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Chef Thomson

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Aspiring Chef | Moncton, NB 🇨🇦 | 24

08/01/2025

Yup, that’s definitely all I do in a 50 hour week. Wash dishes and sometimes I help on the line. Definitely not doing anything else!

07/30/2025

Are you really a chef if you don’t calculate the standard deviation of your smoked sausage yield per cook?

07/29/2025

This is the same person but three years apart.

I stumbled into the hospitality industry with no intentions of sticking around. Summer 2022 I needed a job while I was in college studying business and being a kitchen helper at a golf course was what I was able to land. Like anything I do, I gave it my all. I showed up early, helped where I could, and with time, I fell in love with it.

I fell in love with the smiles on people’s faces when they eat food you prepared for them and they’re no longer hungry. Guests who visited frequently asking for their “usual”. Making snacks for the servers when I knew they were hungry. Keeping the kitchen clean and spotless as if it were my own.

I had very little to my name. Just dreams, like anyone.

Now, while I still have dreams, much of what I dreamt of three years ago has been accomplished. I’m doing something I love and making a living doing it.

When I was a kitchen helper I was responsible for washing dishes, sweeping floors, folding wraps, and making sandwiches. Now I still do all those things but it’s because I want to. Not because I need to. That passion and that drive has put me in a place where now instead of cooking a few dollars worth of French fries now I cook thousands of dollars of meat.

3 years in any career is just the tip of the iceberg. Trust me, I’m only getting started.

07/27/2025

A food truck owner from Thailand has been leaving some pretty unkind comments on my posts over the last few months. I was curious as to why, because I’ve never spoken to them before.

I searched through their comment history and found about 14 weeks ago they left a comment saying they hate “YouTube chefs”. My advice would be to use your personal page, not your business page to call people names and be rude.

Running a food truck doesn’t make you a chef. Running four doesn’t either. Harassing people online and not being able to regulate your emotions so they come out in the form of anger, isn’t being a chef.

You know what toddlers do when they are experiencing big feelings and emotions that they don’t know how to regulate? They throw tantrums. They cry. They yell. Maybe they even kick and hit. I think social media seems to be a great outlet for people 😉

07/24/2025

BEING A DOCTOR IS NOT THE SAME AS BEING A COOK 😂

If you want to become a doctor where I live, you need an undergraduate university degree which takes 4 years, maybe 3 if you do an accelerated program.

Then you need to attend medical school. This takes another 4 years. There’s also 5 year programs for research interest 🔬 After spending 8 years in post-secondary school you then need to obtain all your required licensing through exams and applications.

Then finally you need to do your residency which depending on what you want to do, can take anywhere from 2 years for family medicine or sometimes more than 7 years for different specialties.

After spending at least 9 years or maybe as many as 15 years learning about and working in medicine, you can now write more exams, and obtain licensing to practice medicine independently.

To become a cook 🧑‍🍳 all you have to do is have too many drinks, not be able to pay your tab at the pub and be forced to deep fry onion rings to pay off your debt. Then to be become the chef, you just have to work there until you get promoted because everyone else quit or got fired 😂

What I’m trying to say, is that ultimately you DO NOT need to go to culinary school to be a chef. You don’t get a university degree in “cheffing” and now you are a chef. It doesn’t work like that.

07/22/2025

Mise en place means you too.

07/18/2025

Take care of your equipment and your equipment will take care of you.

07/17/2025

I have a lot of respect for people who spend time in the industry. People who put effort into learning through post-secondary, apprenticeships, or just working in kitchens.

As far as I’m aware, at least in Canada where I live, there is no school you can go to where you become a “chef”. When you go to culinary school, you are not graduating as a chef. You graduate a program with a trade certificate. Just like a mechanic or electrician would.

When you graduate with your trade certificate, you are given the certificate for the trade of “Cook”. There is no “chef trade”. Even when you get a red seal, it is simply affixed to your Cook Trade Certificate. You don’t become a “red seal chef” when you get your red seal.

Being a chef has nothing to do with your post secondary education. Many world renowned chefs never went to culinary school. Instead they learned on the job. For me, I’ve only worked in kitchens for 3 years. That’s simply the tip of the iceberg for a career in the industry.

07/16/2025

I don’t own a suit, but my grandparents gave me my great grandfathers London Fog coat. From there I just bought a tweed hat, similar shaded pants, and a vest.

It’s absolutely not something you’d wear with it being 31°C (89°F) outside. But when the weather turns cold it’s the perfect outfit.

07/16/2025

I know Facebook is an older demographic, but this is just a not-so friendly reminder that we live in 2025 not 1970. An online username does not always equate to the person’s title or name.

My Minecraft username was Commander Salmon. Do you think I’m a fish? 🐟

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