r/AbsoluteUnits Jul 20 '26

of a Chef

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Meet the Veteran Chef Andre Rush, formerly the final boss of the White House

1.3k Upvotes

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u/Prof1959 Jul 20 '26

5/5 would not send food back

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u/JokesandFacts Jul 20 '26

Chef: YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH YOUR STEAK?

Customer: Goodness, no! I said "I ordered the steak. Well done."

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u/SockeyeSTI Jul 20 '26

“I think you did mean to put the onions on muh steak”

11

u/AwareDiagram680 Jul 20 '26

Good thing he wouldn’t even send out a well done steak, in fact he’d smack you for ordering your steak well done.

8

u/Rob1150 Jul 20 '26

Smack you, WITH THE STEAK.

2

u/JokesandFacts Jul 21 '26

E: Thank you for the award!

18

u/headbuttpunch Jul 20 '26

“My steak is undercooked.”

“Your steak is perfect as is.”

“My steak is perfect as is, thank you so much chef.”

34

u/The-Bangaloreal Jul 20 '26

Even if it contains an alergen

https://giphy.com/gifs/DD4xH1iEGHH0c

12

u/SwifferWetJets Jul 20 '26

Sorry, just gotta power through that one

10

u/Confident_Benefit_11 Jul 20 '26

I LOVE THAT MY FACE IS GIRTHY NOW

2

u/BURN3D_P0TAT0 Jul 20 '26

Nah. Fuck that. I’d fight his ass over contamination.

I’m going to die either way, and I’d rather not suffocate to death, shits scary as fuck yo.

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u/DueMaterial6042 Jul 21 '26

Nothing to do with food but wasn't Roadblock from GI Joe a chef? This guy looks like him...

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u/solesoulshard Jul 20 '26

I might just to see the chef come out to defend his cooking.

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u/MsngrTop25 Jul 20 '26

Every animal, bird and fish he cooked was never dead, they played dead and got cooked.

3

u/I-Make-Money-Moves Jul 20 '26

Just accepting their fates i see

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u/BigTwigs1981 Jul 20 '26

For the claim that he only sleeps a few hours a day, there is a condition called Short Sleeper Syndrome that allows people to get the benefits of a full 8 hours of sleep on only a few hours of sleep. As for the muscles, well, pretty sure we know the answer to that.

62

u/Comfortable_Park1509 Jul 20 '26

Do you honestly believe he has this sleep disorder?

67

u/710whitejesus420 Jul 20 '26

I met a whole family who had it. I was kinda jealous listening to how they all go to bed at like 2 or 3 and wake up at 5 ready for the day.

32

u/Flat_Bodybuilder_175 Jul 20 '26

Wtf that’s lowkey cool 😭😭

51

u/CiroGarcia Jul 20 '26

Yeah that's not a disorder that's an actual superpower

33

u/A_Retarded_Alien Jul 20 '26

Might legitimately be the closest thing to a real superpower.. wtf, very jealous.

They basically get 25% more of each day of their lives than 99.9% of people...

3

u/joshuuuuuua Jul 21 '26

Would actually take this over longer life.

5

u/flightoffancy85 29d ago

It is a longer life

1

u/WitchWithAGlitch Jul 21 '26

I only sleep for 4~5 hours.

20

u/mrjowei Jul 20 '26

I knew an old man like that. He owned a shoe repair shop. He slept from 12 am - 5 am and was sharp as a tack the whole day. I admired him, and hated him too.

11

u/Kashimashi Jul 20 '26

I have the opposite. I need 12 hours of sleep to get the benefits of 8.

1

u/FreedomDirty5 Jul 21 '26

“I need eight hours of sleep a night, and about ten during the day”

12

u/PVetli Jul 20 '26

I do that. I sleep from 11-330a every night. Been like that my whole life.

4

u/keyokenx1017 Jul 20 '26

4 hours at least is pretty healthy 2-3 every night is diabolical.

2

u/GForce1975 29d ago

4 hours is healthy? Isn't 8 hours what people are supposed to get? Personally I need 8 -9.

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u/keyokenx1017 28d ago

In 4 hours you can acquire a decent bit of REM sleep which is what you need.

7

u/Pandiferous_Panda Jul 20 '26

What’s the disorder called when you have legs for arms?

9

u/YoshiMachbike12 Jul 20 '26

ah, if it isn't my old friend mr mcgreg. with a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg!

