Should chefs be required to wear a cup while cooking?

by Marisa McClellan, Posted Sep 12th 2007 @ 2:05PM

image of Gordon Ramsey hitting a cake with a baseball bat.

I have a recurring nightmare in which I am quickly chopping up a whole bunch of veggies for a quick stir fry when I realize that I haven't been being particularly careful and accidentally cut into a finger instead of a carrot. Thankfully, during my waking hours I've never had that happen, but the thought of it made me work on improving my knife skills to further protect my precious digits.

Sadly, British TV chef Gordon Ramsay recently experienced one of those moments you think could only happen in the worst of anxiety dreams. He set his crotch on fire. While going commando. It adds a whole other level to taking precautions while in the kitchen, now doesn't it.

Via Food for Thought

Filed Under: Newspapers, On the Blogs
Tags: british isles, burning crotch, fire, Gordon Ramsay, GordonRamsay, kitchen accident, kitchen nightmares

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9-17-2007 @6:28PM Deanna said... Chef I do love you so Im giving you the all American treatment for such a burn.
I promise it will make it all better
"VAPOR RUB"
Give em HELL Chef hehehehe
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9-17-2007 @6:34PM goldguys2 said... sounds like the Auto -Sprinkler system did not work, what a PITTY, Sista Black Rose
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9-17-2007 @6:35PM kilroy said... CHESTNUTS ROASTING ON AN OPEN FIRE... MERRY CHRISTMAS CHEF RAMSEY!!!
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9-17-2007 @6:36PM bulldozer said... NAsty bastard had it coming. He's lucky I was never one of the people on his show - he'd have had the fire put out with the heel of my boot - several months before the fire! Hope it was a 3rd degree burn!
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9-17-2007 @7:30PM JAMESOLWELL said... i guess it brings to mind that old saying great balls of fire
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9-17-2007 @7:31PM iwantfame said... I have never heard of him. But thats very funny haha.
and Yvette, good ones!
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9-17-2007 @7:45PM sunybch16 said... I second that CATT. I love chef ramsey as well!
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9-17-2007 @7:49PM Julia'schild said... I am suprized that it hasn't happened to the Ragin Cajun chef Paul Prudholme yet. I shudder every time he cooks while sitting in his wheelchair. No matter what he makes he adds onion, celery, and bell pepper and tons of his special seasonings. He must have 55 gallon drums of that stuff? Probably cause nobody buys it in the store? Everything must taste the same? yukkkkkk
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9-17-2007 @7:51PM ha ha ha said... Ha ha ha some comments on here are funny!
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9-17-2007 @7:54PM ha ha ha said... Oh.......my GOSH! he is so brutal! hitting a cake with a baseball bat! i guess his (marbles) really got BURNED on that deal!
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