CHEFS LONG FOR THE LINE LIKE CHILDERN LONG FOR THE MINES. THAT IS ALL (inb4 this is mod deleted.)

I am looking to buy my son his first chef knife for Christmas this year. He is 14 and love cooking and wants to become a chef like me. I am looking to get it engraved as well and am looking for recommendations. My price point is around $75 CAD, and would prefer a Canadian company if at all possible. Any recommendations or leads would be greatly appreciated!

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2 full time cooks 😈

Mostly what the title says. Guy I work with had his car broken into and lost his knife roll, among other items and tools. They say they didn't "really have anything to fancy and insurence wouldn't cover it anyway" but what are good items to have that can fill out a new roll? Things FOH (me and a few others) might not think about that you BOH people use regularly? We're mostly Italian casual (think Olive Garden but less corprate) and just want to help the guy that is always helpful and half way in a good mood to us.

Chunky Mashed Potatoes V.S Creamy Mashed Potatoes

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Dude just walked in with his entire family and is currently wrapping up his meal 😭 I knew he had a house in the county here but I did not expect this.

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Even worse when someone blows into the glove, but like this happens every time i trade gloves. Does it happen to you?

For context that ceiling is s lot higher than I can reach as I am short and it is above some stairs.

Looking for a new job rn and theres a few seemingly decent (or at least decent paying) cook positions up in my area rn. I of course want to apply to whatever i can for now but i dont wanna end up losing out on a job just because i applied to it at the same time as i did for another place only for the job i picked to not work out...if that makes sense lol.

Photo semi related (98 cups total if you're curious). Im a very picky eater and not very adventurous person, always have been, and thus have never had issues with allergens other than strawberries, which makes my face and mouth hurt a lil. I started working in kitchens under the impression I have no real allergies. HOWEVER its as tho working in a kitchen suddenly has me suffering for my life. The melon mix we use makes me cough (???), the roasted tomato juice got on my arm once and I broke out in hives for a few hours, i avoid the thaw and cooks walk-ins as much as possible cuz it feels like im choking on nothing if Im in them too often. It's like ive developed random allergies to the most pointless shit. And I can't take benadryl cuz that's the one drug I decided to abuse as a teen (like an idiot, i should have just vaped) and now my body is unimpressed by the recommended amount yet taking more ignores the Anti Allergen part and skips straight to the Passed Out Asleep At My Desk On Break part.

I wash my hands constantly, change gloves every few minutes basically, and I would wear a mask if the kitchen wasnt 90 degrees and my glasses didnt fog up from them.

Wtf am I supposed to do other than cope lmao </3

Forgot we're in rural Maine, guy got us a case of glizzies, fuck my life

I know injuries are part of the job and most of the smaller ones you get used to without much fuss but I’m having issues getting over a bigger one. A few years ago I was still working as a line cook, we had shit knives, no sharpeners, and thin cutting boards you would get from the dollar store. I was chopping fruit for a platter and trying to plow through it a little too fast as it was a Saturday and we were busy and short handed as usual. The cutting board skidded (even with a wet rag under) mid cut and my brain didn’t react to both the cutting board and the knife at the same time. My hand flattened as I tried to stop it the board from flying away and my knife went down and took a hefty portion of my thumb with it. Thumb on ice, hospital, and a graft later, and my thumb although lacking feeling is pretty much back to the way it was. The thing that’s not is me. I’ve always trusted myself and my knife skills, though not the best certainly not bad, but now even 4 years later I get nerves picking up the knife. Once I get started I get back into the flow but it feels discouraging that even after all this time and a promotion to chef that my brain hesitates when I grab a knife. Anyone experience something like this? Or have any advice to get over it?

I think I need a to take break from this sub... the title sums it up.

The dream: It was the middle of dinner service, the new trout dish is ordered and my mise disappears! Like all of it. I'm running around a huge, unfamiliar kitchen looking for my mise (bc someone probably just moved it?) Borrowing from other stations and prepping on the fly. Other cooks not working dinner service (like banquets n shit I guess) were all around, walking through, moving stuff. I'd turn around and the stuff I just prepped on the fly would be replaced with something else.

There was a younger cook like whoa your gonna make that again right now? As if I had a choice. There was banter. At some point someone turned the lights out over my station which was too big and spread out. So weird.

I'm disabled from chronic illness, I don't work at all anymore and haven't worked the line in a long time. So I guess my question is: what the fuck? Lmao I just wanted to take a nap, I have a fucking headache now.

non-serrated chef knives and bread knives are priority. New KM trying to invest in a better set for the kitchen because the last dipshit only bought serrated chef knives, nothing else. cheap, flimsy and bent tips, impossible to slice anything clean.

working with a *very* tight budget but can swing a bit extra for longer term use. Corporate can cry about the extra $20 later.

TIA!

Plating was good, but I wanted more of that pan sauce!

Lol

Kinda bittersweet. I accepted an offer for an inventory coordinator position and I’m really excited to start my journey in supply chain / logistics. It’s been real.

Enjoy a picture of my favorite bean salad with local produce, said produce, and my favorite labels printed by my annoying coworker.

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Let me know if any of you guys are interested in taking this 'businessman' up on his proposal and I'll pass your details on to him! 🤣