What A Chef Serves Vs. What A Chef Eats
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2024
- We invited chef Jonathan Whitener from Here's Looking At You over to cook his favorite after work meal.
0:00 Welcome
0:24 What Jonathan serves
2:04 What Jonathan eats
About To Eat
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I think people are misunderstanding this... people are getting hung up on the wagyu, oyster mushrooms, etc. and these bougie things, but he did mention he looks for one pan applications and little prep, and he did just that - cheese, slice it up and oil & salt; salad, slice up avo & onions and put vinegar, oil, and salt; steak, sear it and rest it; and the side is shallots, garlic, mushrooms, and soy sauce. Extremely simple execution compared to what he has to do at work, but he uses good ingredients because this was something he "treats" himself... replace the ingredients with "lower quality" and now it's something everyone can attain to.
Thanks for this. Some of the other comments are really infuriating.
I think people just have an expectation on the food a chef would “usually” eat after a long day working.
I’m sure this is a “treat yo self” meal, but not something every night you would whip up.
Honestly, maybe the title of the vid needs to be reworked 😅
He also explicitly says in the video that this is the sort of meal he makes for himself like once a month so its definitely a 'treat yo self' meal
@@mark-angelofamularcano237 Honestly some chefs that work at higher end restaurants just take home the left over ingredients (which are usually high end) and whip up meals with that.
Then again , if you have the money to cook this everyday , then I don’t see a problem. It is based on his budget so it’s not like he’s telling people that this is a meal everyone can afford. I do agree with your comment though.
As a former line cook, I totally feel what he said when we rarely feel like cooking for ourselves after a 12-hour day of cooking. I think the show The Bear got it perfectly right, where a huge part of the time, after we're smashed from a long day, we go home and eat a PB&J and some Doritos.
ok former chef
We would always go to this little place that was open late that served the best noodles and tempura and just smash a bunch of bowls. Honestly when I was cooking professionally, I rarely cooked for myself I mostly just ate out at places we had little deals with (we would eat at their place, they would eat at ours)
I can validate that an uncrustable bag of chips and bottle of tequila is definitely something I have as a chef after a long day 😂 unless I somehow get a extra dish that dies I can snack on.
I’d love to see this become a regular series.
Except this series is bull. No chef will sit there and make a presentable plate for them selves. If this was realistic the dude would be sitting on his couch shoving doritos into his face before passing out.
NEXT UP DAYBIRD LA!!!! or MAJORDOMO!!
I agree
@@wooaahh23 Relax bud... some of us don't hate our lives after work
@@josiahcherniss1485 Did I say he hates his life? I said he chefs don't have time to cook for themselves you m0ron
As a chef, those last few lines said everything. It's hard to look after yourself and eat regularly, so when you finally sit down and make something for yourself, you may as well go all out with it. Besides eggs and toast in the morning, I maybe cook food at home once a week. When you spend all day every day cooking for other people, the last thing you wanna do on your time off is cook some more!
mate, I'm a chef based in London. Last time I've cooked for myself was about a month ago, usually I just eat something in the morning before shift with leftovers of prep or left overs of mise en place from last night.
our schedule is really hard to put self-care and eat health and with a timeline. Most of the time I eat out, ordering in small places around my house that I know and I grew sometype of respect and sense of community. xD
I had the same experience bartending. The last thing I wanted to do was make drinks for myself at home, I'd rather go somewhere and pay someone to pour me them.
What's your go to fast food order after a shift?
That actually goes with any trade, or craft. I was an electrician, I hated doing my on electrical , I would but , I didn't want to
@@earlwright9715 almost the same.. except we actually need to eat every day to survive.
I worked at a very popular izakaya in my hometown between semesters once. The chef made the kinds of ramen, sushi, and sashimi influencers would specifically seek out for their content.
I regularly saw him spend his break eating instant noodles mixed into baked beans.
Were they baked beans or natto? Cos natto on instant noodles is sublime ngl
@@ageofhedonism Heinz
I love seeing what people cook for themselves because there's usually some odd little ingredient or dish that they like, that they probably wouldn't include if they were cooking for others.
