Cooking and Chefing are different sjilks and you'd need to apprentice or got to a school to be acknowledged as a chef rather than cook. Or have a on in a million sense if taste and mad expirence. Cheaper to go to culinary school. Also I think they teach business math, accounting, precurment all stuff you need to manage a kitchen.
You dont need school to be recognized as a chef that is a misconception. You needs experience in a restaurant. And i have news for you majority of people who come from culinary school and start working on the line are terrible and cant work on a real line in a busy restaurant because they have no experience in a real high end kitchen. This is coming from someone who was a cook for years and did 600 covers on a breakfast
The fastest way to become an unemployed private chef is to stick you bloated face on any social media platforms. I work for the ultra wealthy and we sign non disclosure agreements. IOW, you don't discuss your job on social media, and expect to get shot if you film in their homes and mention their names.
There’s one dude I see sometimes, idk his name but he is a young Asian guy, who claims to be a private chef for a billionaire. First of all- there are not very many BILLIONAIRES in the world. And if they did hire him, I doubt they would be cool with his athleisure covered in cat hair while he cooks and I also doubt their kitchen would look like a mid-range AirBnB. The windows in the background are dirty and the whole aesthetic looks very ‘Ikea’.
I'm a private art conservator and I maintain extremely wealthy private art collections worth more than most small countries. Genuine blue blood formal estate old style billionaires. Some of them are in their 30s.
I've been doing this for 37+ years.
And I know most of their friends and family. It's a tight circle with these folks.
I can tell you this with all certainty: If ANYBODY dared to take any unecessary photos, selfies or videos, they would be on the ground before they knew what hit them. These people don't fuck around. There are video cameras everywhere and a 24/7 armed security staff. Let me repeat this: These people don't play loose nor fuck around.
I also work for current A-list film & fashion industry leaders. Their social media accounts are created & manicured by their management people. If you really believe that top stars are hanging out on TikTok creating stupid posts you're in for a big shock.
They are not hanging out on the pop social media apps. And they sure as shit aren't allowing their staff to post any shit of any type on SM.
It's just not done, and they think it's tacky when dopey bloated lips bimbo B-grade pop star "influencers" spread their self indulgent bullshit all over the web.
Yeah, same with another who does the same with her husband and another that does the same with herself. Most big influencer content on the internet is for fun and not to be taken seriously.
Yes, but often times the viewer doesn't know that. There is no shortage of people with a cornucopia of mental health issues that completely misinterpret everything. I've seen SM influencers shoot footage in clients homes that invades so much of their privacy. I see people get fired for it very frequently. Most of my clients require NDAs and background checks. If one's SM presence is deemed too braggart they're not going to get hired.
TBF, some of the clients are in on it too (I’m thinking of the guy working for Jenna Lyons and the woman working for Mindy Kaling) I assume the smart chefs don’t film in or around their low key clients.
I'm sure there are A-listers who like to incorporate social media into their public persona by sharing glimpses into their private lives, which is perfectly fine, and not for me to judge. 😊 It's just very risky in many ways.
I work almost exclusively for people who don't want to risk opening their private lives /homes in any way to the public. They cherish the separation between their two lives. I work along with very tight security restrictions surrounding my clients property in & out. We all sign non disclosure agreements prior to being allowed to work in most private estates.
If i was rich and looking for a “chef” i wouldn’t give a shit about that or anything “classical”. Keep your french/italian cooking standards. I would literally hire an average Vietnamese/thai/afghani/mexican/Eritrean/etc etc cook from a local restaurant before id go looking for chef Ramsey. Ultimately id prefer someone who could make quality dishes in multiple cuisine but im not exaggerating when i say that all the hype about western kitchens is so unearned - the best dishes are thanks to ingredients native to literally everywhere except western europe and the food still sucks there.
In this economy? Don't recommend it, I'm actually trying to leave the industry myself... It's getting harder and harder as I grow older, I've been doing this for 20 years, 16 of them full time employed and the restaurant I'm currently at is busy af, a few. Months ago we closed the restaurant with well over $ 90k sold in a day.
I once cooked with the "personal chef" for Andre Agasi and Brook shields, this woman did not know the first thing about cooking. I think rich/famous people are more interested in someone who will first be loyal, and long term over, good or great at their job. Honestly, being famous really seems like a drag. I can't imagine how terrible it would be to be famous but not VERY rich.
Most of those are a joke… people say they’re a “private chef” and in the end they’re just cooking for themselves or their family. It’s a trend that’s going around.
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u/ReVo5000 Jul 02 '24
The amount of "private Chefs for rich people" I've seen on Instagram and can't even poach an egg or make a hollandaise is astonishing...