I like my butt rubbed and my pork pulled.
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Fun game: Chef or No Chef
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The Cen-Tex Smoker
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I’ll start (no googling please):
Gordon Ramsay- chef or no chef?
Gordon Ramsay- chef or no chef?
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What happened to @Woodchunk ? He used to throw the Buffalo stampede footage all the time.South of Columbus, Ohio.
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Chef or No Chef?
I like my butt rubbed and my pork pulled.
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He did not attend culinary school though...500 said:Gordon is a chef
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Oh. So, technically not a chef.The Cen-Tex Smoker said:
He did not attend culinary school though...500 said:Gordon is a chefI like my butt rubbed and my pork pulled.
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Everyone calls him chef on tv though?500 said:
Oh. So, technically not a chef.The Cen-Tex Smoker said:
He did not attend culinary school though...500 said:Gordon is a chefSouth of Columbus, Ohio. -
Tom Colicchio?"I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
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Seems very chefyJohnInCarolina said:Tom Colicchio?Keepin' It Weird in The ATX FBTX -
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Thomas Keller?"I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
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Need to see it on a blue plateEggdicted_Dawgfan said:
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WinningEggdicted_Dawgfan said:Keepin' It Weird in The ATX FBTX -
Can you win a James Beard award if you haven’t been to culinary school? Asking for a patio furniture salesman..."I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
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Never heard of himJohnInCarolina said:Thomas Keller?Keepin' It Weird in The ATX FBTX -
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It’s all fun and games until the douchecanoe shows up."I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
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Here’s one: Aaron Franklin."I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
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Perhaps a third category.?.?.?. BBQ chef???JohnInCarolina said:Here’s one: Aaron Franklin.Go Gamecocks!!!
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Anthony Bourdain
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Gordon Ramsey missed his True Calling in Life: he should've voiced the navigation devices in our cars.
"Turn right"
"I said, TURN RIGHT!"
"We MISSED the turn, you bloody sot! Now we're going to have to go around!"
_____________Remember when teachers used to say 'You won't have a calculator everywhere you go'? Well, we showed them.
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great example. Went to culinary school but worked in a sh-t restaurant as a line cook. Is a line cook a chef? I say yes but he wouldn’t.FarmingPhD said:Anthony Bourdain
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If a person goes to culinary school, or is certified, they are technically a chef, by definition.They might absolutely suck at cooking. No guarantees.
If an untrained person is referred to as a chef out of respect by the staff, bc he (or she) is acting as a chef de cuisine, running the show etc etc, then they are a chef.If a person struts around demanding to be called “chef”, and neither of the two conditions above are met, they are an adze hole.Some people hang their hat on technicalities and gotchas.Some people show deference and respect.
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From Apple's dickshunary:
Chef | Shef | noun
a professional cook, typically the chief cook in a restaurant or hotel. verb (chefs, cheffing, cheffed)
informal work as a chef: he cheffed on a yacht in the Riviera for two years.
ORIGIN early 19th century: French, literally ‘head’.
Botch here: no mention of degrees, training, certificates or t-shirts. And regarding the term "professional", that means you got paid to do it. I am a professional musician, I've been paid to make noise for strangers for 38 years. Do I have a degree in Music? No. Do I have training, certificates, or t-shirts? Yes. Am I any good? Hell no.
Am I an engineer? Yes, I have 3 degrees, and that's the work I do (did). Am I a PE? No, that requires a test, that I've never taken, but wasn't required by the USAF, nor any guv'mint contractors; I'd probably need it to freelance, but that depends on the hiring organization._____________Remember when teachers used to say 'You won't have a calculator everywhere you go'? Well, we showed them.
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I can’t figure out chefs. what’s a cook?Chicago, IL - Large and Small BGE - Weber Gasser and Kettle
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Dictionaries tell us general *usage*. Descriptive, not proscriptive.It is entirely possible to be (by way of example) correctly and properly referred to as an architect/engineer/chef/cobbler without being a *registered* architect/engineer/chef/cobbler.Flip side:
But it is a real legal issue if you refer to yourself *professionally* as an architect or registered engineer, and you are not.It’s all relative. It all depends on context.At a cocktail party, it’s easier for me to say “i’m an architect”. But I would not hang out my shingle as such (for a number of reasons).Buddy of mine thinks it’s a big deal he got registered as an architect and I didn’t. He has, in 30 years, designed nothing. I had maybe $2-3 billion of projects under my belt before I bagged it. Buildings I can walk into, drive by, and which aren’t in danger of collapsing.
He’s a “Registered Architect”. While I spent my time designing buildings and helping get them built.Also: I had zero liability.That was fifteen years ago. Now I don’t even play that game.My father was a “company engineer”. Not a licensed engineer.Which means he designed, drafted, manufactured, and tested semiconductors and their housings.And then some licensed engineer stamped the drawings.Proof of the pudding is under the crust.
Chef or not, he is the mayor of Flavortown. 
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