/ck/ - Food & Cooking

10/10 would eat

>>5261287

>is it because cooking just ends up feeling like a job?

Yeah that's pretty much exactly why

That's probably the case. Ever since I started working at a tv station, I've stopped watching tv. I just can't do it. I imagine some chefs feel the same.

Plus, there's the fact that being a chef is an exhausting job, and it's easier to pop a frozen pizza in the oven when you get home than to cook a good meal for yourself.

yeah you pretty much hit the nail on the head.

this is why you always hear about how you shouldn't turn your favorite hobbies into a career, because then they're no longer hobbies.

As someone who works in one of the top 5 restaurants in my state, yes. this is true in about 65% of the sous, and execs i know

>>5261287
this is my experience too with chefs

they spend all day cooking gourmet meals, and when they finally get off work they just want to get a big mac or s/t

Yep. As everyone else said its not uncommon. A huge portion of it for me is that i have no time/energy to cook at home.

Maybe they are not real chefs because a chef is passionate about food and will have a refined pallet, eating that kind of food everything would be soul destroying.

I was thinking maybe they just see it as work now, but if you really loved something you'd enjoy doing it for work or you would no longer do it for work if you felt you were beginning to hate it. If you now hate what you love there would be no point living.

When I worked in a tea house, I never wanted to drink tea, even though I love it.

I would spend all day near it, and even get drinks there sometimes (we got them for free for working there), but when I got home, I just didn't want it, even if I was thirsty, it didn't matter, I didn't want tea.

I would sometimes still make it, but it decreased greatly when I started working there.

>>5261287
Not for all Chefs a lot of them don't cook at home b/c they are too fucking tired. When I was lower in the ranks I had such a killer work load i was to tired to cook when I got home. Now my schedule is more relaxed so I do a lot of cooking at home.

im a chef and I order pizza like a motherfucker, in fact its my day off and ill probably order 1 today

>>5261370
underage b&

nothing's worse in the long run than turning your passion/favorite hobby into a job

Its because only foodies treat food like some sort of religion and treat even the most insignificant meals like its some sort of statement. Real chefs live in the real world and have no problems with get something cheap and fast sometimes

>>5261287
but why most of sous are alcoholics? It's a fucking mystery to me. Same as why there's always this situation, when it's quiet time in joint, then suddenly swarm of people start coming/calling one after another. It happened in all the places I've been working so far. Someone explain.

>>5261410
it's a rough job and that's how a lot of them decide to cope with it.

>>5261422
but I drank heavly even before starting to work in kichen. I mean, maybe most of us are just slobs who don't know what to do in life, so they stick with basic occupations like eating and drinking

>>5261438
.... if you are a slob how would you get to be a sous chef?

>>5261370

You can shove your tired cliches up your ass. There's no such thing as having such a deep love for cooking that you would enjoy spending 60 hours a week in a cramped 100-degree kitchen full of filthy Mexicans and drug-addled assholes.

Your high school advisor may tell you to find a job that you love so much that you'd willingly do it for free, but if such a job ever existed, people wouldn't pay you tens of thousands of dollars each year to do it.

>>5261438
I don't know about you man but I had to bust my ass be clean, respectable, totally dependable and be able to start handling financial responsibilities for the restaurant. I can't imagine doing that very well being out of my head drunk & a slob

>>5261466
I'm not a sous, just regular shitty italiano restaurant second chef or whatever you want to call it. But you good sir is raped hard by babylon, regardless your probably wonderful wages.
So I was projecting, I'm an alcoholic slob often high on amphetamines. Thank you.

>>5261494
>wonderful wages

lul not as much as you might think. So why do you cook for a living?

>>5261505
>wonderful
I was being ironic.
I thought I answered your question - I'm alcohol hopped on goofballs and it's destroying muh life. I'll be going now, we're inaugurating barbeque season with mates. Cheers.

>>5261520
I though you were bullshitting that's what line cooks do best lol