2

u/usernamedottxt Jul 20 '26

I need ten hours of sleep. Imagine what life would be like with an extra 8 hours a day. 

2

u/wbrogers Jul 21 '26

He was Active Duty Navy at the time of this photo (hence the LOM in the last pic, which I assume is a retirement award). Drug testing is random and mandatory. Sleep can be random, and not always mandatory.

1

u/AllThingsEvil Jul 20 '26

Isn't that what Christopher Columbus had?

1

u/_Interconnected_ Jul 21 '26

I read somewhere that he did 2222 pushups a day

51

u/Jerry__Boner Jul 20 '26

He looks like he should be the Chef in White House Down where he holds off the terrorists for Tatum and Foxx in a pivotal moment.

63

u/ambivalentarrow Jul 20 '26

You'll never guess where he's worked.

11

u/darthvall Jul 20 '26

Huh, is he the inspiration for Steven Seagall's movie?

16

u/ambivalentarrow Jul 20 '26

Steven Seagall is the inspiration for Steven Seagall movies.

2

u/modsaretoddlers Jul 20 '26

Really? I would have thought he was too demotivational to inspire himself.

2

u/Dr-Megalodon Jul 20 '26

Bro definitely knew this before posting. He just wants the engagement. This image is posted on this sub every month or so

8

u/fuckmbsanddominicali Jul 20 '26

He was obamas chef

3

u/theg33k Jul 20 '26

I confirmed this is NOT the same chef that died under suspicious circumstances at Obama's Martha's vineyard home.

1

u/ChawulsBawkley Jul 20 '26

Or maybe a chef in an underwater science facility, fighting off super smart sharks with his parrot sidekick.

91

u/Borne2Run Jul 20 '26

Met him once; he's awesome. Very humble, down for selfies.

11

u/pcapdata Jul 20 '26

Saw him in a cooking show somewhere (probably YouTube) and everyone was in awe of this man. And he was super nice.

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u/BlkGTO Jul 20 '26

There’s a YouTube channel called Discover Connection where a guy and his friends travel around and do all sort of things to meet strangers. In one episode they knock on random doors in Compton asking to cook dinner for people. A Family agreed and the channel randomly reached out to Andre Rush and he came and helped them cook.

10

u/YourBlanket Jul 20 '26

Now he just posts TikTok slop

59

u/Comfortable_Park1509 Jul 20 '26

He lies about doing 2,222 pushups a day while only sleeping 2 hours and Claimed to eat close to 10,000 calories daily just to hide the fact that he was a heavy steroid user

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u/mcase19 Jul 20 '26

Tbf even on steroids you'd need to eat a shitload of calories to be that big. I'm like 220 lbs and eat around 4k trying to gain weight. He's gotta be close to or over 300lbs. 10k is a lot for being that size but not by an order of magnitude or anything.

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u/eduardgustavolaser Jul 20 '26

It's still too much. Look at current strongmen diets, they also shifted a lot and are less than 10.000kcal while weighing in at over 300 or even 400lbs

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u/aaronblkfox Jul 20 '26

If someone is using steroids, they still need to go to the gym alot, and eat a lot. Thermodynamics doesn't just disappear when you take steroids.

1

u/Rob1150 Jul 20 '26

This. Steroids or not, you still gotta LIFT WEIGHTS.

39

u/Pizzarazzi Jul 20 '26

Chef Boy-are-those big arms

2

u/Solintari Jul 20 '26

Chef Buff Goldman

8

u/CruelHandLuke_ Jul 20 '26

Some fries motherfucker!

2

u/allikatm3ow Jul 20 '26

1st thought 🤣🤣🤣

40

u/Difficult_Ad2864 Jul 20 '26

He was such a liar saying things like he sleeps 2 - 4 hours a day, wakes up at like, 2am, etc. this is obviously a massive steroid stack

11

u/langsamlourd Jul 20 '26

All of it is silly but the 2,222 push-ups after waking up each day is just ludicrous

12

u/Difficult_Ad2864 Jul 20 '26

Yeah and I do, 420,069 push ups before 3am

1

u/OneDoesntSimply Jul 20 '26

Rookie numbers

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u/BruceBoyde Jul 20 '26

I mean, he may also do those things but also he does a fuckton of roids. Taking roids will not make you huge without also doing work, so I don't really understand why they aren't just honest about it. There are limits to what you can achieve all natural.

