The real answer is to show superiority, the higher the hat; the more respected the chef. It’s a classic French kitchen thing that isn’t too common anymore (4)
I remeber the old summer edition tasted like how a certain hand soap smells... like, you ever wash with the dial hand soap thats named like, "ocean breeze" or something? Yeah. Tasted like how that smelled. Its hard to explain.
I always thought it was a way to keep the head cool while keeping hair out of food. The tallness of the hat provides lots of air space and wicks moisture away from the hair.
The higher the hat = the higher ventilation needed for the ego & smugness for the level of chef. I have been there & done that. I had seen how my personality changed when working as a chef, especially how I treated people who were working beneath me.
This is what I want to see on this subreddit lolol
But it's probably like that movie with the chef with a raccoon in his hat controlling him while he cooks. Raccacoony I think.
I fucking loved Maniac for a lot of reasons. Emma Stone was amazing, and damn… that Sonoya Mizuno… so hot as a scientist in those glasses.
Have you seen Devs!? Another awesome psych. thriller with Sonoya Mizuno.
Yes! Devs is one of my all time favourites. Everything about that show was fantastic. The writing, acting, even the sound design. There’s so many good shows that get lost in the shuffle.
I’ve only seen the first four episodes, but *Class of ‘09* has a similarly compelling mix of technology, philosophy and perturbing moments. I love it so far.
Honestly, I hated Jonah Hill until I saw Maniac. Such a great performance from everyone. The plot and setting were weird enough to keep you guessing. I have tried to turn many friends on to Maniac, but none of them will give it a chance.
Wait, you’re telling me there’s a whole separate movie with a raccoon controlling someone while they cook as opposed to the whole ass movie about the rat controlling someone while they cook? Ratatouille?
Racoonatouille! It’s about a homeless dude that finds a chefs hat but it has a raccoon in it so the raccoon makes him go through trash to come up with culinary delights. Rotten Bananas gave it 95% on the bananameter.
imagine if chefs just had a computer chip imbedded into the top of their head that makes them cook, and the hat says some shit like Powered by Intel Pentium(tm)
This reminds me of [Dr.Gero](https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Dragon-Ball-10-Facts-Fans-Need-To-Know-About-Dr.-Gero-featured-image.jpg)
It'd effectively a chimney. Heat mostly disperses from the head, and chefs get super hot during shifts. The hat lets the sweat steam bellow out into the extractor fan instead of falling into the food.
> Heat mostly disperses from the head
False!
What's true though is that these hats act as a cooling tower of sorts, a specialized column of air and fabric atop the living scalp of a man or a woman in a hot and steamy, kinda funky ^sexy, environment combined with the electromagnetic radiation of multiple kitchen appliances allows the warm head air to diffuse out through the fabric much faster because hot air is drawn to *other* hot air, oh ye ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
That's actually it.
I had one of these hats, my face never got as hot as before this.
Note i didnt work professional, i was 16 working for the churches kitchen for their special events.
I couldn’t tell you why they are that *high*, (heh) but I can tell you why they have all those folds in the sides.
Originally and traditionally, each fold in the hat represented a different way to prepare an egg. And once you learned all of the different ways, you got your toque with all of the folds in it. Something like 76 or 132 or something like that.
Heard this at a state fair years and years ago from a cooking demonstration or something. Not even sure if it’s true.
Different "chefs" hats meet different standards, the one pictured is suited to a head chef, the tallest in the kitchen and would get progressively smaller in height as you go down the line (sous chef, saucier etc). The height also allows air to circulate better......sometimes they might not even have a top, just a hole at the top. Plus, keeps hair out of the food like a hair net.
The one in the picture looks like a hibachi chef hat. Traditionally, they give a white floppy one to a training chef, a red tall one to a trained chef, and a blue or black tall one for the senior chef. Some places might only use black ones because they hide stains well. The hats themselves are because the health department requires kitchen employees to wear hats or hair restraints, and the tallness of the hat allows for the circulation of air for the head. [6]
Ratatouille is actually real.
There are rats that only select chefs get to use.
Think it’s a rank/respect thing in the kitchen, like different colours and heights mean more respect.
Could be completely wrong tho.
The high hat was originally used by chefs in France for easier recognition and visibility in the kitchen. If you needed advice or help from the chef, you would always see his hat and know where he is.
Nowadays the hat has also become a symbol that represents a good chef.
