As chefs, we cook all day at our job, when it comes to home cooking for ourselves, we aren’t gonna whip out some kind of high end restaurant dish. We just want to eat something simple and delicious, and not stand in the kitchen for hours on our day off. One pot/pan wonders is always the way to go!
I'm definitely going to have to figure out the curry chicken one. But I like to make a crack chicken in my slow cooker and so that turns into about 5:00 or so different meals. Cream broccoli chicken and rice, chicken quesadilla, King ranch casserole, white chicken enchiladas with queso cheese, a quick chicken salad if I feel the need I mean it's just very versatile.
Honestly the best curry sauces are the cheap shop brands in the jars, absolutely love cheap tikka or even a korma which is mild but theres a ton of flavour, has to be shops own brand like morrisons, cheap too! Shred the chicken, dont dice it and add instant pilau rice and eat it using ready salted crisps as a scoop, thank me later 😍😍😍
Bro I’m working in a cafe in London that sells fresh sourdough that staff can bring home if not bought that day. I’ve had two weeks of putting anything I can find on sourdough
I graduated culinary school five years ago and the only time I’m expected to cook like a professional, when I’m not at my job is when I go home for the holidays!!😂😂😂
Former chef, The left over pizza crust I rejected yesterday. Realistically though, when I was working for a busy restaurant the kitchen staff was there 14-16 everyday, six days a week. I ate whatever staff meal was readily available. You start looking for employees with a exotic background and make them make staff meal. Our dishwasher made an amazing biryani. When I opened my own restaurant my hours only went up. I made sure to put in a shower and a Murphy bed in my office. Unrelated story… one year during the Christmas holiday we were doing maybe 18 hours a day. One day, during a snowstorm, when we final got off in the morning the bus was delayed. After waiting 45 minutes I just went back to the restaurant and passed out in the lounge area. The morning prep crew was already there and I had to be back at work in about four hours anyways.
I'd make a pot of stew at the beginning of the week and have that with sandwiches over the week. Worked 50 hours minimum so I could set the crock pot to cook for 8 hours then stay warm and then dish out leftovers into individual servings.
I feel this so much. I have been trying to cook more meals at home though to eat healthier, I just try to prep beforehand or cook fast meals and save leftovers for the week.
I as a chef I do too something easy good and doesn’t require 10 fing preparations. Mostly sandwiches, ramen or pasta dishes. And no Fries for me or anything that resembles from the menu at work, I am Fed up tasting and preparing by the time I’m back at home. And most of the time I eat very late at night. I need like a good hour till my body understand that I was tasting all the time and not really eating. FYI my go to dish is either aglio olio or carbonara simply because I have those ingredients most of the time and last long when they are well packaged😅
A car mechanic will have every car running right except his own . Plumbers have leaky pipes . Roofers have cracks in their shingles , flooring installers will have at least one room with stained carpet . No one wants to come home and do what they do for a living with the same commitment they put into a work day lol
Roast chickens is the best way to go. It’s healthy. Plus you get better and better at roasting chicken which is a useful skill. I roast two chickens a week.
Even though they won’t cook super high end foods for themselves, let’s be honest. They’re still chefs. The food they eat has to meet SOME kind of standards. Their eggs and toasts are better than ours. I’m 100 percent sure
honestly wiht the ammount of tasting throughout the day and the food that goes through your hands even if I didnt eat basically anything I didnt want to eat
Big batches of something braised, served over rice. Make one or two during a day off and have it for the week. If you can't finish it, freeze the rest.
Line Cook here, it’s pretty typical for folks to have family meal and to take leftovers home in a soup cup to eat for later or just order food to take home. We work hard and play hard. But, we’re also on a budget and eating out sometimes isn’t a viable.
I usually stew ox tail and some beef. Put it in a fridge and slap in some sauces when i throw it in a pan. Get a bowl of rice, pasta or instant mash. Then have frozen or canned vegetables. If i have fresh veggies or mushrooms i use that instead obviously. Its easy. Just takes 15 mins or less.
