tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39671678061983322962024-03-10T00:34:17.950-08:00A Chef's PlateHave you wondered what is like to be a Chef or Cook? Are you trying to find the best knives or place to take your loved one? Come with me and you will find kitchen stories, and products a cook trusts.Brogonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965724215006903756noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-2037140865153344082019-02-10T00:47:00.000-08:002019-02-10T09:32:39.217-08:00What To Buy For Your Kitchen When You Move Out
It is time to move out! But you have no idea what you need in your first kitchen. Knives? Bowls? A Pasta Machine? Ok, maybe not that last one.
But you will need to buy some things for your new kitchen and there are definitely some tools and kitchen equipment everyone needs. The question becomes, what should you buy for your kitchen when you move out?
Every person’s kitchen needs to be preparedBrogonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965724215006903756noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-6928784265987010142019-02-03T23:58:00.001-08:002019-02-04T00:00:28.816-08:00Gift Ideas For Chefs And Home Cooks
Well it is that time of year again! It is time to buy your family and closest friends great gifts to show how thankful you are. The question is what gifts are you going to buy them? What is the perfect gift?
Our team has collaborated to create a list of some of our favorite gifts and kitchen tools we would love to get this year. So if your friend or loved one loves to be in the kitchen this Brogonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965724215006903756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-57050062233394778712018-09-29T21:45:00.002-07:002018-10-03T19:59:10.217-07:00A Great New Chef Knife
M633 Home and Kitchen Products 8 inch chef knife
Every chef or home cook needs a good main chef-knife.
There are so many options it can be very confusing. Many of these knives range from $100-250.
That can be far out of reach for most of us.
So where do we go for both high quality knives and good prices?
The M633 8 inch chef knife is a great new product that offers an Brogonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965724215006903756noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-34289310711081222152018-04-12T07:32:00.000-07:002018-04-13T12:05:46.123-07:00Great Cook Books To Read In 2018We hope you are enjoying 2018 so far! As January comes to a close we wanted to share some awesome cook books that would be great to read this year. At first we were going to write it ourselves. However, our team decided we wanted to reach out to some amazing bloggers across the interwebs and see what they had to say about cooks books
So here is a list of some cook books and bloggers we think youBrogonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965724215006903756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-74368296345914616692018-01-06T00:08:00.003-08:002018-01-06T00:08:30.872-08:00The Best Book For Chefs Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential There are some books that every chef should read before deciding they want to become a chef.
Perhaps, even every person who likes going to fine dining restaurants too.
Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential will provide an entirely new insight to the life of a chef.
Yes, the book is particularly about his experience. However, his experience are like many others in the culinary industry.
Brogonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965724215006903756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-20727508345444646132017-12-26T16:22:00.001-08:002017-12-26T16:22:11.678-08:00Best Blender For Chefs - Vita MixFine dining is all in the details.
From steaks cooked medium rare to al dente textured pasta.
However, both of those you can do at home with minimal tools.
One of the techniques that fine dining chefs use that require more than just a sharp knife is the puree.
Now there is nothing truly fancy about a puree.
Truthfully, it is more like over glamorized baby food.
&Brogonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965724215006903756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-11301191454584550452017-11-01T19:05:00.002-07:002017-11-01T19:05:33.930-07:00Suit Up For Freedom Charity Dinner
Come join our friends as they partner with Rescue:Freedom International to help set women and children free from sexual slavery.
Our friends data science team will be throwing a dinner at the lovely Marian Built Loft in Seattle, WA. Erik Jackson, Head Chef at Vendemmia and founder of Rough Draft.
They will also have Edward Sumner of Rescue:Freedom there to talk with our guests Brogonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965724215006903756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-78275177687182267032017-09-18T15:22:00.000-07:002017-09-24T19:59:01.217-07:00Great Knife ReviewsI recently posted a back to school special for chefs on knives that you could buy to help young chefs through the trials of culinary school. Hopefully all of you have finished your back to school shopping by now!
However, these are just one chef’s opinion!
