Comment on Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviews
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 1 day agoWhen I was a cook, even if I was just making something simple, I could still find creative satisfaction in a variety of ways. How you sprinkle on the garnish, plating, using a little more of this, a little less of that. Food to a chef is like art designed to be destroyed, so with the temporary nature of the medium, it really allows you to be creative in a multitude of ways. You’re not hung up on making it perfect, because it’s just about to be eaten, so it let’s you be more free with your design choices. It can be fun creating art while you’re supposed to be working.
but if my job was suddenly just washing up after a machine… well. That will get old real quick.
3abas@lemm.ee 1 day ago
The first paragraph is a fantasy.
In this restaurant, where the chef was replaced by a salad machine, the “chef” was a human salad machine before. There was no time to play with garnish and playing, they weren’t serving Michelin star food. The term “chef” is used very liberally here, you aren’t a chef if the only thing you cook at a restaurant is assemble salad that a machine can do to the same standard.
They were assembling salads, it wasn’t a dream job.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Literally not a fantasy, but my and a lot of cooks reality.
3abas@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
You assemble the same soulless food everyday and you actually feel fulfilled by assembling croutons differently every day?
Hey, I can’t imagine the process not becoming muscle memory and for my brain to not be somewhere else completely, but you sprinkle salt off your elbow if that gives you joy.