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ive worked as FOH manager for multiple james beard/michelin chefs and i had to stop the 1st episode mid watching. i took a break for half an hour. it was too real and too triggering.
Fak is played by Matty Matheson who is a famous Canadian chef. his own youtube channel/content is WILD, lol... highly recommend watching his stuff. he's also an executive producer on this show and helped train the other cast how to make the cooking look legit.
I love Matty. he has a resturant in his home town thats 30 mins away from my hometown and I'll be making res. the next time I'm back home visiting family "rizzo's house of parm".
There are vids and articles by chefs / line cooks saying how realistic this show is, not only in terms of the stress but also lingo, staff dynamics, and cooking methods. There’s a Bon Appetit article titled “I Worked in Michelin-Starred Kitchens. The Bear’s Depiction of Trauma Is Painfully Real” (a great read after you finish Season 1). I’ve heard that some food industry people can’t watch it because it’s too realistic and stressful for them
I'm pretty sure my dad wouldn't be able to enjoy the show for that exact reason. Man's been cooking for over 20 years and is an excellent chef, but he is sick of the kitchen and finally found work elsewhere that he enjoys. Probably doesn't need the flashbacks lol
@@asteroidkiller8023 I’m glad I’m not the only one to get the PTSD flashbacks and triggers from this show. I’ve worked in some amazing restaurants with fantastic people but man those hectic crazy shifts will leave an impact .
yup. my first day in a restaurant kitchen i was a dishwasher and thought it would be easy, but before the end of shift I was ready to either burst into tears or throw hands at everyone or both 😂 but eventually you catch the groove with the rest of the staff, it's weird what you can get used to. this show brought the feeling back for sure.
I suggest you both consider binge watching this show you will not be disappointed at all. I've worked in NY kitchens for 15yrs... believe me when I tell you it can get even more intense. BRILLIANT SHOW
One of the things this show does is it really captures what it feels like to work in the back house of a professional kitchen. Watching this gives me some serious PTSD from my years of restaurant work. But it's also funny, and really well written with great characters and characters. I fucking love this show.
As someone who works in a kitchen, yes, the energy can be exactly like this on some shifts. This is the most accurate representation of what it can be like in that field.
I love how the first episodes seem to be full of people that you may not really like or empathize with in real life, but at the last episodes you end up loving each of them. And in the 2nd season you feel like you are part of this very dysfunctional family. In some point, aren't we all?
OMG. This is amazing! I cannot express enough how excited I am to watch your reactions to this series. I watched the entire series twice and it is by far my favorite show of all time. Looking forward to your upcoming videos.
this show is so cool, great cast, amazing quick pacing. Every episode has a love letter to Chicago scene. The plot in this first season builds to one of the best season finales of all time. So happy y'all are watching it. I can't wait to take this ride with you.
I am from Chicago, my daughter is a culinary school grad and has worked in various "high-end" restaurants in Chicago. She is now the "Sous Chef" (she runs the kitchen) at the #1 rated restaurant in LaCrosse Wisconsin. Obviously this show is one of her favorites as #1- it's what she does, #2 its in Chicago where she is from, and #3- Jeremy Allen White was her favorite character In "Shameless"- which is about a family from the Southside of Chicago (like her). I would suggest reacting to "Shameless" but it is REALLY "edgy", but freaking hilarious.
Oh this show is amazing, I can't wait! The Beef is a real restaurant in Chicago and the actual owner played the meat delivery guy. Definitely can't WAIT to see you react to stellar performances and cameos you would never expect.
* It’s called Mr. Beef and the owner is Chris Zuccercho. Idk how it is in other cities but out here restaurants and bar owners (Like Murphy’s) are already like mini celebrities to us but to see him on a tv show was pretty cool.
I love you guys and I love this show. There's a reason it won ALL the awards this past year. It's just a thing of beauty. I'm so excited for your journey.
I was coming here to call out the same exact 3 episodes you listed above! Truly masterful episodes, I've never seen anything like them. Season 2 episodes 6 and 7 were jaw dropping!
Worked in restaurants for 15 years... About the knife work with the prep: You cut using your off-hand knuckles as a guide for the side of the blade with your fingertips curled under. You can literally do it with your eyes closed with zero worry about cutting yourself.