A Great Site For Knife Reviews And More
I recently found a site called Review.com that went through the process of talking to two Brogonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965724215006903756noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-3856273704448402712017-08-19T23:58:00.001-07:002018-10-30T18:24:14.913-07:00Chef Knives For Culinary StudentsIt is about time for culinary school to start again! How do you get ready to start culinary school? You have to buy new knives! Which chef knives are the best chef knives for new culinary students?
Sadly, knives are not cheap.
However, if you are looking for great new knives that are both fairly priced and good quality. We will be discussing some of our favorite knives and other equipment that Brogonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965724215006903756noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-63193136187849646952017-02-22T21:03:00.001-08:002017-02-22T21:03:46.066-08:00Top X Funny Moments in Any KitchenKitchens can be very serious places. They were, at a point, run like military operations. What the chef said was equivalent to the 10 commandments. You never questioned an order. I learned that quickly in my internship!
For all the seriousness kitchens have. We like to joke around. Sometimes it involves pulling our co-workers legs, giving a good ribbing, or just being plain silly.
Here are a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-20571720268812810712017-02-19T00:20:00.000-08:002017-02-19T00:20:46.478-08:00Manolin
Some great pictures from Manolin in Seattle! Check out the full article back at our new site. It was a fun meal and and an even better place. The food was challenging but simple. It was a great mix of old and new styles.
Our New Site!
Brogonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965724215006903756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-43571438389523041832017-02-18T19:45:00.001-08:002017-02-19T00:20:28.709-08:00Shout Out to Rogue RensWe just wanted to say thank you to RogueRens for the amazing logo. They did a great job! We are so happy with our new logo for 86ed chef.
Thank you so much!
If you are looking for a web logo, look no further! Check out RogueRens!
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-68324291570034267452017-02-15T23:50:00.003-08:002017-02-15T23:50:32.356-08:00We Moved and Why We Moved - 86ed ChefHello Interwebs!
Maybe you noticed I haven't been posting for a while. That is because I have been trying to get ready for the big move. My site here on blogger was a great start. However, it is quiet limited. There isn't much room for editing the background, functionality and general style of the site.
In addition, I really wanted to get some other people involved. I am just an ex-chef. So I Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-28406311509672075372017-01-05T20:14:00.002-08:002017-02-16T21:41:50.929-08:00Fresh Flours- Bakeries January 2017
Oh goodness, I am writing about another bakery. It just so happens, I love bakeries, and when I find a new one that make tasty baked goods, it is hard to be quite about them. How could I hide a bakery that makes baked goods with a twist (especially a good bakery). Plus, this will just be a quick blurb. Nothing too long, just letting you guys all know about a great bakery. Maybe you have heard Brogonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965724215006903756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-77924764753710642642017-01-02T23:33:00.000-08:002017-02-21T20:00:15.427-08:00Restaurant Week SeattleDo you like going out to restaurant week? If so, check out a new article we just posted. There are some snippets below.
To read the main article click here!
My first restaurant week meal was at Barking Frog. Me and two other culinary students at the time went to Barking Frog. Back in 2010, this was one of the few restaurants on the east site that actually offered the restaurant week special. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-55137792830492453542017-01-01T10:28:00.007-08:002017-01-07T14:54:33.412-08:00Top 18 Cookbooks For 2017; Part 1
Happy 2017! I hope you all enjoyed 2016. Whether you had an amazing year or a poor one, 2017 is a chance for change. Have you made a 2017 resolution? Has it been to cook more, or read more? Maybe you just want to learn how to cook amazing dishes in general?
If you are trying to do any of these, then I have compiled a great 2017 reading list. It is filled with cookbooks for beginners and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-84450165129638251032016-12-29T22:26:00.002-08:002017-02-16T21:42:39.340-08:00Best Restaurants I visited In 2016; Seattle Restaurants I had the opportunity to visit a long list of restaurants in 2016 that were located in the greater Seattle area. Oddly enough, most of the really good restaurants I went to were not all in Seattle (at least, not the city area of Seattle). In fact, many of the best meals and bites I had in 2016 were in Ballard. Yeah, far away, in the middle of no where Ballard. Don't get too excited people of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-56697734548126815332016-12-23T14:46:00.001-08:002016-12-24T00:53:42.030-08:00Stock Seattle : A Tale Of Two Sandwiches
Stock Seattle; One of the Best Sandwiches around!
