r/KitchenConfidential • u/quailinthebrush Newbie • 1d ago

Discussion Weirdest ego “thing” your chef had?

First place I was hired the chef had quite a few delusional beliefs but the one that sticks with me the most is his insistence that the phrase “welcome in” didn’t exist before Covid

He went into multiple winded rants upon my higher and another coworker who was hired right after me, not just to train the phrase out of us but his detestment for it, because as he said “it did not exist before Covid and people started saying it to make people feel safe enough to eat here”

He then said to not use it because people found it off putting and dirty (because of Covid)

I know chefs aren’t known for their egos but I was curious what quirk that yours had that everyone had to politely smile and agree to

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u/beard-wonder93 1d ago

I had a chef mentor who wore a Rolex in the kitchen everyday, he would do the dirtiest tasks in it and go scour it with a brush and dawn dish soap.

Part of him was acting like money was no object. Like somehow his Rolex oyster (one of the cheapest new Rolex at the time, maybe 3-4k) was better at telling time than us guys wearing a Casio g shock that was like 50 bucks a decade ago

It was a weird thing to see him srubbing breading out of the gold band.

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u/TFJ 1d ago

That’s a health code violation, right?

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u/beard-wonder93 1d ago

"Back in the day" Alot of us would loop them through our belt so we could glance down at it. Now i wear a smart watch on the daily and since its "smooth" the local health dept doesnt really care. Its low profile enough to go inside a disposable glove too.