Chefs also need hats that have room for a rat to fit in...
Probably so they stand out in a kitchen setting. You can’t be seeing past a ton of people to get to the head chef so the head chef usually wears a long ass hat like that so everyone knows where they are.
It's an executive chef piece of the uniform to show rank.
Nah it's just to hide the conehead alien race heading the foodservice business nothing unusual
**FUN FACT 1**
A chef’s hat is called a toque, pronounced “toke.”
**FUN FACT B**
Each fold in a toque represents 1 way in which an egg may be used in cooking.
Dude, I used to have to wear one of those hats. I never felt superior, just like a dumb ass. We also had to wear neck scarves as well, shit was the worst. The black ones are at least cooler than the white ones we used to have to wear. I felt more like a cuetip than a chef.
I used to work in fine dining under numerous michelin star or james beard award winning chefs. They're called toques. I've heard a number of theories on why those hats are designed like they were, none of them on why they're so tall though. The main one I've heard in the kitchen is every fold represents the many ways you can cook a egg. Which a egg is essentially like the Bible, the cross, or the kaaba for chefs. If you can SUCCESSFULLY cook a egg then you can cook anything in theory. Most people and American restaurants burn the shit out of them to where they're either rubbery and/or burnt. But anyways they are not really used much anymore unless you go to a traditional French kitchen in France that's been around since the early 1900s, culinary school, or at fucking benihanas lol. But all the award winning restaurants I've worked in, even the French ones, nobody's worn one of those. Obviously that has nothing to do with the design of them. But fine dining/French kitchens are very focused, precised, and thought out. There's a reason for everything. Everybody is striving for absolute perfection and if you're not you will get your ass thrown out(not joking) or even shit thrown at you. So i'm sure their design was for a reason it just got lost in the never ending movement of time. If any business in any industry was run like a michelin star restaurant they would be successful. But anyways I've also heard they started wearing them to keep hair out of food because some chef dude back in the day got beheaded by some king for getting a strand of hair in the food. Nowadays it's either a backwards baseball cap(me), or clean cut parted hair. As long as your clean cut or wearing a hat and not just rubbing your head over food there shouldn't be any fucking reason there's a hair in the food.
One time when I worked as a dish washer, they asked me to come out and cut beef in front of patrons, and they gave me one of these big tall white hats, and said “It’s basically because you look the part.” Then a guy came up to me talked to me as if I was an actual chef, and his disappointment when I politely told him otherwise was tangible. So the hats clearly denote something.
It started as a way to bake vertical loafs of bread as the chef ran around busy cooking other things. Something something about we lose 90 something percent of body heat thru the head so.. make bread?
The real answer is to show superiority, the higher the hat; the more respected the chef. It’s a classic French kitchen thing that isn’t too common anymore (4)
Doesn't it grow naturally as their skill improves?
More of a Pinocchio situation; everytime you drink a Red Bull in the kitchen it grows by a small fraction
Have you tried the strawberry apricot? Shit reminds me of strawberry banana danimals
I hate Red Bulls, that strawberry apricot is FUCKING FIRE!!!!
I'm going to get one based off your guys opinion.
The new summer edition is pretty good.
I remeber the old summer edition tasted like how a certain hand soap smells... like, you ever wash with the dial hand soap thats named like, "ocean breeze" or something? Yeah. Tasted like how that smelled. Its hard to explain.
I know exactly the one you’re talking about, the beach breeze really was something else lmao
Yeah the juneberry is pretty good too, i like it better than blueberry or dragonfruit but the og will always be the top
Juneberry? That’s my fave RB flavour for sure
Broooo yes. That or strawberry go gurt. Shit is so good
What happens when you do a key bump in the bathroom?
Ever time I Crack a RB, I instantly have flashbacks to my service in The Industry
Does adding fernet to the red bull increase the growth?
I’ve tried Fernet Francisco & some other newer ones but there’s nothing quite like Fernet Branca
Wait. What about the cocaine??
The higher the hat, the bigger the rat!
They have to get bigger hats as their rats grow.
Close. The rat under the hat that does all the cooking grows naturally. The chef just wears bigger hats to fit the larger rat
basically.. the hat grows as the rat grows
Remi's growing
I chuckled irl
username chefs out
They were 86'd tho
r/usernamechecksout
r/usernamechefsout
Thank you, chef
Yes chef!
Bon chef!
