Top 10 things that constantly remind you that you're a chef

The Staff Canteen

When you spend the majority of your life in the kitchen, you're going to pick up some habits. We took to Twitter to find out the things that constantly remind you that you're a chef.

To everyone else you seem a bit crazy, but in reality you eat, sleep and breath the life of a chef.

1. An obsessive urge to keep your hands clean and debris free

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2. Having an inability to sleep because you just can't turn off the creativity train.

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3. Combine that with your lack of sunlight and some days you end up looking like

Uncle Fester. 

tweet 34. You didn't realise your career choice would have such a huge toll on your social life... or your body

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5. Perfectionism is built into you, and you just can't shake it off.

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6. Your obsession with quality equipment and ingredients has become an addiction.

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7. Outside of work, you're still expected to do the cooking.

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8. Your work sayings are so natural that they plague the rest of your life. 

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9. You even start talking to animals... 

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10. But you forget front of house life has it's downfalls too...

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  By Kellie Wyatt

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Editor 16th May 2018

Top 10 things that constantly remind you that you're a chef