ITT: Shit you can't believe "pro" chefs made

[Anonymous No.18727190]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2xNUZAjQr4
Gordon Hacksey makes these "Chinese-style tortellini" to try and impress a head chef at a London dim sum restaurant but it's like something a first-month culinary student would pull together It makes me genuinely mad that a "professional" would make something so retarded and convince himself it's good
>Mashes together duck, scallop and shrimp as the protein
>Waste of duck by not letting it stand on its own
>Waste of scallops by pairing them with a strong flavor like duck
>Doesn't understand why pork/shrimp would be better than duck/shrimp because pork brings fat but no gameiness (feels like he just really wanted to make something "fancy" by using duck)
>vegetables for "texture" - it's a dumpling, the texture is supposed to be soft and tender all throughout like every dumpling made by every culture
This will mostly be a Gordon Ramsey hate thread I guess but feel free to post other examples of "professional chefs" making hack dishes

[Anonymous No.18727193]

>>18727190
Gordon has an "Asian" restaurant in London that doesn't have a single Asian chef and is styled like an opium den. Says a lot.

[Anonymous No.18727195]

>>18727193
Racism is fine, you don't need to be Chinese to make good Chinese food, you just, you know, actually have to make Chinese food and not this retarded "fusion" shit every modern chef seems obsessed with

[Anonymous No.18727203]

>>18727195
Look at this shit
https://www.gordonramsayrestaurants.com/lucky-cat/menus/a-la-carte/

[Anonymous No.18727218]

>>18727203
In Gordon's words, fuck me
>bonito fried duck leg bao
What is this motherfucker's obsession with pairing duck and seafood? Duck is basically already seafood

[Anonymous No.18727271]

>>18727190
I remember Ramsay attacking a restaurateur for serving grilled romaine lettuce.

It was really popular back then and I think later on he published a vid on one of his platform of a grilled lettuce dish.

[Anonymous No.18727514]

>>18727190
Grilled wedge salad is fucking delicious if done right (high heat, short time, using charcoal or another smoky fuel). Could work well with heart of romaine if the leafiest bits are trimmed off
Ramsey just wanted to seem like he knew something.

[Anonymous No.18727520]

>>18727193
>doesn't have a single Asian chef and is styled like an opium den
Based Gordon

[Anonymous No.18727551]

>>18727193
Ngl I am with OP but this is pretty based

[Anonymous No.18728524]

>>18727190
fuck Goydon Scamsey, that is all

[Anonymous No.18728565]

I have seen every episode of Hells Kitchen. I am convinced he tells guest judges to make it close in the finales. There is no way 9s and 8s alternate naturally like they do so often with his finale guest judges. Especially when they are sometimes just a general manager or someone with no kitchen experience. All the AMAs from past contestants say everything is real and not staged, but I'm calling bullshit.

[Anonymous No.18728569]

>>18728565
>everything is real and not staged
Remember when Gordon did the cocaine stunt?

[Anonymous No.18728584]

>>18727203
Fucking christ, what a boomer "asian" menu lmao.

[Anonymous No.18728590]

He cheated when competing against Gino D'Acampo in that road trip show he did with Gino and Fred Sirieix. And not just once. Every. Single. Time.
Also, grilled cheese.

[Anonymous No.18729438]

>>18728565
it's the producers, anon. they're also the ones telling gordon when to ham it up and over what

[Anonymous No.18730343]

The whole video is baffling
>hungover as shit
>in some randos house
>uses the fireplace
I'm sure he was contractually obliged to do this shit, but fuck it's embarrassing to watch

[Anonymous No.18730356]

>>18727190
Gordon is an obvious hack who's only thought of highly because he has several TV shows shilling him

[Anonymous No.18730372]

>>18727190
>vegetables for "texture" - it's a dumpling, the texture is supposed to be soft and tender all throughout like every dumpling made by every culture
In my experience a lot of Asian dumplings have vegetables in them.

[Anonymous No.18730385]

>>18730343
Absolutely beautiful. Stunning. Amazing. A stunning grilled cheese sandwich made with amazing honest local ingredients, yeh?

[Anonymous No.18730420]

>>18727193
>doesn't have a single Asian chef and is styled like an opium den
Mega based, I want to go there.

[Anonymous No.18730436]

>>18727190
its funny to see him as the student
>how's this stunning tortellini i made?
>not good enough, 5/10
>fucking hell m8, you're a slave driver
if one of his underlings said something like that to him he screams at them

[Anonymous No.18730562]

>>18730343
I would eat it

[Anonymous No.18730634]

>>18730436
That's called "status"
If Wolfgang Puck was in his kitchen and he said that, Gordon wouldn't say shit
If you or me said it yeah he'd lay into us because we have no status.

