DAY IN THE LIFE OF A WORLD TOUR CHEF – Stage Five | RaceTV | Tour de France 2024

Join team chef Owen Blandy on a tour of his custom food truck and an exclusive behind the scenes look on what’s required to cook for a world tour cycling team. PLUS! Oatly Coffee Break with Ben Healy. All that and more in this RaceTv Day In The Life special feature.

Day In The Life episodes to come as part of our TdF 2024 coverage:
Team Mechanic
Soigneur
Transfers & Logistics
Bus Driver
Sport Director

0:00 – Introduction
0:33 – Pre-Race
1:12 – Oatly Coffee Break with Ben Healy
1:57 – Race
3:41 – Chef Owen Blandy Feature
10:22 – Congrats Cav!

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[Music] good afternoon this is well tour cooking I’m Owen Blandy carrot and pumpkin soup and bake two loaves spaghetti bnes it’s spatini tonight and this is what we do when we’re at the hotel and the guys are racing come inside check it out neelson can I get a Vibe check this morning Vibe check pretty uh pretty positive vibes in the bus got a pretty good goal today with [Music] Marion we’re out here trying to look for opportunities to win stages so yeah it’s exciting Tom can I get a Vibe check from you today how we feeling watch check A vibe check feel like I’m 15 stages into the race is how I feel Sprint day just got to stay safe I know going up to Gia was uh yeah pretty spectacular you know and thankfully I had good legs so I kind of got to ride at my own pace and uh you don’t often get the opportunity but I was looking down the valley and seeing the whole Road all come up and it was uh pretty spectacular you know and then also I think got one of my favorite photos of all time yesterday from the grubers coming down the mountain with the big backdrop it was uh yeah pretty cool that one yeah the grubers are pretty well known within cycling and uh yeah the fact that they’re kind of working with us is uh yeah we we get some epic shots arain doing it for marine all for marine want this qu front stem sheet yeah right here [Applause] wait okay yeah good thank you Stefan nielson’s on the way with brains and without getting stressed up we’re going to try and create what we did in tyin for Marin this time okay we can do it with numbers and we can do it together pick a side of the road doesn’t matter really which and stick to it avoid the middle of the Pelon okay work together and we’re going to give Marin a good run for this finish okay guys which side are you which side of the road are you on with Marine the left left side Marin you will see the finish line 250 to [Music] go Gooding effort Marine well done I do enjoy doing transfers it’s a chance for me to compose myself and think about the meal tonight get a hand up and also see the countryside of where we where we race food you know France is a beautiful varied country there’s so much to see there’s an airport if you know you know decanted into a beon for easy [Music] access the gr crew of sparkling water page booths I mean let’s do some maths 21 transfers roughly call it 20 because we got a couple of two-day hotels 2hour Journey each maybe two an hour 2 * 4 80 I’d say give or take five or 10 someone someone do the maths out there someone plot our route our journey yeah I’d say 80 some of them work really well and you can just Cruise fruits we’ got France Italy and Spain so when we’re doing the driving we can just send it through the the [Music] [Applause] [Music] barriers this is my fourth season fourth uh tour to France my 11th Grand Tour yeah loving it every every race I love it even more first thing I do when I get to the hotel is bake the bread for the day this has been in the fridge for 24 hours as soon as I get here I put the oven on and heat it up to like 250° 300° super hot and bake two loaves while that’s going I’ll then start prepping for dinner tonight we have a carrot and pumpkin soup it’s a flat Sprint stage today and tomorrow so like I’m going to try and get some veggies in them get some good uh micronutrients in before we go into a TT and then some more mountain days we got a spaghetti bolognese I made this when I had time before so this is a great tip for people at home if you’re going to make something like a bolog or soup or something where you need to cook it for a long time make two batches great bnise get some red usually red meat is saved for rest days but we got two really easy days today so today and tomorrow so it’s a good chance to get some red meat it’s bucatini tonight booking in bucatini number nine Pastor number nine and then some risoto or sweet potato I’m going to actually message the guys cuz they have a lot of rice so they might want a day off rice so it might be a sweet potato Day always Pastor in the evenings cuz they have rice in the mornings um so sometimes they don’t need rice in the evenings a different type of carb is is good for their flavor fatigue you know they’re eating so many carbs each day that it’s good to mix it up and give give them the different choice so they don’t get bored as you can see I’m I’m prepping away now and it’s it’s 3:00 p.m. dinner will be 9:00 p.m. so you know I got 6 hours like this is a decent amount of time the the easy bit of this job is actually cooking you know like spaghetti bales ratoo I’m going to do some some baked cod it’s all quite simple food you know the guys want a plate of ingredients they recognize and dishes they recognize not hiding special not hiding sauces or cream or but uh which traditional French cooking does so it’s basically it’s the simple part of the job is the cooking it’s just putting it on a plate for them literally however the difficulty of this job is the logistics here we go EF easy post kitchen truck welcome come on in as you can see it’s a quite tight environment here but it’s got everything we need to cook on the road you’ve got fantastic gas burner here which is six burners you got these high powered ones at the front medium power here and then there’s a gas pipe that goes around and we can keep two different types of gas bhane on the outside of the truck which is great when you’re transitioning between the jro to the France so you can have Italian gas bottles French gas bottles Spanish whatever you need you’ve got this lovely stainless steel everywhere which is fantastic for pastry for bread and just gives you a lovely platform to work from and then underneath here we’ve got really nice refrigerator as we come along we got a freezer super nice to have a freezer and just store things this is my control Network knives and a few little bits and Bobs spoons forks a whole range of um vinegars oils some chili sauces sushi rice vinegar this is fantastic seasoning for fish and obviously rice but also for salads really delicious this is like my herb not herb a spice box and again it fits really nicely in there so when when we drive on those Mountain Roads everything stays put of course the good stuff got lots of that now we’ve got a great partner involved sink speaks for itself one of the most important parts of the kitchen and then to the fridge and then last but not least the menu color coed salads sorry soups salads carbohydrates prot side veg dessert this is a two-page document it’s got I work on a t+1 basis so I’ll have the next stage written here so I’m basically cooking tonight for the stage tomorrow so I know what kind of food they want if it’s going to be a Sprint stage a Titi Mountain Stage that all affects what I’m going to make and the subsequent days as well literally it’s a puzzle you know it’s a puzzle of bits and jobs to make it a workable kitchen which you pack up every day like no one does that in the culinary world we have to move with the race so we have to be mobile and we have to be ready to go boom we’re good any questions send them in I will be happy to answer them let’s go race tv hey Mark hey Mark congratul Mar congratulations Kev on your 35th uh Victory congrats on your 3 tour to France stage win that’s pretty awesome I well deserved proud of you I’m so happy for you for your Victory uh you’re really inspiring and uh well I hope I can also one day win a stage in the tour I think you won your first one I was 8 years old so you are an inspiration to every pro cyclist out there you make history and it’s been a pleasure to watch you as I’ve grown up and to race with you I’m uh so super happy for for you congratulations thank you thanks for what you gave to cycling [Music]