Kilted Chefs oan Telly!

**Frog** · 14th December 06, 07:45 AM

When I got my workman last weekend and was modeling it for my wife, I told her since I'm not especially handy around the house, I could prob'ly use it for grilling, eh?

Frog

**Julie** · 14th December 06, 07:55 AM

I agree with Hamish, I want to enjoy programmes on telly where I can witness an individual's talent or acting ability, not his ability to use foul language.
Julian

**Erisianmonkey** · 14th December 06, 07:56 AM

Originally Posted by cessna152towser

IMHO kilts are better suited to front of house staff than a chef.

I think that might depend on the restaurant. I used to work as a server at a Denny's. There's just way too much back and forth in a short order restaurant like that for a kilt- your pleats would end up slapping guests in the face! Now in a higher end restaurant where you have a waiter and a runner it would probably be nice.

**Dirk Skene** · 14th December 06, 09:08 AM

[QUOTE=Pour1Malt;302803]there is absolutley nothin better than a UK Workmon kilt in the kitchen... ai wear yin e'ery breccy....

cool, comfy, and pockets fur me scissors, thermostat, an other tools...[QUOTE]

I may have to buy one. The boss at the cooking school would let me wear it. He have no problems with the idea as long as all is safe.

**Frank McGrath** · 15th December 06, 02:08 PM

With so many words in the English language, don't you think that people could express themselves without using obcenities? Just my 2 cents.

**Rob Wright** · 15th December 06, 06:35 PM

Before I retired as a cook I wore a kilt every day in the kitchen for a little over two years. Both a USAKilts victory and a solid Pittsburgh Kilt. They never caught on anything and were never a problem even in a kitchen that was poorly designed and extremely cramped.

I did everything from cooking, prep, taking orders, dealing with customers and sales reps, putting up and rotating orders, replacing lights, everything in the kilt. After working as many as 14 hours in a day I felt less fatigued in the kilt than in those funky arsed chef pants.

A full 8+ yard wool kilt is not a good idea in the kitchen, also stay away from poly-viscose, keep to natural fibers.

Until you have tried a kilt in a kitchen you cannot say that it is a bad idea.

Here was my work uniform:

Rob

**McClef** · 16th December 06, 06:14 AM

I have seen part of the programme on youtube.

More kilts at one time than I have ever seen in Inverness! :rolleyes:

The bad language is increasingly common, especially after the "watershead".

**Tartan Texan Trenton** · 18th December 06, 06:54 PM

Ramsey did a show over Here called 'Hell's Kitchen' - another of those reality/contest/survivor type thingies. After three episodes I got tired of hearing him berate the contestants and quit watching - he may be a great chef but strikes me as a toad of a human being. My 2p worth.

**Tartan Hiker** · 26th September 07, 10:30 AM

Someone posted this clip on YouTube. Happily, Ramsay keeps his profanity in check.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSDG4sb0Ylc

**irishrob** · 26th September 07, 01:00 PM

This particular episode was on BBC America several weeks ago. Lots of "BLEEPS" for us yanks. I was more surprised though, that Scots were neither proprietors nor cooks in the "upscale" restaurants in Scotland...but then again, last week's show, here, was about a Black American woman with a "soul" food joint in Brighton or Bristol or some other "B" town in England.

Rob