/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>mfw I did and I never want to do it again

>>4788443
I have. It was a terrible experience. Everyone was angry and embittered all the time. The manager was crazy and flipped out all the time and bitched out anyone and anything. He'd get red faced like 6 times a day. I worked there 1 week and decided I didn't need to work around complete moron nor be verbally assaulted everyday or listen to other people be verbally assaulted every day.

I sought out other places, but instead of just going and getting an application or turning in a resume, I instead just talked to the people working at those places. I soon learned that sort of shitty behavior was very common place. So, I said, fuck it, and never worked in a kitchen again.

Proving you wrong.
Also home cookery and commercial are very different.

>mfw a mcdonalds fry cook looks down on people for not emulating his life choices

Does anyone here know what a McAlister's is, and/or has been to one? Because there's one on my school campus and I work there, it really opened my eyes as to restaurants and the like. The food is basically prepared exactly like fast food... but people pay sit-down restaurant prices for it... it sickens me. It's literally prepared the same way I prepared food while working for Taco Bell.

>>4788454
>that satisfied feel when the McDonald's manager envies you and your freedom when you quit and start your own small business and you look more healthy and well rested than he could ever be

The only reason I'd go have a meal at that place was to gloat.

>>4788443
>mfw I never wanted to

>>4788464
I keep telling people this on /ck/, but they don't believe me. They don't believe me when I tell them that most of the food comes from the same packing plants even though they are a family restaurant or fast food joint.

I actually just quit my job of two years as a line cook, because fuck that bullshit.

Why the fuck would I want to work in a kitchen? Sounds like a terrible job

>You're a good cook, anon! You should be a chef!

I enjoy cooking for my friends and family on my town time/terms. I think being told what to cook and when would be super depressing.

>>4788501
It's a passion

>>4788443
You could think that, but you'd be wrong.

>60-80 hour workweeks, no weekends, no holidays
>shit pay
>on your feet in uncomfortable clothes in a 100 degree kitchen all day
>all your coworkers are impatient assholes or foul-mouthed mexicans
>come home covered in and smelling like oil every day, no amount of showers can remove the stench
>the smell of the dishwashing station is forever permanently seared into your memory
>you can no longer stand to even look at the dishes you most frequently prepare
>can't even fucking eat the food you make

>>4788546
grow some balls man

>>4788546
Stop being a bitch

My first job when I was 15 was at McDonalds

I enjoy cooking but working in the food industry fucking sucks.

>>4788550
>>4788557
How is wanting to be successful and paid well being a bitch?

and most people on /g/ have no idea what an actual IT job would entail

and most people who enjoy cars as a hobby have no idea how it is to work in a car manufacturing facility

what is your point, again? there are plenty of great cooks who don't work in restaurants for their living.

>>4788566
We are talking about kitchens not processing plants

>>4788443
>most of you never worked in a commercial kitchen
Yeah, and your point would be?

Captcha: AVOID xfbstab

>>4788495
>receive compliment
>get angry

>>4788443
my grandma never worked in a commercial kitchen and she is a better fuckin cook than you cunt

>>4788674
If someone gives that statement as a compliment to you, they might as well just kick you in the nuts too.

Being a chef or trying to be a chef is one of the worst jobs in the world for someone that actually likes cooking.

>>4788713
I fucked ur grandma in the kitchen

>>4788550
>>4788557

>"No thanks, I don't want an objectively shitty job."
>WOW WHAT A BITCH RIGHT GUYS

>>4788747
you're right. clearly they deal with the shit that is that job for the.... money?

>>4788762

Grandpa why are they letting you on 4chan at the home?

>>4788443
but thats wrong

I like cooking, I like making recipes.

would owning a restaurant be a career I might be interested in?
sure it would!

would I work in the kitchen?
HAHAHA fuck no

>>4788443
>throw bagel in toaster, check /ck/ while I'm waiting.
>come into this thread to call OP a faggot for thinking this makes his opinion superior
>forget about bagel while I'm replying
>burn the shit out of it
>MFW I was about to call a professional cook on a cooking board a faggot and I can't even toast a bagel correctly

>have experience in various jobs in various kitchens
>vow to never eat out again

>>4788443
but i do.

>>4788789
you don't have a toaster with a bagel setting?

lel pleb

>>4788767

they do it because they have no other qualifications mostly.

>>4788443
Gee, I'm sorry I appreciate cooking without having ever devoted 40+ hours a week doing it for other people.

