In the UK, is there a difference? Also, where can I find a comprehensive list of all the names of different chefs, somelier, chef de partie etc, in order of importance/experience and what each one does? Looking forward to hearing from you soon!!!
2006-12-30 02:16:14 · 28 answers · asked by S S 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
In England a chef cooks fancy food a cook cooks home cooking type of food
2006-12-30 02:21:42 · answer #1 · answered by Bella 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cooks are self-trained, either themselves or starting out at a low level in a restaurant. Chefs go to culinary school and get the fancy degree. I never went to culinary school, so I'm not a chef even though I owned a restaurant for 10 years and was the head cook and menu planner. That still makes me "just a cook".
And don't even get me started on the culinary industry being dominated by males. Ticks me off, women can do the job just as good if not better. Don't believe the reality cooking shows where women break down and cry a lot. The women pro cooks I've known can swear like sailors and don't take crap from anyone in the kitchen.
2006-12-30 04:18:36 · answer #2 · answered by chefgrille 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Many people think that it is gender or quality/quantity of food. They are idiots. The basic difference is that chef is a title that you are awarded when you qualify, like BSc in the case of many degree subjects. This doesn't necessarily have to be awarded to you by an examining board, as it can be awarded by another chef who has trained you up.
As far as the hierarchy goes, you have an executive chef, who sets menus and shows the remaining staff how to cook and present the food, a head chef, responsible for the day to day running of the kitchen, sous(2nd) chef, basically runs the kitchen in the absence of the head chef, chef du partie, then various commi chefs (trainees) and a kitchen porter(pot washer). In large hotels for example, there are many more titles as the kitchen will tend to be split into different sections.
2006-12-30 06:32:16 · answer #3 · answered by Young1Neil 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not only to do with qualifications. A chef is usually working in a premise that can also sell/serve alcohol. Put them in an unlicensed premise and they become a cook! A lot of it is about snobbery and if you took the title away and concentrated on the food produced it would be much better. The book theory of catering or Food and Beverage Service will give you the names etc that you're looking for.
2006-12-30 08:44:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To keep it simple, the chef is in charge of everything. He buys the food and creates the menus. The cuisine offered is of the chef's creation and a reflection of his training. He can 'invent' recipes because of his training in food chemistry and culinary arts. A cook follows recipes. A cook can 'invent' a recipe but it's the difference between experimenting and knowing what to do. The Chef knows.
2006-12-30 02:36:26 · answer #5 · answered by ironbrew 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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A Chef is someone who cooks rubbish meals in small amounts for an extortionate amount of money.
A Cook is someone 'untrained' that can simply prepare and produce, tasty meals that everyone enjoys for a reasonable cost.
In other words if you can take basic ingredients and produce a small meal that looks like it wouldn't fill a sparrow (or made from a sparrow) and put a fancy sounding french name on it , then charged 100 times the amount it cost to produce - you're a Chef.
If you took the same ingredients and produced a meal that would feed a family of 6 and was called something common (ie bubble and squeak!) that makes you a Cook.
Chef - posh nosh
Cook - proper nosh!
2006-12-30 02:36:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Cook is basically your mum. A chef is someone who has chosen a career and study at college, then trained in many kitchens in many restaurant/hotels. Then IF successful has made a LOT of money out of it, otherwise a chef is some dumb kid who had a good idea but it all went ****-up and is now working in Mc Donalds!
2006-12-30 02:28:00 · answer #7 · answered by Hairybolux 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well to me a cook is some one that works in a school kitchen or as a person that does the cooking for a family and a chef owns there own restaurant and is usually rich.
2006-12-30 03:07:40 · answer #8 · answered by popz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Chef is someone who has been trained to cook at collage or but someone who is a Chef who already has had such training and a Cook is someone who is not trained but just loves cooking food.
a Chef is also aloud to wear the Chef whites the outfit they wear but a Cook can't
2006-12-30 02:27:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Chef is French for chief. The chef is the head cook.
2006-12-30 02:20:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