Chef

A chef is a person who cooks food as their job. They usually work in restaurants or hotels.

 Full explanation 
The chef is responsible for everything about the food in a restaurant. He is responsible for buying the food, hiring and supervising the kitchen workers, creating the menus for the customers, and deciding the recipes (the details of how the cooking is done). Some chefs are trained and some are not trained.

The sous-chef (sometimes called an assistant chef) is the chef's main helper. A chef de partie is a 'line chef', in charge of a station in the kitchen. The commis chef works under a chef de partie. It is usually a training position. 

The lines or stations in a big kitchen are:
Sauté chef
Fish chef
roast chef
grill and/or fry chef
vegetable chef
roundsman (fills in where needed)
pantry chef
butcher
pastry chef

Related pages
 Celebrity chef

Other websites
 free chefs resource guide built by chefs for chefs 
 Official certification levels of the American Culinary Federation


Category:Food-related occupations