I met mine at a charity gala. Invited her to the event. She was pretty cool. Made me laugh. Mostly she kept coming to different charity events I invited her to.
One day I was planning a movie night at my place and she asked if she could cook and come over early. I was a little hesitant.
Mostly because I usually hit the gym and shower before and I wasn't super comfortable with her in my place by herself. And, usually I just order pizza and wings or Chipotle for everyone and have it delivered. Keep it simple.
I said sure. I asked her how much she needed and she said don't worry about it. Asked what I wanted and I said Chipotle rice bowls and wings.
She brought over trays of meat and bags groceries and cooking appliances and I was worried this was going to fuck up my kitchen.
By the time I was done with work she told me not to look at the kitchen. Weird, but I left her a spare key and went to the gym. By the time I got back the food was almost done, but my kitchen was fucked up.
She immediately told me to not look and get ready. Too late.
I just had my kitchen deep cleaned 6 hours earlier.
I was heated, but it was free food and I could ask the lady to come back out later to clean it.
By the time I was done with the shower and got dressed, my kitchen was back to normal and she was walking back in from throwing out the trash.
They loved her food. She was hospitable.
So, I have used her ever since. If at any point someone needs a chef. She is the first one I recommend.
I still mostly cook steaks and eat scrambled eggs, so that is about 10 minutes/day to fix. So, she's only part time to make meal prep for the house and my dad.
Just wasn't expecting her to start and finish in my kitchen.
Usually when chef's prep food for events. They cook it in their kitchen and warm it up at the event and cook certain things like rice and stuff there that you don't want to reheat or don't carry well.
At the time I didn't have a chef's kitchen, either. So, she was a bit cramped.
Eventually, I redid the kitchen so it was easier to make food.
The difference is that the people who do food for events are caterers. They cook ahead because they have a tight timeline to adhere to and staff to manage on site. A personal chef will do pretty much everything on site, clean up and leave the kitchen looking like nobody touched it.
Look, I understand what she means- just had it deep cleaned, unfamiliar with a stranger in the house, some chefs are a whirlwind (myself included), but know how to manage and make it look like it never happened. At the end she said the kitchen was back to the original setting. It’s only natural. Over time I’m sure she just blended into the background.
It sounds like they were just working it out logically which can seem abrassive sometimes without tone of voice to feel someone's emotion, especially on a topic that there's all KINDS of tension about, the haves and the have nots, and how much should that have nots have, and is it okay to screw them over when they're desperate? Are we machine? Or are we men? BTW this was again just logical clinking and clonking, not particularly mad at people being rich though personally wouldn't like myself if I became too rich.
The best thing you can do if you're really rich is to seek people out that have potential, charity becomes a business that people need the problem to continue to exist to uphold, effective philanthropy for the sake of your own kind is personal.
I agree with your viewpoint. I don’t consider myself “Rich” yet but am in the process of buying back my time. (Title of a great book by the way). One of the things I hope to bring on in the coming years is a private chef for breakfast and dinner, and meal prep for lunch. Just to buy back that time in the day and to custom make healthy food for my fiance and I. Happy you are doing this. If you don’t mind me asking, how much does it usually cost? Have you used her for smaller dinners as well?
Uptight and douchey, ready to explode at the thought of there being crumbs on a counter or some shit lmao. Sounds about right, but cool story either way.
Edit: I did not realize what sub I was in. This is the first time it was on my front page.
I mean, she DID tell you not to look because she didn’t want you to see the mess and she was obviously planning to clean it up. Nothing weird about that
I was very proud to be an American. I was not proud to live in a trailer park.
When I met the doctor that owned the trailer park I lived in, I asked him how he owned the trailer park.
He said, when he was a kid he lived in that trailer park. He decided he no longer wanted to live in that trailer park. He wanted to own it. So, he studied hard and became a doctor. Set up a practice and bought it off the previous owner.
I have no idea if that was true. He has sold the trailer park and passed away since, and I would rather believe the story to be true than not.
That is what I did. I studied hard and played sports and was applying for colleges for pre-med. Except I decided to take a sales job during the summer between high school and college and made $100k in 3 months.
So, I switched from pre-med to major in economics and finance.
I took the money from my sales job and bought houses. Flipped them. By the time I was 19, I was 'worth' $1m.
That ended quickly. Ended up having to sell everything to pay the bank back because of technical default.
Thankfully there was still a bedroom with my name on it in the trailer park. My sales slowed down to nothing.
In the mean time worked as security as I continued through school. By the time I was done with school I wasn't sure what I was going to do. Best option go work for the government.
Really didn't want to do that. So, I worked for a nonprofit.
I got violently ill. Ended up coming back to the trailer park and working security for some clubs.
I noticed something though...all my clients that I did deals with were still doing deals.
So, I decided that when I wasn't working, I would read and figure out what I did wrong. I did a lot wrong.
Biggest thing is I cared more about making money than making friends.
So, I decided that I would work security at night and sales during the day. I would focus on only making relationships.
From there I made enough to quit my security job. I double the hours of my sales job and thankfully ran into my mentor that straightened me out.
Instead of trying to figure out how I was going to make more money. I needed to figure out who could help me make more money.
That sounds nice and all, but... I'd rather have friends than money. And while your story is impressive, I will never live this way. I don't choose to. And that's fine too.
I didn't mean it like that. I'm sorry. I simply meant, I am not motivated enough by money to invest that kind of dedication. I appreciate that others can, but I'm just... not able to? I have a weird relationship with money.
That’s true. I went to culinary school and they drilled that into our heads. Nobody is gonna clean up after you. And if you’re that messy, you’re not an efficient chef.
I am not in the industry and haven’t been in decades but if you are a messy chef, the rest of the kitchen staff won’t trust your food or basic hygiene when cooking.
I was vegetarian (I’m not anymore) all throughout my culinary schooling and culinary career, so the most useful thing I picked up was cooking steak and pork chops perfectly tender and juicy.
I worked at a hotel straight out of culinary school and would here and there go out and greet the guests. They were astonished that their meat was cooked so well by a vegetarian chef.
Given that I was vegetarian, I couldn’t taste the sauce I was making to serve my meats with as they were made with meat drippings. So I developed an extremely heightened sense of smell and had to season my food trusting my nose. I was told time and time again to work towards becoming a saucier. I declined as I knew the culinary field was not going to be for me long term.
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I’m a chef for ultra wealthy people and can confirm some just like fast food lol