I work a 4 star luxury restaurant, a 115 year old Victorian mansion

Mercers are shit, Japanese steel is where its at

Where do you work

Dickies 4 coat

Crocs kitchen version or whatever on amazon

Shameful self bump

>>7132974
Dickies
Tojiro GP
If no uniform toque then get a white small toque
Dickies
Restaurant store
Crocs

>>7133040
Is Japanese steel the best usually?

Wow /b/ gave me 100 times more advice and feedback. this place is sorta dead.

>>7133045
well its like two sheets of metal folded in one another. the outer has steel while the edge is carbon. So the brittle carbon is reinforced by the steel.

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>>7133045
>>7133107
like this

Do you have to oil those or something?

>>7133115

Yeah you have to oil and dry them

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>>7132974
Find a uniform store and try on different shoes, coats and pants. Barring that, go with an elastic waist band with a drawstring on baggy pants for more comfort, make sure your coat has room for movement. I work in a hot climate so mesh panels, vents, and short sleeves for me. Ideally I prefer long sleeves on my coats, but it just gets too hot to deal with a few less oil splatters on my forearms, and I keep an immaculately clean and pressed long sleeve coat around if I need to look more impressive for some occasion. I stick with a heavier weight cotton on the pants and the coats I wear on the line are a cotton and synthetic blend, the "dress coat" is heavy weight cotton. When I am required to wear a hat, I have a couple skull caps somewhat like pictured. My comfortable shoes are some ugly new balance 626, and my dress are some random shoes for crews things that look decent and won't lay me on my ass if I step in oil, but suck if I have to wear them for 16 hours. The non-slip on the NB is very good, and OK on the shoes for crews ones. In the summer time I keep several long white neckerchiefs rolled up damp in a sealed container in a cooler to rotate out. They help quite a bit when draped round your neck under your coat.
What knife have you been using? What do you like and not like about it? If $100 is the total budget for knives, go with a $30 chef knife, $20 4 inch petty or paring, $10-$15 bread knife, and spend the rest on a combination sharpening stone.

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>>7133164
Thanks for the advise! I'm using a Mercer renaissance 8 inch pic relate$?d what do you think?

>>7133190
The Fibrox is lighter and will maintain an edge better, but mainly because it wears more evenly. Think of it as OK cutting quite noticeably longer, but perfect edge just a little longer. The Fibrox is more finicky when sharpening, but a consistent technique will help that a lot. Some people really like the lighter weight, some don't. I like the handle on my old Mercer much better than the Fibrox, but the Fibrox handle isn't terrible feeling and it is plenty durable. I say go for it. Even if you don't like it as much as the Mercer, having 2 chef knives is advantageous.