I usually just eat processed food before same as most chef. But its better for my health and better food when i just stew a kilo or 2 of oxtail or beef then use that as my meat for a week. Roasting is also good i once did that with a lamb leg. Ate it for a week. Also its good to have mince meat or chicken marinating in the fridge which you can put in the air fryer or oven: this is what i recommend specially for moms or dads like me that has to cook for the family a few times a week.
Cereal, ramen, always keep loaf of bread and meats at the house to kind of make a quick sandwich or just go get something. But now that it's about to be cooler weather, it's time for slow cooker! I love to make about 4 or 5 slow cook packs for the freezer and I'll throw them into the slow cooker in the morning so by the time I get home 8:00 or so hours later, it's done.
depends on if he is delivering in the city or the suburbs/rural areas, as most suburbs/rural areas have mailboxes right next to the street so the mailmen there don't have to get out of the mail truck.
Chef here. I just eat leftovers from the shop or make a tomato sandwich- so tired that taste doesn't matter . Just fill my stomach for my meds. Or if I have little energy- I make ghee khichdi in a pressure cooker and eat it for 3 days.
We eat while we work. Mine is usually the chips, veggies and literally scraps of meat after plating up. You'd be surprised how much. So like a table of 5 could see you with q bug handful of chips, good few bits of broccoli and carrots and if its ham or beef then the pieces that don't look to appetising are good. Im always full by end of service. The best is when you've made too many puddings and their best before date is on the morning you start. Technically theyd be fine, but by law they have to get binned. But if its something like macaroons or creme brulé then it's a bonus 😂😂
Poached eggs on toast, maybe a simple burger, ramen, pizza. That's about it for me. All quick, easy and tasty. It's not about not wanting to cook on my days off, i LOVE cooking at home or work. It's juat laziness
As an ex chef, I am always interested as to why patrons give a sh_t about what chefs eat. Patrons are so bored with so many options that they can't even focus on what they order. They have to dig into the homes of what chefs eat. Hilarious how customers act like they know about food and then they are surprised with the simplicity of what us cooks like to eat.
Nobody cares what you eat, you wanker, they're "creating content" to push the overpriced meat in their estaurant. Why you mad someone asked their staff a simple question? Get a life and stop eating like a demented raccoon over a garbage can... Your patrons don't give two shits if you eat or not.
For all the plebs who don’t understand this. We cook at an insanely high level day in day out. When we’re off we just want to chill and NOT think about food
As chefs, we cook all day at our job, when it comes to home cooking for ourselves, we aren’t gonna whip out some kind of high end restaurant dish. We just want to eat something simple and delicious, and not stand in the kitchen for hours on our day off. One pot/pan wonders is always the way to go!
Nobody cares you’re making shit up on RUclips comments
No one said high end but surely they can do better than beans or egg on toast is
@@triplec6616 pretty sure it's up to them what they wanna cook or eat at home 😂😂
@@triplec6616 If you're working 12+ hours in a kitchen, probably not.
@@triplec6616 knob
The guy saying eggs and toast was instantly craving it and thinking about how he would make it when he got home 😅
I picked up on that too 😆
After a long day of service I usually stand in my pants in front of the kitchen cupboard and eat a full bag of Daim bars.
This really made me laugh 😂😂
This is quite possibly the funniest comment I've ever read. I full on belly laughed 😂
This is just as accurate as it is funny 😂
Hummus and crackers whilst standing at the fridge
The roast chicken for the week guy gets it. There’s a million ways to do chicken
I'm definitely going to have to figure out the curry chicken one. But I like to make a crack chicken in my slow cooker and so that turns into about 5:00 or so different meals. Cream broccoli chicken and rice, chicken quesadilla, King ranch casserole, white chicken enchiladas with queso cheese, a quick chicken salad if I feel the need I mean it's just very versatile.
Honestly the best curry sauces are the cheap shop brands in the jars, absolutely love cheap tikka or even a korma which is mild but theres a ton of flavour, has to be shops own brand like morrisons, cheap too! Shred the chicken, dont dice it and add instant pilau rice and eat it using ready salted crisps as a scoop, thank me later 😍😍😍
@@shioriryukaze nice idea. need to find an instant pot version of this
Facts only time out of work you get some cheffing done is when u tell a girl to come round for some food 😂😂
You’ve never spoken to a girl in your life you little melt. Also you probs work at spoons in Peckham or suttin
Wow this whole time I've been cooking (at home) like a professional chef!
