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Posted on 12/20/17 at 1:53 pm to Deactived
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Im pretty sure there are some standards. I doubt I could walk into Chimes (if they were looking for a head chef) and apply for the job and my qualifications are that I write about food on the internet. I would imagine theyre gonna want to know where I trained and where I have been a chef
To me, it's also a bit disrespectful/disingenuous to call yourself a chef if you aren't really qualified. You see this sort of over-reach at times, esp in folks who are trying to promote their packaged stuff for sale. "Chef" Whoever's pasta sauce, or seasoning blend. Doesn't matter if "Chef" Whoever simply completed a 6-weeks training course and worked for Sonoco or Encore as an offshore catering cook for a few years. It sounds good for the marketing, so whatever.
Most serious food writers/bloggers do not appropriate the term/title "chef" unless they've received significant training or have run kitchens for a significant length of time. And many others who have done complete, multi year culinary studies but have never cooked professionally will decline to be called chef.
I like the term Cook. Anyone can be a cook. There are good cooks and bad cooks, home cooks and line cooks, casual cooks and serious cooks. Despite the fact that I own a small food business, I would never in a zillion years call myself a chef.
Posted on 12/20/17 at 1:56 pm to hungryone
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To me, it's also a bit disrespectful/disingenuous to call yourself a chef if you aren't really qualified. You see this sort of over-reach at times, esp in folks who are trying to promote their packaged stuff for sale. "Chef" Whoever's pasta sauce, or seasoning blend. Doesn't matter if "Chef" Whoever simply completed a 6-weeks training course and worked for Sonoco or Encore as an offshore catering cook for a few years. It sounds good for the marketing, so whatever.
Most serious food writers/bloggers do not appropriate the term/title "chef" unless they've received significant training or have run kitchens for a significant length of time. And many others who have done complete, multi year culinary studies but have never cooked professionally will decline to be called chef.
I like the term Cook. Anyone can be a cook. There are good cooks and bad cooks, home cooks and line cooks, casual cooks and serious cooks. Despite the fact that I own a small food business, I would never in a zillion years call myself a chef.
I certainly am not talking about a lot of the restaurants in NOLA that are well known but so many of them, smaller ones, I hear let me go get the Chef. just sayin
Posted on 12/20/17 at 2:04 pm to t00f
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I certainly am not talking about a lot of the restaurants in NOLA that are well known but so many of them, smaller ones, I hear let me go get the Chef. just sayin
Yeah, I hear ya. I'm just not using the word the way those folks are. Chef means chief--sometimes, that's just the default ranking person who is heading the kitchen on any given night. Other times, it's a person involved in creating menus, making stuff from scratch, supervising all culinary aspects of the operation.
Other times, it's just a guy who wakes up one day and starts calling himself chef.
The American Culinary Federation actually has a certification program: LINK
FWIW, I frequently see the phrase "trained as a chef" in bios of people who are writers, product developers, etc but not actively working in kitchens.
Posted on 12/20/17 at 7:09 pm to Deactived
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he isnt a chef imo
A chef is a cook who manages a professional kitchen. So once he starts his restaurant and works there for a day, boom, he's a chef.
FYI, Julia Child didn't consider herself a chef for the above reason. She was a cook.
ETA: professional
This post was edited on 12/20/17 at 9:59 pm
Posted on 12/20/17 at 7:15 pm to El Jefe
Jay Ducote fanbois are still butthurt that he got his arse beat by Eddie Jackson in Next Food Network Star.
Posted on 12/20/17 at 7:30 pm to Damone
Eddie Jackson beat the shite out of him on that show. Not hard, the guy is a winner, and not some BR choade hocking bad bbq sauce 
Posted on 12/20/17 at 7:58 pm to Spaulding Smails
Jay Ducote threads are always a great way to bring out salty haters.
Posted on 12/20/17 at 8:01 pm to timbo
That bbq sauce is pretty bad...
Posted on 12/20/17 at 8:49 pm to El Jefe
I think he got started cooking at tailgates and just kept going with it. As far as I recall he has had no formal training. Just a guy who likes to cook and enjoys doing it.
Posted on 12/20/17 at 9:48 pm to t00f
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fatter and likes booze more, version of our Tom Fitzmorris.
Unpossible!!!!
Posted on 12/21/17 at 6:50 am to t00f
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Can't anyone who is the head of a kitchen call himself a chef? Not sure there are any standards. Kind of like owning a boat and calling yourself captain.
I make my kids call me that when I’m making their toast. Yes Chef. Butter please Chef.
Posted on 12/21/17 at 7:56 am to Martini
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standards. Kind of like owning a boat and calling yourself captain.
I make my kids call me that when I’m making their toast. Yes Chef. Butter please Chef.
I tried that but they kept calling me chief.
Posted on 12/21/17 at 10:55 am to t00f
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Kind of like owning a boat and calling yourself captain.
Wait a minute.
Are you guys supposed to be calling me captain?
Captain MD?
Sounds better?
wish I had a boat....
Posted on 12/21/17 at 11:04 am to hungryone
So if someone starts a brewery, can they call themselves the brewmaster even if they had no formal training? Asking for a friend.
Posted on 12/21/17 at 11:10 am to MeridianDog
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Captain MD?
I like it!
Posted on 12/21/17 at 11:15 am to t00f
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Captain MD? I like it.
I like it too. I might start a GoFundMe page to buy a boat.
Does a rubber duck count?
Posted on 12/21/17 at 11:17 am to MeridianDog
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Captain MD? I like it.
I like it too. I might start a GoFundMe page to buy a boat.
Does a rubber duck count?
You will have to check on what the standards are when you run a kitchen or plop a rig in the water.
Posted on 12/21/17 at 9:33 pm to BMoney
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So if someone starts a brewery, can they call themselves the brewmaster even if they had no formal training? Asking for a friend.
Bet your friend used to work at tin roof.
Posted on 12/21/17 at 10:00 pm to MeridianDog
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