7:27 Yes. From a rural pizza shop to a downtown Michelin star restaurant, stress and emotional turmoil will always be present in a kitchen. Most restaurants are privately owned, but unless they're a chef, their knowledge gap will cost them money. Having someone like Richie as the owner would be predictable: mistreatment of workers, abuse of power, knowingly violating workplace rules, and neglect. Chef Carmy is familiar with the price of labor and food. But he possesses the time management skills to cut frivolous costs while increasing the food quality. I was Garde Manger and prep cook at a restaurant that was nominated for a James Beard Award. At 7 am I'd check the prep least and planned accordingly. at any given time i needed to have 7 different items cooking at once for that night's dinner service. 1) Braise the pork belly that was cured overnight, 2) Caramelize shallots to make a jam, 3) simmer starch vegetables for purees 4) Cut and blanch potatoes 5) Make and reduce whichever sauce we needed and its corresponding stock, 6) flash pickle whichever fruit or vegetable of the season, 7) Prep long term and short-term ferments. The 1st takes 3 hours to cook, 5 hours to cool. mis-en place (Prep) of the next 2 is short, and both take an 1hour, with 30minutes to cool. The next 2 take les than 30 minutes, with the final item taking less than 5 minutes. Long story short, I'm not there to hang out, or look for a surrogate work family. It took me 3 years of culinary school and 5 years of work experience to start at an entry level position there. It would cost $5,000-$10,000 per year to train someone like Richie; more if his salary and mistakes are included. If it's located downtown metro area, you need 200-400 patrons per week with a high foot-traffic/high turnover rate. Or, if you're a high-end restaurant, you need 200-400 patrons per day with high foot-traffic/Low turnover rate. Otherwise, someone like Richie or Tina would be the 1st to get fired if they worked somewhere else, and they lost 5% of your 6% profit margin. Even restaurants making 2-10 million dollars annually or still on shoestring budgets.
iirc if your restaurant can make 10% you're doing fine, if somehow you can do 15% you're doing great. The restaurant in this show is definitely at least 10% behind lmao
@@pabloc8808 Behind, 10% Chef! Opening...the safe we're broke as f**k! Heard Chef! XD You can't be soft spoken in a professional kitchen. Carmy is stressed out of his mind. He wants to keep everyone on staff while turning a failing restaurant into a success. Plus, they don't serve liquor, which is how most restaurants make that 15%. They don't have a food truck, or cart, and probably have to rent catering equipment. Carmine doesn't have another business to help absorb the costs, or he's probably not getting a discount with his suppliers. You're right though. 15% takes creativity. The restaurant i worked for was a scratch kitchen. We used scraps for lacto-ferments, make kombucha SCOBYs, garum, koji spores, nukazake beds, miso, shoyuu, stock, etc. We had very little waste. One of my co-workers made a corn miso that took a year to ferment. we used it for our mole segueza. The key is to repurpose glass containers and weights as fermentation chambers, where most restaurants reuse their plastic food containers for storage. Sorry if i'm going off on tangents: I love being a chef.
@@nerdtritiousnerd5233 I can tell you love the work lmao. This shit isn't for everyone but some of us are just built for it. We thrive on stress. I always say working in kitchens is like skydiving: you can describe it all you want, but at the end of the day only the people who've done it understand it
Sounds exactly like my process as the Chief Operator of a drinking water treatment plant. At any given time I have a dozen plates spinning, some for today, some days out, some are plans running on months and years timelines, but it's all gotta be kept on track, or it'll fall apart. The customer demand never stops, and we never fail. It took me 6 years in the job to have enough time to even take the classes and test for the treatment license I needed from the state, and in the 8 years I've been there we've only had customer outages ONCE.
This is exactly how it can be in the back of house. I met my husband as a server and he was a line cook 14 years ago. He’s still a chef and has 2 of his own restaurants now and we HAD to watch this show very slowly bc he would get so much second hand anxiety bc the chaos of the kitchen it captured so well. I can’t wait for you guys to see the rest. Season 2 is exceptional ❤
Let’s go!! This show is so special. It’s stressful, hilarious, heartbreaking, lovely, and chaotic! Nikki, feel free to bring a snack to your reaction. This show will make you so hungry and none of us will judge you one bit for needing a nosh. You will grow to truly love every single one of the characters. I’m so excited for this ride with you guys!
great show, for the past year or so life has just gotten a bit overwhelming so have missed out on a lot of new shows but did make the time to watch this & is incredible, always watched when I had something to eat
There’s me episode with a continuous shot and the kitchen is going crazy and it gave me soooo much PTSD triggers. I’ve worked in a few kitchens and yeah. It f’d me up. It’s a great series. You’ll enjoy it my friends. I’m loving your Peaky Blinders reaction.
fun fact.....Fak is the only character played by an actual chef.....Matty Matheson is a pretty accomplished chef and agreed to the role as long as he didnt play a chef.
