Cooking job: In the home it's a woman, bunt in the industry it's a man, why?

Question

I don't see the link between cooking jobs in the home and the industry, especially the hotels. According to tradition (dying tho'), it's a woman's job to cook. But in hotels and other important places a chev is usually a man. Please help.

Answer 1

Yeah I noticed it too and their attitudes to women cooking are attrocious. Primarily it has been our job to nourish but all of a sudden they feel they are the only ones who can cook properly? I heard Jamie Oliver saying how he cannot stand his wifes cooking, I think that sucks. He is alive because some woman fed him. We all are. Some woman fed us all. I can't help you, all I can do is agree with you. Sorry.

Oh and preacher, we seem to be good enough to be sous chefs but you think we lack strength to lift heavy pots! Sheesh.

Answer 2

My logic, which could be off this morning, tells me this;
Tradition says the woman cooks at home. It's been like that for two hundred years or more. Since men used to be the sole income provider. After working all day, he expected to come home to supper that the good wife has cooked. Since women didn't work outside the home, they were expected to do the cooking and cleaning.
The man would take any job that was tossed his way, and if it was cooking for the general public, that was fine. So they invented the traditional 'chef'.
Time marches on for awhile.
Now women are working outside the home for a paycheck just like the man. So now since we're expected to cook anyway, why not make a few bucks doing it? And then the female chef comes along.

Answer 3

Having spent many years in the commercial food service industry I can answer your question. Large quantity cooking takes a great deal of physical strength that a woman just does not have. Heavy pot of liquid need to be moved and lifted, and women are neither strong enough nor tall enough to do it safely. Also, there are heavy cases of food that need to be lifted and carried around, heavy sacks of dry products such as beans, sugar, flour and the like that can weigh between 50-100 lbs. Most women are not built to handle this kind of weight. It is not a discriminatory thing----it is a physical design thing. Men were made by God to do the heavy work. Go into a commercial kitchen and you will see both men and women working, but you will see the men doing the heavy and dangerous stuff.

Answer 4

It's no longer the womans job to cook at home, and why should it be anyway? I also know female chefs, so that is no longer a trend either.

Answer 5

Very simple, for the most part men are better chefs. Women usually freak when it comes to upscale menus.