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We always ask the new cooks to make red salt for us. It involves chopping salt at a very high rate of speed in order to create the red salt. You get them going and then come by and tell them that they need to chop faster and harder. You gather the rest of the kitchen around them and then send the sous chef over to ask what the h*** they are doing. Sous chef rolls eys when told and tells newbie to turn around. Here is the rest of the kitchen having a good chuckle and the only thing red is newbies face.

Wow. Far be it for me to tell you how wrong you are about PBR and Miller High Life. Different strokes etc. But, boy, if these are the two worst beers you've ever tasted you either drink nothing but fancy-pants beers or simply haven't tasted very many beers. I'm guessing it's the latter 'cos there are plenty of lousy fancy-pants beers too. Had a couple this weekend as a matter of fact... At worst, PBR and MHL are drinkable. At best, say, on a hot summer day fresh from an ice-filled cooler, they're damn fine examples of American-style beer. I feel safe in assuming you've never had an Old Milwaukee, Milwaukee's Best, Carlings Black Label, Rhinelander, Old Style, Michelob, Busch or even a Miller Lite. Miller Lite, now there's an example of a popular beer that I simply cannot abide. Other fine, cheap, drinkable American beers include Hamms, Schlitz and Blatz. Gimme an ice cold Hamms ANY summer day. Frank Booth was right. Kurt Ditto on the Old Style, and for the folks in the PNW that would be Schmidt, also know as the animal beer because of the various can art. Certainly these beers are way above your average Bud or Miller etc. and they are very price friendly. As far as the worst beer ever, if you have ever heard of the generic "BEER" then you know what I am talking about.

A favorite local watering hole in Stumptown, The Goose Hollow Inn, owned by former mayor Bud Clark has been serving PBR Imperial pints at $2 a whack for quite some time now. It is also the beer of choice on my boat for those hot summer outings on the river. People say, "Chef, why do have this cheap beer on your boat?" Hey, boat gas is $3 a gallon and you can either drink those fancy beers and not boat, or drink PBR and boat. Pretty simple. Besides a cold PBR hits the spot on the hot sunny days If your a fan of PBR and your evern in Portland hit the Goose or the Delta Cafe where they serve a 40 of PBR in a champagne bucket. Cheers!

Hey, talk of cheap and inexpensive kitchen equipment. Lot's of great gadgets out there for not a lot of $$$$. But think about this. Invest the money in quality equipment and you don't have to go back and replace it all the time with the inexpensive stuff. Sure, I have my fair share of inexpensive gadgets, both at home and work. But it's hard to beat the 25 year old Wusthof Chef's knife that I recieved as an apprentice. Still going strong and at $75 original cost, that's about $3 a year. Inexpensive stuff has a place, how many of you have a Ginsu somewhere in the drawer or toolbox? It slices, dices, cuts nails, frozen food, bricks and aluminum cans. Still the best tomato knife I have ever had. don't forget though that the spendy stuff works well too. Cheers