[Sca-cooks] Source for cook's stuff? (was Re: Very carefully not panicking...)

[Daniel Myers]

Now that you mention it, can you (or any of the other professional-type
cooks on the list) point me to a good, reasonably inexpensive source
for aprons, cooks jackets, etc....

Also, any other tips on clothing (such as the one about shoes) would be
most appreciated.

- Doc

On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 12:46 PM, Gorgeous Muiredach wrote:
>
>> comfy shoes
>
> I'd define comfy shoes as shoes that are hard soled and will hold one's
> ankle safely.  I have found that as comfortable as they are, running
> shoes
> of all ilks are probably the worst thing.  At the end of a 14, 15 hour
> day,
> your ankle are swollen, your feet are sore, and your lower back is
> likely
> to kill you.
>
> There's a reason so many chefs and surgeon vote for (closed heel) clogs
> :-)  Make sure they have a non-skid sole if you go that way.
>
>> comfy clothes
>
> Comfy, yet not baggy.  Dangerous to have baggy clothes in the
> kitchen.  ALso, avoid like the plague any synthetics.
>
>> an apron
>
> Or three.  Your apron is what you get dirty and wet and all.  Change it
> regularly.
>
>> > A word of advice.  You are the HEAD cook.  The others are working
>> under
>> you.
>> > Take time to sit.  Do not keep working and standing all day.
>
> As the head honcho, one of the things I had the hardest time with was
> to
> learn to delegate...  Once you learn that, and learn that it's ok to
> let
> the help take some guided initiative, then you have half the job done
> :-)
>
> Someone mentionned that the cooks don't do scullery....   Well, in a
> well
> organized place, that's true.  But you have to be ready and willing to
> do
> it, if only to set the example.  I have never asked anyone in my
> kitchens
> to do somethign I wouldn't be ready to do myself.  Basic show of
> respect, I
> think.


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