Chefs Without Restaurants
Hosted by [Host Name] and Chris Spear · The Chefs Without Restaurants Network
4.9from 102 ratings
- 268
- Episodes
- 1
- Transcribed
- 102
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 84K
- YouTube views
About Chefs Without Restaurants
Join Chris Spear as he interviews food and beverage entrepreneurs who have built successful careers outside of traditional restaurant kitchens. From personal chefs, caterers, and food truck operators to cookbook authors, research chefs, and farmers, each guest has paved their own way in the culinary world. Through candid conversations, they share the challenges, lessons, and successes of creating a business on their own terms. With over 30 years of experience in the hospitality industry—including running his own personal chef business, Perfect Little Bites—Chris is dedicated to helping chefs and food entrepreneurs navigate their own unconventional paths in the industry. If you're looking for inspiration, business insights, and real stories from those who have stepped beyond the restaurant world, this podcast is for you. 🎧 New episodes available—subscribe now and start exploring the road less traveled in the culinary industry!
- Publisher
- The Chefs Without Restaurants Network
- Category
- arts · business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Nov 2019
- Latest episode
- 22 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
1 of 268 episodes have a transcript.
22 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Scott Heimendinger on Reinventing the Chef's Knife with Ultrasonic Technology
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Scott Heimendinger on Reinventing the Chef's Knife with Ultrasonic Technology
Published 22 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The way I see it, knives have improved over the last... five generations of humans quite a bit, but that improvement is invisible to a lot of folks. So right now you can walk into any cooking store and buy a knife for a hundred dollars, $200. That is way better than the best knife you could possibly buy a hundred years ago. Um, all knives were non-stainless, right? So that was an invention. That was a development that drove the quality or capability of knives forward. And since then, there have been a hundred much smaller, much more subtle developments in that metallurgists have done to figure out how do I get this balance of sharpness and durability and the ability to resharpen easily and so on, and the performance of knives or the quality of knife you could get per dollar has steadily risen in the last 120 years, something like that. […]
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- Tristen Epps
- Kara Newman
- Jeff Koehler
- Eden Grinshpan
- Takeshi Nishikawa
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- YouTube views
- 83,888
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 75 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 27 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 83 / 100
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- Quality
- 100
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 90
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[Host Name] and Chris Spear host the show. Published by The Chefs Without Restaurants Network.
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