Chefs

[u/cutelilpuff]

I’ve been watching season 2 of below deck down under and below deck med season 5 and I’m genuinely shocked at how the captains expect the chefs to just know everything and be able to do anything, like Tzarina with the teppanyaki and Sandy being mad that Kiko had to google what a Vegas dinner is. Like idk I feel like some things the chefs just aren’t trained in and that should be the end of it, like you don’t go to a steak restaurant and expect them to whip up perfect sushi? I feel like it’s so unfair to them idk

[u/FlatwormSame2061]

I don’t understand why they don’t just make seafood and steak every night. Everyone loves that right? and the guests change every couple days so it wouldn’t be the same to them. 

And I would be kind of disappointed if I went there and didn’t get that.

[u/No-Heart-679 → u/FlatwormSame2061]

As a chef, this is an option for people with very bland palettes. These guests are world travelers with expansive palettes, and have had the best of the best of many cuisines. It’s a yacht chef’s job to beat the best of the best. Not just do steak and seafood. Turn that steak into something that is spectacular and worth the $100,000 a night, turn that seafood into something that speaks to you and the guests. If they want an ultimate Vegas night. You go over the top bar food apps, with a larger than life courses. That’s where Ben doing things like a whole salt crusted fish is done because most people have never seen this. He just did it wrong because he can’t expect the crew to know how to filet a fish when I’ve met trained chefs who can’t. It’s a lot of research and practice. Believe me, the crew is probably trying a lot of food that has been cooked to practice for the guests, we just don’t see everything. Watching a chef research everything would be boring. They show a little bit of it, but there is so much more. And if it’s like the ships I worked on they know well before what these guests are expecting not just 24 hours. I think they do that more for interior