Same. If i were to do it for a job, I'd have zero energy left for it
to anyone who sees some movie with a chef cooking something amazing at home...its a scam
😂
Unless it's to Impress someone
but we have all the tools for it. Dusty, but they are there
this 😂😂😂
@@lordofmiseenpalce7871Yeah like Scarlett Johansson
My man with the roast chicken giving out life tips
ikr, he started listing off all the possibile recipes and i was like "damn thats smart"
That is a great idea. Make one on sunday. Eat one half as your sunday dinner and prep the rest for the week
Sourdough guy and I would get along. Sourdough is the greatest thing ever invented.
Bro I’m working in a cafe in London that sells fresh sourdough that staff can bring home if not bought that day. I’ve had two weeks of putting anything I can find on sourdough
@@seancarey3556 sounds like heaven. Enjoy.
What about sliced sourdough? 🤔
Yes!! Sourdough toasted with butter and honey is heaven better than any fancy restaurant meal
I graduated culinary school five years ago and the only time I’m expected to cook like a professional, when I’m not at my job is when I go home for the holidays!!😂😂😂
Former chef, The left over pizza crust I rejected yesterday. Realistically though, when I was working for a busy restaurant the kitchen staff was there 14-16 everyday, six days a week. I ate whatever staff meal was readily available. You start looking for employees with a exotic background and make them make staff meal. Our dishwasher made an amazing biryani. When I opened my own restaurant my hours only went up. I made sure to put in a shower and a Murphy bed in my office.
Unrelated story… one year during the Christmas holiday we were doing maybe 18 hours a day. One day, during a snowstorm, when we final got off in the morning the bus was delayed. After waiting 45 minutes I just went back to the restaurant and passed out in the lounge area. The morning prep crew was already there and I had to be back at work in about four hours anyways.
You might be the ONLY person that has ever had to grind to start up a business!!!! Wow congrats
@@daviddejager7877 What ? You've never se,e any restaurant owner then ...
@@raphaelfillos6120 was being sarcastic
@@daviddejager7877 You dropped this then : "/s"
@@daviddejager7877lol ok reject
I swear I thought the third guy was Jason Genova for a sec😂😂😂😂 WE MISS YOU JASON😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤
Pasta is definitely my favorite. It’s so versatile and you can make it as simple or as complex as you want it’s great
Same! Ramen was my go to when I was a professional cook! it’s all I actually wanted/craved when I wasn’t working/ eating family meal
Eggs and toast was definitely the move after getting home at 3 am after shutting down the bar with the kitchen goons
Sourdough with butter and honey?? I'm in love.
I’m a mechanic. My car is falling to bits
I'd make a pot of stew at the beginning of the week and have that with sandwiches over the week. Worked 50 hours minimum so I could set the crock pot to cook for 8 hours then stay warm and then dish out leftovers into individual servings.
I feel this so much. I have been trying to cook more meals at home though to eat healthier, I just try to prep beforehand or cook fast meals and save leftovers for the week.
I thought that was Jason Genova with the curly hair lol
Same 😂 I worked in food service and if I didn’t make something at work to bring home I would just eat something super simple.
classic pot noodle always works for me 😂
The whole chicken leftover idea is great, thanks
It seems chefs either stop “cooking” once they leave their job or they make crazy dishes at home. No in between
Or they make crazy dishes at home... After they retire out of the profession and do something else.
14+ hours on you feet cooking, can really make you wanna not be on your feet cooking when you get home. Weird.
Yummy. All great comfort food. So interesting as well to hear these chefs choose such simple foods as their favorites! They all sound delicious.
My former head chefs dinner was a can of sardines and rice/noodles or a kebab lol.