I work in a commercial kitchen
I do 40 hour work weeks. 50-55 in our busy season
Sundays & mondays off
Home by 11 during the week & 1am on fridays & saturdays
Mostly white people except the 3 mexican dishwashers who are actually the hardest working guys in the kitchen
We start everyday by having dinner together created from leftover prep
We finish every night with a couple of beers
Most of us play poker once a week
We take trips to the farm & to food & wine fests
Last month some of us went to dinner at an event for the governor
A couple weeks ago the chef iinvitd us & our loved ones out to dinner as a thank you gesture
After about a year I'll be able to get a job in any kitchen due to the training they provide & the connections my chef & sous chef have. Our last pastry chef now works for Tom Colicchio, another works for Thomas Keller & another for Michael White
Yes the pay sucks but I absolutely love the work I do, the people I work for & especially the people I work with
It is a level of comraderie I have never known
There's a ton of shitty jobs in this industry but there are definitely some good ones out there

I worked in the kitchen of a nursing home and that was enough for me to realize I'll never work in the food business again.

>>4788906
Sounds like as dream job. What's the pay like?
if it's 15 or better, I would like a job there.

Does washing dishes count?

Because I am close enough that eavesdropping on the kitchen is pretty much all I have to do all day, and I sure have learned a lot about how restaurants work just by osmosis.

It seems interesting, but not the sort of thing I would want to do for life. Making food for large numbers of people is a totally different animal from cooking for myself, and I imagine that cooking in an upscale fancy restaurant is even more different from dinner chef-ing.

But my homemade steaks have been coming out better, so that is nice.

I was a chef at hardees when I was 16 and was the head doughnut chef at a caseys gas station at 19

>>4789035
Chef Ramsay?

>>4788780
one of the smart ones here who would like the own a restaurant but skip the dumb part where you learn the industry

10 year chef reporting in

every day i regret the path i've chosen in life

>>4789035
>caseys
muh niga

>>4789130

Im ten years in and I LOVE this shit.

>>4789130
confirmed for legit.

i was in for 7 years before i came to my senses and bailed.

got into finance industry but since rates shot up a few months ago the whole industry is going jittery again and i got laid off. fuck. i cant afford to go back to kitchen work though, the money is too shit.

>>4789128

Right? What's every single fucking episode of Kitchen Nightmares about?

Someone who liked cooking at home, thought it would be fun to run a restaurant THEIR WAY (without ever actually working in one), and then realized way too late that it's grueling, terrible work.

>>4789133
i submit that you are a psychopath. it's kind of necessary to run a kitchen. every day i see myself getting a little bit more "chef crazy"

and yes, the money is absolute shit, everybody is on drugs, and the work is somehow mind-numbingly repetative and bafflingly unpredictable every day.

the only way i'd continue to be a chef is if i could be a chef on some rich bastard's yacht

worked at an applebees

Quit to be a paperboy.

Now i have the biggest non-motor route in town, have a job that keeps me in shape and lets me sleep all day, earns me money to spend on fast food and video games. living the life

>>4789035
>chef at hardees

>mfw all of you are unemployed

>>4789144

It sounds like you work in a shitty restaurant with no protocols, man. I feel for you, I've worked in plenty of those, and it can be grueling, demoralizing work. If you ever get into a good restaurant with an adequate amount of organization, planning and resource management, it can be a revelatory experience. It might change your mind.

I do cooking as a fun thing. I know I'm probably not nearly good enough to do it in a fast paced job anyways. Why would I want to make something fun into a job I'd probably end up hating?

cooking is therapeutic for me. Helps me unwind after a long day.

doing it in a fast-paced restaurant situation would be the exact opposite.

>>4789171
i know man, i feel so therapeuticed when i stare at the microwave waiting for my ramen

>>4789178
Never eaten ramen, fortunately.

>>4789192
I'm so sorry

It's some of the best creations ever to exist

>>4789202

>>4789209
it is, I buy that stuff practically by the case. So much shit you can do with it and it just tastes so damn good. Sometimes I use 2 or 3 flavoring packets on one bowl

>>4788995
it aint

>>4789242
don't forget the sriracha

Im a kid whos always wanted to work in a kitchen. being a dishwasher/prep cook was fun. is being a cook really that bad? it looks good to me, do I have to find an 'exceptional' kitchen to even enjoy my job? jesus

>>4789330

It depends on what you want to get out of it. Being a cook is great when you're 17-20, since you make slightly more than you would in retail. You rarely have to wake up early, and if you're lucky you get to work with your bros. You get free food, a true feeling of camaraderie, and kitchens can generally be pretty fun.

When you start to want a little more out of your life, like a career, stability, insurance, being a line cook is fucking terrible.

>>4789209
>stare at picture for 10 seconds
>slowly realize Gomi's face is shooped on the other two guys