Why Restaurant Kitchens Don't Have Air Conditioners, Even When It's Scorching Hot - Chowhound

DJ Creative Studio/Shutterstock "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen" isn't just a saying; it's a nod to how hardy one needs to be to work as a professional chef. Sure, Gordon Ramsay's home kitchen channels a modern nostalgia, but a professional kitchen is about pure, almost brutal functionality — the antithesis of the elegant morsels that arrive at the table. Along with all the hot surfaces,…