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Do men or women make better chefs?
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| Men | 63% | 299 votes | Total: 478 votes | |
| Women | 37% | 179 votes |
Men
by RhinoRalph
Created on: January 25, 2010 Last Updated: January 26, 2010
In order to not being called a sexist, you probably have to answer that women are better chefs, according to the political-correctness standard. I am going to apply the standard of the truth according to my own interpretation. It is being said that men are better cook than women. That is the reason this question was asked here in the first place. What I think has happened is that men are riskier than females and they don't mind to try to do things differently while women usually follow the recipes. When you hear that males don't follow instructions, it is true in many ways.
By males being risky and willing to try to do things differently, is that they come up with new taste in the kitchen. I have observed that attitude in my own household. My wife and daughter are hesitant to try things that I come up with if they are not from a recipe. I invent things and many of them are not good but I just disregard. Once in a while I combine food and seasoning which I find delicious. I just do them at home like my family recipe I call "Ponche Lopez". My wife and daughter like my punch but it took a while for me to have them try it.
And that is the secret of a good chef. Most good chefs has been in the kitchen for so long that they follow their instinct when coming up with new recipe. They alter many recipes trying to come up with different recipes. Being creative is important. for taste. However, to be fair to women, I agree they can cook fast and keep the kitchen clean, They can be good and creative chefs but men surpasses them for the reason just mentioned above.
I believe men and women have been made different for a purpose and that is to complement each other. Imagination and risky behavior are bigger in men but detail oriented, fast and multitaskers are characteristics of women. Any job in which it is required to use the imagination and you have to invent from and create from nothing, men are better. Any job in which you have to coordinate, manage many details and being fast, women are better at it. But remember, I am generalizing because there are many exceptions to the rule. The intention hasn't been here to offend women but to answer this question with the best of my thinking ability which could be wrong, but I assure you there is no personal bias against women.
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Women
by Heather Wagner
Created on: February 17, 2010
"Just because you go to culinary school, that doesn't make you a chef." This is something we said in one of my many culinary labs in school. Which had both men and women in it, and both had their good and bad chefs. Just because you are a cave man tough guy, doesn't mean you can cook. And just because women have always been portrayed as good cooks doesn't mean they are. Trust me I know many women whose idea of cooking, is throwing a frozen meal in the microwave.
I do have to say though, since I am writing for the women side, that the women who are good chefs and work on the kitchen line are awesome and can stand up to any of those line guys. They are just as tough, and bad ass as any guy on the line. Same goes for the pastry line cooks. They actually have it harder than any line guy. On the line, there are several people to help, pastry usually only has one person to do all the desserts that come in, and in pastry there is a majority of women.
Most women I have met that work in a kitchen, are tough, loud, and can get anyone to do anything. Now yes, most women tend to be a little more polite and don't feel the need to swear and yell and throw things just to get something re-done or re-cooked. And yes there are those women who when they cut themselves or get yelled at by the executive chef go and cry and those kinds of girls i agree should not be in the kitchen or need to get a tougher skin. There would be girls in my classes that when there cake would fall or their sugar would burn they would cry because they messed up, to me yes that is weak and they need to learn how to deal with stuff like that, however not all women are like this.
There are also guys who in my class would get upset becuase they got yelled at for burning something or when they made a mistake. These guys made other guys look just as weak. I have also met guys who work on the line who are some of the sweetest most polite guys ever, yet when the time comes they get stuff done and they don't have to be a cave man to do it.
So really there are no "better" chefs There are just chefs. Man or woman we are all trained the same way and can all be awesome.
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