Seattle has hundreds (maybe thousands of Pho) restaurants. They line Aurora and dart two and fro in the University district. There are even a few “Chic” Pho Places, including Ba Bar which charge up to $11-15 for a bowl of grass fed beef pho and recently opened its new location in South Lake Union. Most of the time, I prefer the more Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-68579898543483609722016-12-20T21:54:00.001-08:002016-12-23T15:17:49.703-08:00Engineering a Dish; How to Start Planning A Menu Part 1
I might have overstated the title. Throwing the word engineer in just makes it sound as if you are designing a rocket or the next Uber App instead of just planning a plate for your next dinner party. The question remains, how do you plan a good tasting dish for your next party, or get together?
I do think the best chefs out there have a method to their sometimes crazy sounding Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-65783610897511340522016-12-14T19:54:00.001-08:002017-01-07T14:54:55.425-08:00What to Get Chefs For Christmas, PT 2
Oh dear! It is almost Christmas and you still haven't bought gifts for your Chef friends or maybe just your friends who like to cook. If you have already...then no need to read this post, go and enjoy your Christmas Parties! If you haven't... well with there are less than 2 weeks to Christmas, it is not too late! If you need inspiration for what to buy your cooking friends for Christmas, IAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-63424007464832907992016-12-11T22:47:00.000-08:002016-12-24T00:55:26.627-08:00Best Cure For the Mondays
How to Cure a Case of the Mondays
So it's Monday again. I begrudgingly open my eyes as my alarm goes off at 6 AM. Now when you wake up and you have been hit with the worse case of the Mondays. A clinically depressing, mind bending, soul ripping case of the Mondays. How are you supposed to fix that? You need something strong to knock you back and get you through the rest of the day.
No, IBrogonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965724215006903756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-53946300509115808892016-12-08T20:47:00.000-08:002016-12-08T21:18:11.843-08:00My First Pop Up Restaurant Pop ups, at this point, are beyond just a fad. They are a great way for Chefs, cooks and early restaurants to start testing out ideas. They don't have to buy or rent a kitchen, they don't need to invest the time into a year long marketing plan, or hire a huge staff for more than a few nights. Some chefs and cooks have even started having pop-up restaurants on a regular cadence.
I was lucky Brogonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965724215006903756noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-71225263243089062672016-12-04T16:25:00.000-08:002017-01-07T14:55:12.941-08:00Top 10 Kitchen Power Tools Shout out to anyone who grew up with Tim the Tool Man Taylor. He had a love for power tools that knew no bounds. He would stick a V6 engine on your garbage disposer so you could both get rid of unwanted food and drive yourself to work. Power tools are the big guns, the large mama jamas...ok I will stop.
Power tools aren't just for carpenters and flannel wearing men though. Nope, in theBrogonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965724215006903756noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-18982495018475854962016-12-01T19:31:00.000-08:002016-12-08T19:17:42.129-08:00The White Swan Public House, Seafood and PorkGet two ex-cooks together for a meal, and you are bound to end up with at $200+ food bill and an unhealthy amount of pork, fat and just plain good food. We know what we like and we always over indulge in it... My Chef friend flew in from San Fransisco over Thanksgiving weekend. We had worked together at LUC. A local turn and burn french Bistro. The owner also known as the Chef in the Hat Thierry Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967167806198332296.post-57462973831631127792016-11-29T19:34:00.000-08:002016-12-01T20:02:36.186-08:00Where Have all The Chefs Gone
I read this article about a year ago in the New York Times that pointed out a growing problem. There are not enough Cooks for all the kitchens. There are similar articles in most major newspapers. They discuss the dire hiring environment Chefs are currently facing as they are looking to fill positions. Where have all the good cooks gone? What has happened to the industry?
Being a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0