World-moving (not so serious) question: Which watch to wear for cooking course?
Tomorrow, I attend a cooking course from a Gault-Millau three toques chef, and am extremely nervous, because I cannot decide on the watch to wear: Shall it be a chronograph, since cooking has so many procedures where exact timing is essential? Is it enoug...
Easy Choice: MB&F LM Sequential EVO
This is when the split chrono FUNction reeeeeeally comes in handy ...
Perhaps, yet you can time, split time, additive time...
...so you can time *multiple* food cooking periods including BBQ steak. Here's a demo video:
I fear the pasta is overcooked before I figure out the elapsed time
The MB&F appears to be a bit complicated to read. Marcus
Rolex, for when you spill things.
You don't want that course to become more expensive.
Chronograph is a poor choice, chefs use timers so an alarm watch…
My advice, don’t wear any watch while cooking 🧑🍳 simply use the timer on your phone, the alarm is foolproof since you are bound to get distracted and there are many ways to harm your watch in the kitchen.
Good advice, but ...
... when I do my homecooking, I always use a chronograph to time my durations. The cellphone's alarm is too lengthy and complicated to set, and to be honest: I am too much a watch fanatic to entrust such things to my phone. Marcus
If you decide to become serious about cooking you will be well served to invest in dedicated timers ⏲
That’s multiple timers 😉 I hope you enjoy yourself and this is the start of a long culinary love affair 🙂
I'm too old for this shit...
... Being serious about cooking, that is. Not watches. Marcus
After examining my watch box, the decision has been made
And how could I ever think of any other watch than this one: Marcus ...
Anything in your repertoire will be excellent!
When I've met chefs, they're generally wearing sportier watches, usually on a bracelet or on a rubber strap. The famous chefs in America I've met are all watch lovers too. So they might recognize what you're wearing!
It’s true chefs seem into watches but none use them for cooking…
This whole notion of timing your spaghetti with a chronograph is just bizarre. You’re supposed to keep looking at that little display? Couldn’t think of a worse tool, especially if you’ve been touching poultry, oil, butter etc…
I don't see them using their chronographs at all...
In fact, I don't see chronographs. I see mostly just time-only watches. I've seen an Aquanaut 5167 on rubber strap, a Nautilus on a bracelet, multiple Rolexes, two Vacheron Constantin (on leather straps oddly), and one chef had a Panerai (don't remember i...
Exactly…
Read an article about a prominent NYC chef restauranteur who explained how his Rolex DJ 36 tt was the perfect watch for both kitchen and dining room. Very interesting read but can’t remember where it was published.
Something rare, like a minute repeater...
...or something medium-rare, like a tourbillon, or something well-done, like any Rolex...
I'll take medium rare...
...but more toward rare if I know it's a good cut of beef : )
I like your definition of rarity!
Did you try any beef or horse sashimi during your time in Japan?
Zenith should work; I use a Seiko
Bit big for the wrist but I use it all the time (to keep track of things in the refrig or freezer), along with my watch and the oven's timer too. It has to be big and easy to set -- those are my criteria Mike ...
Good idea! Yet it is not a countdown timer....
... And my ears are not that good any more, so hearing a mechanical wristwatch alarm in a kitchen is difficult. Marcus
Take an Alarm watch. A Jaeger
Memovox or a Cricket or your Sonata so you have a timer that will go off when you need to take whatever you’re cooking out.