A faceless, real UK chef. No tutorials — just what the trade doesn’t tell you. Scroll for the first course.
That’s the whole channel. A working UK chef, face off-camera, saying the quiet parts of the trade out loud — myths, markups, and what really happens behind the swing door.
taste it on YouTube →The most repeated tip in cooking is a lie — and it’s the launch episode. Forty-odd seconds, one brutal hook, paid off and out.
watch the short →The cost-reveal episodes tear a menu price down to its shopping list — the numbers come straight off the chef’s own costing sheets. What you pay versus what it costs.
see a breakdown →The bit a chef would only tell another chef — one per episode, always true, never padded. It’s the house speciality and the reason people stay.
[CHEF NOTE] you under-season steak by about 90%.30–45 second shorts you can burn through on a break, and a weekly long-form that plates the best of them into one sitting. No hands-and-pans tutorials — insight over cinematic food.
browse the menu →A faceless, real UK chef. No tutorials — just what the trade doesn’t tell you.
Myths, markups, and what really happens behind the swing door — said out loud.
taste it on YouTube →The most repeated tip in cooking is a lie — and it’s the launch episode.
watch the short →Cost-reveal episodes tear a menu price down to its shopping list, off the chef’s own costing sheets.
see a breakdown →The bit a chef would only tell another chef — one per episode, always true.
30–45s shorts plus a weekly long-form that plates the best of them into one sitting.
browse the menu →New shorts through the week and one long-form every week. If tonight’s courses landed, take the seat — it’s free.
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When an episode quotes what a dish really costs, it’s read straight off the costing spreadsheets the same chef built for real kitchens. PrepSheet is those tools — 11 templates, free browser calculators, £39 for the lot.
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