[Anonymous No.18730686]

all my favorite cooking channels uploaded SHIT recipes this week
>middle eats: what if I made an English Sunday roast but molested it with sumac
>chinese cooking demystified: what if you took a jar of Lao Gan Ma and put beef and onions into it. serve over rice
>banglar rannaghor: didn't upload

[Anonymous No.18730694]

>>18727195
though there are exceptions, good fusion is just bringing in one foreign ingredient. making xyz in the shape of abc, or completely swapping out spice palettes is 95% of the time dogshit

[Anonymous No.18730715]

>>18727195
>>18730694
You make better food if you grew up with it/it was a part of your culture. You have a connection that no outsider will ever have to it. Would you really prefer a French meal made by a Chinese guy who learned to cook in Paris five years ago or one made by a Frenchman who has spent decades immersed in the culture? Why do you think Ramsay is so passionate about a chip butty/beans on toast/beef Wellington? It's more than just food to him, it's his history and his culture. His best food is also always his modern British stuff, his Asian/pizza places are mediocre.

[Anonymous No.18730804]

>>18730686
>lao gan ma
Is it really that good or am I being memed?

[Anonymous No.18730968]

>>18730715
>>18730694
I'm from Italy, but my uncle married a Nihonjin woman from (... I wanna say Kobe?) who, in the 80s, had few options for actual Japanese ingredients so had to create Japitalian fusion (since she didn't know how to cook Italian food and my uncle only knew how to cook fish) and it was good stuff.
Most other naturally occuring fusion cuisines I've had have also been good, such as Peranakan cooking, Burgher cooking, American Chinese cooking, AngloIndian cooking, ItaloEcuadorian cooking, TexMex/American Southwestern cooking and so on. The only one I can say I've disliked is ItaloAmerican/ItaloAustralian cooking, but that's likely due to my own cultural chauvinism.
If you've ever had and liked masala chai, congratulations; you've enjoyed something that was the product of naturally occuring fusion cuisine.
Fusion can be good, but not when made through a hamfisted attempt to shoehorn things together that simply don't work.

[Anonymous No.18732187]

>>18730372
Frozen dumplings from Sam's club yes, but there's a shit ton of excellent dim sum places in the PNW where I live and the only vegetable present in those dumplings are finely minced scallions or leeks, or maybe very soft steamed chopped cabbage. Certainly not big ass chunks of carrot and raw purple cabbage. Motherfucker ain't gonna put salad in my dumpling

[Anonymous No.18732198]

>>18730686
>what if I made an English Sunday roast but molested it with sumac
Now that doesn't sound too bad actually, serve it with tumeric rice and pita and tabouli

[Anonymous No.18732233]

>>18730343
He should just start uploading videos of himself getting as wasted as possible and trying to cook. I'm talking injuring yourself, struggling to stand up wasted. People that like Gordon would watch it, people that hate Gordon would also maybe watch it.

[Anonymous No.18732243]

>>18727190
remember when ramsay cut open bag of doritos then covered them in a bunch of slop like a mexican prison meal

[Anonymous No.18732245]

>>18732233
That was basically that video of him making those omelettes in Norway

[Anonymous No.18732347]

>>18728565
Wow you're a real fucking sleuth you piece of shit

[Anonymous No.18732513]

>>18727203
>long menu
>steak at an Asian restaurant

[Anonymous No.18732525]

>>18727218
I'll agree that it sounds stupid but I think his reasoning is that fish lacks fat and duck has fat

[Anonymous No.18732783]

>>18732233
I'd watch that

[Anonymous No.18732832]

>>18732233
i don't really feel anything towards him. like i didn't really feel anything towards bourdain. i do actually mourn for the e-celebs doing the right thing who just die one day and some random anon is like 'hey doodz'. those people matter.
nothing wrong with that either. who gives a fuck if you don't like rich people on tv? kekkles.
>tl;dr would watch

[Anonymous No.18732989]

>>18730385
rustic
honest
simple
food

[Anonymous No.18732996]

>>18732989
Ramsay has not done this in like 15 years, and never did it in the US. Why does this meme continue?

[Anonymous No.18733000]

>>18732513
The Vietnamese often have steak at their restaurants because of French colonialism.

[Anonymous No.18733017]

>>18727203
this is literally "nice-ish asian fusion restaurant in any metro city in america" tier. fucking shameful for a """michelin starred""" chef.

[Anonymous No.18733343]

>>18727190
IMAGINE PAYING 30 DOLLARS FOR A FUCKING DUCK LEG BAO BUN

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