[Sca-cooks] Re: Very carefully not panicking...

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach P. A. Stonnell:
>And most important, Cooks do NOT do scullery!

I've got to agree with Muiredach here. In a perfect world, chefs
don't do prep work, but in the real world, some prep requires skills
only the chef will have. In addition, the chef needs to be able to
demonstrate and instruct on exactly how this prep work is to be done
(unless they know the assistants are experienced and/or speaking on
the same wavelength as the head cook).

Sometimes, also, the chef will need to weigh in and assist the
assistants if they have fallen behind schedule. Generally (but not
always) the chef is sufficiently experienced in the different kitchen
jobs that they're still pretty quick in the prep work.

And, as Muiredach suggests, you never want to project the idea that
you're above any kitchen work, or that you're asking anybody to do
any work you can't or won't do yourself.

Adamantius, who has the weekend to decide whether to call the people
back who left the chef job offer on the answering machine
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"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes
deserves to be called a scholar."
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