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• Comment on tournant's answer…

  0 0 Thanks for the response. I am already on my way down that path as that is the advice I recieved from every working cook I talked too. I actually just worked my way up from dishwasher/prep to prep/ garde manger position a few days ago (go me). I was looking for a stage in addition to my regular job just for my own learning purposes. bikechef commented 4 months ago

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  Why do ingredient labels specify if meat has been "mechanically separated"?

  5 0 For me, seeing mechicanically seperated meat (aka meat soft serve) in the ingredients sereves as a red flag that says DON"T EAT ME... bikechef answered in Meat 4 months ago Answer, comment & read 4 more answers »

• Follow Following 1 Staging (as in interning at a restaurant) in Capitol Hill/ South Seattle/Downtown? bikechef asked in Job Hunting 4 months ago 1 Answer by tournant…

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  Is the culnary program at Le Cordon Bleu Seattle a good one?

  0 0 I would like to second what Dan Williams said. I have been told by multiple people in the industry that the program at Seattle U is much better preperation for working in a kitchen and cheaper. I have been working as a prep cook for about six months and everyone that I have worked with that went to Le Cordon Bleu has been, to put it bluntly, pretty worthless. This includes a chef who was forced to resign after they figured out he knew next to nothing about cooking despite having had several high profile gigs and a culinary school education. Another is a recent graduate who brought his full school kit with about fifty different knives and kitchen tools but literally didn't know how to peel a carrot properly. Sorry for the rant. Overall, Le Cordon Bleu seems to produce people who think they know a lot than they do and aren't open to learning from others. bikechef answered in College / Continuing Ed 4 months ago Answer, comment & read 2 more answers »

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  Can you reccomend music featuring guitar(s) and loop pedal(s) exclusively (or almost exclusively)?

  0 0 There is a local guy in Seattle who records under the name The Sight Below that I've really been digging lately. Its close to stars of the lid and other ambient music but with more of a shoegaze vibe. This track always blow my mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YwZNfjJ15U Its basically just the same simple guitar part looped over and over with increasing amounts of reverb and feedback...simple but effective. Though his previous albums had more keyboards and drum machines, his latest one, It Falls Apart, is mostly guitar... Emeralds, and their guitar player Mark McGuire's solo stuff, is mostly very clean looped guitar that is layered until it becomes a giant drone... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fabt4-UyvM8 Masterati is a recently defunct band that features layered looped guitars with hard driving rhythm section... a lot heavier than most of the other looped guitar stuff that's been recommend. Easily one of the best live bands I have ever seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKSRvqnrajQ Early examples of looped guitar that I really like are Ash Ra Tempel's Inventions for the Electric Guitar and the Brian Eno/ Robert Fripp collaborations (which is the first example of live looping that I'm aware of). I am done nerding out now.... bikechef answered in Making Music about 1 year ago Answer, comment & read 3 more answers »

• Comment on NGC1275's answer…

  0 0 Thanks! bikechef commented about 1 year ago

• Follow Following 1 Is The Black Lodge actually at the commonly listed address on Eastlake? bikechef asked in Music/Bands/Venues about 1 year ago by NGC1275

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  Where can I buy Four Loko in Seattle?

  0 1 For some reason I had this very thought when I read the article. I guess there's something about it being labeled as dangerous and possibly limited in availability that makes it sound appealing...then I remembered that I'm an adult who doesn't really need a shitty buzz followed by a headache. It seems to me that between all the weird chemicals and ultra cheap booze in Four it would be healthier (and possibly even more dignified) to go huff paint thinner out of a paper bag... not that I'm judging you in any way... bikechef answered in Food & Drink about 1 year ago Answer, comment & read 4 more answers »

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  Quitting shampoo. Does this work for curly hair?

  1 0 I have very curly hair, and cutting down on shampooing and using Alffia shea butter hair lotion every day after showering has finally made me feel like I have semi-normal hair for the first time in my life, rather than a weird dried up ball of fuzz on my head... it think you just have to find what works for you.. the key is to make sure you use some powerful conditioner/leave in stuff to compensate for the lost moisture when you use shampoo... although I'm a dude so the advice might not be totally applicable bikechef answered in Style & Beauty about 1 year ago Answer, comment & read 5 more answers »

• Comment on Erleichda's answer…

  1 0 DON'T DO THIS! Obviously Fnarf probably already quashed this idea but I thought I would add my two cents because I had a horrible experience trying to do this... I tried to move recently from mpls to seattle using Amtrak... I called the Amtrak and they said that this was totally fine and that people did it all the time and that you could take up to 300 lbs per person...the night I tried to move, after months of planning, I was told that all you can take is clothes, and you can't take anything that is metal or electronic, which because I was moving mostly kitchen equipment and stereo equipment was basically everything I was moving... so I now have half of my stuff in storage with a friend until I can afford to have it shipped through normal means...so yeah, don't do that.... bikechef commented about 1 year ago

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