• Nomecks@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    He yells at people for using thermometers on Hell’s Kitchen. Hey carpenter, how dare you use a nail gun! One of the most useful tools for making sure food is safe and he thinks it makes you less of a chef.

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      9 months ago

      They’re going to be a head chef at one of his restaurants. I don’t think it’s a crazy requirement as so many contestants are able to do it just fine.

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        9 months ago

        It’s taking an important tool out of the tool box for no other reason than his personal bias against them.

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          9 months ago

          You don’t think it’s a metric of competency? I don’t know, I’m not in the restaurant industry but it seemed like a skill to me.

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            9 months ago

            Just because it’s a competency doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use the tools available to you. Should I not use woodworking jigs because I’m competent in cutting dovetails? It makes the job easier and less prone to errors.

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              9 months ago

              Gordon always makes it a point that it’s extremely easy to do, but I genuinely don’t know cooking so I can’t check the veracity.

              However, I also can’t check your analogy either because I’m not great at cooking nor woodwork. If it were programming and someone had to use GitHub CoPilot during an interview to do what I considered an easy task then I’d not want to have them at a high level.

              Once again, my analogy I’d probably bollocks because I don’t know cooking.

              You bring up some good points. I just figure it was a high level competition, but I see where you’re coming from.

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                9 months ago

                I think a better analogy would be if you were interviewing and someone didn’t do simple functionality testing because they were such an awesome coder, what would you think

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                    9 months ago

                    Maybe if he used a thermometer he wouldn’t have made the world’s most undercooked grilled cheese sandwich.