At first I thought this was going to be a visualization for something like the flavor bible, but after looking through it, it just seems like random lists of items vaguely grouped together by very general categories, and then put in boxes with random lines drawn between them for no discernable reason?
If this helps you organize your thoughts, cheers.
I sort of suspect AI was involved in making this and that's why it's so wonky and random though.
This is what normal chefs use their heads for. A good chef knows intuitively what goes together, using this goddamn awful slop is peak The Office content.
Seriously, you have one effing job, and this is a huge part of it. How will this somehow be easier than just referring to what should already be in your head?
Do u have a commissary Kitchen feeding 3000 people a day In NYC before 4 pm and saying Fuck restaurants altogether?
Plus NDA clientele at night. Let's not forget the 5 years of Smorgasburg alongside the madness that was Dinner Lab - Kitchen surfing - Kitchit - Zerocater - Cater2.me
He's a compsci stoner that's been cooking professionally for 10 yrs and making more in sales weekly than most restaurant groups, it's totally believable, don't say no >:(
He's saying he did 100k in sales a week lol. If true, good for him. Not the process I'd go through to write a menu, but if it works and people are happy eating his/her food more power to them.
Reading the comments, it seems to be for bullshitting your way into menu sales - they basically just call it keywords the allegedly use with clients to create menues.
Which is like, idk, nothing here really connects in a meaningful way, so it is kind of depressing af.
This is literally just like random word association. None of this makes any sense at all. If its useful to you, then power to you. To anyone else this is just a senseless word jumble
At first I thought this was going to be a visualization for something like the flavor bible, but after looking through it, it just seems like random lists of items vaguely grouped together by very general categories, and then put in boxes with random lines drawn between them for no discernable reason?
If this helps you organize your thoughts, cheers.
I sort of suspect AI was involved in making this and that's why it's so wonky and random though.
Lettuce to Yuca doesn't make sense to you? Yeah, me either.
LEGUMES|COOK USING YOUR MIND| |IM NOT HUNGRY IM HUNGRYnah, this whole thing makes total sense to me and definitely isn't AI slop
Indian -> 0 = egg -> egg + cardamom + curry -> Anda curry. Completely intuitive!
Peak autism content
First one looks like it was made with Windows 95 lol
Helps in a client conversation when crafting a menu. Have fun making menus with tomatoes as a keyword.
you show this to clients?
Explain how. Cause to me and pretty much everyone else in this post, it looks utterly useless.
I see the idea but it feels like an unrefined rough draft i would never cling this tightly to defend
I get the "idea" but what's displayed ain't it.
If I were making something like this, approach it more like a flavor bible. But OP seems more interesting in collecting "keywords" lol
And how does Indian > 0 on your spice map make any sense to anyone? How does that help with a conversation to create a menu?
This is what normal chefs use their heads for. A good chef knows intuitively what goes together, using this goddamn awful slop is peak The Office content.
Seriously, you have one effing job, and this is a huge part of it. How will this somehow be easier than just referring to what should already be in your head?
Keyword? What are you, a search engine?
ACIDS pretty much covers everything going on here
The margarine did it for me
I think it's cool.
Nah I'm good, my brain works fine lol
And just for the record, Zucchini, cantaloupe and mandarine do not go together lol
New Adderall prescription, eh? Very cool, my guy.
Jk, I could see these being really useful when trying to remember that peanuts are vegan and oysters are seafood.
Wait really I always mixe those up
Compare menu keywords by zip code.
The fuck is this shit?
Looks like a list of keywords for menu descriptions.
This shit is a fever dream of uselessness.
Yeah I spent 30 seconds too long trying to find any pattern or meaning here and its just.... whatever that is
The goal is to learn all these keywords as they help when u guide a conversation and taking on new clients. In meetings this data helps.
I’ve never once mentioned “steel” as a cooking surface to a catering client.
It's called sales.
Start with "The benefits of Stainless steel when cooking a fish like Arctic char........
So… you’re just making shit up.
Is it for people without English as their first language? Even then..
So, are you saying you have such a little understanding of your own craft, you need guides to help you describe it?
No thank you
You're not writing 5-6 menus for clients a day.
Neither are you, I'd bet.
How much do u want to bet?
Do u have a commissary Kitchen feeding 3000 people a day In NYC before 4 pm and saying Fuck restaurants altogether?
Plus NDA clientele at night. Let's not forget the 5 years of Smorgasburg alongside the madness that was Dinner Lab - Kitchen surfing - Kitchit - Zerocater - Cater2.me
100k weeks.
Tons of menus.
No.
He's a compsci stoner that's been cooking professionally for 10 yrs and making more in sales weekly than most restaurant groups, it's totally believable, don't say no >:(
100,000 weeks is 1,923 years assuming you never took a week off.
No wonder these are indecipherable, they’re from the Stone Age!
He's saying he did 100k in sales a week lol. If true, good for him. Not the process I'd go through to write a menu, but if it works and people are happy eating his/her food more power to them.
Ahhh, sorry. I can’t read
what determines where you put the lines?
I'm picking the lines were done and dusted before putting whatever this is together.
You're not op
You're damn right.
Rage bait?
I do sometimes need various water based inspirations.
it aint it mate
How do you get to Coriander?
I can make things up that help absolutely nothing too.
What’s OP claiming this is for?
Reading the comments, it seems to be for bullshitting your way into menu sales - they basically just call it keywords the allegedly use with clients to create menues.
Which is like, idk, nothing here really connects in a meaningful way, so it is kind of depressing af.
This is literally just like random word association. None of this makes any sense at all. If its useful to you, then power to you. To anyone else this is just a senseless word jumble
mapping butters, honey, and vinegars on a circuit board is the most 2025 thing ive seen.
i do love a good decision tree
Shit feels a bit corporate or smth lol
I want to get it, but I don't get it
I've got crappy executive function and could see these really helping!! The chefs with normal recall don't see the utility here - but I see you.
i get what you’re going for. i think the arrows throw it off. it’s a pain in the ass but maybe this is better created in a dedicated mind map app?
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Very cool.
You should try and get your hands on some Sil Timur pepper to add to your list of peppers
Similar to Szechuan/Sansho, but far milder + more citrusy
Sil timur. Good keyword.
what do you mean by that?
This guy is collecting keywords. Maybe we suggest more?
Caul fat Ash Colostrum Carob Hygge
Using these culinary words at him like we are dispelling a demon:
BARDING ENGASTRATION LARDING RICING
Amazing, but the first one is kind of hard to read the lines with the dark but vibrant blue
yeah, you absolutely have to be able to see the lines...
Take off the arrowheads and I think it'll make a lot more sense.
Wtv. Free pdfs if u wanna make money in chef world.
Can you walk us through a recipe creation using this?