is anyone on here a cook or chef ?

LondonDiva

squeaky wrote:

Old age and treachery will beat youth and enthusiasm every time

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tootles_2

Old age, maybe but no trickery I had been married since I was 17 and had cooked for almost 26 years before I went on the course, I knew lots of the stuff they were teaching me, so in a way I had an bit of an unfair advantage. Even so the youngsters on the course were very much, oh we are great just passed our exams and brilliant..... I cannot tell you what a tremendous sense of achievement I got when my exam results came in with distinctions in all subjects for both years. :j :j ....... experience beats youth every time!!!!!

I ran my own business for a few years until we moved north of the border, I actually went into the Civil Service because the wages were better than in the catering trade although I did keep my hand in by running several open days for a National Trust garden we were involved in, I did all the catering for these and the special events we ran. I ended up working in the TV Studios catering for the staff and visiting artists and very interesting it was too...... Mark Lamarr gave me a china mug at the end of the Edinburgh Festival one year. ........ unfortunately it got broken during one of our moves.......

RacyRed

squeaky wrote:

Old age and treachery will beat youth and enthusiasm every time

So true Squeaky :T

I'd suggest you organise some master classes if I didn't think I'd get out-manouvered

squeaky

I was going to have a good laugh at that and then I suddenly realised... you're calling me OLD!!!

Blummin' cheek!

scoot1on1

Im still a chef of 16yrs, very hard work but Im glad progs like Hells Kitchen etc have been shown as now the customers who whinge when a lettuce leaf is placed in the wrong place, can see what a stressful hard working job it is, and the wages are atrocious, but hell I still love cooking and the adrenalin rush that you don't get sittin in a chair for 8hrs

RacyRed

squeaky wrote:

I was going to have a good laugh at that and then I suddenly realised... you're calling me OLD!!!

Blummin' cheek!

Almost got away with it

Kippsy

My Mum and two of my brothers have all trained and worked as chefs...

My younger brother and I have only ever been roped in to help run the pub my step Dad owned... cheffing was never going to be my thing I just enjoy cooking for me!

Although I like to consider myslef pretrty good.. working a different shift at the moment so got home and had about 50mins with my OH before he had to leave for work and I am keeping my fingers crossed that I will get to see him in the morning and tuck him into bed before I leave... Anyway, thought I would instruct him on how to start dinner and asked him to chop up an oninon and a couple of other bits and bobs...

We would have been able to sit down and eat slowly together if ~I had chopped it myself! Took him a good 10mins, bless. I have vowed to train and teach him some stuff!

Off now to have another ( :eek: ) oat and rasin cookie, I made on Sat... yummy!