I as a chef I do too something easy good and doesn’t require 10 fing preparations. Mostly sandwiches, ramen or pasta dishes. And no Fries for me or anything that resembles from the menu at work, I am Fed up tasting and preparing by the time I’m back at home. And most of the time I eat very late at night. I need like a good hour till my body understand that I was tasting all the time and not really eating. FYI my go to dish is either aglio olio or carbonara simply because I have those ingredients most of the time and last long when they are well packaged😅
I read fing as thing, as if the text itself had a British accent....
PB n J can’t go wrong
A car mechanic will have every car running right except his own . Plumbers have leaky pipes . Roofers have cracks in their shingles , flooring installers will have at least one room with stained carpet . No one wants to come home and do what they do for a living with the same commitment they put into a work day lol
Love SOURDOUGH bread with anything 😍😍😍
Pasta is actually the best food I know. Delicious and simple. That's the oldschool way
This is the definition of why the mechanics car is always broke down aha
Kebab, that’s all I want after a busy day ❤
Im with the last guy eggs and toast for life
Yessss
This is so accurate. When I worked in a kitchen my first day off was resting in bed and ordering sushi. Barely cooked !
Buttered noodles with a decent quality parmesan is my go-to after a long shift and I'm hungry.
Man there was some hot chefs in that video
you can just see that they make thos efoods really good, like, REALLY good
Roast chickens is the best way to go. It’s healthy. Plus you get better and better at roasting chicken which is a useful skill. I roast two chickens a week.
People forget with all the tv chefs how ordinary men strive to provide as chefs
I’m the roast chicken guy 😂
I'm with the chef that goes home and whips up ramen. I have so many different variations of how I do it!
Shit at least one was honest saying ramen, those other dudes thought they were slick calling it "pasta" 😂
Nothing beats cooking instant ramen and eggs after service, and eating it still in the pot over the sink
the roast chicken one is cool
As a baker and chef I mostly go for high nutrient foods that are classics like eggs and roast chicken
Eggs, smoothie and toast >>>
Reminds me of the saying about a capenterd house always being in disrepair
Chicken one is always good tbf, I also love pasta
the Italian chef talking with his eyes closed. of course he loves pasta
I'm a chef. Work mostly fish. Days off I usually make a big batch dish like a curry or lasagne.
Chicken dude has the idea
Boiled eggs on toast with chilli flakes or a slab of mature chedder with branstons pickle. Can't be arsed cooking when iv been at it all day.
Eggs and toast. You’re my guy. That’s my jam.
Even though they won’t cook super high end foods for themselves, let’s be honest. They’re still chefs. The food they eat has to meet SOME kind of standards. Their eggs and toasts are better than ours. I’m 100 percent sure
i mean eggs and toast is eggs and toast, can’t really switch up the flavours that much but texture could be pretty different
honestly wiht the ammount of tasting throughout the day and the food that goes through your hands even if I didnt eat basically anything I didnt want to eat
I didn't know Eddie Hall is working in a kitchen
My dinner at 11pm usually consists of a bag of crisp and a packet of Haribo!
Pierre white solely ate ham sandwiches and picklilli for about 10 years on a rare day off
Big batches of something braised, served over rice. Make one or two during a day off and have it for the week. If you can't finish it, freeze the rest.
What I came away with is that London has some really good looking Chefs 🧑🍳👀😁
Pretty standard honestly, cheffing is hard work, people don't tend to get pudgy until they get in charge
Love the roast chicken chef. ❤❤❤
Line Cook here, it’s pretty typical for folks to have family meal and to take leftovers home in a soup cup to eat for later or just order food to take home.
We work hard and play hard. But, we’re also on a budget and eating out sometimes isn’t a viable.
A plumbers house is full of leaks.... Imagine being a gynaecologist...
People really struggle using the phrase 'instant noodles' these days.. powerful
Like a chef.
it's true i'm a soldier and when i'm at home i hardly ever kill people and if i do it's something quick and simple like a kid
This reminds of of the time I got gravy with my meal and I found a beard hair in it… thanks chef xx
As a cook, I don’t feed myself anything really fancy. But for anyone else I’d do anything.