Yes yes YES!! I’m SO happy to see y’all watching this show! I’ve been obsessed with the amazing writing and camerawork. Y’all are in for a wild ride! 😁
The great writer and chef Anthony Bourdain described what professional cooking is like in his first memoir, Kitchen Confidential. He wrote several books and became famous and beloved. Read his books, or watch his show No Reservations.
Yes, this is how a kitchen functions. There's not always this much family drama going on, but it can get like that from time to time. The urgency is always there.
Absolutely locked in for yall watching this! I heard how good it was for a while and was hesitant to watch but MAN! It’s one of the best shows on TV and the stress is felt thru the screen!
Love you guys!!!! Please do at least a couple of episodes a week for “The Bear”. Its a spectacular series and to answer your queries regarding the hectic mess behind a kitchen… its real. Much love for you guys and your family. We need more reactions this week! And I would love to watch it with you. Best to you and yours
So happy you guys are reacting to the Bear. As a Chef I can testify that the anxiety, the bickering, the adrenaline and the sarcasm is very true of every kitchen I've worked in. But so is the elation, the cameraderie, the passion for food and the satisfaction of a well executed service. Not to mention that all the actors were trained really well in knife skills and general comportment of restaurant staff. For films about chef's life check out Boiling Point (English film shot in one continuous take and mostly improvised dialogue) and Burned with Bradley Cooper.
There is a very good British film called "Boiling Point" about the pressures of running a high end restaurant -- the opening night. It is also fast paced and tense, filmed in one take (more or less). The story was continued in a TV series also called "Boiling Point".
Gahhhhh I love this show!!!! I’ve been a bartender for ten years and these are my people! Each character reminds of people I’ve worked with/for, in the best ways. It also majorly triggers PTSD during some of the stressful moments!
I've worked at TGI Fridays, with a catering company that did banquets for 1000+ people, Pizzeria Uno, and a fine dining restaurant in LA that worked a brigade and had a Sommelier... it's organized chaos and going at 500% for hours for lunch ... and then dead.. and then 500% for hours for dinner...doesn't matter the restaurant. 100% accurate and relatable.
This show is fucking awesome. I know you're wondering, and yes, it is just as hectic behind the scenes of restaurants as is portrayed in this show. Side note, you may or may not notice that the show is purposefully fast paced and hectic whenever the camera is in the kitchen, yet always feels slow or normal whenever the camera is outside of the kitchen. Its so masterfully done. And the character work in the show just elevates the entire experience of this show
This show is so damn good. Though it gives me nightmares from my time in the back end of a restaurant for a few days afterwards, so it took me, like, 3 months to get through the season. Incredible show, but yeah, it's accurate enough in its portrayal of the kind of stress, the fact pace, the personalities and banter that you see in a lot of restaurants. Still absolutely worth the watch despite it all, and definitely worth it for those with no experience on that front
This is literally the most accurate and perfect depiction of restaurant life! (Dysfunctional families within dysfunctional families. All restaurants are dysfunctional little families.) Extreme love and extreme hate.
Yess one of my go to react channels are finally watching this show. STRONGLY suggest making sure you have food on deck bc The Bear will make you hungry af I promise lmao Also prepare to become hella stressed watching this, ep 1 is probs the least stressful of the lot lmaoo. Banger show, You guys will love it!
As someone who worked in various kitchens in high school and college, this is very much what it’s like. Right down to the Hispanic line cooks visibly lighting up when you start speaking Spanish.
Everybody's starting this recently and I'm like "SEASON TWO!" There have been a lot of folks saying this gets kitchen work perfectly. In fact, they're kinda fascinated by how accurate this show is about that. There really hasn't been a TV drama that gets what it's like to work a kitchen. The guy who plays Fak is actually a chef from the Toronto area who has created multiple celebrity restaurants. He doubles as both an actor and a consultant on the show.
I am excited you are watching this, I am looking forward to joining you. I worked in diners all my life and yes it is very stressful, but dang this kind of stress would have done me in.
Closest to this ive seen - working at marcos Pizza. I feel like it was... a tenth the speed and stress seen in the show, but there was a fair share of crazy things, and mess ups, and interesting characters, recurring customers, etc lol.
First, I've read some of the comments and I'm not sure if folks realize that they don't need to give specifics to spoil the show for you guys. I really wish people would comment only on the episodes you've watched already and let you just have a good time watching The Bear. I just watched S1 and S2 of The Bear. Absolutely Love It!!! Nikki, keep watching. Yes, the first episode hits hard with the chaos, but the characters are so good, and the story just gets better and better, just hang in there.
