/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19483019

Don’t listen to this idiot, go with the chicken place. Fast food/diner places are amazing for getting your bearings on working in a kitchen, the one I worked in was amazing and I made a lot of good friends.

As far as what it’s like working in kitchens, it really varies. My advice, stay away from fine-dining and stick to more casual places. DEFINITELY stay away from hotels, they’re shitholes to work in.

If cooking is just something you’re looking to do for the bag and funzies, then find a casual place and you’ll be all good. If you’re looking to genuinely pursue it as a career, I would only advise it if you’re ready to sacrifice your social/personal life and be autistic as fuck about the job because further up the ladder you go, the more autistic and pretentious the chefs you work with are and demand a lot from you.

I personally walked away from a kitchen recently because I couldn’t handle how much time with my girlfriend the job took away from me.

Also I underestimated just how seriously the chefs took their job. To me, it was just about the check and the work was a consequence towards that end but these old gnarled bastards were autistic as fuck about being a chef to the point where they were more than okay with having it sabotage their personal life by barely giving them time to see their families. I realised I didn’t want that to be me, so I bounced.

I mean you’ll see for yourself though how much you like it and if you see yourself pursuing it more seriously. Personally I wouldn’t advise it as a career unless you’ve got literally no other passions in life to pursue.

You’re overworked, you’re underpaid, you have no real time to yourself, you have to contend with small-dicked old bastards who hate their life so they take it out on other people, and you risk not only bodily harm but also mental, hospitality industry is notorious for its rates of depression and suicidality

>>19464068

I think because the nature of the job is so hectic while also requiring the workers in it to exert great control over their station, it just attracts neurotic people. A lot of chefs lead kind of shitty lives and the kitchen is like the one place where they have total control over their environment.

Bc let’s be real, people who are dedicated to the career obviously don’t like their lives considering how much time they have to spend in the workplace. I realised life in the kitchen wasn’t for me when spending more time with my partner and generally having free time was a point of contention for my head chef.

What you’ll find is that chefs prefer their time spent in the kitchen as opposed to outside, being with their families or partners during the free time they have and shit. And the only way you can enjoy such an arrangement is if your life is well, shit.