Kitchen

[flbettyboop]

What is wrong with a smile or cute saying "In The Kitchen".  One poster was run off and another is trying to run me off.  Look in the mirror and smile. 

Boop

[Free2be]

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@flbettyboop wrote:

What is wrong with a smile or cute saying "In The Kitchen".  One poster was run off and another is trying to run me off.  Look in the mirror and smile. 

Boop

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I'll answer because you asked.  First, I dislike the popularity of making people "wrong".  Generally, there's nothing at all "wrong" about a light hearted effort to make people smile -- unless it is over-played and still it isn't wrong, just annoying.  I've clicked into some of your threads thinking I'd see something kitchen related which is the only reason I check in here.  I can't get back that time so I've learned to not click into any of them.

You enjoy what you do in the kitchen forum and it seems fine with TPTB and I'll come across to some as kind of crab for giving you my answer.  If you feel like your humor posts are unappreciated here (from feeling like you are being driven off), maybe that mirror is for you just the same as for anyone else.  We share this space with people of all different tastes and opinions,  This was mine responding to you.  Don't change a thing on my account, I'm just a nobody cooking and kitchen junkie more than willing to pick through the topics list for kitchen related discussions.

Thanks for asking.

[Mothertrucker]

So WHO, exactly IS a "chef" and what is the universal definition of "chef"?

I mean, it is not like anyone on ITKWD is claiming to be a "Michelin Rated" chef or anythng simlar.

Can't ANYONE, who cooks, really be considered a "chef"?

BTW, I use to know a guy called  "Tiny"-He weighed 300 lbs..now perhaps THAT is false "advertising" but  addressing Tony Notaro as "Chef tony" does not bother me in the least...

Also, it is a SHOPPING channel- OF cout=rse there are going to be "adveritsing ptchmen" (AKA experts at presenting items for sale) it kind of goes with the territory

Not every inventor, designer,  or CEO is a good presenter of their own products, you know- I find it much better to see a presentation by someone who understands the product and can communicate that to me, than to see an inventor or owner stammer through an awkward "how-to"..

[qbetzforreal]

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@okaywitheasypay wrote:

I believe there other directions to channel an investigation...was Chef Boy Ardee really a chef or have hordes of toddlers been duped while having Spaghetti -o's around their fingers ,stuck in their hair , and other places ?

I like Chef Tony.

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Why, yes he was! lol His name was Ettore Boiardi.  He founded the company.  He was a chef in his restaurant.

[okaywitheasypay]

@qbetzforreal, yeah I know, I 'googled' him once . I believe we are all 'chefs' in our own kitchens.

[faeriemoon]

I believe you can call yourself anything you want, but if you are using your self proclaimed title to make a profit, I think it's dishonest.

In my kitchen I'm Chef Faeriemoon; if I decide to profit from something I create in the kitchen and call it Chef Faeriemoon's Whatever, I'm being dishonest.

[BeccaLou]

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@Reever wrote:

I have no problem with his personality but take offense that the hosts keep referring to him as "Chef" when he is nothing more than a vendor who dons a white chefs jacket in order to ramp up sales. He is on again and David is incessantly referring to him as "chef".

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Becca Lou: wrote: He is a chef. It has been mentioned several times a month.

[Mothertrucker]

So if “Chef” Boyardi  cooked in his own restaurant, and that is what made him a “chef”, does that mean anyone who cooks in a restaurant is a chef, or are they cooks? Or both...Is there a definition for chef vs cook? 

[Free2be]

I give Chef Tony a label that works for me:  Nice Guy Salesman with gadget skills.  What is actually is IRL is  of no interest to me. 

There's a futility in trying to pin down a term to label a variable.   Is the school of self-taught to highest standards less valuable than an average training school?  Once a chef, always a chef? Or must one be currently employed with "chef" written in the contract?  Is it about borrowing a title they have not earned?  What is "earned"? Should we care that a TV personality borrows something unearned? Can we prove to Judge Judy that we deserve compensation for being fooled?  Okay, that's silly. 

I'm not against holding someone to standards when it is their job to work within those standards.  QVC hired Chef Tony to sell.  He does a good job.

[ScarletDove]

This thread reads more like a rag on Reever post.....don't like her posts, don't read and/or comment on them.....give it a rest!