On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 04:25:40PM -0400, Doug Franklin wrote: > On 2010-03-23 12:24, John Francis wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 08:34:00AM -0400, Doug Franklin wrote: >>> On 2010-03-23 8:04, William Robb wrote: >>> >>>>> I've stopped ordering steak when I go to a restaurant. I'm a philistine >>>>> who like steak well done (ie. not a pink morsel anywhere). I think >>>>> that's a task beyond the ability of most chefs. >>>>> >>>> Any chef worth of the title would consider that a lack of taste on the >>>> part of the diner. >>> >>> F*** the chef, I'm paying for the meal, not a snotty attitude. >> >> Then go to a diner. >> >> When you go to a "fine dining" establishment you are paying for the >> expertise of the chef. Telling him how to do his job is a dumb idea. > > We'll just have to disagree on this one. If I'm footing the bill, it > should be cooked the way I want it, if I specify. Asking for a steak > with no pink and receiving a mooing cow, on my dime, is not on.
Well, I'll (sort of) agree with you. My point was more that you *are* paying for the snotty attitude. That, to some extent, is what differentiates a "chef" from a cook. A good place will work with you to find something you will like that is cooked the way the chef would like to prepare it. That doesn't sound like it would be a steak in your situation. If you insist on a well-done steak you're telling the chef that you don't value his skills. That's not going to encourage him to perform to the best of his ability. If, despite that, you insist on having it done "your way" you're probably not going to get the best piece of meat in the house, either. You could almost certainly get better value by going elsewhere. Would you want to work for a client who insisted on telling you that he wanted every photograph overexposed by three stops? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