Usually a lot of garlic and onions
@@aidanbro7916 dude fr onions are hella good and so easy to prep
@@aidanbro7916 and chillies
@@r4tl_ yeah just don’t cut the root
i go ham on dill
he explains each step really well that its interesting to watch and you pick up on so many little helpful tips
Yeah, his kind of Feynman-level simplicity behind his explanations really makes me think highly of his chef skills (duh).
Love when someone says the "why" they do things. Helps me remember the tips
For when you’re searing your own wagyu at home. 💀
Great series concept. I love how Chef Whitener is so frank with the separation between work and personal care.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm so fascinated by the way he cut up and presented the wheel of cheese. It's so simple yet so elegant, and I keep getting hung up on it and have to go back to this video every few days just to watch him cut the wheel of cheese again. I'm gonna have to buy myself a wheel of brie or something and serve it that way, too. It just looks too good.
more of this chef please!! the way he cooks, personality, vibes
Make more of these videos, please! I love how simple, yet delectable, his dishes were. High quality ingredients often don’t need too much beyond themselves, and this certainly highlights that aspect.
I was wondering why his salad looked so familiar, then he mentioned it was Cuban. Every time my parents would make that same thing, I always thought it wasn’t an actual salad, but seeing a professional chef consider it one feels really validating.
😂 this makes no sense to me
@@TheOnlyKontrol then it wasn’t meant for you lol. I used to think what my parents made was so thrown together and unlike any salad I’ve ever known. I always thought It was wrong in some way because their cuisine didn’t conform to what I thought things were. After watching the video, I finally was able to accept the fact that my traditional cuisine, although different, is recognized by professionals.
It might not seem that deep but it is to me, so again, if it still doesn’t make sense, then the comment isn’t meant for you.
you know he's a chef the way he picks up a ripping hot steak with his bare fingers
As for someone who has been working in Restaurants for the past 4 years. In a Restaurant, I try to make the best-looking/tasting dish. At home, I take a couple of steps back to make a chill dinner/meal nothing fancy, very simple.
The stuff he cooked at home is so simple yet the combinations are 10/10
I really enjoy Chef Jon's whole overall approach, such a down-to-earth guy. Love it man keep it up, only wish you more success!
Not sure why but I got an instant vibe that his restaurant dishes changed very regularly.
No wonder he's an acclaimed chef when he combines both the years of experience/learning techniques with creativity and adaptation to whatever quality ingredients are available.
90% of his menu changes on the regular and he never goes back to a dish, no matter how good it is.
Definitely need more of this series.
So effortless! Loved this episode. Food looks incredible!
I love this! Super interesting to see what chefs cook at home. Looks so good, steak/onions/mushrooms is always a reliable combo.
Love this series, please do more of it!!!😊
I always wondered how differently chef’s cooked at home, great insight and great video!
7:52 that small smile is just perfect like you know you did something that makes you happy and it oozes a little to your face
loved all of this, also the explaining of the cookware he preferred
this is very very inspiring, more of this series please!
This is so cool. I have so much respect for pro chefs. I love cooking for my family but love sitting down to enjoy the food I cooked with them. I made an incredible roast lamb leg yesterday with garlic cloves and rosemary shoved into holes I cut in the meat. I cooked it for 1hr 45 so it was perfect medium and juicy and delicious! I ended up simmering the leftover meat and bone with vegetables to make a hearty lamb soup. It was perfect!
I wish this guy had more videos. Aside from the obvious cheffing skills…. He’s entertaining and well spoken.
Based on spending a lot of time working in or hanging out with friends/family who have careers in restaurants, I can 100% honestly say what the vast majority of chefs cook for themselves at home is nothing. Or at least cook the laziest food possible. "The cobbler's children go shoeless". Most people who work in restaurants really genuinely just have no interest in cooking for themselves when they get home. At the last place I worked I was one of only 2 people in the entire line/prep cook team who actually cooked for themselves regularly. And these were cooks with years to decades of experience, most of whom were culinary graduates. One of the prep cooks there made a point of asking every single cook he ever worked with if they cooked at home, and "yes" as an answer came up so rarely that he was surprised every time. He said it was fewer than 1 in 10 that cooked for themselves on anything but a rare occasion.
The truest part of the whole video was when dude just laughed and said "no chef wants to cook when they go home".
1-pan cooking had a lot of advantages. Low mess, faster, and the density of the meal is whatever is in the fridge.
That’s common sense though.
