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| But the original question was about what makes a good cook, not what makes a great chef. The word chef implies restaurant cooking and the management of a brigade. | |
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chef, cook, cuoco... is just a matter of choice of language, doesn't imply having of not having a brigade behind you... unless you want to imply it purposely..
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| I get annoyed by misuse of the words essential and necessary because they're generally used to get greater force to an argument than their meaning strictly allows. If you say something is necessary, but I can provide a counter-example, then sorry . . . it wasn't necessary after all. | |
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you are nit-picking here...
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| The problem is that you have set up your definition to include professional training and/or experience. You just have to change your definition. | |
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have not... this is what I think makes a good/great cook/chef... you are getting muddled up in semantic...
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| By the way, there's every chance that a home cook would be able to:
- Use seasoning | |
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Shall we have a little head count and see how many? bear in mind that
my concept of good seasoning may be slightly different from yours
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| - Cook from different cuisines (though I'd argue this is definitely not essential for being even being a great chef . . . there are great chefs who work solely within a single cuisine) | |
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that's not the point!!! which cuisine you like and decide to work with has nothing to do with what cuisine you are
able to cook with. Do you think that Blanc
only knows how to cook a coq-au-vin?? or that Blumenthal has no knowledge of stir-fries??
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| No one makes 'superlative' dishes without fail: there is wastage even in 3 star kitchens | |
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there is, when you are creating new recipes and you are fine tuning the flavours. BUT when you start putting dishes on the menu, wastage goes to almost nil... I know because my sister works in one... when you start working with ingredients like ambergris, you
really don't want to waste them...
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| BTW - this still means that you should be able to recognise e.g. an Italian grandmother who cooks ten regional dishes magnificently as a 'good cook' and it's ridiculous that you wouldn't describe her as this. | |
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again... definition of...
I'm getting too old to do this....
MODS, CAN YOU PLEASE RENAME THIS THREAD AS "WG AND GG HAVING AN ARGUMENT"?