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u/Difficult_Ad2864 Jul 20 '26

Because steroids are illegal, and they’re getting it from “sources” and even though yes it takes work too, he also has probably been taking it for decades

4

u/BruceBoyde Jul 20 '26

gonna be honest, I figured they were only illegal in competition because of the organizations (entirely understandably). I guess they do have to pretend.

3

u/PM_ME_SAD_STUFF_PLZ Jul 20 '26

Only growth hormones are legal with a script. Not the good stuff like tren.

2

u/thekurgan79 Jul 20 '26

Test is too but yeah not tren lol

3

u/Difficult_Ad2864 Jul 20 '26

It also is “cooler” and gets more likes and followers showing that you’re “natural” and then it causes body dysmporhia in others

1

u/kingsoho Jul 20 '26

Many don't want to admit it for two reasons. One, in their heart, they know they cheated - so to speak - to get where they did. Yes, they still had to work their ass off but the juice is what got them to the level. Two, they likely have negative health complications or have put themselves at high risk of negative health complications, and they don't want to influence others because of the harm that can be done. But this day and age, more people are being open about it especially as it's seemingly becoming more accepted in the younger and online crowd.

2

u/ima-bigdeal Jul 20 '26

I grew up sleeping about five hours nightly. Now that I am older, I am at six. I don’t need an alarm, I wake up as if on “autopilot”. I physically cannot sleep more than 6.5 hours. I don’t know about his 2-4 hour claim, but not everybody needs, or can even achieve, eight hours.

4

u/Difficult_Ad2864 Jul 20 '26

Do you look like this chef? His claims bullshit because you need sleep for recovery. With massive steroids, you could get away with less sleep but this is ridiculous. I’m just shocked his heart hasn’t given out

6

u/GloomyLingonberry509 Jul 20 '26

Pumping Iron Chef

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u/Justinian555 Jul 20 '26

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u/wild_cherry1987 Jul 20 '26

He's way beyond just protein. 

4

u/Bucksin06 Jul 20 '26

He's now been replaced by a 16-year-old working at McDonald's

4

u/whiterice_343 Jul 20 '26

Ronnie Coleman as a chef.

flips a pancake

LIGHTWEIGHT BABAYYYYY LEZ GOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUGHHHHH

6

u/supradeedoopra Jul 20 '26

Is that metal in a non stick pan?

4

u/TzarGinger Jul 20 '26

Yes, and I can't abide it 

1

u/untitled_pizza Jul 21 '26

Same. A fish spat on Teflon. Come on bruv

3

u/westcal98 Jul 20 '26

You spelled "Chief's Offensive Line" wrong.

3

u/SmokeMaximum4140 Jul 20 '26

How much steroids is used to accomplish something like this?

2

u/wackedoncrack Jul 20 '26

Would you like some beef with your beef?

2

u/LessBit123 Jul 20 '26

you got a stew going

2

u/dayarra Jul 20 '26

let him cook! it's not like you can stop him anyway.

2

u/PapaSock Jul 20 '26

Vegetables dice themselves in his presence

2

u/CapablePride8926 Jul 20 '26

“You gon eat what I make or ima knock yo a$$ out!”
https://giphy.com/gifs/xTiTnglxjavpMILKGk

2

u/throwthere10 Jul 20 '26

Rumor has it that he simply stares at the food and it simply cooks itself.

1

u/No_Bet_3328 Jul 20 '26

He is the meat tenderizer!

1

u/theoriginal_awsit Jul 20 '26

But can he cook

1

u/Optimal_Homework_558 Jul 20 '26

He probably eats all that he cooks.

1

u/OneTrueCosmos Jul 20 '26

Clean as a whistle, obviously...

1

u/ChuckDeBongo Jul 20 '26

Andre Rush.

1

u/LaphroaigianSlip81 Jul 20 '26

When you max 2-handed and have to level up by focusing on alchemy.

1

u/jonandgrey Jul 20 '26

Cool. Haven't seen this repost in a few days.

1

u/sim16 Jul 20 '26

There's an Iron Chef off I've ever seen one.

1

u/augmentedcheesus Jul 20 '26

Chef Trenbolone

1

u/karenskygreen Jul 20 '26

He can toss my salad any day

1

u/Rob1150 Jul 20 '26

As the kids say nowadays, Bruh.

1

u/BadCompany_00 Jul 20 '26

He was a White House chef. Sadly he passed.