Like with Peaky Blinders it took me way too long to check out this show but I’m so glad I finally did. It’s just so damn well-made. I just finished season 2 and few weeks ago and am ready to binge season 3 this weekend 😊 I only worked for a summer as a hostess in a popular local restaurant in a resort town and realized very quickly I couldn’t hack it in the restaurant scene. So this is all fairly new to me. But if what I’ve read from Anthony Bourdain’s books it seems pretty close to reality. Hope you guys enjoy it! Edit: As a native Midwesterner who grew up about 2 hours away from Chicago, I am loving Ritchie’s blue collar Midwestern accent. Especially since the actor is from New York. I thought that was an excellent touch.
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As someone who has worked in kitchens for over 14 years this is the most accurate depiction of restaurant back of house workers ive ever seen
Veteran restaurant workers tend to get PTSD flashbacks when watching this show. :)
Yeah, this is pretty accurate. If you thought "Waiting" was more on note, yeah, nope.
YES! YES! YES!
10 years in, what common interaction do I remember the most?
"Fuck you!" "Thank you!"
ive worked as FOH manager for multiple james beard/michelin chefs and i had to stop the 1st episode mid watching. i took a break for half an hour. it was too real and too triggering.
this is literally one of the least stressful episodes of the whole show.
Nikki may need some blood pressure meds for episode 7.
@@fusionaddict it certainly takes any of the romance of fine dining kitchens away...
@@fusionaddict double that on The Fishes episode!
The chaos in this episode is ironically tame compared to a kitchen
No frr tho 😭 it only gets faster and way more intense here on out lmaoo
Fak is played by Matty Matheson who is a famous Canadian chef. his own youtube channel/content is WILD, lol... highly recommend watching his stuff. he's also an executive producer on this show and helped train the other cast how to make the cooking look legit.
i'm noticing most reactors don't know this and its wild to me, i love him hes so funny and it makes total sense that he's doing acting now lol.
He’s like the only cast member who is actually a chef which is fantastic
Matty is so chaotic in his channel, it feels like he barely had to act in this show lol
He's such a comedian that most people don't realize he's also a real celebrity chef. Like, even if he wasn't, he still belonged on this cast.
I love Matty. he has a resturant in his home town thats 30 mins away from my hometown and I'll be making res. the next time I'm back home visiting family "rizzo's house of parm".
The James Beard award is a HUGE deal! It's like the Oscars of the restaurant world!
yes. Carmy is for real a culinary rock star.
Nikki was so locked in she didn’t have time to squeeze in a cheeky comment in the entire reaction 😂. Anxiety galore
You guys are knocking it out of the park with show choices!
There are vids and articles by chefs / line cooks saying how realistic this show is, not only in terms of the stress but also lingo, staff dynamics, and cooking methods. There’s a Bon Appetit article titled “I Worked in Michelin-Starred Kitchens. The Bear’s Depiction of Trauma Is Painfully Real” (a great read after you finish Season 1). I’ve heard that some food industry people can’t watch it because it’s too realistic and stressful for them
I'm pretty sure my dad wouldn't be able to enjoy the show for that exact reason. Man's been cooking for over 20 years and is an excellent chef, but he is sick of the kitchen and finally found work elsewhere that he enjoys. Probably doesn't need the flashbacks lol
10:55 @Steven I used to work in a kitchen and yes this behavior is 1000% accurate
Idk how they do it 😅
Same. There’s an episode with a continuous shot that f’d me up with the triggering PTSD. Hahah .
After 14yrs in a kitchen this show did an amazing job to the point of causing bits of PTSD...lol. Great show though, I love it.
@@asteroidkiller8023 I’m glad I’m not the only one to get the PTSD flashbacks and triggers from this show. I’ve worked in some amazing restaurants with fantastic people but man those hectic crazy shifts will leave an impact .
yup. my first day in a restaurant kitchen i was a dishwasher and thought it would be easy, but before the end of shift I was ready to either burst into tears or throw hands at everyone or both 😂 but eventually you catch the groove with the rest of the staff, it's weird what you can get used to. this show brought the feeling back for sure.
So happy you're starting this. "The Bear" is phenomenal. All the conversations feel real and the actors always bring it.
I suggest you both consider binge watching this show you will not be disappointed at all. I've worked in NY kitchens for 15yrs... believe me when I tell you it can get even more intense. BRILLIANT SHOW
Hello guys, awesome show. You should know S3 comes out this June, and it was renewed for S4.
It’s June?!?!?!?! Heck yeah!!!!
