I don’t know about you but I’ve always wondered why chefs needed those really long aprons. I know they are in the kitchen all the time, but aren’t they supposed to be experts? I figured they would know how to be really clean in the kitchen after all that practice. I posed the question to the chef at my favorite French restaurant, and she sure answered my question.

The chef, whose name is Marie-Claire, is simply amazing. She whips up everything from crepes to duck confit in almost no time and every single dish is absolutely delicious. She has even written several French cook books. When I asked her why chefs need aprons, she told me to come back at 3:00 the next day, and she sat with me in the dining room and told me this story.

One day when Marie-Claire was busy in the kitchen, doing her job and wearing her apron as always, she tripped on the floor mat and spilled boiling water all down her legs. Fortunately, she was wearing her heavy chef’s pants, chef’s coat, and apron, but even so her skin started burning. Unable to bear the pain, she stripped off her pants and was standing their her underwear. As luck would have it, in came one of the bus boys dropping off some dirty dishes. He was mortified to see the head chef in her underpants. Chef Marie-Claire quickly grabbed for a couple of aprons she had hanging on the rack. She tied one around the front and one around the back to cover herself.

The restaurant was too busy for her to go home and get a new pair of pants, and it was a few hours before hers dried out. She just wore those two funny aprons tied around her waist while working, and wouldn’t you know it, those bus boys seemed to work really hard that day. They kept coming to the kitchen every five minutes! Marie-Claire is pretty sure that the bus boys were only coming to try and catch a glimpse of her underpants underneath those tied-on aprons. 

So according to my chef friend, aprons are good for protecting you from the blood of the meats and everything that splashes on you while you are cooking. But they are also extremely useful in case of strange emergencies! Marie-Claire suggests keeping at least two aprons handy in your kitchen.

So girls and boys listen up, whether you’re a chef or not, aprons are important. They can save you some very embarrassing moments indeed! Not the most practical item to use a skirt, but it could very well suffice as a bare necessity on that rare occasion.

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