/ck/ - Food & Cooking

"People who order their meat well-done perform a valuable service for those of us in the business who are cost-conscious: they pay for the privilege of eating our garbage. In many kitchens, there’s a time-honored practice called “save for well-done.” When one of the cooks finds a particularly unlovely piece of steak—tough, riddled with nerve and connective tissue, off the hip end of the loin, and maybe a little stinky from age—he’ll dangle it in the air and say, “Hey, Chef, whaddya want me to do with *this*?” Now, the chef has three options. He can tell the cook to throw the offending item into the trash, but that means a total loss, and in the restaurant business every item of cut, fabricated, or prepared food should earn at least three times the amount it originally cost if the chef is to make his correct food-cost percentage. Or he can decide to serve that steak to “the family”—that is, the floor staff—though that, economically, is the same as throwing it out. But no. What he’s going to do is repeat the mantra of cost-conscious chefs everywhere: “Save for well-done.” The way he figures it, the philistine who orders his food well-done is not likely to notice the difference between food and flotsam." - Anthony Bourdain

>Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a Negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check-in on your friends. Check-in on yourself. Enjoy the ride.

>>19347056
>Why did we watch that show? Admit it. You wanted him to die.
it's a "anthony projects his own insecurities on other people" interivew

I miss him bros...

What’s your thoughts on him?

I fucking miss him

I miss this nigga like you wouldnt believe. I hope lokks down upon us from heaven smiling. Normalcy won.

I still miss this fucking dude to this day. He did more for food culture than anyone else.

It still hurts

i miss him bros

He had a new family, fame, and money. Why did he do it?

Tonight, I don my apron and knife for you. Happy birthday, Tony. I miss you more than anyone could ever know.

>>12226549
Saved

I never got to say goodbye

>>11542907
Apparently, it wasn't for pic related

>>11210835
I'm implying you'd suck this dead and bloated boomer bone until your mouth bled, faggot.

this fella showed me the world, wish i could have been there for him. rest easy mate.

For a Hunter S Thompson-esque guy like, suicide was the only way to go. Good night, succulent prince.

F

Kitchen Confidential is my favorite book of all time but goddamn do I hate what he's become recently

Bourdain certainly thought Denver was the most barren food wasteland in the country.

Chefs you would love to beat to death