This guy chef is brilliant!! I watched so many times!! Love everything about this video!! One amazing pan yes!!
I love how well he explained what he was doing.
I appreciate chefs who speak in a language I can understand. Thanks.
This is fascinating. It reminds me of the old PBS Anthony Bourdain 'Mind of a Chef' series. So great! I hope this content continues along with the other excellent shows ATE does!!!
Subbed. Love this, hungering for more
the warm lighting reminds me of cooking with dog video's, such a comfort
Super informative! Looks absolutely delicious.
This is spot on appreciate everything about this video
I’m the head chef at a restaurant in New Orleans. Most nights I’m eating frozen pizza or ham sandwich’s. I don’t have the energy to cook for myself. I told my wife to tell her family that I’m a manager at the restaurant, not a chef; one thing I’ve learned is that people always want you to cook for them at family get together’s/holidays etc.
what?!?! oyu dont mean you make a 3 coarse menu with wagyu steak and premium mushrooms that you for some reason cook half assed and make really simple every night?
Seriously. I don't know what type of bougie chef this is but the majority of cooks make something incredibly simple, get uber eats or they make something at work and take it home with them. Also, who has enough money to buy Wagyu semi regularly?
@@Kioxx7 only poor people think this is boujee. I didnt get any of those vibes from this and the guy says he only does this like once a month at best.
@@Kstunnnaman23 Soooooo the majority of people in the restaurant industry then
8:39 oh my gosh this is soo true. whenever i host a dinner/barbeque or anything that involves me cooking for others i get completely grossed out by the food i make and never feel like eating, and most times i dont. i thought it was just a me thing but ig its a chef thing haha
It's like your stomach gets full from the smell.
I love this channel, always new and interesting videos.
Please upload more content. You are literally the best there is out there😮
BEAUTIFUL home kitchen.
Most chefs eat the corners of the baguettes, the avocado that is slightly turning brown, the slice of cheesecake that broke when slicing, the scallop that the prep cook shucked improperly, etc…
love this! more please
If this is not a series will yall consider making it one I really enjoyed this!
I tried the steak and mushroom sauce with some regular grocery store beef and it came out amazing.
Great video! Amazing idea and beautiful execution 🙏
This was by far amazing one 😀
Outstanding, was always curious what you chefs at the top of your game crave.
More of this series, please
Worked in a kitchen for years. When I got home I would either order delivery from some place or make something super simple where there is very low effort and 1 pan if possible.
One of my fave restaurants, love to see this.
That was such an easy and simple thing and super good for you. Amazing just one pan
being grossed out by eating food is definetly the realest thing in this video. i am a cook and i literally never have an appetite anymore.
i like this concept, look forward to see more.
The simplicity was amazing id cook and eat this nightly if I could
i love this video. So much to learn and collect, from the beautiful design of the pan, to keeping it clean and simple, giving one self good quality food, love this so much. And as a cuban, loved to see the avocado salad shout out
excellent idea for a regular series
Missing the about to eat crew but still a great video as always
This is a great recipe!
That looked amazing!
this guy is great!! get him on more videos!!!!
Totally identify with the not wanting to eat after you've cooked lol You're usually tasting along the way and just want to rest after all your effort (plus cleaning). This is why it's such a gift to have others cook for you.
I never understood why I’m not hungry after I cook dinner, but I guess this is it. I usually have to the kitchen and come back to eat 2-3 hours later.
This chef is a vibe 😂👌 Much love to you dude 💚🤙
I LOVE Mt. Tam from Cowgirl Creamery!! I found it when I ran a half marathon in CA in 2015. Been a fan ever since (although I live on the East Coast).
I really like this video concept
looks amazing
I'm so upset we didn't get to see anyone try that delicious food! Idc if you're the behind the scenes crew! I wanna see you too!
This was a great watch! I'm hungry haha
i love the video, and i def wouldn't mind seeing more chefs at home, but i think it would be interesting to film them also as they cook in their own restaurant you know?? to see how they approach a dish for their clients from start to finish and also what their ''mood'' is. just a suggestion!!
Great video and if I ever get back to Cali, I'll look his restaurant up. Meanwhile, I have just ordered Wagyu beef online, wanting to test something new to me, and am glad to have the basics of a recipe to make with it. (Oh, and the avocado salad sounds yummers, too. I did make avocado smoothies with raw onion back in the day before I was "told" smoothies need to be sweet - but I'm too savory to go sweet, so will adapt!).
