Hey now, I'm a professional chef. I demand to be able to stand in the corner smoking cigarettes and weed and occasionally doing five minutes of actual cooking.
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BlackDragon480Bluster KerfuffleMaster of Windy ImportRegistered Userregular
Given my degree qualifications, I'll be the commune's Polybius and document for posterity how a small group of dedicated people became a world power.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
Hey now, I'm a professional chef. I demand to be able to stand in the corner smoking cigarettes and weed and occasionally doing five minutes of actual cooking.
Yep, that's about par for the course.
All kidding aside, cooking for my friends and family is my own version of showing off as well as enticing other folks to show me their secrets; I've worked in too many places where chefs and kitchen managers hoard their knowledge and refuse to share it like Smaug in The Lonely Mountain's treasure hall. Like, motherfucker, redundancy is key to a successful kitchen, someone's gonna take a sick day, there are these people called 'dentists' and 'doctors' that people go to see, someone's kid is gonna get their arm broken at football practice, and as much as we hate to admit it, everybody's Dear Sweet Grandmother is going to pass on. Cover your fucking bases, teach the skills, share the knowledge, and above all cover your collective asses.
if i live to be a thousand years old i'll never forget my first restaurant job at the tender age of fifteen. i show up, they show me the sink where i'll be washing dishes, and then not two hours into my first shift i watch in awe as the chef does this massive rail of coke off his knife. he sees me staring, says "oh shit, sorry dude. did you want some?"
nah man i'm good, but thanks for offering for real
it sure would be a shame if the police got hand-me-down shit from the military that i guess is now filtering down to brownshirts that determined people in afghanistan and iraq have spent the past twenty years meticulously documenting how best to disable them
that doesn't even look like military shit, it's a hobby project tacticool civilian truck conversion.
I think its a bobbed deuce and a half (or similar 2.5 ton) with a whole bunch of custom shit on it. You can pick one up for like 5k. I've been keeping an eye on them for a toy hauler/RV conversion.
Can it be flipped by a civic with a reinforced frame and a roll cage?
it sure would be a shame if the police got hand-me-down shit from the military that i guess is now filtering down to brownshirts that determined people in afghanistan and iraq have spent the past twenty years meticulously documenting how best to disable them
that doesn't even look like military shit, it's a hobby project tacticool civilian truck conversion.
I think its a bobbed deuce and a half (or similar 2.5 ton) with a whole bunch of custom shit on it. You can pick one up for like 5k. I've been keeping an eye on them for a toy hauler/RV conversion.
Can it be flipped by a civic with a reinforced frame and a roll cage?
as far as i know there aren't any other blacksmiths that post on these here boards, so i should be golden
How did you get into blacksmithing? Ive been thinking of checking it out!
i'm entirely self-taught and i built most of my tools from garbage. if you're looking to get into it (which you should, it's fuckin' awesome) i emphatically recommend you get in touch with your local ABANA chapter (if you're in the states) and either paying for some lessons or finding an old-timer who's willing to show you the basics for free. i wasted my first two years by building shitty tools and picking up bad work habits, if i was gonna start over i would've absolutely spent the money on some lessons right out the gate
if i live to be a thousand years old i'll never forget my first restaurant job at the tender age of fifteen. i show up, they show me the sink where i'll be washing dishes, and then not two hours into my first shift i watch in awe as the chef does this massive rail of coke off his knife. he sees me staring, says "oh shit, sorry dude. did you want some?"
nah man i'm good, but thanks for offering for real
if i live to be a thousand years old i'll never forget my first restaurant job at the tender age of fifteen. i show up, they show me the sink where i'll be washing dishes, and then not two hours into my first shift i watch in awe as the chef does this massive rail of coke off his knife. he sees me staring, says "oh shit, sorry dude. did you want some?"
nah man i'm good, but thanks for offering for real
he's who DARE warned us about
an unexpected upside to being a juvenile delinquent was that by then i already knew that i don't like cocaine!
if i live to be a thousand years old i'll never forget my first restaurant job at the tender age of fifteen. i show up, they show me the sink where i'll be washing dishes, and then not two hours into my first shift i watch in awe as the chef does this massive rail of coke off his knife. he sees me staring, says "oh shit, sorry dude. did you want some?"
nah man i'm good, but thanks for offering for real
he's who DARE warned us about
How in the fuck do restaurant chefs afford so much cocaine? That stuff is expensive!
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
if i live to be a thousand years old i'll never forget my first restaurant job at the tender age of fifteen. i show up, they show me the sink where i'll be washing dishes, and then not two hours into my first shift i watch in awe as the chef does this massive rail of coke off his knife. he sees me staring, says "oh shit, sorry dude. did you want some?"
nah man i'm good, but thanks for offering for real
he's who DARE warned us about
How in the fuck do restaurant chefs afford so much cocaine? That stuff is expensive!
