Cooking at Home compared to cooking at work....

I too work as a cook and agree, cooking at home is more fun. At home, I am not cooking the same things day in and day out as in a restaurant. I get to experiment and try new things. But I think what makes cooking at home much better, is seeing and hearing how much people like what I cook and how delicious it is. At work, only now and then does a server come back to the kitchen and say that someone in the restaurant loved their dinner, or compliments to the chef. At work, it is just that, work. Preparing and cooking food for the masses is different than cooking for a few people. If I were to cook at home and get paid for it, I think it would be much like cooking at work. Things to do are always better when you do it for fun and not for work. I think I might like being a personal chef for someone better than in a restaurant. This could be fun.

Howdy... I truly love to cook. I don't know that I would say I am the best, but I enjoy being in the kitchen and discovering what I can do. Often times I have thought about going to school to be a chef or getting a cooking job, but I am afraid that it would take the joy out of it for me. I enjoy cooking, so I don't look at it as work. I do it when I feel like it. I think if I had to do it for work, that is exactly what it would become...work. On occasion I have thought about starting a catering business that would allow me to cook at home, but then again, I have the fear of starting something new and falling on my face. I can see how it would get frustrating for you. I know that when my stepfather was still alive, and he was a cook, he didn't do ANY cooking at home. I can't imagine that...my children would go on strike. So, how do you cope with working at cooking and cooking at work?

Hello :) Well, I only cook at home and I must say hat I'm not the best cook ever :S But I love the experience and so does my husband, so we have lots of fun cooking together. Bad thing about cooking at home, sometines we don't have all the hardware needed. I have fantasies about being in a huge restaurant kitchen with all kind of bowls, pans, plates and stuff like that ;) But if I had enough space at my kitchen and all those thingies you need for cooking, of course I'd like to be paid :P And about the advantages on cooking at home, I guess the first one is the possibility of watching tv while waiting till the water boils (or something burns, heh)... :)