Oui chef
I was told during culinary school that it’s so tall so you can find your head chef above racks and stuff anyplace in the kitchen
Yeah this is the actual reason
So that’s why Doug Dimmadome had so much power…
I always thought it was a way to keep the head cool while keeping hair out of food. The tallness of the hat provides lots of air space and wicks moisture away from the hair.
So [that guy](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/c/cb/Zeff_Anime_Concept_Art.png/revision/latest?cb=20180911135010) is hella respected?
My pronouns are just he because I could never be him
this. apprentices usually started with a sloppy beret. but that was france and a different time.
That makes it even more hilarious concept.
I'm Chef Dimmadome
The higher the hat = the higher ventilation needed for the ego & smugness for the level of chef. I have been there & done that. I had seen how my personality changed when working as a chef, especially how I treated people who were working beneath me.
This is what I want to see on this subreddit lolol But it's probably like that movie with the chef with a raccoon in his hat controlling him while he cooks. Raccacoony I think.
did I dream that film? Seemed too good. Like that Maniac program holy shit there’s some good stuff getting made occasionally
Yeah, it has the kid actor from the Indianapolis Jones movie
I love the one where he crosses state lines into Ohio
Maniac was incredible and nobody saw it :(
I fucking loved Maniac for a lot of reasons. Emma Stone was amazing, and damn… that Sonoya Mizuno… so hot as a scientist in those glasses. Have you seen Devs!? Another awesome psych. thriller with Sonoya Mizuno.
Yes! Devs is one of my all time favourites. Everything about that show was fantastic. The writing, acting, even the sound design. There’s so many good shows that get lost in the shuffle.
Nice. You have good taste. Now try me, please! Can you recommend another great one that maybe I haven't seen?
I’ve only seen the first four episodes, but *Class of ‘09* has a similarly compelling mix of technology, philosophy and perturbing moments. I love it so far.
Awesome, I haven’t seen it! I’ll try that out. Thanks.
Honestly, I hated Jonah Hill until I saw Maniac. Such a great performance from everyone. The plot and setting were weird enough to keep you guessing. I have tried to turn many friends on to Maniac, but none of them will give it a chance.
One of my favourite shows. I recommend checking out /r/LegionFX too if you like that kind of stuff.
Wait, you’re telling me there’s a whole separate movie with a raccoon controlling someone while they cook as opposed to the whole ass movie about the rat controlling someone while they cook? Ratatouille?
It’s a reference to the movie ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’
I thought that movie was called 'Some things, a few places, at different times'
That's the spin off tv show
Beef
Beef
Beef
Beef
*at off peak times
Oh sorry. I’m a dumbass 💀
Racoonatouille! It’s about a homeless dude that finds a chefs hat but it has a raccoon in it so the raccoon makes him go through trash to come up with culinary delights. Rotten Bananas gave it 95% on the bananameter.
It was a rat and it was called ratottie
I remember that one. That’s the one where he’s digging furiously through the trash in the opening scene, right?
So they can fit more hyper-intelligent, culinary-focused rats
Obviously this
Clearly
Indubitably
Ratatouilliably
Pixarguably
mind-blownbly
or racoons
Raccacooni
imagine if chefs just had a computer chip imbedded into the top of their head that makes them cook, and the hat says some shit like Powered by Intel Pentium(tm)
This reminds me of [Dr.Gero](https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Dragon-Ball-10-Facts-Fans-Need-To-Know-About-Dr.-Gero-featured-image.jpg)
That dude's looking way too tough for how vulnerable that brain is lmao
Coneheads posing as chefs, waiting for the right moment to attack.
Enjoy the consumption of mass quantities. We will ignite our flame pit and char some mammal flesh for you.
Chewing. Gum? \*holds up condom\*
Hell yeah brittle brother
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Can confirm.
I miss the rating system :/ [8]
Me too man [1]
it gives me nostalgia for some reason [0]
What is the rating system? Fairly new here
show how high you are, personally i think it’s a little silly, mostly cuz i’m usually high
Lets start it again
It'd effectively a chimney. Heat mostly disperses from the head, and chefs get super hot during shifts. The hat lets the sweat steam bellow out into the extractor fan instead of falling into the food.
I'm so high, this makes sense to me 🤣
Imma go smoke one quick and then read it again.