Try doing 12 hours on your feet 5 days a week without some help. The service industry has a lot of addicts
if i live to be a thousand years old i'll never forget my first restaurant job at the tender age of fifteen. i show up, they show me the sink where i'll be washing dishes, and then not two hours into my first shift i watch in awe as the chef does this massive rail of coke off his knife. he sees me staring, says "oh shit, sorry dude. did you want some?"
nah man i'm good, but thanks for offering for real
he's who DARE warned us about
How in the fuck do restaurant chefs afford so much cocaine? That stuff is expensive!
facetiousa wit so dryit shits sandRegistered Userregular
I am an 18th century leatherworker and also my biggest dream in life is to be a servant (ideally to someone equitably rather than an upper class pig) does any of that get me a spot
"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
I am an 18th century leatherworker and also my biggest dream in life is to be a servant (ideally to someone equitably rather than an upper class pig) does any of that get me a spot
Even if it doesn't, I will teach you how to stalk, hunt, kill wild game, then butcher it properly according to both kosher and halal methods (they have a slight variance but are mostly similar). And then there's a good two summers of my teenage years working cattle, so that helps. Besides, there are an endless number of tasks to do on a farm/orchard/preserve that require no formal training, just the willingness to do so.
Oh, and you have my vote because leatherworking is one of the primary skills you need in long term survival; making clothes that don't wear out in a year is absolutely essential, right along with making leather patches for knees and elbows to extend the life of pre-existing fabric clothes.
Listen, I'm waiting for our SE++ commune to get started.
I'm running the kitchen.
This is not a discussion, nor is it debatable, or negotiable.
I am highly attentive and sympathetic to dietary restrictions and personal tastes.
But I'm running the fucking kitchen.
I would work in your kitchen quite happily.
I warn you that my knife skills will make you physically ill provided you can stop the hysterical laughter.
Knife skills are something that every chef keeps promising me that they'll help me work on but never do; I don't like that tradition and I don't intend to continue it.
When I was training my newbies two years ago, I would engage them in contests for prep work: slicing onions, peeling potatoes or carrots, not just for speed, but accuracy as well. It went a long way in a very short period of time since I was actively engaged with what they were doing. I never teased them about their work without a smile and encouragement that they could do better in no time. "Smooth is fast, boys. When you're hectic and frantic and trying to do too much at once, you lose efficiency, you lose your pace because you have to do the whole start-stop-start-stop to remember where or what was the next step. Plan ahead, modify the plan as you go, keep a steady pace. Smooth is fast."
Knife skills are like that as well, take your time to get your muscle memory down, accept that you're not perfect, keep moving forward. Not even Gordon Ramsey was destined to be Gordon Ramsey; he had to grind away at that shit and make a lot of personal sacrifices. It's honestly a kind of miracle that he can have the work/life balance that he enjoys now, no doubt his wife has a great deal to do with that.
Listen, I'm waiting for our SE++ commune to get started.
I'm running the kitchen.
This is not a discussion, nor is it debatable, or negotiable.
I am highly attentive and sympathetic to dietary restrictions and personal tastes.
But I'm running the fucking kitchen.
I would work in your kitchen quite happily.
I warn you that my knife skills will make you physically ill provided you can stop the hysterical laughter.
Knife skills are something that every chef keeps promising me that they'll help me work on but never do; I don't like that tradition and I don't intend to continue it.
When I was training my newbies two years ago, I would engage them in contests for prep work: slicing onions, peeling potatoes or carrots, not just for speed, but accuracy as well. It went a long way in a very short period of time since I was actively engaged with what they were doing. I never teased them about their work without a smile and encouragement that they could do better in no time. "Smooth is fast, boys. When you're hectic and frantic and trying to do too much at once, you lose efficiency, you lose your pace because you have to do the whole start-stop-start-stop to remember where or what was the next step. Plan ahead, modify the plan as you go, keep a steady pace. Smooth is fast."
Knife skills are like that as well, take your time to get your muscle memory down, accept that you're not perfect, keep moving forward. Not even Gordon Ramsey was destined to be Gordon Ramsey; he had to grind away at that shit and make a lot of personal sacrifices. It's honestly a kind of miracle that he can have the work/life balance that he enjoys now, no doubt his wife has a great deal to do with that.
And this is why I’d like to work in your kitchen.
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turtleantGunpla Dadis the best.Registered Userregular
I'm way to antisocial and got the bad brain to make it in a commune.
Weird mountain hermit with a mushroom farm, now that's got potential.
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BlackDragon480Bluster KerfuffleMaster of Windy ImportRegistered Userregular
Knife-wise, I'm above average on fruits and veg and am okay with most proteins, but don't ask me to break-down primals to their parts, haven't done hardly any butchering.
And I've attempted this apple peeling technique and didn't amputate a finger, it just took me almost 3 minutes and my coreing wasn't near as precise:
I'd like to be a groundskeeper/food grower. But only if I get my own shed and can shout at everyone else for trampling my turnips
We had a guy start a permaculture project in our old and decrepit apple orchard, but he suddenly decided to just about quintuple his rates AND wanted to come more often so it's now stuck in a state of limbo until I can be arsed to do something with it. I can't offer a shed but we have plenty of under-utilised outbuildings.
