Jocky Petrie (chef) Jocky Petrie (chef) James "Jocky” Petrie is a professional Scottish chef born in Duror in Scotland. He is best known for both his work alongside chef Heston Blumenthal as Head of Development of the Experimental Kitchen at The Fat Duck (one of five restaurants in Great Britain to have three Michelin stars), and his current work as Group Executive Development Chef for Gordon Ramsay. As a chef he has regularly appeared as mentor and judge on a number of television shows including Masterchef, Heston's Fantastical Food, In Search of Perfection and Top Chef Suomi. Petrie is the sous chef to
Gordon Ramsay in television was in two fly-on-the-kitchen-wall documentaries: "Boiling Point" (1998) and "Beyond Boiling Point" (2000), but had appeared previously as a judge on a MasterChef-like series for young catering students in 1997, with his then restaurant partner. Ramsay appeared on series three of "Faking It" in 2001 helping the prospective chef, a burger flipper named Ed Devlin, learn the trade. This episode won the 2001 BAFTA for "Best Factual TV Moment." In 2004, Ramsay appeared in two British television series. "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares" aired on Channel 4, and saw the chef troubleshooting failing restaurants over a one-week period. This series