OK, if you want to play THAT game, hash slinger.........
And, if you MUST know, I started cooking at age seven and have been paid to cater some parties during my teenage years..... OOOPS!! I guess that makes me a "professional".........
Besides, I NEVER claimed to be a "Chef". Quite honestly, Army Cooking School doesn't quite compare to the CIA, IMHO.
Hmmm. That's another thing I've never done -- sling hash. Care to enlighten me as to what that is since you know so much about it?
I've also never claimed to be a chef. That's relegated for those guys in the stovepipe white hats and the starched white coats who scream a lot.
In all honesty, Army cooking school didn't teach me squat. It was basically nothing more than slave labor for the dining facilities of the training brigade at Ft. Jackson. My education came later when I worked with mostly civilians who taught me some of the finer points of food preparation. (I got pretty good at sauces.) I guess those evenings of tenderloin and lobster on Monday nights were a bit removed from "hash" (still don't know what that stuff is...
), along with the night baking I did for awhile.
So, in essence, I think I'm a cook with a fair amount of good experience in a professional setting. I don't do it for a living anymore, but when I did, I worked with professionals who insisted that I treat the job the same way.
As I civilian, or better said both in and out of uniform, I worked in some family-type restaurants. Not bad, but it wasn't the kind of cooking that I saw in the Army.
Hell, it was either that or go in the Navy and work on helicopters.......