Dang Ik S3, but I didn't know about 4 😅
Awesome! I’m loving this show
One of the things this show does is it really captures what it feels like to work in the back house of a professional kitchen. Watching this gives me some serious PTSD from my years of restaurant work. But it's also funny, and really well written with great characters and characters. I fucking love this show.
This show has sooooo much heart. The hubby and I were late to the game getting on this as well but we are so happy we finally did.
As someone who works in a kitchen, yes, the energy can be exactly like this on some shifts. This is the most accurate representation of what it can be like in that field.
You know what's crazy is that we have The Bear Season 3, The Boys Season 4, House of the Dragon Season 2 and The Acolyte all in June!
I love how the first episodes seem to be full of people that you may not really like or empathize with in real life, but at the last episodes you end up loving each of them. And in the 2nd season you feel like you are part of this very dysfunctional family. In some point, aren't we all?
OMG. This is amazing! I cannot express enough how excited I am to watch your reactions to this series. I watched the entire series twice and it is by far my favorite show of all time. Looking forward to your upcoming videos.
this show is so cool, great cast, amazing quick pacing. Every episode has a love letter to Chicago scene. The plot in this first season builds to one of the best season finales of all time. So happy y'all are watching it. I can't wait to take this ride with you.
This show is amazing, such great acting and character development. I’m so glad you’re diving into this show
love that all my favourite reactors are finally watching the Bear, its so freagging gooood!
I am from Chicago, my daughter is a culinary school grad and has worked in various "high-end" restaurants in Chicago. She is now the "Sous Chef" (she runs the kitchen) at the #1 rated restaurant in LaCrosse Wisconsin. Obviously this show is one of her favorites as #1- it's what she does, #2 its in Chicago where she is from, and #3- Jeremy Allen White was her favorite character In "Shameless"- which is about a family from the Southside of Chicago (like her). I would suggest reacting to "Shameless" but it is REALLY "edgy", but freaking hilarious.
Definitely check out Shameless.
Ik Lacrosee wisconsin cause they’re criminals already always on code blue cam😭
I think if they can handle SoA, they can handle Shameless! They would probably love it. It's so gritty, but it's SO good.
they mentioned in the intro that they know JAW from shameless so it's safe to assume they've already seen it :)
welcome to stress town, population: All of us.
Go knights
@@Knightowl1980 Charge on!
You’re in for a ride. I love how this show kinda came out of nowhere. And yes a kitchen can be this chaotic especially with an untrained staff.
The bear comes from their last name, Berzatto, BEAR-zato.
Oh this show is amazing, I can't wait! The Beef is a real restaurant in Chicago and the actual owner played the meat delivery guy. Definitely can't WAIT to see you react to stellar performances and cameos you would never expect.
* It’s called Mr. Beef and the owner is Chris Zuccercho. Idk how it is in other cities but out here restaurants and bar owners (Like Murphy’s) are already like mini celebrities to us but to see him on a tv show was pretty cool.
This show is a very accurate portrayal of how a kitchen functions! I LOOOVE this show!
I love you guys and I love this show. There's a reason it won ALL the awards this past year. It's just a thing of beauty. I'm so excited for your journey.
The tension this show provides makes appreciate that I only had one restaurant job in my life. It was my first job but I'll never forget the struggles
Best show of the decade so far. S1 Ep 7 and S2 Ep 6&7 are masterpieces.
Also, they all call each other Bear due to their surname being Berzatto.
I was coming here to call out the same exact 3 episodes you listed above! Truly masterful episodes, I've never seen anything like them. Season 2 episodes 6 and 7 were jaw dropping!
Truly one of the best shows to come out in a very long time. Everyone brings their A game on this show.
Worked in restaurants for 15 years... About the knife work with the prep: You cut using your off-hand knuckles as a guide for the side of the blade with your fingertips curled under. You can literally do it with your eyes closed with zero worry about cutting yourself.
7:27 Yes. From a rural pizza shop to a downtown Michelin star restaurant, stress and emotional turmoil will always be present in a kitchen. Most restaurants are privately owned, but unless they're a chef, their knowledge gap will cost them money. Having someone like Richie as the owner would be predictable: mistreatment of workers, abuse of power, knowingly violating workplace rules, and neglect. Chef Carmy is familiar with the price of labor and food. But he possesses the time management skills to cut frivolous costs while increasing the food quality.
