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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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“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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“When you're cooking in the premier league of restaurants, when things go down, it has to be sorted immediately.”

Cooking League Restaurants Premier League

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“I'm a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop.”

Wells Done Bigs Difficult Sea Lovers Cooking Fishes Mediums Meat Temperature Bass Protein Well Done Stunning Scallops

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“I suppose I might be a player-coach nowadays. I'm a great teacher, and I enjoy teaching. But I'm glad I got injured and ended up turning to cooking. It was an accident but the happiest one of my life.”

Might Enjoy Teacher Player Teaching Cooking Accidents Coaches Glad Injured Great Teacher

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“Stopping the junk food and Eating well is partially about cooking well and having the skills to do that.”

Wells Skills Eating Cooking Stopping Junk Junk Food Food And Eating Eating Well

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“My childhood favourite is mum's shepherd's pie, Yorkshire pudding and roasted potatoes. I remember coming home from school and going to the kitchen to help her. It's because of her that I discovered my love for cooking.”

Helping Home School Remember Childhood Cooking Kitchen Coming Home Favourite Mum Pie Potatoes Shepherds Pudding Yorkshire

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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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“The issue I have is that the cooking techniques are up for questioning, today more than ever before. If you waterbath beef at 22-degrees for 12 hours, it may taste fantastic, but if you don't cook food at a high enough temperature, you risk not killing the bacteria. Things like that make me nervous of venturing into it.”

Ifs May Enough Today Hours Issues Risk Taste Degrees Cooking Killing Technique Nervous Fantastic Cooks Questioning Temperature Beef Bacteria

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“There's a side to reality TV that is part education, as well. I've seen that since doing "MasterChef Junior," in terms of the effect it has on the confidence given these young kids from 8 to 13, a quality life skill. Even if they never pursue cooking as a job or a career, just learning how to cook for yourself sets you up in a good place.”

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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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“In order to create a little bit of confidence, start cooking with pasta. Pasta is phenomenal. Once you've cooked pasta properly for the first time it becomes second nature.”

Firsts Littles Order Bits Little Bit First Time Cooking Phenomenal Pasta

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“Making pasta, cooking pasta and baking bread are two essential ideas to create a little bit of excitement, and you learn the basic, and then evolve it. Flavor the bread, flavor the pasta, go to a fish, go to a meat sauce and take it to another level.”

Littles Two Ideas Past Bits Levels Essentials Little Bit Cooking Fishes Bread Evolve Meat Excitement Flavor Baking Sauce Pasta Baking Bread

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“Cooking a dish is fine; cooking it under pressure is a completely different ballgame.”

Different Fine Pressure Cooking Dishes Under Pressure Ballgame

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“If you want to think about cooking, and it's a high-five, laid back motion, then flip burgers and dress Caesar salad, don't try to pitch in the premier league of restaurant. Build up to it, by all means.”

Ifs Thinking Want Trying Mean Five Dresses Cooking League Restaurants Flip Salad Burgers Laid Back Premier League Caesar Salad

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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.”

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“I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It's not a job, it's a passion. When you become good at it, it's a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.”

Thinking Needs Stills Dream Jobs Passion Worry Football Cooking Dream Job

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“Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.”

Way Looks May Eye Passion Cooking Naked Assertive Naked Eyes Funny Kitchen

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“You don't come into cooking to get rich.”

Rich Cooking Get Rich

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“Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.”

Men Giving Today Young Games Cooking Young Man

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About the Author

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

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