This was honestly a great little recipe video (obviously you don’t need to use wagyu), but from the title I was expecting more of an “everyday” chef’s meal at home. He says himself that this is his treat meal. And he also says that he’s eaten it three times this weekend, so it’s not that it just happened to be what he was cooking. It feels like he chose this dish BECAUSE it is pretty impressive.
Like I said, still a good video, but I was hoping to see a more realistic view of what a chef eats day-to-day. 👍
I was friends with a chef for a bit and when he cooked for himself it would be very casual meals like any other household except he used techniques to elevate them, so he could make a great meal out of a casual one without much extra effort.
i was expecting like a quick pasta or some semi fancy sandwich
I'm a chef. You know what I eat most days after I get off? A salami sandwich or something. Maybe a pb&j. Premade frozen stuff. Bagel. Maybe some roast vegetables out of a freezer bag. Anything I break out actual cooking implements, and god forbid, have to do dishes, for is a "treat meal" and it certainly isn't happening more than once a week.
Most of the food I eat comes from the restaurant, so keeping a fully stocked fridge is out of the question. Might be different if I lived with family, of course.
@@methyod That's pretty much what I was expecting, some variation on your experience with an added insight into how that dichotomy can be interesting. As with every job, I'd say the last thing you want to do when you get home after a late shift is to do more of the same work. But being a professional chef is a little unique, because we all gotta eat. So it's kinda fascinating to hear what that's like.
So fascinating, from his perspective he is utterly passionate about food, and wants the best whether it's for himself or his customers, still at the end of it all the craft becomes too much for oneself.
The simplest lesson here that many of us home cooks still haven't taken to heart is just how much the pan cools down when adding new ingredients
i 100% agree, sometimes you just have to entertain yourself
Amazing meal thanks Chef and love your Humbleness!!! I get the Crock Pot feeling all the time 😂. You put something in and it smells amazing allll day dinner time ehh I am good .
"what a chef eats" not being a bag of cold McDonalds makes me immediately question this whole video
I wanna see the crew eat at the end! All that prep and we didn't get to see a single bite eaten :'(
Because of this video, I went out of my way to eat at HLAY, and it is an awesome restaurant! Thanks for the recommendation!
This is good. The homie Jon is killing it with his menu. K Town all day!
Those skewers at 1:50 - can I order a boatload of those? They look sooo good!
Just FYI, All Clad makes five ply cookware. It ain't cheap.
damn, I'm the 1 millionth subscriber🤣🤣🤣, congratulations guys
Great video. The chef seems really cool
Those dishes at his restaurant are masterpieces
Cowgirl creamery from
Point Reyes is some of my favorite cheese I can find in my local grocery store. Good choice.
@8:22, for the guy doing the captions: accoutrements
More please
Chefs are such hard workers ❤👏
*when my girlfriend comes over
me: turns the kitchen into a 5 star fine dining kitchen
*when i'm alone
me: cooks white rice, fried egg, sausages and call it a day.
He gave it to the camera crew. :) Looks delicious.
Seems like a guy I would like to hang out with. Great video.
such a cool regular show man! no flashy nonensense just good ol regular hard working class heroes! yezzir! diggin the show man! first time watching.
I will watch this video but mostly because I saw the title and went
What a chef serves
What a chef eats
Whatever makes chef happy sets you free
I'm a grill cook in a cafeteria for boeing. I definitely dont feel like cooking after work a lot of the time. I recently purchased a portable dishwasher so I can actually cook and not have loads of dishes to wash by hand.
Is heavy how hard can be to cook for yourself even knowing all the tricks and convos. People often asked me how good the stuff i make for myself must be and is like… i just eat breakfast and is eggs with a pice of bread 😂
Is so real the way we should take care more of ourselves by trying to do this at least once a month! Agree agree agree
MAKE MORE CONTENT LIKE THIS!!
Cool! What is that single burner he uses? Induction?
i love how the premise is showing the difference between someone who knows what they're doing at the restaurant and then at home, but then he cooks a waygu steak that he says he eats once a month. Like that completely contradicts the premise lol
Wow he is a great chef
Beautiful!