Jack Stein - Accidentally Deleting Rick Stein's Cookbook, Working As A KP At 12 Years Old & Running Britain's Most Famous Seafood Empire
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the GoToFoodPod brought to you by Blink, the UK company revolutionising the POS game. And for all those who enjoyed the podcast, click the link in the pod bio to watch long-form YouTube videos where we go to some incredible places and discover some great places to eat. We're going down to Cornwall soon, actually. And we won't reveal who our guest is for another second, but maybe you can guess. And as you would have seen the name on the podcast when you clicked on it. But we are joined by a chef who was literally raised on the kitchen tiles of one of Britain's most iconic seafood institutions. he started at age 12 scrubbing pots in cornwall and sharpened his blades at global powerhouses come on like tatisiers in sydney and the regular in paris uh you've seen him mentoring celebs and itv's taking the stars as chef director of rickstein restaurants where he steers a massive multi-million pound hospitality empire he's also won best chef at the food magazine readers awards and he spent the last two weeks slogging away in wimbledon jack stein was it worth it
Slicing and dicing. Yeah. Yeah.
How was it? It was great. Yeah. Yes. I mean, I've not done seven days a week for quite a while, you know, like it's pretty brutal, but yeah, it was good. Yeah. It was really good. What was the
sort of best selling dish or the best
received? Uh, we do a sea bass with vanilla vinaigrette. It's like, um, so like a vanilla reduction with Nordy Pratt and shallots, fish stock, and then concast and chervil. And that was, yeah, it was so hot. Like that kind of light food went really well. it was really i was really happy with the menu because i wrote it in the middle of winter and i remember thinking to myself it's summer you know what i mean so i didn't have like hollandaise or yeah actually i did have a long day something it's a nightmare i remember every day i had hollandaise on the menu it was a nightmare i don't know why i did that beurre blanc
yeah no wonder you haven't get up like four in the morning
they have a thermomix here i haven't done like an own natural hollandaise for about 20 years do you think
they stretched to a thermomix for you
well they did for the guest chefs but like you know anyway
Wimbledon if you're listening brace up a bit obviously you are down in Cornwall most of the time growing up in Cornwall just give us some early food memories because you are obviously of the Stein dynasty we've had your father on your exact seat in the studio beautiful moment yeah it was he'd had a long lunch he forgot to do the podcast and then he came out and he was livid he had to come do it
I mean, two things. Firstly, I love the precocious little shit line for Valentine's Day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's one of the funniest things I've seen in any food point. The moment I saw that, I was pissing myself laughing because that is exactly what Dad would say. But, yeah, I mean, growing up, I mean, Cornwall was very different then. Like, it was, what, the early 90s? No, it was born in the 80s. So whenever I can remember, maybe 84, 85. Yeah. The 80s were weird because we were just quiet and every winter was completely shut the restaurant from October to Easter.
Wow.
and we just travel a lot but also like mum and dad would always be going away and like I know it's like now I'm like in my 40s like a lot of my friends who've got kids like how did your parents do it like how do you run a restaurant with kids it's like a nightmare especially us we were three brothers we were like pretty raucous like like country living, but also a lot of kind of like, you know, running around and causing havoc. So mum and dad like pulled us into the kitchen as soon as they could. So yeah, 12 years old, like summer holidays, you're working, pot washing, which was good. Again, like dad was in the kitchen and he was, You know, it's like I always find, like, being a chef, like, myself, I'm not like him because he's pretty disorganised.
Like, as in, like, his section would always be pretty, like, you know.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:03–6:57
2
What was it like growing up washing pots for Rick Stein at age 12?
6:57–19:11
3
How did Jack accidentally delete his dad’s first cookbook and what happened afterward?
19:11–25:11
4
Why did Jack move from front‑of‑house work to kitchen training and what did he learn?
25:11–43:40
5
What lessons did Jack bring back from his stages in Paris, Sydney and Japan?
43:40–53:40
6
How did the COVID‑19 pandemic affect the Rick Stein empire and its staff?
53:40–57:17
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