Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares - The Other Side Of Chef Ramsay
If you’ve read my 8 or so posts about British master chef Gordon Ramsay’s reality TV series Hell’s Kitchen, you already know how much I despise that persona of his. In that series, he takes humiliating the kitchen staff to an art form. But despite all the nasty things I’ve said about him, I have to say how much I love his Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares TV series.
I’ve said this before, but a new season just started, and I’m repeating my sentiments. Yes, he swears and rants and gets upset in this series, too. But not in the same way as in Hell’s Kitchen. This show is incredibly informative. He takes a dying restaurant and helps whip the staff into shape, making sure that people are doing what they are good at, helping with the communication between staff, trimming the menu and often the portion sizes, and whatever else needs to be done.
This is the other side of Chef Ramsay. This is the man that will teach you a great deal about cooking, pleasing customers, and making a profit. I learned an incredible amount, in just a single episode, about the factors that make a restaurant successful.
If you’ve ever entertained any desire to run your own restaurant, this is a series you must watch. Every episode. I actually watch the same episode 2-3 times, if my time permits. And I learn something new about restaurant and kitchen management every time I watch - even with repeats.
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June 26th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Gordon who?
I am a vegetarian and I saw some really nice recipes, thank you so much!
Greetings from The Netherlands.
August 7th, 2006 at 10:15 pm
Heh! Thanks for dropping by. I’m a former vegetarian who needs meat protein for health reasons. (But simultaneously allergic to the hormones in a lot of packaged meat.) But I literally have about 100 veg recipes lurking in my head. If I can transcribe them sometime, should be lots of reading for you
Hope you’ll be back.
February 13th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
we are going to a do a taping of kitchen nightmares, if picked we would be offered a show. I have never seen the uk version but some of us are a little nervous that it might damage our business, that could be doing better but we certainly aren’t failing.
vincent
February 15th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Good luck with that. Chef Ramsay does seem far more civil on Kitchen Nightmares. He just doesn’t suffer fools gladly. Pat McCarthy, who is now a VoIP blogger but whose URL I can’t find, is a former Chef who met Ramsay and said that he is a very nice person but is a perfectionist.
I think basically all French-taught Chefs are male and are taught old-style, with a lot of screaming and tantrums. I also highly suspect that some of the participants on Hell’s Kitchen are “plants” - actors hired to play a role. There’s evidence of that in at least the first season, possibly the second.
But as long as your staff listens to him and seems passionate and eager to hear what he has to say (whether you ultimately follow or not), you’ll likely be okay.
have fun.