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14944524 No.14944524 [Reply] [Original]

wat is the difference between a "cook" and a "chef"?

>> No.14944532

a chef runs a restaurant. a cook just makes food.

>> No.14944533 [DELETED] 
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>>14944524
No difference. Fags like to use the word "chef" because they want to pretend they're Jon Favreau in the movie Chef

>> No.14944538

>>14944524
The only difference is pretentiousness.

>> No.14944540

A cook cooks food and a chef cooks food as a profession or is trained in the "art" of cooking. So all chefs are cooks but not all cooks are chefs

>> No.14944550
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>>14944533
But even Jon Favreau isn't a chef, he's just a guy who likes to cook sometimes, regardless of what this webm implies (only a Chef could make a grilled cheese like this)

>> No.14944564

>>14944524
What's the difference between masturbating or having actually sex?

>> No.14944587

>>14944550
>one grilled cheese for infant son
>8 slices of cheese, 4oz of butter, doubled fried
Do Americans really?

>> No.14944591

>>14944524
chef is an artist and also runs a kitchen
a cook is somebody who works under a chef or does cooking as a hobby

>> No.14944633

>>14944524
Chefs are trained to prepare and construct meals and deal with service.
Cooks work with food and typically just do basic prep and heat things up.

People working at macdonalds are cooks.
People working at a grillhouse are chefs.

You also have classroom chefs who think they are proper chefs, take photos of the food they take hours to make and have never had a ticket call in their lives.

In the end it's just a status thing.
A cook can't call themselves a chef because they couldn't handle a saturday night service.
Chefs don't call themselves cooks because they are better than that.

>> No.14944740

>>14944524
A fancy hat and self importance.

>> No.14944783

>>14944524
Formally, it's education, but there's no real degree behind it. Some countries and institutes have seals, ribbons, etc. to indicate graduation from levels of cooking apprenticeship.

Chef comes from the same root as chief - chef de cuisine is basically chief of the kitchen. If someone running a restaurant's kitchen decides they want to be called chef, regardless of their education, then gosh darn it, he/she/it is the chef.

>> No.14944848

>>14944524
Chef have benis cook have bagina

>> No.14944864

Chef is a skilled occupation, cook is unskilled

>> No.14944870

>>14944524
Cook makes food to sustain and remove hunger. Chef cooks to make a statement and experience. Im proud to be a cook and not a chef.

>> No.14945563

>>14944524
cooks cook and chefs chef

>> No.14945606

>>14944524
Chef is someone who runs a restaurant or kitchen
Cook is someone who either works in a kitchen or cooks as a hobby

>> No.14945619

>>14944524
Chef is an authoritative, administrative position based on its original French meaning. A chef is the boss of the kitchen governing the other cooks. A cook is just someone who cooks.

>> No.14945625

YES, CHEF

>> No.14945648

>>14945619
The brigade system can be broken down to have chefs of certain areas - a Chef de Garde (Manger) although a really abused term, would most accurately be the guy running the "pantry" crew - apps, charcuterie, garnishes and finishing touches... but you need a large crew to require a team leader for this.

>> No.14945662

>>14944524
Theirs hierarchy in a kitchen. A chef is someone who runs the kitchen and the cook is someone who works at their designated cooking station. A chef will usually sit at the order out window to inspect food, make sure tickets are being put out on time, write the meny, etc. It's a managerial job compared to something tied more closely to production. I've worked in a lot of kitchens and it really varies what certain people are called or who qualifies as a chef but there is always a hierarchy

>> No.14945668

>>14944524
one cooks,
the other shaves

>> No.14945687

>>14944550
he had some spic show him how to do it, watch the credits.

>> No.14945700

>>14944524

Chef is an official accolade, meaning you've had formal training and a board of Chef elects to present you with this distinction. A cook is someone/anyone who cooks professionally without this formal training and accolade.

>> No.14945715

>>14945662
The hierarchy is usually head chef > sous chef > line chefs > prep chefs

Cooks don't work in proper restaruants.
They heat food up in schools or put patties on buns at wendys

>> No.14945724

>>14945700
Except for when some guy cooks his way up and usurps the title without contest. I like to call this guy Chief. It's a great way to leave a job.

>> No.14945725

>>14944550
What is this garbage ? Mayonnaise ? Enjoy your vinegar egg sandwhich taste.
Uses soy grease instead of butter ?
Puts cheese on the untoasted side so it's soggy mush on the inside and crisp hard on the outside ?

>> No.14945738

>>14945715
Few of these line or prep "chefs" would need to be properly accredited. By that technicality, they're only chefs if they're running a crew... but a kitchen is no place for technicality.

>> No.14945763

>>14944848
gindergarden gob :DDDD

>> No.14945766

>>14945738
Well that is true since i've seen KP's doing prepwork
I've also seen kitchens that change roles on sections and have everyone trained on all sections.
But i've also seen prep chefs that could do better than some grill chefs in service.

>> No.14945770

>>14944550
>spreads butter around far away from the bread ensuring it doesn't get absorbed
bravo favreau

>> No.14945789

>>14945766
I was talking about certification rather than training, but yeah. The best way for a kitchen to run is generalized training beyond specialized roles. I hate the fast-forward-factory aspect of restaurant cooking (which is why I switched almost entirely to catering), but damned if I wouldn't be pulled from prep or apps a few times a month because someone else couldn't hack it.

>> No.14947425

>>14944524
everyone can cook but not every cook is a chef.

>> No.14947472

>>14944524
In my mind, a chef sets the menu and creates the recipes for a restaurant, but a cook does the actual preparation of the food in the kitchen.

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>>14945715
>prep chefs

>> No.14947515

>>14944524
What is it that? eggs?

>> No.14947516

>>14947515
no its rice

>> No.14947578

chef is french for chief
a chef is the boss/coordinator

>> No.14947660

>>14944564
When having sex you're twice as alone.

>> No.14947665

>>14947660
Deep...
Not as deep as I was into your mother, but still deep.

>> No.14947868

>>14944524
5 bucks an hour

>> No.14947886

>>14944550
wouldn't feed to my dead dog.

>> No.14947998

>>14944524
a chef is the one who leads a group of cook, it's the same difference between a soldier and an officer

>> No.14948002
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>>14944524
A chef is usually somebody who has been formally trained over many years in the culinary arts and works in some kind of fine dining establishment. They rank from top to bottom:

Chef de Cuisine (Head Chef) ...
Sous Chef (Deputy Chef) ...
Chef de Partie (Station Chef) ...
Commis Chef

A cook is somebody who may or may not have training and usually works at a franchise or a McDonalds. They are there to cook on the line. A cook is also a woman makes food at home and cooks for her husband and children.

>> No.14948008

>>14944524
About $1.50 and much worse alcoholism

>> No.14948011

>>14944524
"chef" literally means one who gives orders. In this context, the guy who runs the kitchen is the chef, his 2nd in command is the sous-chef, the rest are the saucier, the chefs de partie, the line cooks and the prep cooks, in descending order of hierarchy.

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>>14944524
A chef follows, a cook obeys

>> No.14948121

>>14944524
a cook listens to a chef. I'm a chef in my own kitchen and you better listen or get the fuck out when I'm cooking. if you're cooking your own food though it's cool I'll make space and work around you

>> No.14948205

>>14944524
A chef is a cook who knows how to charge double for the same food

>> No.14949837

>>14947886
Cause the dead can't eat? ofcourse you wouldn't feed it.