to get a job doing that.

Before I got that restaurant job, I considered going to cooking school, but you don't really need it. I didn't anyway. Just keep an eye out for new restaurants opening up and go apply early and often. They'll usually hire people who have no cooking experience at all because it's pretty easy to train someone to do a few different dishes. Then just work hard and you'll be promoted in a few years when they've seen that you can be trusted.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

I worked in kitchens from when I was about 17 till 23. I started of washing dishes to have extra money, learned to prep everything to get a pay raise and started working behind the line in about 2 months. Easy peasy, then I moved on to a really nice place called Bistro on Main in downtown Lexington, really fancy shit. It wasn't my cup of tea but I stuck with it for a couple years. Making expensive pasta dishes and fish, steak, etc. is honestly infinitely easier than any other work I've ever done.

The high point was when one of the cute waitresses was like "Hey, there is a celebrity out there." And I just shrugged it off, because we had Maria Shriver and Bill Maher (douche) in there a few times and it didn't phase me but she said he wanted to congratulate the chef on making his meal. It was David Byrne from Talking Heads. He came back and thanked me and shook my hand and I almost shit my pants. I kept my cool though.

Joined: Mar 13 2009 Location: Arlington Posts: 467

I never worked in the food service industry but in the last 2-3 years, I've really learned how to cook and I love doing. Last night I made pork shoulder ribs and a Jack Daniels glaze from scratch.

If anyone wants a fun reciepe, this was the first one that really turned me on to cooking.

http://www.chocodog.com/chocodog/sauce2.htm

Posted: Feb 18 2011 11:14 am

EPIC MEAL TIME.

That's the only cooking instructions you will ever need.

http://www.youtube.com/user/EpicMealTime

Posted: Feb 18 2011 12:38 pm

joshwoodzy wrote:

The high point was when one of the cute waitresses was like "Hey, there is a celebrity out there." And I just shrugged it off, because we had Maria Shriver and Bill Maher (douche) in there a few times and it didn't phase me but she said he wanted to congratulate the chef on making his meal. It was David Byrne from Talking Heads. He came back and thanked me and shook my hand and I almost shit my pants. I kept my cool though.

I had John Woo (he was scouting Sacramento as a potential location in his next movie) and Tyra Banks (she was dating one of the Sacramento Kings) come into the restaurant during a couple of my shifts. Also had various other Kings players come in at different times but that's not all that exciting to me.

Posted: Feb 18 2011 01:43 pm

Maybe the disgusting stuff that happens is an urban legend at one particular McDonalds, but I've actually never had a pickle since 1999 when I was working at the Burger King at the Airport Road shopping center in Coatesville PA. One of my aggrieved co-workers had apparently urinated in the pickle bucket at the start of prep and proceeded to put it out where it was served to customers until he told me about it. It didn't make the news because it wasn't reported, but that's only one of the repugnant things I've experienced first-hand. I don't work in food anymore, and I thank God daily for that fact.

Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

I'm not really a chef, seeing as it's only fast food that I make. However, I do love to cook. So yay!

And aeonic, that's fucking disgusting. That restaurant must not have been monitored a lot, because if shit like that happened at the McDonalds I work at, we would know about it in about 3 seconds and whoever did it would be given their pink slip in the next five.