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I think his references to weight are a bit vague. What I get from the piece is that when he says 'fat' he literally means it, not necessarily overweight but wit
by electromagnetic 16y ago
I think his references to weight are a bit vague. What I get from the piece is that when he says 'fat' he literally means it, not necessarily overweight but with a ludicrous body-fat percentage.
I grew up in England, I visited a lot of bakeries and nearly all of them had several large kids in the back working. Not fat but a sort of padded-muscular. Similarly this is what I've seen in most restaurants since I moved to Canada.
Perhaps his comments hold true to, like he said, really high-end restaurants, but in my experience they don't serve food they're serving a garnish on an inedible ceramic surface. When you're lifting dishes into an oven that only weigh a fraction of a pound, of course you're going to be whippet-thin, you could be the anorexic king and still be able to lift those plates with grace.
If anyone's watched any of Gordon Ramsey's shows, you see him truly move with things a lot of the lean-contestants struggle like hell with. Why? Because he's 210lbs, he's well built. He's literally ran around the kitchen doing everyone's job when it's an emergency. He also serves dishes that the plate doesn't weigh more than the food.
- maxawaytoolong 16y agoI used to work as both a line cook and a pantry "chef." The pantry person is the guy who puts the scoop of ice cream on the baker's pies. Thus, I am familiar with bakers. The bakers usually start out small but end up ENORMOUS.
- electromagnetic 16y agoI wonder if this is a case of building endurance. If your work level doesn't increase dramatically (IE you have to carry say 5 bags of flour, 3 bags of sugar, etc. several times a day every day from day 1 to day 3651) you're eventually going to build the right combination of muscle to minimize the expenditure of energy. I know there's a term in exercise for this, but I work in construction so I get about 8 hours of vigorous exercise a day, so I've never been interested in going to a gym and doing more repetitive tasks than my day job and actually cost me money.
- maxawaytoolong 16y agoI would think it's more a case of eating 8000 calories worth of cakes and pies every day...
- miked 16y agoThe bakers usually start out small but end up ENORMOUS. Another data point for discussions of low-carb diets.