I own about 15 kitchen knives, none of which cost more than roughly $10 individually -- and most under $5 or so. I don't have very well developed knife skills, so I am fairly hard on knives (as eluded to in the video). But, replacing a $5-$10 knife when I mistreat it won't break the bank.

I'm sure my slow, clumsy cutting would make any professional chef weep or facepalm, but I am not an overpriced restaurant worried about the judgements of strangers. And even my meager skills are plenty adequate enough to reduce any food item that I purchase into smaller, bite-sized pieces of food item. Plus I've never lopped off a finger or cut myself bad enough to require stitches or medical attention or anything.

So, I'm happy enough with my cheapo knives and subpar (but adequate) skills in using them. The video does provide good general advice though!

To put it into perspective.. I own ONE Miyabi knife (traditional japanese knife) Which is a 9 inch chefs knife.. That's about the same, if not lesser quality than the one he shows off in the video, and that knife alone is worth $240

I'm not sure why he's so concerned about the time it takes to open it, it's a puzzle box after all and a good one should take some time.
Just don't use it to store your handguns.
Also, I just wish he'd start singing like the Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show, it would be spot on.

One of the ugly side-effects of tipping that I didn't see mentioned above (though I didn't read all the comments), is that the waiter/waitress get pegged for anything that's wrong.

Meal cooked wrong? Bad food? It comes out of the tip. The chef still gets his/her full check even though they're at fault.

Beaker, Animal and the Swedish Chef, anyone?
http://videosift.com/video/The-Muppet-Show-Danny-Boy

Chef got reincarnated as a sheep!

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What are you talking about? Cooking steak on a skillet is a perfectly good way of cooking it. Most professional chefs will cook it that way.

It would be surprising that a Japanese pancake chef would be speaking Chinese... except that this isn't from Japan.

I'm fairly sure it's been posted here before, too. nvm, couldn't find it... might've just seen it on ll.

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Chefs, not scientists. *food

He recorded so many un-listenable sides for Stax with those many pearls and gems strewn-in-Personal fav from Chef Aid...'Simultaneous.'
http://videosift.com/video/Issac-Hayes-Simultaneous

somewhere theres about to be a very tired Vietnamese chef.

I won the "chef aid" album at a quiz once. It's mostly terrible, but one thing stands out .... there is literally no song on this planet that cannot be made better with the addition of Isaac Hayes vocals.