Comments on: My Take On The Toque http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2008/06/17/my-take-on-the-toque/ Cook Local, Eat Global Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:26:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ami http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2008/06/17/my-take-on-the-toque/#comment-201088 Ami Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:20:56 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=977#comment-201088 Personally, I feel the OPPOSITE!!

I have NO problem with the tocque, but rather I HATE the chef’s jacket, finding it too thick & heavy and extremely hot, sweaty & sweltering.

That was the one thing I HATED wearing the MOST during the pastry course I took at Le Cordon Bleu!

Every minute I was wearing that infernal jacket, I was counting the minutes/hours until class was over and I could just shed that infernally stuffy chef’s jacket!

The tocque on the other hand…..I LOVED it, and thought it looked awesome!!!

]]> By: Barbara http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2008/06/17/my-take-on-the-toque/#comment-183125 Barbara Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:39:11 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=977#comment-183125 I used to wear a baker’s cap, a plain black brimless cap that kept my hair under control, doesn’t look silly and had a quiet dignity about.

]]> By: Nancy http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2008/06/17/my-take-on-the-toque/#comment-183043 Nancy Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:24:56 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=977#comment-183043 I think the toque looks pretentious and silly, and it’s not very practical. What sort of headwear (if any) do you wear in your kitchen?

]]> By: Martha Stockinger http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2008/06/17/my-take-on-the-toque/#comment-178520 Martha Stockinger Sun, 15 May 2011 02:43:08 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=977#comment-178520 oh I forgot, one time, I did take the hat home, and shorten it by cutting it up and using a hot glue gun to stick the pleats together back to the top sides of the cut out star round posterboard thingy. It looked much better, yet still lame.

]]> By: Martha Stockinger http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2008/06/17/my-take-on-the-toque/#comment-178518 Martha Stockinger Sun, 15 May 2011 02:40:46 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=977#comment-178518 I could not agree more. There is absolutely no way to look feminine and cute with those damn things on your head. A female co-worker of mine, who worked the omelet station was called “Sir” a bunch of times. Even with the skull cap, she still got the same thing. But the puffy pillsbury dough boy hats are cumbersome and silly looking. Just let us slick our damn hair back and be done with it already. With a condition – if ever a guest finds a hair in the food you prepared, you have to shave it off! HAHA kidding… well, sort of ;-)

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