Horological Meandering

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... 

This is when the split chrono FUNction reeeeeeally comes in handy ...  

...so you can time *multiple* food cooking periods including BBQ steak. Here's a demo video:

The MB&F appears to be a bit complicated to read. Marcus

You don't want that course to become more expensive.

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.

... 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

That’s multiple timers 😉 I hope you enjoy yourself and this is the start of a long culinary love affair 🙂

... Being serious about cooking, that is. Not watches. Marcus

And how could I ever think of any other watch than this one: Marcus ...  

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!

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…

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... 

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.

...or something medium-rare, like a tourbillon, or something well-done, like any Rolex...

...but more toward rare if I know it's a good cut of beef : )

Did you try any beef or horse sashimi during your time in Japan?

…business dinner : )

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 ...  

... And my ears are not that good any more, so hearing a mechanical wristwatch alarm in a kitchen is difficult. Marcus

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.