when did being a chef become a badass occupation?

[b i o n i c]

theyre all rock 'n roll and shit.. this isnt how i remember chefs when i worked in kitchens

they've all got either faux-hawks, wear bandannas, have piercings, or just plain act like badasses...
on hells kitchen everyone smokes with bravado during the breaks.

when did this happen? splain me dis

[kaiser soze]

The mohawk is the new hairnet (y)

[jabumbo]

half of them ended up there because they couldn't get another job looking as shit as they do.

[Myu-to]

Ever since Steven Segal was a cook in Under Seige.

[Schmeltz]

I've worked in kitchens for many years and have seen my fair share of hawks, bandanas, and piercings... also tattoos, heavy drug and alcohol use, and a definite inclination to the heavier end of the musical spectrum. I think it has less to do with being a badass, and more to do with the sort of people who gravitate to an industry that pairs long hours and high-stress, high-intensity labour with really low remuneration and social status. You'd have to be crazy to want to cook for the whole of your life, and the people who do it are therefore given to certain extremes in their behaviour and appearance.

Y'all should check out Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain. The stuff you see on Hell's Kitchen is nothing new, Bourdain was shooting up and cursing people out with vigour decades before reality TV. It definitely takes a certain kind of person to cook commercially for longer than a few years.

[Documad]

I don't understand the smoking. It kills your tastebuds. Chefs shouldn't smoke. My mom put loads of onions in everything because she had no tastebuds.

[taquitos]

i work ina high-stress kitchen with assholes and i drinkand do drugs count me in!!!

[b i o n i c]

so you guys all rock n roll then?

[Nuzzolese]

I know when I get into my own little kitchen to cook, I tend to start cursing and getting angry and aggressive. Sometimes I wonder why I enjoy cooking and baking so much when I always get so worked up over it - especially when I'm alone. I start to get frustrated over the quality of my knives and pans, I get further irritated over the quality of ingredients when I think about how much I paid for them, I become pissed off with my lack of workspace and how I'm making such a mess. Then I get downright furious when I start running out of time and then realize I'm all out of parchment paper or something. Fuck it.
It is what it is.

[Kid Presentable]

Getting in with the chef is priority one at any hospitality type gig. Drugs, free meals, not being a target for their pre-menstrual ire etc etc

[wanton wench]

i work with a badass chef :D

[b i o n i c]

The mohawk is the new hairnet (y)

the hairnet is the new bandana

[b i o n i c]

half of them ended up there because they couldn't get another job looking as shit as they do.

you;ve burned the risotto!

[b i o n i c]

Ever since Steven Segal was a cook in Under Seige.

i think we'd see much more of the macho ponytail mane look goin, the squinty kind

[b i o n i c]

I think it has less to do with being a badass, and more to do with the sort of people who gravitate to an industry that pairs long hours and high-stress, high-intensity labour with really low remuneration and social status.

name another blue collar industry that doesnt have that

[b i o n i c]

I don't understand the smoking. It kills your tastebuds. Chefs shouldn't smoke. My mom put loads of onions in everything because she had no tastebuds.

datsa how dey makah da spiciest meata ballsa!

[b i o n i c]

i work ina high-stress kitchen with assholes and i drinkand do drugs count me in!!!

it was always more fun to watch the patrons get twisted i think

[b i o n i c]

I know when I get into my own little kitchen to cook, I tend to start cursing and getting angry and aggressive. Sometimes I wonder why I enjoy cooking and baking so much when I always get so worked up over it - especially when I'm alone. I start to get frustrated over the quality of my knives and pans, I get further irritated over the quality of ingredients when I think about how much I paid for them, I become pissed off with my lack of workspace and how I'm making such a mess. Then I get downright furious when I start running out of time and then realize I'm all out of parchment paper or something. Fuck it.
It is what it is.

i love and hate that too but i dont cut my hair every sunday bbq for it

[b i o n i c]

Getting in with the chef is priority one at any hospitality type gig. Drugs, free meals, not being a target for their pre-menstrual ire etc etc

the best is when they make somethin for you special and keep it warm under the hot lights(y)

[b i o n i c]

i work with a badass chef :D

is it the face piercings?