Myself. Cereal or Sandwiches 🥪 😅
I just eat, eggs and hummus, pasta and sometimes just ice cream for dinner
Pasta and bread ❤
I usually stew ox tail and some beef. Put it in a fridge and slap in some sauces when i throw it in a pan. Get a bowl of rice, pasta or instant mash. Then have frozen or canned vegetables. If i have fresh veggies or mushrooms i use that instead obviously. Its easy. Just takes 15 mins or less.
I usually just eat processed food before same as most chef. But its better for my health and better food when i just stew a kilo or 2 of oxtail or beef then use that as my meat for a week. Roasting is also good i once did that with a lamb leg. Ate it for a week. Also its good to have mince meat or chicken marinating in the fridge which you can put in the air fryer or oven: this is what i recommend specially for moms or dads like me that has to cook for the family a few times a week.
chef anthony!
Cereal, ramen, always keep loaf of bread and meats at the house to kind of make a quick sandwich or just go get something. But now that it's about to be cooler weather, it's time for slow cooker! I love to make about 4 or 5 slow cook packs for the freezer and I'll throw them into the slow cooker in the morning so by the time I get home 8:00 or so hours later, it's done.
The last thing a mailman wants to do when he gets home is go for a walk.
depends on if he is delivering in the city or the suburbs/rural areas, as most suburbs/rural areas have mailboxes right next to the street so the mailmen there don't have to get out of the mail truck.
Beans on toast, eggs on toast... proper British
Chefs are built different
🌝🌚
In what way are they built different?
He had me after dirty rice... That's a staple in my house
Trend is they like to always have the same thing! Very specific habits! Me too!
They’re just like us!
Got americans workin there
I am also a Ramen guy!
I use to just eat creamy scrabble eggs and toast or what ever left overs in the fridge
Chef here. I just eat leftovers from the shop or make a tomato sandwich- so tired that taste doesn't matter . Just fill my stomach for my meds. Or if I have little energy- I make ghee khichdi in a pressure cooker and eat it for 3 days.
My ex husband cooked all the time ! Created his new recipes for his restaurant. Just enjoyed cooking, plain and simple
We eat while we work. Mine is usually the chips, veggies and literally scraps of meat after plating up. You'd be surprised how much.
So like a table of 5 could see you with q bug handful of chips, good few bits of broccoli and carrots and if its ham or beef then the pieces that don't look to appetising are good. Im always full by end of service.
The best is when you've made too many puddings and their best before date is on the morning you start. Technically theyd be fine, but by law they have to get binned. But if its something like macaroons or creme brulé then it's a bonus 😂😂
Anything any chef makes at home will still be better than what you cook because we simply know more.
Cereal🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I’m the sourdough guy
Step 1: cook whole chicken for the whole week
Step2: eat it all on monday
Poached eggs on toast, maybe a simple burger, ramen, pizza.
That's about it for me. All quick, easy and tasty.
It's not about not wanting to cook on my days off, i LOVE cooking at home or work. It's juat laziness
Hard to eat a lot when your bang on the Charlie am I right lads
Cereal for me
back in my day i couldn't afford good food usually leftovers steak at work... pasta quick curry doing mega long hours sandwiches lol
Sourdough guy is right. I would put sourdough at the very bottom of the heirarchy of needs, I require that shit more than breathing.
Ask software engineers what they program at home
Egg bread butter and salt is the life baby all I need
As an ex chef, I am always interested as to why patrons give a sh_t about what chefs eat. Patrons are so bored with so many options that they can't even focus on what they order. They have to dig into the homes of what chefs eat. Hilarious how customers act like they know about food and then they are surprised with the simplicity of what us cooks like to eat.
That’s 👌
Nobody cares what you eat, you wanker, they're "creating content" to push the overpriced meat in their estaurant. Why you mad someone asked their staff a simple question? Get a life and stop eating like a demented raccoon over a garbage can...
Your patrons don't give two shits if you eat or not.
It’s ironic (but VERY understandable) that chefs don’t want to cook for themselves at home
For all the plebs who don’t understand this. We cook at an insanely high level day in day out. When we’re off we just want to chill and NOT think about food