One thing for which I'll be forever grateful to Gordon Ramsay was when he burned toast on camera.  I was developing my skills at home cooking and getting to be very neurotic about how things turned out, often holding myself to such a standard that it was bumming out everyone else, even as they actually enjoyed my cooking.  And then, in a video about English breakfast, Gordon Ramsay burned toast.  And he laughed, and hurriedly popped in another slice.  And I thought, "If the 'you fucking donkey' guy just laughs it off when he burns the toast, then what the fuck am I doing?"  I chilled out a lot after that.

As a cook, this episode was surprisingly hard for me to watch and nearly brought a tear to my eye on a couple occasions. We do just want a normal life with standard 8 hour shifts. The job is exhausting and the rewards aren't really worth the effort.

I'll be taking the LSAT test in August and hope to move on from this life and go to law school. Wish me luck.

The worst thing about the blue plaster thing is that its food safety conscious and blue plasters are required in first aid kits in food prep so youd never accidentally eat it.

"permanently anxious British Gen X workoholic". Ragusea you've described my mother better than I ever could.

I feel like I would prefer Gordon the person to Gordon the persona projected on TV.

I wanna say Adam, you have achieved your goal of getting people to chill the hell out about food, at least in my case. Cooking is one of the few activities I can consider myself genuinely skilled at, and take pride in. Never in any way other than as a home cook, but still I had a kinda uppity attitude with my own family or friends about it.

Now, after having been a viewer since 2019 into 2020, your influence has really curtailed that impulse in me. I'm much more laid back about food, and much less of a dickhead about food.

And for that, I'm grateful

I've worked in restaurants for nearly twenty years. The best feeling in the world is when the front and back of house dig through the weeds as one cohesive whole.  When every team member assists and anticipates each movement of the kitchen, the expo line, the dining room, the bar, etc. An effective dinner service feels like a symphony. To be a vital piece of a precise machine feels incredible.

as a lowly shift manager, my favorite thing has been to use the library voice and encourage my staff to be themselves. its so nice to see people flourish.

Gordon's best show is his series with prisoners (Gordon Behind Bars). He's genuinely nice to them and wants them to succeed and it is so much more powerful and entertaining than his traditional angry shows

Wasn’t expecting your critique to have this much class consciousness, impressive

"There are a lot of permanently anxious workaholics among the gen X generation"

Oh my god, this hit so hard. This explains my parents and my fiancees parents and a lot of other gen Xers we know.

Take a shot every time Adam fawns over Gordon's appearence 😆

“Why I roast my Gordon Ramsay and not my Gordon Ramsay”

"They don't remember me but I remember them." That line is especially scary coming from an Italian. Totally agree with Adam on not having to be an arse as a prerequisite for being a boss or someone in charge.

A video on the history of our public school lunch program would be interesting.  It’s sad to see what it has turned into.  The Chris Farley Lunch Lady making meals from scratch has been replaced with corporate premade prison style meals that get delivered and microwaved all under the guise of health.

Im still enamored how youre able to host a solo podcast and still be as engaging as many of the hundreds of famous dude bro podcasts out there

Adam, you're so articulate and fluent. It makes even your lengthy videos fly by. So it delights me to point out that, at 11:25, you say "R.S.V.P. Carrie Fisher" when surely you meant to say "R.I.P." 😂

Great work,  Adam. I have felt the same for ages. The culture of promoting drama, anger and bullying to make a bigger buck creates an angry, damaged society. Hurt people hurt people.

Another particularly cruel dynamic I've had with yelling in the workplace is the supervisor exclusively scolding you from across the room. So, any time you screwed up (it happens in a fast paced warehouse environment) everyone in the department got to know about it.

A lot of what Gordon Ramsay cooks nowadays seems to be focused more on looking good than actually tasting good. Recently he published a video on TikTok where he made a massive steak sandwich, and when other people tried to recreate it they all showed that it was nearly impossible to eat due to stacked it was. It's food for the cameras, not for humans.