{"id":6383,"date":"2013-08-29T06:20:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T13:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=6383"},"modified":"2013-08-29T06:31:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T13:31:43","slug":"benihana-be-the-chef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=6383","title":{"rendered":"Benihana: Be The Chef"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis past Christmas I received a gift card for the ‘Be The Chef<\/a>‘ experience at Benihana from my brother Charlie. The Be The Chef experience consists of taking a training session at Benihana and then cooking for four guests. Since there isn’t a Benihana in Chicago it’s been a challenge to make this work as it consists of nearly back to back trips out to Wheeling, Illinois.<\/a><\/p>\n

This past Sunday I went for the training session having really no idea what it would entail. When I called to schedule and asked how long it would take, I was told it depended on how good I cook. Ominous.<\/p>\n

The training took about an hour and consisted of me breaking one bowl. The dinner went a little better than the training as you can see in the video. My left shoulder feels like I played in a 32 round air hockey tournament. My trainer Chef Rick was patient to say the least. At one point he ran to the kitchen to get me spare egg.<\/p>\n