Chef Life is Weird | Pro Chef Reacts, Episode 5 - Season 2 of The Bear on Hulu

[@jonathanfriedman7430]

The last chef I worked for gave me a knife. He was also the first chef I ever worked for. I was a 19 year old dishwasher who was trying to make it as a drummer in a rock band. He is the one who inspired me to be a chef. He gave me some basic prep jobs and urged me to go to CIA (after spending some time in kitchens). That restaurant closed (corporate America reasons). I continued to work at a different place with some of the same cooks from the first restaurant. Eventually went on to CIA in both St Helena and Hyde Park, worked in Montana, Westchester, New York, and St Helena, and I eventually made my way back home. I ended up working as a bartender at a restaurant back home and, to my surprise, he was the exec for that restaurant. I eventually convinced the GM to allow me to put together a Spanish wine dinner and I curated the menu and wine list, prepped for the dinner, and served the wine. The dinner was right before I was leaving for Cornell. And I explained to my GM that the reason for the dinner is that I wanted to show the chef (who is still a mentor) how I’ve grown since he first knew me. After the dinner, he called me into the office and gave me a brand new knife. It was an intro to Japanese knives (I’m a Mac guy). I love that knife. He’s not a Michelin chef, but he can cook. He still sends me pictures of the oysters, tuna, wagyu, and other fun stuff he gets in

[@juanaguilera7747]

I love reading stories like this

[@theindividualchef]

Wake up babe, new Justin Khanna reacts to The Bear just dropped

[@justinkhanna]

Early gang 😎

[@seraphindavid1898]

I love these reviews so much I hope Forks is a 3 hour uncut video. Also can't wait for you to comment on Carmy's mom's cooking.

[@justinkhanna]

Can confirm, it's the longest breakdown video - I just checked 👀 hope you're excited!

[@RobDeFino]

I love how you opened this. I'm sooooo tired of everything needing to be so, for lack of a term, extra. I just wanna eat some good food that's made well. I might be in the minority but I don't care about the story a food tells or what culture it touches. If it has a neat story or introduces me to a new culture or an aspect of a culture I wasn't aware of then that's fantastic. I think we've made things far too complicated for the sake of being complicated. Everything with purpose.

[@justinkhanna]

Food without the extra 🙌 you'll dig the rant I do in episode 9 about "food is not a story" - can't wait to hear your thoughts on that

[@sarkastro]

Absolutely love these breakdowns, have to thought about doing any for movies?

[@justinkhanna]

Want to do The Menu and Boiling Point at some point!

[@scottlouis]

I absolutely love your vids to this show. Your insights are amazing.

[@apvchronicles404]

Nice. Loving these reviews Chef.

[@karaking2391]

Are you doing a video for the mext episode? I can see you skipping it for lack of chef content but boy do we all hope to see your reactions amd thoughts to Fishes

[@justinkhanna]

Friday morning at 8am! I nearly combined it with this episode because, you're right, it's not *that long* of a breakdown video. But I didn't really want to have this series to only have 9 videos, so to keep it a clean 10 videos, I'll be publishing it as it's own thing. Eager to hear what you think!

[@joeldykman7591]

15:00 I think what Carmen is trying to explain is that for each each element a particular plate may have, each station has ideally 5 seconds to prep it, and that the layout of the kitchen as a whole is a major variable in that overall time. Though i could be wrong, maybe Carmen is really trying to assembly line a dish between stations.

[@justinkhanna]

Yeah that kinda made me 🤔

[@1sttimegunowner]

I love the knife to tina scene

[@justinkhanna]

Same

[@erics2281]

I didn’t pick up the ‘tak for i dag.’ Too cool

[@justinkhanna]

ja tak

[@HappyPerson870]

🎉 great reaction!

[@justinkhanna]

Thank you!! 😁

[@discontinuedchannel404]

Hahaha the ‘movement’ joke at the end caught me so off guard

[@justinkhanna]

Ha those that watch til the end get it 👀

[@soundninja99]

11:50 Me a Norwegian: Wait, that's no used in English?

[@hw260]

That's just a Chef talking dirty to his potential girlfriend. Trying to impress her so he can get to the physical portion of the evening.

[@miketran7241]

Late gang

[@justinkhanna]

Still love having you here ❤️

[@pop9095]

The ratio of show relevance to your own rambling makes me not want to see you in my feed anymore. You certainly say some insightful things, but getting one of those between 6 minutes of monologue is not compelling.

[@justinkhanna]

Would love to know what topics you found insightful or want more of!

[@jacketofthe80s13]

Lol that's how it dosen't get copy righted smart one