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he’s Scottish. That’s gotta be it.
Plus he studied under a Frenchman.
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Gordon Hairdo started under Marco, but his primary influence is frog-heavy, top to bottom.
Marco Pierre White
Ramsay trained under White at the restaurant Harvey's in London. White was known for his pursuit of perfection, which influenced Ramsay's management style.
Albert Roux
Ramsay trained under Roux at La Gavroche in London. Roux invited Ramsay to work with him at Hotel Diva in the French Alps.
Guy Savoy and Joël Robuchon
Ramsay trained under Savoy and Robuchon in France. Savoy was a Michelin-starred chef.
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@lovelymiss @verita84 @BattleDwarfGimli @The_Almighty_Kek @BrokenSword @s8n Marco is not a frenchman, that is slanderous libel.
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@BattleDwarfGimli @BadOptniks @The_Almighty_Kek @lovelymiss @BrokenSword @EvilSandmich @NoDoxGregBrady @s8n @verita84 I love the cooking slapfight threads
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@BattleDwarfGimli @EvilSandmich @The_Almighty_Kek @lovelymiss @BrokenSword @NoDoxGregBrady @s8n @verita84 I especially love seeing "wet-aged" steaks showing up on menus more and more
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I will smash all the things.
Look, the maitre 'd I was "brought up" under, was from The White Hall, and Crickets, in Chicago. Even as a busboy we had to learn all the tablesides - because if something was missing or wrong, we were the ones sprinting back to the kitchen to fetch. Steak Diane. Dover Sole Almondine. Crepes Suzette - all that stuff. I still to this day remember how to make the Caesar salad from The White Hall, down to the dressing which was also done tableside.
All these "new chefs" with their "new ideas" are cocky little shits. When I finally became a COOK, I learned very quickly that there is ONE CHEF in a kitchen, and culinary school DOES NOT MAKE YOU A CHEF. It just teaches you everything beyond the pan in front of your face. It makes you more useful to the chef. That's it.
"wet-aged steaks". Fuck straight off.
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@BattleDwarfGimli @lovelymiss @The_Almighty_Kek @BadOptniks @BrokenSword @NoDoxGregBrady @s8n @verita84 One of my favorite bits is one of the places he was trying to help was using recipes from one of his cookbooks which he chided them for, noting that such cookbooks are essentially craft books and have no place in a professional kitchen.
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Most people have no idea that even in the finest fine dining, the recipes are ridiculously simple - so that we could bang them out perfectly, every single time. It's all presentation, quality ingredients, and theater. You're paying fine dining prices to be the star cameo appearance in your own personal dinner theater.
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Never seen his UK stuff.
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@NoDoxGregBrady @BattleDwarfGimli @BadOptniks @The_Almighty_Kek @lovelymiss @BrokenSword @s8n @verita84 What's interesting is that the British stuff he did lacks the forced drama that the American shows have. It's like all the American stuff has to be live action cartoons to keep a domestic audience.
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this is true.
His UK shit he’s super mellow & everyone’s kind of boring. He’s not screaming & shit like the US versions.
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I personally think Gordon Hairdo is all show. I watch "Hell's Kitchen" as comedy. The fine dining hotel I bussed, expedited, and cooked in over the course of five years, our chefs would have fired every single "chef" that shows up on HK, on the first day. No standards, no plating, and if you fucked up more than one dish, you were fucking done, period. Scallops, always hosed. Can't make a basic risotto, fucking up meat temperatures, sending raw chicken out - you got one chance. After that, you were viewed as incompetent, and fired. I almost got fired one night for sending out a steak tartare that was 2oz light, because I wasn't paying attention.
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@BattleDwarfGimli @BadOptniks @The_Almighty_Kek @lovelymiss @BrokenSword @s8n @verita84 I haven't watched any of this because the whole premise looks fakeandgay. My impression is that he's a showman in addition to being a top-tier chef. So the show looks ridiculous on purpose, to hold viewer attention.
If his kitchen were serious, we'd see a lot more immediate firing of brown incompetence.
What's your take on that? Is it ridiculous just to be entertaining?
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@BattleDwarfGimli @The_Almighty_Kek @lovelymiss @BrokenSword @s8n @verita84 Substantively, Ramsay is Marco's prodigal child never to return. He was a shit to Marco and deserved being made to cry by Marco.
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@Omega_Variant @BattleDwarfGimli @The_Almighty_Kek @lovelymiss @BrokenSword @EvilSandmich @NoDoxGregBrady @s8n @verita84 Every meat you buy at the grocery is wet aged
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@BadOptniks @Omega_Variant @BattleDwarfGimli @The_Almighty_Kek @lovelymiss @BrokenSword @EvilSandmich @NoDoxGregBrady @s8n @verita84 yeah, which is why it is trash.
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Wet aged just sounds nasty. Like mold and rot
lovelymiss
BattleDwarfGimli
But it should have
Bread up, Bro
EvilSandmich
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