The Pass
Under the heat lamp A faceless working UK chef · Free · Sundays

A chef tells you what they don’t.

No face. No fluff. Just the myths, the markups, and the things a chef only says to another chef once the pass is wiped down. One issue a week, from a working UK line.

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Five things the trade keeps behind the swing door.

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Each one turns up as a video on the channel or an issue in the archive. The money ones come straight off the chef’s own costing sheets.

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OFF THE RECORD

Every issue has one thing a chef wouldn’t say with the cameras on.

Something small and true that you only learn by standing next to someone who’s done it ten thousand times. There’s one in every video, and the newsletter gets the ones that never make it into the videos.

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From the same kitchen — the paperwork

The numbers in the videos come off these sheets.

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, and the £46.80 Kitchen Pack (inc VAT). Cost a dish and save it to a free account — it's there on your phone at work.

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