Comments by "Gen Ohmni" (@KingOhmni) on "Adam Ragusea" channel.

Cool video. I've worked in a UK pub kitchen for almost 9 years now (fml) and it is branded as a "flaming grill". So steaks are served on heated skillets and everything else is plates. The grill in question gets rather smoky and the extraction fans just aint what they used to be. Place get's pretty thick with smoke it too many things are on the grill at once and I've long wondered what A, me breathing that shit does and B, what do those sticky carcinogenic compounds smoke do in the presence of sticky meat fats. Heightened risk of cancer is my suspicion. But that's why I take a prophylactic approach to such things even if my diet is far from ideal. From what I understand one can guard against blood based cancers at the very least via simple fatty and water soluble forms of vit C to regulate the Fenton Reaction in conjunction with Apoptosis. But hey, I flip burgers for a living so what do I know lol. I've being offered the head chef role after all this time at least. I've done something right with my life I suppose.
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Well, that was way more fascinating that I expected and being British I love malt vinegar in my chips :) Also if I was not broke I'd happily be seeing if I could buy some of Reginald vinegars, dude knows his stuff.
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I've lost 4 stone the past year and half. Calorie deficit was the ticket for me primarily because it forced some actual habit changes as opposed to on and off again dieting. Eating more "green" fiber certainly helped as well.
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Regarding fecal rearguards/vanguards. Some years ago I read some stuff about how we look at fibre as a catch all but as with all things there’s different types. Green fibre=seed husks,outer skin of fruits. Beige fibre = wholemeal grains. White fibre = bread. The 3 fibres are to do with stages of digestion. So bread is butrionally done by the stomach. Wholemeal bread by the large intestine. Seeded wholemeal bread hits all 3. Proper amounts of the 3 fibres are key to gut health. Modern diets are rich in white fibre but low to absent in the others. I myself have IBS from being a fussy eater as a child (warranted given something my dad did involving food as a small child). My problems have improved greatly since reading about different types of fibre and salad is rich in green fibre. Just eat some it, does not at what stage of the meal IMO. Just be getting some it with big meals.
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A question for Adam and potential video topic. What is the known, if any, cancer risk of dirty cooking oil? I know in my place it irks me to no end that I am the only one that thinks the oil needs to be filtered more than once in a blue moon cos there's nothing else to do. I can't help but think those residual bits of food, that have being heated and cooled across a few days of fryer use, cannot be good for the bioflora at the very least if not outright carcinogenic. Needless to say a regiment of proper fryer oil filtering and oil changing will be more stringently implemented when I'm head chef. Nobody likes a hypocrite and all that.
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Now this I gotta try.
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I as a fellow nerd who reads and cooks a lot (I’m soon going to be head chef in kitchen, a pub kitchen but hey I still cook a lot). Sugar is a bowel irritant. Sugar alternatives from what I can understand are a greater bowel irritant. I personally avoid both sugar and sugar free but if I do partake I opt for, how shall I put this, traditional sugary fizzy drinks. As in it’s just sugar, flavours and some preservatives along with water. I have IBS from being a fussy eater as a child so this is anecdotal but “zero calorie” drinks don’t agree with me like “full fat” (as I call it) traditional sugary drinks.
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British person here. I've being pigeon shooting a few times and always bagged, butchered and cooked up the pigeons. Good stuff, you can tell the difference between a field fed pigeon and city pigeon and not just by size. Better tasting. So yeah, keep an air rifle handy for when a pigeon lands in your back garden. As close to free meat as you can get.
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Lmao, I think your are underselling yourself re drums and rock and roll but that thing about being contacted for a Gordon Ramsey knock off, yeah. Fuck that noise. You do you Adam, I’m only a sub since I finally moved out at 34 this May. So you are most assuredly doing better than this fool running around a hot work kitchen like I’m 21 without a back that has had gone through 2 work accidents. So if ya wanna record yourself smashing some drums go for it, but yeah. Ignore those headhunters lol.
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5:00 As someone who works in a UK pub kitchen, amen to that. There's a heavy duty salamander grill that I point blank refuse to use during summer because when it is on the person on starter section has to work in anything between 30 and 45 degrees C and there's no escape from starters during a prolonged rush. Management don't like it but they can suck it, damn things mainly used simply for toasting buns. Yeah well the char-grill can do that as well without making the work environment insufferably hot. So basically I'm wondering if there;s such a thing as an induction bun toaster lol. Or at least something like a domestic toaster but it only toasts one side cos lord knows my place won't pay for an enclosed bun toasting machine. The joys of kitchen life.
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@jamesbizs I get what you are saying but I I’ve upped my hours at work each week in the past 6 months, from 25 to 34, working in a hot kitchen. I moved out recently and the process caused me to lose another 10 pounds/4 kg across 2 weeks. I also cycle to work 5 x 6 miles a week now as well as opposed to living round the corner from work. So yeah, for someone that has been obese 3 times in life I’m looking good lol. But old habits die hard, it’s quarter past twelve at night and I’m about to have a naughty breaded chicken thigh sandwich XD All the best kind stranger.
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One problem with the library voice as chef, the extractor fans. Sometimes you have to raise your voice just to be heard. Other than that I agree.
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So being British it's a running joke that Americans think you simply must refrigerate an egg. Most Brits don't know about the Bloom. Regardless one of the funniest things I've ever known is that in my first job of antique restoration there was a US lady on a job one time on a farm. Despite watching the chicken lay the egg the lady refused fresh scrambled eggs because quote un quote. That egg has not being in the fridge; I aint eating it. Lol. Like, I get differences in culture but you just watched that hen lay an egg. What the deuce is wrong with it?
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Worked as a chef for 9 years, mam had me cooking from a young age before that. Never known washing meat, veggies or fruit yes but not meat. But then again I live in the North of England so I can imagine in hotter climates where flies are more prevalent washing non vac packed meat could be a good idea.
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I've made my sweet and sour sauce with honey and this is the first I've heard of cooked honey=dangerous. Also regarding that Indian thing, maybe the original author meant don't give hot honey to someone suffering from heat stroke, hence them talking about person suffering from heat. I imagine putting a punch of heated honey in the stomach of someone suffering from heat stroke will lead to bad outcomes. Also I've suffered very bad hayfever all my life. It has eased in the past 6 years of my life and while anecdotal I put it down to 3 things. I became a keen cyclist ie sometimes doing 100 miles a week, I started taking queen honey wax tablets and my diet got better so honey was a regular dietry addition where previously it was not. My hayfever used to start in Feberuary. Now it starts in June and as of writing if not for some medicated nasal spray I'd be having a miserable time. As is I'm a bit sneezy, teary eyed and a bit congested. A vast improvement on constant shotgun sneezing, crying my eyes out barely able to breath. Evolution man, you dropped the ball on hayfever ffs. As for Bees. We've seen fish do strange things in response to an increase in environmental toxcitity. I know some posit we live in an increasingly contaminated world, micro plastics, micro metallic particles, Heavy Organic Compounds etc, so maybe the Bees are noping out not only due to a bland diet via mono culture but a more poisoned environment. Either way, amma continue to use honey in my cooking. Only thing I do different these days is buy from the brands that are more reputable and or local.
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