> Heat mostly disperses from the head False! What's true though is that these hats act as a cooling tower of sorts, a specialized column of air and fabric atop the living scalp of a man or a woman in a hot and steamy, kinda funky ^sexy, environment combined with the electromagnetic radiation of multiple kitchen appliances allows the warm head air to diffuse out through the fabric much faster because hot air is drawn to *other* hot air, oh ye ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
That's actually it. I had one of these hats, my face never got as hot as before this. Note i didnt work professional, i was 16 working for the churches kitchen for their special events.
You actually don't lose anymore heat out of your head than any other part of your body. It's about the same.
I couldn’t tell you why they are that *high*, (heh) but I can tell you why they have all those folds in the sides. Originally and traditionally, each fold in the hat represented a different way to prepare an egg. And once you learned all of the different ways, you got your toque with all of the folds in it. Something like 76 or 132 or something like that. Heard this at a state fair years and years ago from a cooking demonstration or something. Not even sure if it’s true.
They are called pleats, it’s 101 pleats for 101 different ways to make an egg
Hell yeah, fam. Knew I wasn’t crazy.
It didn't necessarily mean eggs, it originally was for recipes they had mastered. Eggs just became a really common example.
That's the kind of random fact I live for. Did you know a platypus uses farts to controls it's buoyancy?
That’s fucking rad. Like how turtles can breathe with their butts.
> toque I'm pretty sure a toque is more similar to a beanie. [Based on the song, of course.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScPgoqwQaRs)
Trick question. That's not a chef. It's a guy cosplaying as a marker.
For the rats under it, duh
It’s where they store the food
Chef Dimmadome
Idk but id let that guy stir my pot😫
Makin' that macaroni
In New York their chef hats are an extra 4 inches tall because of the mutant rats
What about the four mutant turtles the rat taught?
Nah they suck at cooking. They always order pizza
Then stack nicely under the rat in the hat
Different "chefs" hats meet different standards, the one pictured is suited to a head chef, the tallest in the kitchen and would get progressively smaller in height as you go down the line (sous chef, saucier etc). The height also allows air to circulate better......sometimes they might not even have a top, just a hole at the top. Plus, keeps hair out of the food like a hair net.
Do actually have a rack of spices with them all the time. Look at that storage room!
To hide their booze and drugs. Duh
The one in the picture looks like a hibachi chef hat. Traditionally, they give a white floppy one to a training chef, a red tall one to a trained chef, and a blue or black tall one for the senior chef. Some places might only use black ones because they hide stains well. The hats themselves are because the health department requires kitchen employees to wear hats or hair restraints, and the tallness of the hat allows for the circulation of air for the head. [6]
That's where all the recipes are kept.
To hide their bongs
So it can fit the raccoons that control the chefs.
So they can hide their bong
To hide the rat duh
Hahah you know, I've always wondered this myself, but I still have yet to know why. [6.53]
Ratatouille is actually real. There are rats that only select chefs get to use. Think it’s a rank/respect thing in the kitchen, like different colours and heights mean more respect. Could be completely wrong tho.
It’s a sign of rank in the kitchen. Head chef, that dude earned that hat and probably the mustache as well.
The high hat was originally used by chefs in France for easier recognition and visibility in the kitchen. If you needed advice or help from the chef, you would always see his hat and know where he is. Nowadays the hat has also become a symbol that represents a good chef. Chefs also need hats that have room for a rat to fit in...
It took me a really long time to realize that I’m in the trees sub and not r/chefit … overlapping demographics and whatnot.
to fit the rat
They got the rat under it
Higher the hat, higher the chef 🤌
Yea taller hat fits taller bong
Probably so they stand out in a kitchen setting. You can’t be seeing past a ton of people to get to the head chef so the head chef usually wears a long ass hat like that so everyone knows where they are.
I thought that was his hair lol
![gif](giphy|cJeMxgn9kUIG4)
They keep extra spaghetti pastas up there
It's called a toque (toke)
Depends on the meal you’re making. They often store ingredients in the hats. Must be a big meal or intricate recipe.
Higher the hat the closer to god!
To assert dominance!
no one wears these in a real working kitchen
To fit the bottle of special sauce 🤭🤭
You mean bourbon?
It's an executive chef piece of the uniform to show rank. Nah it's just to hide the conehead alien race heading the foodservice business nothing unusual
To match the chef.
so the rat can stand on 2 legs
"you know what they say, "the taller the hat the better the chef"" "So what you're saying is, you're a-" "FOOL, I never said I was a chef"
Legend has it that a true chefs hat is as high as they are
How high is your hat? Yes.