I was Garde Manger and prep cook at a restaurant that was nominated for a James Beard Award. At 7 am I'd check the prep least and planned accordingly. at any given time i needed to have 7 different items cooking at once for that night's dinner service. 1) Braise the pork belly that was cured overnight, 2) Caramelize shallots to make a jam, 3) simmer starch vegetables for purees 4) Cut and blanch potatoes 5) Make and reduce whichever sauce we needed and its corresponding stock, 6) flash pickle whichever fruit or vegetable of the season, 7) Prep long term and short-term ferments. The 1st takes 3 hours to cook, 5 hours to cool. mis-en place (Prep) of the next 2 is short, and both take an 1hour, with 30minutes to cool. The next 2 take les than 30 minutes, with the final item taking less than 5 minutes.
Long story short, I'm not there to hang out, or look for a surrogate work family. It took me 3 years of culinary school and 5 years of work experience to start at an entry level position there. It would cost $5,000-$10,000 per year to train someone like Richie; more if his salary and mistakes are included. If it's located downtown metro area, you need 200-400 patrons per week with a high foot-traffic/high turnover rate. Or, if you're a high-end restaurant, you need 200-400 patrons per day with high foot-traffic/Low turnover rate. Otherwise, someone like Richie or Tina would be the 1st to get fired if they worked somewhere else, and they lost 5% of your 6% profit margin. Even restaurants making 2-10 million dollars annually or still on shoestring budgets.
iirc if your restaurant can make 10% you're doing fine, if somehow you can do 15% you're doing great. The restaurant in this show is definitely at least 10% behind lmao
@@pabloc8808 Behind, 10% Chef! Opening...the safe we're broke as f**k! Heard Chef! XD You can't be soft spoken in a professional kitchen.
Carmy is stressed out of his mind. He wants to keep everyone on staff while turning a failing restaurant into a success. Plus, they don't serve liquor, which is how most restaurants make that 15%. They don't have a food truck, or cart, and probably have to rent catering equipment. Carmine doesn't have another business to help absorb the costs, or he's probably not getting a discount with his suppliers.
You're right though. 15% takes creativity. The restaurant i worked for was a scratch kitchen. We used scraps for lacto-ferments, make kombucha SCOBYs, garum, koji spores, nukazake beds, miso, shoyuu, stock, etc. We had very little waste. One of my co-workers made a corn miso that took a year to ferment. we used it for our mole segueza. The key is to repurpose glass containers and weights as fermentation chambers, where most restaurants reuse their plastic food containers for storage.
Sorry if i'm going off on tangents: I love being a chef.
@@nerdtritiousnerd5233 I can tell you love the work lmao. This shit isn't for everyone but some of us are just built for it. We thrive on stress. I always say working in kitchens is like skydiving: you can describe it all you want, but at the end of the day only the people who've done it understand it
Sounds exactly like my process as the Chief Operator of a drinking water treatment plant. At any given time I have a dozen plates spinning, some for today, some days out, some are plans running on months and years timelines, but it's all gotta be kept on track, or it'll fall apart. The customer demand never stops, and we never fail. It took me 6 years in the job to have enough time to even take the classes and test for the treatment license I needed from the state, and in the 8 years I've been there we've only had customer outages ONCE.
This is exactly how it can be in the back of house. I met my husband as a server and he was a line cook 14 years ago. He’s still a chef and has 2 of his own restaurants now and we HAD to watch this show very slowly bc he would get so much second hand anxiety bc the chaos of the kitchen it captured so well. I can’t wait for you guys to see the rest. Season 2 is exceptional ❤
Let’s go!! This show is so special. It’s stressful, hilarious, heartbreaking, lovely, and chaotic! Nikki, feel free to bring a snack to your reaction. This show will make you so hungry and none of us will judge you one bit for needing a nosh.
You will grow to truly love every single one of the characters. I’m so excited for this ride with you guys!
I'm so excited for you to watch the rest of this show. One of the best shows in recent memory. Get ready to fall in love with these characters.
^ Some of the best written and acted characters in TV history, imo.
great show, for the past year or so life has just gotten a bit overwhelming so have missed out on a lot of new shows but did make the time to watch this & is incredible, always watched when I had something to eat
I almost had a nervous breakdown watching this pilot, lmao. Makes us understand Gordon Ramsay a little bit better.
Episode 7 with the donut gave me anxiety the WHOLE time. I was like “NOT NOW” 😭
@@VecnasCurse86 He locked in to do the worst thing possible
wait till you get to the 7 fishes episode, it took me 2 days to watch it, because i had to keep stoping it to take mental breaks. i couldnt hack it.
There’s me episode with a continuous shot and the kitchen is going crazy and it gave me soooo much PTSD triggers. I’ve worked in a few kitchens and yeah. It f’d me up.
