Be amused by what you see and suspect.
Kitchen confidential recommended knives. Just because someone you work with is a miserable treacherous self serving capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn t prevent you from enjoying their company working with them or finding them entertaining. The knife tony recommended in kitchen confidential. According to bourdain we should all stop buying knife sets. In his book kitchen confidential he tells a great deal about the life of a restaurateur and the workings of commercial kitchens.
On knives knife skills are the first thing you learn in a kitchen. Careful with online reviews they are mostly for home cooks which use the knife for a max of 5 10 minutes a day back in the 2000 s everyone was recommending global which were nice for home use but those metal handles were hell on anyone using them fore more then 15 minutes a day kitchen staff hated them. Tony was the inspiration i had for becoming a cook and carrying about the things i create in the kitchen. This is the knife tony recommends at the end of kc.
Let it all roll off your back. But don t let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. In his 2000 memoir kitchen confidential he says medium size utility knives advertised on tv are hard to sharpen and ineptly designed. An amazon best seller and a favorite of over 1 000 customers is oxo good grips wooden corner spoon and scraper 5 99.
Bourdain ranted passionately about how much he despised knife sets. Close posted by 1 minute ago. Anthony bourdain is probably one of the best known american chefs today. Having french grandparents he claims that his love of food and cooking comes from the vacations he spent in france as a child.
In his game changing memoir kitchen confidential which hit shelves way back in 2000 bourdain wrote that he despised knife sets and only recommended that home cooks utilize just one high. His stories are. Whenever i saw cooks muscling a red pepper with a dull blade i d put them on knife heavy prep doing basic cuts again and. The knife tony recommended in kitchen confidential.
Global g 2 8 inch chef s knife 100. Another ancient german knife manufacturer indeed one mentioned by anthony bourdain in kitchen confidential. Bourdain still loves the knife he first recommended when his best selling memoir kitchen confidential came out in 2000.