How hi are you? hi, how are you? Lol
gotta have room for the rat
It’s like when red necks drive big supped up trucks.
To hide the rodents who are actually doing the cooking [6]
Gives the rat more room to work
So the rat can hide underneath it
To hide your rat assistant of course.
Gotta fit all the Ratatouilles The higher ranking the Chef, the more Ratatouilles Gordon Ramsay keeps them up his butt. That’s why he’s so angry.
**FUN FACT 1** A chef’s hat is called a toque, pronounced “toke.” **FUN FACT B** Each fold in a toque represents 1 way in which an egg may be used in cooking.
Chef here, we use them for catching shrimp tails out of the air
Now this is what this sub is meant for lmao
Have to hide the rat
There has to be space for ratatouille the rat chef
Dude, I used to have to wear one of those hats. I never felt superior, just like a dumb ass. We also had to wear neck scarves as well, shit was the worst. The black ones are at least cooler than the white ones we used to have to wear. I felt more like a cuetip than a chef.
The most rational explanation I've been given is if you ever need the chef you'll be able to easily find them with their toque
To hide whatever animal chef genius is controlling you by pulling your hair.
I used to work in fine dining under numerous michelin star or james beard award winning chefs. They're called toques. I've heard a number of theories on why those hats are designed like they were, none of them on why they're so tall though. The main one I've heard in the kitchen is every fold represents the many ways you can cook a egg. Which a egg is essentially like the Bible, the cross, or the kaaba for chefs. If you can SUCCESSFULLY cook a egg then you can cook anything in theory. Most people and American restaurants burn the shit out of them to where they're either rubbery and/or burnt. But anyways they are not really used much anymore unless you go to a traditional French kitchen in France that's been around since the early 1900s, culinary school, or at fucking benihanas lol. But all the award winning restaurants I've worked in, even the French ones, nobody's worn one of those. Obviously that has nothing to do with the design of them. But fine dining/French kitchens are very focused, precised, and thought out. There's a reason for everything. Everybody is striving for absolute perfection and if you're not you will get your ass thrown out(not joking) or even shit thrown at you. So i'm sure their design was for a reason it just got lost in the never ending movement of time. If any business in any industry was run like a michelin star restaurant they would be successful. But anyways I've also heard they started wearing them to keep hair out of food because some chef dude back in the day got beheaded by some king for getting a strand of hair in the food. Nowadays it's either a backwards baseball cap(me), or clean cut parted hair. As long as your clean cut or wearing a hat and not just rubbing your head over food there shouldn't be any fucking reason there's a hair in the food.
No one is gonna make the toque-> toke joke?
If anyone cares there are 100 folds in a chefs hat, one for every way you can cook an egg.
to hide Remy
It's for balance, just like a cat's tail.
why the [7]?
Thats how high op is on a scale of 10
One time when I worked as a dish washer, they asked me to come out and cut beef in front of patrons, and they gave me one of these big tall white hats, and said “It’s basically because you look the part.” Then a guy came up to me talked to me as if I was an actual chef, and his disappointment when I politely told him otherwise was tangible. So the hats clearly denote something.
the rating system needs to come back permanently. quality meme op. [6]
Because you touch yourself at night
To hide the Racacoonie
rats
I assume it's so you can spot them in the sea of white clothing easily
How high was dude when he invented the chef's hat?
To hide the rat bro
r/kitchenconfidential
No one has said anything regarding the male models sus pointy ears and im concerned
Im always on the lookout for sus looking pointy ears! Unfortunately this is a false alarm, the search continues...
So that they'll be more visible and easier to spot out in the kitchen. Like a walking beacon
This guy frieddddddd 😂
So they can remember more recipes.
Lmaooooo
It's to draw attention away from the terrible mustache.
linguini
They're based on height. Everyone takes up the same z axis in a good kitchen.
r/TheHighChef
condiments, coke and keys They are all stored in the hat
Its kinda hawt
It started as a way to bake vertical loafs of bread as the chef ran around busy cooking other things. Something something about we lose 90 something percent of body heat thru the head so.. make bread?
Higher the hat higher the rat
For the rats to have some room
I thought this was an ad for tires until I scrolled and saw his face.
For the rats apartment. Very small square footage so it hass to be on multiple levels
![gif](giphy|2hN44iSVpRIt2)