It’s a great series. You’ll enjoy it my friends.
I’m loving your Peaky Blinders reaction.
fun fact.....Fak is the only character played by an actual chef.....Matty Matheson is a pretty accomplished chef and agreed to the role as long as he didnt play a chef.
One of my favorite shows of the last ten years. A beautiful anxiety induced mess that is a work of art.
Yes yes YES!! I’m SO happy to see y’all watching this show! I’ve been obsessed with the amazing writing and camerawork. Y’all are in for a wild ride! 😁
This show is the most realistic depiction of working in back of house everything is spot on
YES thank you for reacting to this, this is going to be a wild ride, love this show so much!
I love this show! Yes, Nikki that’s exactly how it is in Chicago. I can’t wait to see your reactions to the rest of the episodes.
Sweet! I've been wanting to re-watch this but never got around to it. I can't wait to watch it again with you guys!
The great writer and chef Anthony Bourdain described what professional cooking is like in his first memoir, Kitchen Confidential. He wrote several books and became famous and beloved. Read his books, or watch his show No Reservations.
Yes, this is how a kitchen functions. There's not always this much family drama going on, but it can get like that from time to time. The urgency is always there.
Absolutely locked in for yall watching this! I heard how good it was for a while and was hesitant to watch but MAN! It’s one of the best shows on TV and the stress is felt thru the screen!
Maybe you know this by now but I'm assuming his nickname is Bear because his last name is Berzatto which is pronounced like "Bear-zatto."
Love you guys!!!! Please do at least a couple of episodes a week for “The Bear”. Its a spectacular series and to answer your queries regarding the hectic mess behind a kitchen… its real. Much love for you guys and your family.
We need more reactions this week! And I would love to watch it with you. Best to you and yours
Oh awesome, didn't know you were doing The Bear! This is a fantastic first season, looking forward to rewatching it with you!
I am sooo glad y’all are reacting to this show!!! It seems like you’re enjoying it so you may not believe this but: IT GETS EVEN BETTER!!
So happy you guys are reacting to the Bear. As a Chef I can testify that the anxiety, the bickering, the adrenaline and the sarcasm is very true of every kitchen I've worked in. But so is the elation, the cameraderie, the passion for food and the satisfaction of a well executed service. Not to mention that all the actors were trained really well in knife skills and general comportment of restaurant staff. For films about chef's life check out Boiling Point (English film shot in one continuous take and mostly improvised dialogue) and Burned with Bradley Cooper.
A great show. Stressful and fast paced, killer dialogue, tons of emotion, amazing performances... the episodes fly by.
ive worked in a restaurant/food service for about 6 years. It gets intense, you have to be masterful at multiple tasking and unwavering focus.
great show imo. can’t wait for S3 in June. this, the boys and hotd😩
I love this show, it rides the line between comedy and drama so well
There is a very good British film called "Boiling Point" about the pressures of running a high end restaurant -- the opening night. It is also fast paced and tense, filmed in one take (more or less). The story was continued in a TV series also called "Boiling Point".
Gahhhhh I love this show!!!! I’ve been a bartender for ten years and these are my people! Each character reminds of people I’ve worked with/for, in the best ways. It also majorly triggers PTSD during some of the stressful moments!
I literally knew when you guys dropped the iron claw reaction to recommend The Bear, knew you guys would love it!
this is one of the best series I've watched in a very long time. I think you guys are really going to enjoy it.
This is probably my favourite show. Hard to pick one favourite but this show is just so excellent, the writing and the themes really hit me.
YESSSSS!!!! I'm SOOO happy you guys are watching this show! You'll LOVE IT it's amazing!!
I've worked at TGI Fridays, with a catering company that did banquets for 1000+ people, Pizzeria Uno, and a fine dining restaurant in LA that worked a brigade and had a Sommelier... it's organized chaos and going at 500% for hours for lunch ... and then dead.. and then 500% for hours for dinner...doesn't matter the restaurant. 100% accurate and relatable.
This show is so fantastic. I’m so glad you guys got on this train!
Remember he ALMOST opened that can at the end.
Shame he threw it in the trash 😅
Sooooo excited you've begun "The Bear", Nikki & Steven.
This show is fucking awesome. I know you're wondering, and yes, it is just as hectic behind the scenes of restaurants as is portrayed in this show.
Side note, you may or may not notice that the show is purposefully fast paced and hectic whenever the camera is in the kitchen, yet always feels slow or normal whenever the camera is outside of the kitchen. Its so masterfully done. And the character work in the show just elevates the entire experience of this show
I'm so stoked seeing y'all reacting to The Bear.
