/ck/ - Food & Cooking

marco pierre white..... circa. 1988.

....and then anyone else you care to talk about.

>>4080397
INB4 shitstorm!

"How dare people disagree with me on the internet?"

Ferran Adrià

Not that I agree with it myself.

>>4080408

>smoker
>top class chef

Pick one

The original badass is of course Marie-Antoine Carême.

Further entries on the list have to include Heston Blumenthal, Ferran Adriá, Thomas Keller and Gualtiero Marchesi.

>>4080418

the fuck are you even talking about, home boy.

Thomas Keller
c. late 90s - early 00s

Michel Roux snr
Michel Roux jr

Off the top of my head, the 10 best French chefs are:
- Thomas Keller
- Paul Bocuse
- Joel Robuchon
- Alain Ducasse
- Daniel Boulod
- Marco Pierre White
- Jacque Pepin
- Albert and Michel Roux Snr
- Heston Blumenthal

>French chefs
>Thomas Keller
>Heston Blumenthal

lolwut? Your list is pretty okay otherwise.

>>4080460
Man doesn't have to be french to cook french cuisine.

> implying anyone else can even challenge for #1

>>4080465

Blumenthal is a molecular gastronomist. He's never even been formally trained. He is a great chef but he's certainly not a French chef.

pic related

Rene Redzepi
Joan Roca
Andoni Luis Aduriz
Alex Atala
Massimo Bottura
Thomas Keller
Grant Achatz
Juan Mari Arzak
Heston Blumenthal
Daniel Humm

These are currently the best.

Number One: Harley Morenstein

Shut up, you filthy Australian.

>>4080598
The face of gluttony. This picture is so fitting it could be taken from a bible.

>>4080606
Your bibles contain imagery? Heresy!

>>4080598
die choking on pig dick

>>4080560
>implying french chefs are the best.

>>4080397

Guy Fieri or Rachael Ray.

>>4080418
I have to agree. I've noticed that people who smoke in my kitchen tend to get their food brought back due to way over or under seasoning. There's no consistency with smokers.

I think Emerils a pretty cool guy. Eh cooks things and doesn't afraid of gahlick.

/ck/ noob here. i'll take this opportunity to ask what /ck/ thinks about gordon ramsay?

i assume you guys hate him, since we're on 4chan, and every board on 4chan hates popular stuff from their topic.

>>4081045
She reminds me too much of Betty's Kitchen on YouTube.

>>4081470
he must be half decent he's got all the michelin stars

>>4081470
He usually gets a fair amount of praise here. Guy Fieri and most other food network chefs not named Alton Brown are the ones that get hated here.

>>4081490
>implying we don't think Alton Brown is an overrated hack

Alton Brown is an educator and I say that loosely. He can't cook for shit and his recipes suck.

Learning to cook from Good Eats is like trying to send a man to the moon by watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos.

Ramsay is fine, but it's his American television persona that is not liked.

You guys make it sound like being a chef is a skill, anyone can throw food together, it's just a matter of knowing how. The list shouldnt be called 10 best chefs, it should be 10 best cookbooks. Hell, even with improv some of your average every day none chefs could probably outcook these guys you mentioned in a blind taste test.

>>4081470
I love him, he is entertaining to watch is good learning away his skills.

I especially love his Ultimate Cookery Course which is him showing the basics of cooking and how to make simple, yet delicious food.

He is a british superhero.

>>4080593
>Massimo Bottura

Easily my #1, the man literally has made me cry

after that,

Paco Roncero
Quique Dacosta
David Chang
Nuno Mendes
Mark Ladner
Michael White
Chris Cosentino (the show aside he really is an outstanding chef)
Hubert Keller
Corey Lee

How many of you have eaten meals from these guys restaurants?

>>4081544

Cosentino & Corey Lee? hundreds
Keller probably close to that
Bottura maybe 5, Chang at least a dozen
the others maybe a handful each

>>4081552

Fancy. Friends?

>>4081556

business travel for some, location for others, the ability to write it off in my taxes helps

This thread is absolutely disgusting.
I am THE best chef.

>>4081495
>his recipes suck
bitch please

>>4081495
It's funny how just up until a couple months ago /ck/ loved Alton.

I bet you've been here all summer, huh?

Gordon Ramsay for all ten slots.

Honorable mention:
Rachel Ray

>>4081600
I know, it's a fucking embarassment. Twats.

>>4081495
>>4081490

Either way, Alton isn't a chef.

A chef is the head cook in a restaurant. It has the same root as chief. No matter how much you talk about food, it doesn't make you a chef.

There's also big difference between being a chef and a restaurateur.

julia child you fucking idiots.

>>4082555
>implying a prominent figure has been or will ever be the best cook or chef in the world
In fact, the best cook in the world is probably some poor African or South American youth who does amazing things with what he has to work with, and will die without knowing the fame that people who have more personality than skill have.

>>4081552
I envy you. I'm poor, friendless and have never had a girlfriend. I'd love to dine at those places once a month with my girlfriend and a friendly couple while we talk animated and intelligently about the World but it's not going to happen.

>>4082626
>talk animated and intelligently
I get the intelligent part but animated? WTF is that? Sign language?

>>4084847
Not the guy you're replying to, but you're an idiot.

>>4084847
Yeah, you sound retarded.

I don't know as I don't follow chefs but you cant really rank them all because I highly doubt you all have been to many of their restaurants and are able to rate their food first hand.