Also, I've been watching a lot of food related programming on the Netflix and that coupled with all this chef talk is making me miss working in a kitchen...some days I even miss being a waiter, which might be a sign of insanity.
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Yep, that's about par for the course.
All kidding aside, cooking for my friends and family is my own version of showing off as well as enticing other folks to show me their secrets; I've worked in too many places where chefs and kitchen managers hoard their knowledge and refuse to share it like Smaug in The Lonely Mountain's treasure hall. Like, motherfucker, redundancy is key to a successful kitchen, someone's gonna take a sick day, there are these people called 'dentists' and 'doctors' that people go to see, someone's kid is gonna get their arm broken at football practice, and as much as we hate to admit it, everybody's Dear Sweet Grandmother is going to pass on. Cover your fucking bases, teach the skills, share the knowledge, and above all cover your collective asses.
nah man i'm good, but thanks for offering for real
hitting hot metal with hammers
How did you get into blacksmithing? Ive been thinking of checking it out!
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i'm entirely self-taught and i built most of my tools from garbage. if you're looking to get into it (which you should, it's fuckin' awesome) i emphatically recommend you get in touch with your local ABANA chapter (if you're in the states) and either paying for some lessons or finding an old-timer who's willing to show you the basics for free. i wasted my first two years by building shitty tools and picking up bad work habits, if i was gonna start over i would've absolutely spent the money on some lessons right out the gate
hitting hot metal with hammers
he's who DARE warned us about
an unexpected upside to being a juvenile delinquent was that by then i already knew that i don't like cocaine!
hitting hot metal with hammers
How in the fuck do restaurant chefs afford so much cocaine? That stuff is expensive!
Try doing 12 hours on your feet 5 days a week without some help. The service industry has a lot of addicts
Here it is, not so much in North America
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
threaten me with a good time
hitting hot metal with hammers
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hitting hot metal with hammers
Even if it doesn't, I will teach you how to stalk, hunt, kill wild game, then butcher it properly according to both kosher and halal methods (they have a slight variance but are mostly similar). And then there's a good two summers of my teenage years working cattle, so that helps. Besides, there are an endless number of tasks to do on a farm/orchard/preserve that require no formal training, just the willingness to do so.
Oh, and you have my vote because leatherworking is one of the primary skills you need in long term survival; making clothes that don't wear out in a year is absolutely essential, right along with making leather patches for knees and elbows to extend the life of pre-existing fabric clothes.
hitting hot metal with hammers
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
Commune life also sounds pretty hellish, I'm much too soft for that sort of living
I will build a still, the sky's the limit if you have your own still
hitting hot metal with hammers
Be kind
Show compassion
Willingness to dig a hole and/or carry things of varying lengths and weights
The last requirement is negotiable
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
I would work in your kitchen quite happily.
I warn you that my knife skills will make you physically ill provided you can stop the hysterical laughter.
Knife skills are something that every chef keeps promising me that they'll help me work on but never do; I don't like that tradition and I don't intend to continue it.
When I was training my newbies two years ago, I would engage them in contests for prep work: slicing onions, peeling potatoes or carrots, not just for speed, but accuracy as well. It went a long way in a very short period of time since I was actively engaged with what they were doing. I never teased them about their work without a smile and encouragement that they could do better in no time. "Smooth is fast, boys. When you're hectic and frantic and trying to do too much at once, you lose efficiency, you lose your pace because you have to do the whole start-stop-start-stop to remember where or what was the next step. Plan ahead, modify the plan as you go, keep a steady pace. Smooth is fast."
Knife skills are like that as well, take your time to get your muscle memory down, accept that you're not perfect, keep moving forward. Not even Gordon Ramsey was destined to be Gordon Ramsey; he had to grind away at that shit and make a lot of personal sacrifices. It's honestly a kind of miracle that he can have the work/life balance that he enjoys now, no doubt his wife has a great deal to do with that.
And this is why I’d like to work in your kitchen.
Weird mountain hermit with a mushroom farm, now that's got potential.
And I've attempted this apple peeling technique and didn't amputate a finger, it just took me almost 3 minutes and my coreing wasn't near as precise:
~ Buckaroo Banzai
I was realitively young, dumb, and watching lots of Iron Chef. It was a trademark of the original Iron Chef French Hiroyuki Sakai.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
As long as you stop in to deliver some of your mushroom haul and to pick up supplies, I think you’d be good!
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
We had a guy start a permaculture project in our old and decrepit apple orchard, but he suddenly decided to just about quintuple his rates AND wanted to come more often so it's now stuck in a state of limbo until I can be arsed to do something with it. I can't offer a shed but we have plenty of under-utilised outbuildings.
Also, I've been watching a lot of food related programming on the Netflix and that coupled with all this chef talk is making me miss working in a kitchen...some days I even miss being a waiter, which might be a sign of insanity.
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