Watch out! In the topsy turvy, “disruptive,” 21^st century, a new app called Trybe is suggesting that all of us are chefs! Yes, all of us!

Finnish duo Leo Wuoristo and Ilkka Sako designed the app for home cooks. Trybe links them up with the paying public via the medium of the cellphone.

That’s right. You know your next door neighbour -yes the one who never takes the rubbish out and who watches T.V. really loud till 2am- he is in fact a Trybe chef.

Okay I’ll admit that it’s good for people to be able to earn a living from home, especially when many have been systemically excluded from the job market, but isn’t being a chef all about quality and technique and will Trybe provide this?

If everyone’s a chef then no one is a chef and what’s the difference between a restaurant and someone’s house?

Burnt pizza, over-salted everything, wet salad, raw meat and poor ingredients- that’s what.

For me quality is the major issue.

If Trybe can overcome this – by assuring that the quality is good and that the word chef is still synonymous with a higher level of cooking – then perhaps pigs fly and perhaps my next door neighbour makes the best boeuf bourguignon in town.

Perhaps.

www.trybe.com for more information