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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 12:33 pm
On a recent Chopped episode one of the chefs was caught running with a knife in his hand. I think that was what ultimately got him chopped. When Serena's foot was stepped on she also was walking/walking quickly with a knife in her hand I cringed and thought she's outta there. Although I've never worked in a restaurant but most of my family going back to my grandfather have worked in kitchens most of their lives and my grandfather would take me to work often...it's mandatory to let people know when you are walking behind them and where you are in the kitchen AND never ever ever ever do you walk around the kitchen with a knife in your hand. People get fired on the spot for that.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 1:39 pm
When we get a new volunteer - an almost weekly event - in the Second Harvest kitchen, one of the first things we tell them - after the fact that there is no three-second rule in a commercial kitchen - is to make others aware when you are passing behind them. We have a small area and lots of people, so this is a critical point!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 4:44 pm
I worked in a kitchen all of two weeks (traded it in for a job closer to home, more hours and more pay). The main thing I remember from that job is the importance of yelling "behind you." That, and the chef was very particular about having anything we were chopping up not being scraped off the cutting board with the sharp side of the knife blade. He always had us flip the blade and use the backside of it. I still use that technique now some 30 years later. It made sense to me when the chef explained scraping the sharp edge could dull/damage the blade. Oddly, I see the chefs on these shows use the sharp edge to scrape stuff off the board all the time. Makes me wonder if I just had a picky chef, or what.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 4:47 pm
Nope. I occasionally see a chef flip the knife and scape off using the back end. Not often, but I do. I spent a lot of dollars when I was very young on a set of Cutco knives (and back then, I didn't have a whole lot of disposable income!). I learned really quickly how to maintain those knives! 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 8:43 pm
Who, Alton Brown did a whole episode on knives and he had a special too for that specifically. Reminded me of shoot, the thingie you spread spackle on the wall with, except no handle. His main thing wasn't that it'd dull or damage the blade, but that it was too easy to cut yourself doing that. That stuck with me more than damaging my good knives, since I'm so clumsy and cut myself often enough without aiming the sharp edge of the blade straight at my hand!
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 4:04 am
They are usually called pastry scrapers, but you can use them for anything (including scooping up diced vegetables). They allow you to gather up more of the chopped items than a knife would. I have one and use it all the time when I'm doing a lot of chopping.
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Woofy
Member
08-08-2001
| Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 2:15 pm
Handy Scraper: http://www.pamperedchef.biz/davebarton?page=products-detail&categoryId=99&itemId=1615&productId=186
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 12:13 am
Yep that's it, or similar looking to what Alton had. I'm so clumsy in the kitchen that when I have to do a bunch of chopping, I just pick up the cutting board and hold it over the pan or bowl and wipe everything off with my hand.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 6:10 am
If you're interested in buying one, go to Amazon and search for "pastry scraper". There are dozens of different styles. I prefer the ones that have rulers on them (so they multitask). 
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 11:53 am
At the Food Network site it said that I could view this show at Bing, but I couldn't find it! Any help?
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 5:07 pm
Bing is just a search engine. I could find snippets on Hulu, but not the full show.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 5:42 pm
Is anyone gonna spoil tonight's episode? Pretty please?
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Kappy
Member
06-28-2002
| Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 7:24 pm
I like Brad and Aartie is really growing on me. It was sad to see Herb lose his confidence so badly. Hopefully he picks it back up in the next week. I actually like most of them that are left except for Serena. I just don't think I could listen to her for very long no matter how many cute stories she tells. Costa ~ I turned it off 5 minutes before the end but I'm pretty sure (from previews) that Darrell DAS went home.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 9:06 pm
Yup, Das went home. I was amazed they kept Herb, though, as they didn't say one positive thing about his food OR his presentation.
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Landileigh
Member
07-29-2002
| Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 10:49 pm
the beauty of this show is that they DO CONSIDER previous weeks competitions, compared to Top Chef which only is centered on that week's food. I believe they kept Herb on the merit of him winning the first 2 challenges, and that they have seen him MUCH better.
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Christy358
Member
07-10-2007
| Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 10:51 pm
That is why we got the "touching story" about him. I think we were supposed to cry too.
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Mummy35332
Member
09-09-2005
| Monday, June 28, 2010 - 1:29 am
Chop on one of those flexible chopping mats, then just round the sides and pour it into the pan. I don't have them, but they make sense to me. In this house, no one, I mean no one, is allowed to use my Henkle knives execpt me. They have thier own separate set of knives.
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Ginger1218
Member
08-31-2001
| Monday, June 28, 2010 - 2:36 am
My guess that the final winner will be Aarti and if it is not her, then Aria
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, June 28, 2010 - 4:26 am
Speaking of Hulu, yesterday I stumbled onto a video called "Chef Ramsey Cookalong" or something very similar. I didn't see a date, but he looked much younger - or maybe just less stressed! He was teaching how to cook a three-course meal in an hour. He had three people - Lee Ann Rimes, a gal from "How I Met Your Mother," and Cedric, the Entertainer cooking with him in the studio and at least a dozen other teams of two cooking with him across the nation. I ran out of time on the library computer and only watched through the appetizer course. I may go back and finish watching it - Has anyone else ever heard of this show?
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, June 28, 2010 - 4:27 am
Yeah, I'm still like Aarti and Aria the best. So far the guys have been all over the place and they don't seem to have a real point of view that's consistent. Aarti seems to have been able to really add her own twist to every dish and from the judges say, she's really done well. I'm glad Brianna didn't win this week. I don't think any of the other contestants could've lived with her had she won again. And from the looks of the previews, she's doing a prima donna thing next week. Definitely would NOT watch her show at all. While I think Serena is adorable, and I'd totally love love LOVE to see an Italian POV besides the garish Giada, I just don't think she'll make it to the end. But the three curly haired pests did crack me up.
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Monday, June 28, 2010 - 4:42 am
I like Tom the best...as far as taking time to watch a new show he'd be the host I'd be most likely to watch. I was disappointed Serena didn't make fried chicken....boo hiss. And am shocked that Paul didn't make steak and mac N cheese. I'm still thinking these are the weakest cheftestants they've picked.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, June 28, 2010 - 5:58 am
The Ramsay Cookalong Live aired earlier this year or late last year on FOX. I didn't much like it, and I have liked the Cookalong Lives I've seen from the UK broadcasts of the show. The US show was too frenetic and not very interesting IMO. Chef Ramsay looked younger in it because he'd received botox a couple months before the show aired--got rid of those things at his chin and some of the forehead lines. This show last night? Not interesting.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Monday, June 28, 2010 - 7:33 am
Brianna did win the first challenge. Her dish will be on the menu of Bobby Flay's restaurants for one week. She gets to fly to the Bahamas and Las Vegas. I liked Das, sorry he is gone. What a way to ruin steak though...by adding triple berries with it. imo
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Monday, June 28, 2010 - 9:22 am
My grandfather use to make a grapefruit, cherry and walnut chutney when he grilled steaks....it wasn't bad. I was surprised that he didn't know the grades of beef.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, June 28, 2010 - 9:59 am
Does Brianna get to fly to the Bahamas and Las Vegas, or was she saying that SHE was gonna go there so she could see her item on the menu? That's what I took from that comment. I like Aarti, but I'm thinking most of these people are close to scraping the bottom of the barrel. What's his name who smiles until the cam goes on him? I mean, really, could you BE any more boring? Tom cracks me up but no way would I want to watch his show every week. I think Aarti has this in the bag unless she majorly screws up. FN has gotten a little too white bread-y, and they could stand someone with an international point of view. And Indian food, done well, even Americanized to some point, is easy to make.
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