That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 01, 2021

The same day the Emperor hires a new tailor to make his “new clothes,” he hired a new chef to make his “new food.”

Marie made that vat of Bouillabaisse for both her husband and herself. She got none of it.

Inspection time. The pot boy proudly shows off his days labor – 8 hours to scour that bad boy so that it shines.

What do you mean ‘How do you eat an elephant’ is just an idiom? I spent all week getting the pot ready!

Is that scullion a man or a woman? They look remarkably androgynous. And overlooked, but that goes without saying.

Hoping soon to be promoted from chamber pot duties.

Gordon Ramsey ‘s first job, pot scrubber at the toffee factory!

At the first modern Olympics, they tried to make it authentic by having a spitting-for-distance contest.

That was the soup du jour? Oops. It looked like dishwater to me.

Did Mr. Hitchcock say what sides he wanted with his shrimp cocktails, large ragout , coqs au vin and cherries jubilee? Double the order?!!!

i’m only doing this gig until my acting career takes off…

“I vunder vot critter is dat/ vot lies on da floor of da vat../ is it maybe da feces/ of some unknown species/ or leftover pieces of cat…”

Reminds me of the kitchen scene in Titus Groan.

A pot to p_ss in.

Yes Mother, I ate my dinner. See?

The French have a way of cooking that just adds flavor into every bite. Precision in preparation and using the right tools for the job. This copper pot was perfect for the long hours needed in simmering Goats Head Soup. It was also the perfect pot for catching heads at the guillotine; thus, young Phillip always made sure it was perfectly clean. He loved Goats Head Soup.

Aziz! Light !!

Aziz ! Light !! Thank you Aziz.

Clear the tables, scrape the dishes and dump the pots before scrubbing. So much waste. But the wine! I dump the wine, oh yes, into an empty bottle to keep me company while I scrub. Hmm, not sure I should have dumped the reds and whites into the same bottle, Oh well, a few more chugs and it won’t really matter.

Bobby Flay’s first day of his career.

Jacques looked forward to the day he would be promoted from spittoon scrubber.

This must be his profile picture for Linkedin.

“Gotta bake bread for George Müller“

I like a girl with a big cup size.

Flo, wanting to prove she could drink and work at the same time, finished off the bottle of rum and cleaned the pot, of course, it took all day for the one pot.

“Do not not hurl into the pot. Do not hurl into the pot. Do not hurl into the pot….”

Margret confirmed the winner of the “Pho Challenge.”

Terrific job. And with that Chef Boy was promoted to ArDee!

Please Sir, may I have more?

“Master says the only way to get big brass balls is to soak them in a big brass pot. He’d find another way if he was the one who had to keep the pot shiny…”

When Jules said he wanted to score some pot, this wasn’t what he meant!

“Cordon blew”….

Wrong Bowling for Dollars.

Does this outfit make my tub look big?

“I wish those frat boys could make it to the porcelain god.”

And here I thought I was going to be the sous chef – NOT the soup chef.

Funny

A closer inspection showed/ what we all right away should have knowed/ the floor of the vat/ had never known cat !/ it had hosted the “mole a la mode” !

The Cook: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Bail_-_O_Cozinheiro.jpg 

(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this painting.

https://www.askart.com/artist/Joseph_Bail/11013481/Joseph_Bail.aspx 

https://www.galeriearyjan.com/pdf-2-570--bail-joseph-.htm#page=2 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/joseph-bail/biography 

http://www.avictorian.com/Bail_Joseph_Claude.html 

https://rehs.com/Joseph_Bail_Bio.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL, which indirectly points to his French Wikipedia page 

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bail 

(again, askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays, and Chrome can automatically translate most webpages as necessary). First work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2676 (March 31, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“Okay, I finished cleaning the chamber pot. If you’d cut back on fiber, you could make do with a smaller one, you know.”

milord, this a cooking vessel not a chamber pot, next time i won’t clean it.

Really? An owl and a pussycat want to borrow this? As a boat?