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  • Jan 22, 2008, 07:02 PM
    litelegs
    Why is it bad luck to whistle in a kitchen?
    My chef(teacher) asked me this today and I ave no idea why it's bad luck? Any ideas?:confused:
  • Jan 22, 2008, 07:41 PM
    CaptainRich
    I've never heard of this.
    I've spent plenty of time in the kitchen and I whistle quite often.
    Never had any evil, dark cooking demons come out yet! But then again, I cook mostly Italian and I tend to use a little more garlic than some... that could help!

    What does your chef/teacher say could happen?

    Let me know if I should stop! Hehe
  • Jan 22, 2008, 07:48 PM
    ISneezeFunny
    It may not be bad luck but unsanitary. If you whistle while cooking, you're spreading tiny airborne particles of your own saliva.
  • Jan 22, 2008, 08:02 PM
    oneguyinohio
    I like the saliva reason above, but my only other thought is that the dogs might think you are calling them to come and get their food?

    Please let us know his answer?
  • Jan 22, 2008, 10:11 PM
    CaptainRich
    Naw, I think it just makes the quiche go flat!
  • Jan 23, 2008, 06:53 PM
    litelegs
    Lol... I found it out, apparently during the French revolution all the Chefs that worked for the Nobel's were tried as traitors and on their way to the gallows they all whistled in a line until they dangled. Hence, if you are a chef it brings misfortune and death to the whistler.

    I'll never look at whistling the same again!
  • Feb 7, 2008, 01:17 AM
    starbuck8
    That was my laugh for the day! Thanks for the giggle! Now I know it's not my cooking that will get me sent to the gallows... just my whistling, lol
  • Feb 7, 2008, 01:31 AM
    MasuBhat
    In kitchen I don't know but at night time I do.. frm our religious or rather spritiual matter.. whisteling at night time is bad luck . That bad luck may affect your family relations.. etc..
  • Feb 7, 2008, 01:37 AM
    starbuck8
    Hmmm, what religion is this? I'm not knocking it, just curious!

    I think the only time it may affect my family relationships is if I'm awake at night whistling and I wake everyone when they have to be up early in the morning. Lol
  • Jul 23, 2009, 12:17 AM
    kiki79
    Not only is it bad luck but also disrespectful to do so, reason is because (and only if you were traditionally trained by french chefs) during the french revolution while Marie Antoinette and her servants (including kitchen staff) were being escorted to the guillotine, the people of France would cheer, sing and whistle to them.
    One of my chefs in school would shout across the kitchen: !WHO'S THE CANARY? YOUR MAKING ME NERVOUS! If he heard anyone singing or whistling.
  • Jul 27, 2010, 11:49 PM
    emileeclark
    Also... to add to the bak luck whistling in the kitchen is supposed to bring bad financial luck... however I'm pretty convinced this is simply a folks law because my café is cranking and I whistle all the time. :)
  • Oct 14, 2019, 12:09 PM
    AvardBarker
    I was told that the reason for it being bad luck, or just in bad taste, to whistle in the kitchen is two fold. The first reason stemming from the French Revolution where chefs were put to death and either whistled on their way to the gallows or were whistled at as a taunt by the people watching. The second reason I was told was when I was in culinary school and that was that one of Escoffier's sous chefs thought that they were a better chef than Escoffier and would whistle whenever he would enter the kitchen, a throw back to the French revolution, as the sous chef was working out a plan to have Escoffier assassinated.

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