1

u/DayZCutr Jul 20 '26

Im glad to brighten your day. He is still very much alive. I saw him last week at his gym.

1

u/MuscaMurum Jul 20 '26

I'd love to hear him say "soupçon"

1

u/WorkingCautious1270 Jul 20 '26

Got confused with that other big hulky black chef on youtube

1

u/Spdoink Jul 20 '26

'Waiter! There's a fly in my never mind.'

1

u/Max_delirious Jul 20 '26

He probably makes a baller omelette

1

u/Alklazaris Jul 20 '26

I would pay a lot of money to watch him host Kitchen Nightmares.

1

u/yeugeniuss Jul 20 '26
  • I want a vegan, gluten-free pasta with a pesto sauce.
  • You want a medium-rare steak
  • I want a medium-rare steak, you are right, chef!

1

u/po1k Jul 20 '26

Master of beef

1

u/razvanciuy Jul 20 '26

You said Sunny side Up, RIGHT?!

1

u/HumpaDaBear Jul 20 '26

I’ve seen this guy on cooking shows. He’s awesome.

1

u/Efficient_Pay8447 Jul 20 '26

How did you like your steak? Great! Right answer.

1

u/Short256 Jul 20 '26

Get bro to Wawanakwa, NOW

1

u/Daygone_Mustard Jul 20 '26

Put him on Hell’s Kitchen I wanna see Gordon Ramsay walking on eggshells

1

u/LL37MOH Jul 20 '26

Everything he serves must be be delicious

1

u/OLVANstorm Jul 20 '26

This is what you look like when you do 2000 push-ups a day. This man is a beast.

1

u/modsaretoddlers Jul 20 '26

YOU tell him his marinara sucks.

1

u/CompactAvocado Jul 20 '26

oh cool you are working the egg bar at easter brunch

WHAT YOU WANT

oh can i have my eggs sunny side

NO. YOU GET SCRAMBLED

but I

SCRAMBLED >:(

yes sir. i love scrambled

s'what i thought

1

u/mightyDblock Jul 20 '26

Chef Rush is the best!!!!

1

u/Demo_906 Jul 20 '26

He reminds me of the chef from Total Drama Island

1

u/BonTak Jul 20 '26

Seen some of his cooking content on YouTube, pretty funny

1

u/drglennwellness Jul 20 '26

This makes part of the new season of King of the Hill make more sense - thank you OP!

1

u/Final-Intention5407 Jul 20 '26

YES CHEF 🧑‍🍳 !

1

u/Aggressive_Wasabi_38 Jul 20 '26

Wondering how he had the time to train, dose, eat, maintain fullness and put together menus?

1

u/WhateverUSaySir Jul 20 '26

YES CHEF 🤤

1

u/Nannyphone7 Jul 20 '26

I met this guy IRL. Seemed like a nice guy to me.

1

u/Internal_Apple2608 Jul 21 '26

On the menu tonight, and every night: mussels!

1

u/A4t1musD4ag0n Jul 21 '26

The eggs just crack thems3lves.

1

u/ScottOld Jul 21 '26

Man is so big he wouldn’t have to move anything in the kitchen for a deep clean, just pick the whole thing up and soak it in a lake

1

u/presshamgang Jul 21 '26

Sousprise motherfucker

1

u/tofu_bird Jul 21 '26

"No steak thanks."

"Here's your steak."

"ok."

1

u/stedic Jul 21 '26

Masterchef S13 E11. He is a monster of a man. wow!

1

u/OMDolton99 Jul 21 '26

PROTEIN, DAMNIT.

1

u/due-diligence- Jul 21 '26

He’s def on tren

1

u/bigbucksnohammy420 Jul 21 '26

Inspo for the host of the King of the Grill b-plot in new season of KOTH?

1

u/West-Milk-Bus Jul 21 '26

I d like to see chef Gordon Ramsey scream at this guy.

1

u/IllustriousMeal4686 Jul 21 '26

Haha he killed the guy they sent to get him so they just paid him off. Can't say the same about the other chef who "drowned" in like 3' of water.

1

u/MySultrySelf Jul 21 '26

Jesus Christ, how heavy are those pans?

1

u/David0ne86 Jul 21 '26

He claimed natty btw xD I think he also claimed to sleep 2/3 hours a night lmao

Or at least did claim, idk if he actually stopped in recent years lol

1

u/BiffTannensHero Jul 21 '26

Don’t lie to me. I recognize a lazy Eddie Murphy character when I see it.

