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Gordon Ramsay is a celebrated British chef and restaurateur, born on November 8, 1966. He has opened numerous restaurants and earned numerous Michelin stars. Ramsay is also recognized for his television appearances, including 'Hell's Kitchen' and 'MasterChef'.

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“What's frustrating more than anything is when chefs start to cut corners and believe that they are incognito in the way they send out appetizers, entrees, and they know it's not 100 percent, but they think the customers can't spot it.”

Thinking Knows Way Believe Cutting Percent Corners Customers Spots Chef Frustrating Appetizers Entrees

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“There are very few chefs both in Britain and the States that really identify the secret of being consistent. And combine consistency with flavor.”

States Secret Britain Consistent Chef Consistency Flavor

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“I train my chefs with a blindfold. I'll get my sous chef and myself to cook a dish. The young chef would have to sit down and eat it with a blindfold. If they can't identify the flavor, they shouldn't be cooking the dish.”

Ifs Young Down And Cooking Train Cooks Dishes Chef Flavor Blindfolds

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“I love eating out. I don't deny that. But I don't want 12 or 15 courses because the chef wants me to taste this or taste that. I just want to be able to decide.”

Want Able Courses Taste Eating Deny Want Me Chef Eating Out

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“The essence of Reality TV is all about drama. So, I think bringing pressure is healthy whether it's a professional chef or a domestic chef. Because the only way ever to really identify the true purpose of how good they are is submerging them under pressure. So I say it's no different than a live football game because it's about the intensity.”

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“I've always said that I think females make the best chefs anywhere in the world.”

Thinking World Said Female Chef

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“Long Island for me, it's producing more chefs coming out of there than Paris.”

Long Paris Islands Coming Out Chef Long Island

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“I can't say, maybe it's something in the ingredients, but again, we have a couple of contestants from Long Island and a phenomenal array of chefs.”

Long I Can Couple Islands Ingredients Chef Phenomenal Long Island Contestants

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“How many chefs do we know that prefer cooking for chefs than they do customers, yet customers are returning repeatedly and it's the level of support that determines the level of success that restaurant will have.”

Knows Levels Support Cooking Determine Customers Restaurants Chef

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“It's quite weird knocking that out of them and telling them to forget cooking for chefs; forget what chefs say about your food.”

Forget Cooking Chef Knocking

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“First of all, when you build a restaurant of that phenomenon-I really hate that word "set" and I hate the word "cast" -it is from the most amazing health and hygiene ... properly air conditioned, properly irrigated with hot and cold running water... Obviously, FOX is paying for it, so in terms of expenditure it's far more economical and on the back of the draw were 22,500 cast. Finding 30 chefs in that bunch wasn't difficult.”

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“Given that level of responsibility with your 25-year old or 35-year-old chef, it's just quite nice to see how they handled that exposure. Not every chef deals with it properly; they get slightly excited, a little bit overconfident and then they miss out on the most important part.”

Years Littles Important Given Bits Levels Deals Responsibility Nice Missing Little Bit Excited Chef Exposure Overconfident

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“If you become a chef because you're obsessed by becoming a celebrity, getting my ass kicked and working my nuts off the way I did in France and getting pushed around those kitchens wasn't about becoming famous.”

Ifs Way Becoming Ass France Obsessed Kitchen Nuts Chef Becoming Famous

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“Chefs don't do ponytails and we shouldn't do them because I guarantee that whenever there's a discovery of hair in the food, it's guaranteed it's from the chef's ponytail.”

Hair Discovery Guarantees Chef Guarantees That Ponytails

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“It goes back to the early days in the kitchen where you would be tasting dishes all night long, so the last thing I want to do in the morning is eat. Chefs generally tend to be grazers.”

Want Long Would Be Lasts Night Morning Kitchen Dishes Chef All Night Tasting

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“If a chef says to you that he sits down and eats dinner before service, then it's bulls***. And if they do, then I'd tell them that they are a fat f***! You shouldn't indulge, because you need to keep your palate on edge, and keeping it on edge is all about small attention to detail and tweaking along the way.”

Ifs Way Needs Attention Down And Edges Details Dinner Fats Chef Indulge Bulls Palate Attention To Detail

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“The thing is, I can teach. I can teach bloody well. So few chefs have that level of generosity. I demand a lot, a f***ing hell of a lot, but I give a lot back.”

Giving Wells I Can Levels Teach Hell Demand Generosity Bloody Chef

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“[Molecular gastronomy] was a great trend, because it experimented with food. The benchmark was [former elBulli head chef] Ferran Adrià, and now he is no longer there it is harder to gauge.”

Harder Former Trends Chef Gauges

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“Cooking today is far greater than it ever was, and more importantly, a chef's role today has changed dramatically over the last decade.”

Today Lasts Roles Greater Changed Cooking Decades Chef

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“I suppose more than anything, chefs have gotten better, which is great news, which makes my life a lot easier. I can be a lot more creative in terms of the menu.”

I Can Term Creative Easier News Chef Menus Great News

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“If my last supper was ever going to be cooked by a chef, it would have to be Thomas Keller.”

Ifs Lasts Chef Supper Last Supper

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“Pressure's healthy. It becomes stressful when you can't handle that. I mean, if you don't want to become pressurized in this environment, then don't be a chef.”

Ifs Want Mean Environment Healthy Pressure Handle Chef Stressful

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“Two key ingredients in any successful chef: a quick learner and someone with a sharp brain.”

Two Brain Successful Keys Ingredients Chef Learners

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“To have 95% of the ingredients sourced, food and wine, within 100 miles radius, that's a dream come true for any chef.”

Dream Wine Miles Ingredients Chef Dreams Come True Food And Wine Radius

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“Being a chef is the best job in the world.”

World Jobs Chef Best Job

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“Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.”

Seems Jobs Passion Chef True Passion

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“If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.”

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“I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.”

Thinking Men World Two Self America Hate Driven Chef Jackets Incompetence Perfectionist Stoves Family Man Thoroughbreds

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“Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.”

Littles Soul Self Lasts Absolutes Obsessed Delicate Chef Insecure Psychopath Self Obsessed Dainty

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“I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.”

Thinking Want Fats Restaurants Pigs Chef Dessert Adverts

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“As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.”

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“There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.”

Thinking Kitchen More Time Staff Chef

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“The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.”

Needs Today Young Strong Social Term Greater Personality Fit Skills Pressure Cooking Marketing Kitchen Plates Chef Delivering Social Skills Physically Fit

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“Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.”

Hard Character Form Strong Environment Kitchen Chef Strong Character

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“When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.”

Firsts Running Chance New York Gains Down And Cooks Appetite Chef

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“I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it.”

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“I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.”

Today Britain Chef Unselfish

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“I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it.”

Firsts Different Young Guy Girl Tables Train Cooks Sat Kitchen Chef Tasting Blindfolded Blindfolds

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“I am well aware that a chef is only as good as his last meal.”

Wells Lasts Meals Chef

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About the Author

Born: November 8, 1966
Known for: Chef
Quotes: 181

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