I'm so happy we're starting this one!!!
Leeets gooo! I’m so excited to watch along and see what you both think of this show which is one of my favorites ever
I love this show! My favourite episode is number 7-the review. It’s done in one shot and is amazing!
This show is so damn good. Though it gives me nightmares from my time in the back end of a restaurant for a few days afterwards, so it took me, like, 3 months to get through the season. Incredible show, but yeah, it's accurate enough in its portrayal of the kind of stress, the fact pace, the personalities and banter that you see in a lot of restaurants. Still absolutely worth the watch despite it all, and definitely worth it for those with no experience on that front
Oh, I'm so excited!! I've missed watching you guys!!! 💚💚💚😊😊😊😊
This show is fantastic! It's playing a long game, but omg... it's beautiful in its chaos.
I just finished rewatching this show yesterday. I guess I'm starting it over again.
This is literally the most accurate and perfect depiction of restaurant life! (Dysfunctional families within dysfunctional families. All restaurants are dysfunctional little families.) Extreme love and extreme hate.
Hey ya’ll! I was so surprised to see this reaction. Glad to be here! Letssss gooo
Yes! You guys will love this show. Can’t wait to watch it along with you ☺️
Yess one of my go to react channels are finally watching this show. STRONGLY suggest making sure you have food on deck bc The Bear will make you hungry af I promise lmao
Also prepare to become hella stressed watching this, ep 1 is probs the least stressful of the lot lmaoo. Banger show, You guys will love it!
As someone who worked in various kitchens in high school and college, this is very much what it’s like. Right down to the Hispanic line cooks visibly lighting up when you start speaking Spanish.
holy shit, ive watched this series a few times and Only just now have i realised the significance of that first can of sauce. holy shit
I'm sooo happy you started The Bear 🎉
This show is so freaking fantastic! Jeremy Allen White is phenomenal in this. Well, the cast as a whole is perfect ❤
I've worked in many a kitchen over my life. And I can confirm this is how most food prep goes
From the deepest roots of my heart and pain thank you for living with me for a second!!
Love seeing you guys roll from “Iron Claw” into this, considering the cast 🙂
Hope y’all enjoy this journey. This show is amazing.
i've been a chef for 17 years and I go by Bull cuz this is how it is any small kitchen especially. You drive and thats it.
Everybody's starting this recently and I'm like "SEASON TWO!"
There have been a lot of folks saying this gets kitchen work perfectly. In fact, they're kinda fascinated by how accurate this show is about that. There really hasn't been a TV drama that gets what it's like to work a kitchen.
The guy who plays Fak is actually a chef from the Toronto area who has created multiple celebrity restaurants. He doubles as both an actor and a consultant on the show.
School work was completely thrown to the side once i realized you guys had uploaded this! I've been waiting for you guys to watch this! 💙
I am excited you are watching this, I am looking forward to joining you. I worked in diners all my life and yes it is very stressful, but dang this kind of stress would have done me in.
Closest to this ive seen - working at marcos Pizza. I feel like it was... a tenth the speed and stress seen in the show, but there was a fair share of crazy things, and mess ups, and interesting characters, recurring customers, etc lol.
Fun Fact: Ebon Moss-Bachrach got a call about this show while he was filming Andor in Scotland.
So glad you’ve started this…I’ve been meaning to watch it! Let’s do it!
I am so glad you two are doing the bear. One of the best shows I’ve seen
First, I've read some of the comments and I'm not sure if folks realize that they don't need to give specifics to spoil the show for you guys. I really wish people would comment only on the episodes you've watched already and let you just have a good time watching The Bear. I just watched S1 and S2 of The Bear. Absolutely Love It!!! Nikki, keep watching. Yes, the first episode hits hard with the chaos, but the characters are so good, and the story just gets better and better, just hang in there.
Like with Peaky Blinders it took me way too long to check out this show but I’m so glad I finally did. It’s just so damn well-made. I just finished season 2 and few weeks ago and am ready to binge season 3 this weekend 😊 I only worked for a summer as a hostess in a popular local restaurant in a resort town and realized very quickly I couldn’t hack it in the restaurant scene. So this is all fairly new to me. But if what I’ve read from Anthony Bourdain’s books it seems pretty close to reality. Hope you guys enjoy it!
Edit: As a native Midwesterner who grew up about 2 hours away from Chicago, I am loving Ritchie’s blue collar Midwestern accent. Especially since the actor is from New York. I thought that was an excellent touch.
THIS SHOW IS SO GOOD
y'all are in for a TREAT, i'm so happy hahaha