If you have ever worked in a commercial kitchen for even a second you would know that they are different from other working environments. Each kitchen is its own strange little world, where the freaks are in charge and stainless steel and fire are the most precious resources. This isn’t a sales job. You don’t have to pretend to be someone you’re not. It’s an art form. It’s manual labour. It’s a place where injuries are met with sighs and insults as opposed to any form of sympathy. Each kitchen is like its own little vortex unaffected by the changing world outside. Kitchens rely on hard work, staff who will show up no matter what, maybe a bit of goey from time-to-time and most importantly, a good soundtrack.

I have spent most of my time in a closed kitchen (one where the chefs aren’t on display to all the customers) which is perfect for me because I’m not much of a people person. It also meant that we could listen to whatever music we want, as loud as we want.. Man did we ever burn through IPod docks. I think we would blow one up every couple of months. All the chefs in that place have IPods completely full of good tunes, however each and every one of us had pretty similar but somehow very different taste. So we are always battling to get songs we could all agree on into rotation.  Anyway, this playlist is just a little taste of an average day in our particular stainless steel world.