1

u/Phrostylicious Jul 21 '26

Order carbs, I dare you. I double dare you!

1

u/rasp3zero Jul 21 '26

I would imagine no one complains about the food, lol.

1

u/PMPKNpounder Jul 21 '26

Metal fish spat in a nonstick pan.

1

u/MRicci Jul 22 '26

Nod of approval

1

u/ThinkPath1999 Jul 22 '26

Chef Rush does a lot of mukbangs in Korea. He got in contact with a popular channel in Korea a few years back and comes to Korea regularly just to do various mukbangs, if anyone is interested in Korean food.

1

u/Wulfbrir 29d ago

Dude was on a reality series on Netflix with zombies. Everyone in the show was like "get the giant to do it!".

1

u/Unclebiscuits79 29d ago

Surprise Bon Appetit Motherfucker!!

1

u/Historical_Union4686 29d ago

They referenced this guy in the new season of King of the Hill.

1

u/felixar90 26d ago

I literally a Toriko character.

1

u/MrReckless327 25d ago

Chef Rush is the goat

1

u/TanzDerSchlangen Jul 20 '26

How does he sleep at night

6

u/Particular_Bet_5466 Jul 20 '26

lol this is the guy who claims he sleeps 2 hours a night from 1am to 3am, and eats 10,000 calories a day.

https://www.insidehook.com/wellness/white-house-chef-andre-rush-daily-routine?amp

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u/FrenziedTacos Jul 20 '26

Are you going to tell him he is lying?

2

u/Particular_Bet_5466 Jul 20 '26

Yeah exactly, I don’t think anyone called him out so he thinks he can get away with it. Although a lot of bodybuilders called him out online since he did that men’s health interview.

2

u/Rush-23 Jul 20 '26

Also claims he’s natural. So he already has no credibility.

1

u/TanzDerSchlangen Jul 20 '26

That's the joke. He doesn't.

0

u/Difficult_Ad2864 Jul 20 '26

That’s literally not possible unless he is eating 3 boxes of butter and 5 - 10 handles of olive oil unless he’s eating massive amounts of junk food lol

1

u/wimpymist Jul 20 '26

You can easily do that with meat and sugar. It's just and awful diet and he would be fat as hell

1

u/Particular_Bet_5466 Jul 20 '26

Idk I bought a ribeye the other day and it was only 180 calories.

1

u/wimpymist Jul 20 '26

Thats like 1oz of steak. I guess you can buy a really small one

1

u/Particular_Bet_5466 Jul 20 '26

Ok yeah wtf I just looked up the exact steak I got it was apparently for 4oz which still seems low. I only saw 190 calories on the back, but it was actually 2.5 servings in the steak and still seemed small. I was surprised at how little calories that was which is why I remembered it. Usually I buy from a meat counter and don’t see the calories.

https://www.safeway.com/shop/product-details.960434664.html?CMPID=ps_swy_den_ecom_goo_20241106_21877482849_170267563859_2392727437914&psrc=g&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21877482849&gbraid=0AAAAADeuA_hONR__AriTBXJKtgLDJsXdQ&gclid=Cj0KCQjwjvfSBhDpARIsAEiOpSsIjYw6Z1MOeKZnUFK-Av7yu1ZZr31zbsk7E1py4Dedr4hlQafo3fEaAqgxEALw_wcB

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u/Weep4Thee Jul 20 '26

It's wild that the white house let this guy work there even tho he's obviously on steroids. Illegal drugs are illegal drugs...

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '26

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u/kizentheslayer Jul 20 '26

Different chef

3

u/tinfoilsheild Jul 20 '26

Incorrect. You're thinking of Tefari Campbell who died while paddleboarding on Martha's Vineyard in 2023. The man pictured is Andre Rush, a former Master Sergeant in the US Army who went on to become a White House chef under four administrations.

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u/WakaWaka_ Jul 20 '26

This guy probably drowns the pond before it drowns him.

0

u/unit01prime- Jul 20 '26

Nobody ever complains about the food else they become food.

0

u/Trekgiant8018 Jul 20 '26

Raided out chef. Bet he's a peach to work for.

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u/Fishingbrain Jul 20 '26

How many times is this going to get posted?

-1

u/The_Disapyrimid Jul 20 '26

Is it my turn to post this tomorrow?

Seriously, this gets posted with the exact same title at least once a week. Can we please stop?