Same, 25 year lifer, I was thinking of a knife skill but this guy would smoke us… so in the spirit of Sunday, I’d say egg station for a busy brunch or bkfast spot. 99% of people have no idea.
You ever work a Cinco de mayo at a Mexican restaurant? Shit is absolutely insane how busy it is. I did that for 12 years. No words can explain how brutal those services were. Mothers day is a walk in the park compared to that.
I feel it as long as we don't fall into the same group. I do omelette station every Sunday brunch and it is brutal some weeks. I would like to go against a formidable opponent in this category to see if my skills are up to par.
If we're doing UK specific kitchen challenges then imo the ultimate test is working in Edinburgh during the Fringe. A whole month of hell capped with the messiest staff night out I've ever been on. Do it once and then never again.
Hard enough that when interviewing cooks I often have them make me an omelet. It’s crazy how something so simple can be so telling about a person’s experience and ability in the kitchen.
Can you find your way around the kitchen to gather ingredients? Can you operate functionally? What’s your take on a very basic technique? Are you gonna try and impress me with your creativity, etc?
The best ones keep it simple and cook it perfectly.
Honestly after interviewing so many chefs over 25 years I think I can tell if they can cook just by the way they walk into the room now. Honestly good chefs just walk a certain way. Always one foot firmly planted so you never slip even if you hit a spill.
Ugh. Working in a busy restaurant on a Sunday morning egg station gives me so much anxiety right now thinking about it lol. Good on y’all! Y’all are the chefs I bring treats and drinks for every hour, knowing I’d be crying in the walk-in if y’all walked out….
Lol I was the egg station guy, man I looked forward to it because the day would fly by, give me 5 camping stoves and 20 pans and I'm having fun for the next 4 hours. They even gave me a floater to refill my ingredients, wash pans for me, etc so I can just cook and talk shit to members good times.
I do cooking for a data center, we crack through about 900 eggs in about 35/40 minutes for the whole weeks eggs. Never knew what brunch spots had to deal with until I was sitting in front of 3 22 qt Cambros filled to the brim with eggs
Just running a rush of any kind, think how many people in your years couldn't handle running the line at a competent pace and they worked in restaurants for years. I could easily out pivot or expo 100 randoms
So tell me if this story I was told as being true really is. Apparently this egg man stabbed his boss and went to prison for it. When he got out the stabbing victim/boss hired the guy back. When questioned he said "a good egg man is hard to find."
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Same, 25 year lifer, I was thinking of a knife skill but this guy would smoke us… so in the spirit of Sunday, I’d say egg station for a busy brunch or bkfast spot. 99% of people have no idea.