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The Era of the Line Cook

48 points by tintinnabula 2y ago

vanburen 2y ago
https://archive.ph/8x3LK https://archive.ph/8x3LK
- rrr_oh_man 2y ago
  upvote for both the username and the public service
  - kevinsync 2y ago
    I'm holding up 8 fingers right now to avoid the wrath of the Van Buren Boys
    - rrr_oh_man 2y ago
      Hahaha, there’s more to that than Seinfeld :-)
- deepfriedrice 2y ago
  Someone should honestly script this. Assuming this is not already that
  - AlbertCory 2y ago
    just treat archive.ph as a 2nd level browser. if url doesn't work in the regular browser -- copy url into that. maybe add that as a feature request for Brave.
    - deepfriedrice 2y ago
      I just check the feature requests for the iOS client I’m using and this has been requested [1] …three years ago. [1] https://github.com/dangwu/Octal/issues/228 https://github.com/dangwu/Octal/issues/228
  - thecolorgreen 2y ago
    Not a script but if you're reading on phone with the Harmonic app, there's a "View on archive.org" button for every post. It works pretty well for me.
willcipriano 2y ago
What I hate about cooking is all the articles are focused on these top .1% of kitchens that have a completely different model from the rest of them. Example: Sunday morning breakfast service, the guys at your local diner will do say 500 plates during the rush. Swap them out with a few highly educated Michelin star guys and they would struggle to break 100 until they learned how to work in a real kitchen. Some of them would quit, I've seen tears in this situation before. Programming has a similar problem with most of the "day in the life of a programmer" sort of things being focused at big tech companies.
- slater 2y ago
  > Sunday morning breakfast service, the guys at your local diner will do say 500 plates during the rush. Swap them out with a few highly educated Michelin star guys and they would struggle to break 100 until they learned how to work in a real kitchen. You don't think "Michelin star guys" had to start as line cooks and could easily do 500 plates...?
  - willcipriano 2y ago
    Typically no. It's a different career path. They would start as the low guy in a big kitchen, probably go to culinary school as well, like this article is talking about.
    - giraffe_lady 2y ago
      My experience cooking at michelin contenders and a couple michelin star restaurants in the 2000s was that pretty much every single cook had started their career as a line cook or dishwasher at a no-prestige restaurant, even a chain. "Low guy in big kitchen" if you're talking about a locally notable restaurant is not a job available to people who don't already know their way around a kitchen. The two normal paths both start from cooking as "just a job" in or right after high school, decide you want to do it seriously. And then either go to culinary school or beg your way into a better kitchen and start grinding your up way. It was about 50/50, I only ever ran into a handful of people who went straight into culinary school with no experience.
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48 points by tintinnabula 2y ago

vanburen 2y ago

https://archive.ph/8x3LK https://archive.ph/8x3LK

rrr_oh_man 2y ago
upvote for both the username and the public service
- kevinsync 2y ago
  I'm holding up 8 fingers right now to avoid the wrath of the Van Buren Boys
  - rrr_oh_man 2y ago
    Hahaha, there’s more to that than Seinfeld :-)
deepfriedrice 2y ago
Someone should honestly script this. Assuming this is not already that
- AlbertCory 2y ago
  just treat archive.ph as a 2nd level browser. if url doesn't work in the regular browser -- copy url into that. maybe add that as a feature request for Brave.
  - deepfriedrice 2y ago
    I just check the feature requests for the iOS client I’m using and this has been requested [1] …three years ago. [1] https://github.com/dangwu/Octal/issues/228 https://github.com/dangwu/Octal/issues/228
- thecolorgreen 2y ago
  Not a script but if you're reading on phone with the Harmonic app, there's a "View on archive.org" button for every post. It works pretty well for me.

willcipriano 2y ago

What I hate about cooking is all the articles are focused on these top .1% of kitchens that have a completely different model from the rest of them. Example: Sunday morning breakfast service, the guys at your local diner will do say 500 plates during the rush. Swap them out with a few highly educated Michelin star guys and they would struggle to break 100 until they learned how to work in a real kitchen. Some of them would quit, I've seen tears in this situation before. Programming has a similar problem with most of the "day in the life of a programmer" sort of things being focused at big tech companies.

slater 2y ago
> Sunday morning breakfast service, the guys at your local diner will do say 500 plates during the rush. Swap them out with a few highly educated Michelin star guys and they would struggle to break 100 until they learned how to work in a real kitchen. You don't think "Michelin star guys" had to start as line cooks and could easily do 500 plates...?
- willcipriano 2y ago
  Typically no. It's a different career path. They would start as the low guy in a big kitchen, probably go to culinary school as well, like this article is talking about.
  - giraffe_lady 2y ago
    My experience cooking at michelin contenders and a couple michelin star restaurants in the 2000s was that pretty much every single cook had started their career as a line cook or dishwasher at a no-prestige restaurant, even a chain. "Low guy in big kitchen" if you're talking about a locally notable restaurant is not a job available to people who don't already know their way around a kitchen. The two normal paths both start from cooking as "just a job" in or right after high school, decide you want to do it seriously. And then either go to culinary school or beg your way into a better kitchen and start grinding your up way. It was about 50/50, I only ever ran into a handful of people who went straight into culinary school with no experience.

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