Culinary school is an amazing, weird time.
From having to tourne 100 potatoes to bleaching your whites for hours on end, you get used to some pretty weird stuff. Stuff like:
1. You start eating and drinking everything out of quart containers.
2. You have a designated soaking bucket for your whites.
3. You start protecting your toques and side towels with an animalistic passion.
4. Your sleep schedule becomes severely messed up and there's nothing you can do about it.
5. You start finding gloves, bay leaves, sharpies, and all kinds of strange things in the laundry machine.
6. Instead of saying excuse me, you start saying "hot behind," "knife," "corner," or "sharp."
7. You get strangely possessive about your chef knife and get personally offended when people touch it without asking.
8. You start judging people based on the color of tape they use to mark their knives.
9. The word "homework" starts to mean something very, very different.
10. If you went to culinary school, you think pastry kids are wimps. If you went to pastry school, you think culinary kids are wimps.
11. You feel like you can take on the world after sharpening your knives.
12. You get genuinely excited every time you see your classmates outside of class in normal clothing.
13. You habitually start grabbing your forearm every time you bend over to prevent your sharpie and thermometer from falling on the floor.
14. You start addressing every professor as chef, even if it's accounting class:
15. You get used to your hair, hands, and clothes always smelling like onions:
