What is the difference between a cook and a chef?
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A cook can be anyone who learns a restaurants menu and how to cook the foods on it. A chef actually has to take AT LEAST 2 years of training in various cooking methods and styles.Even after 2 years you are only considered a "sous chef" A chef can be just a cook - but just a cook isn't a chef. Someone says they are a chef - ask them where they trained and for how long.some chefs train for many many years.You only need a few minutes training to flip burgers at McD's
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I've always thought about it like this: A Chef is a professional, who has spent years training to get to where theyre at. A Cook is someone who cooks something. The guy at the local take away can call himself a cook, but he definately can't call himself a chef. I suppose Chef>Cook *shrug*
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The term chef has often been misused, it really means that you are the Head of a kitchen team. After training (fresh from school when you are still way too slow to work in a busy restaurant and havn't really got a clue, but think you have) you are a Commis, same as the guy or woman who started training straight in a restaurant. Then if you are good, and have learned to clean every aspect of the kitchen over and over again, do everybody elses shity job with a smile, work extra hours, extra days, show some ability you become Chef de Partie get your own section perhaps, but not much more money than the commis. After that you might become Sous Chef and then eventually Head Chef, if you havn't packed your job in by then, because of the long hours, the bullying, the shouting, the heat etc. So when you become the Chef, the leader of a team of kitchen workers, you have climbed a ladder with a strict hirachy in which there is only one boss (the Chief aka Chef) whose word is the gospel. No discussions, no arguing, no knowing better. The cooks cook what and how the Chef wants them to cook.
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the difference between a meal and a cuisine...
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Level of qualification. Chef's have done an apprenticeship learning all aspects of cooking, and then have many years of experience on top of that. Cooks may cook very well, but generally do not have a bit of paper to back them up.
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real cook have taste,chef can make menu food coste control
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A Chef goes to schools and has been certified and cooks arent
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About $25-$50 a plate for the same food.
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there are diffrent thoughts about it a chef always is higher ranking/trained but diffrent people thing diffrent things i think a chef is really good at cooking the can cook most things if they want to they know many recipees but dont need one for alot of things they know what flavorings clash and wich ones go good together they know alot of spices and usaully have been to culinary school or work in a good restaraunt a cook is someone who knows how to cook
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The amount on the pay cheque.
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about 38,000 dollars is what I pay to go to a culinary college to learn to become a proffesional chef and not a cook
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A chef has a degree and makes great money and a cook has no degree and makes wage.
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chef is a professional graudate and a cook is just any person but doesnt have a degree..
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i am 100% agree with your answer. thankyou
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A COOK ONLY MAKES WHATS ORDERED FROM THEIR BOSS, BUT A CHEF COOKS AND BAKES FOR PERFECTION. TO MAKE EACH MEAL A MEAL TO REMEMBER.
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People try to add all kind of stipulations to distinguish between a Chef and a cook, but when you boil it down to the truth, a Chef is a professional cook and nothing more.
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formal education
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The same as the difference between a writer of computer manuals and a poet.
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A cook (such as myself) can turn out a great meal in my limited kitchen. A chef would run away screaming (See my answer to the question about what Gordon Ramsey would do if he came to your house! LOL!)
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Emeril, Bobby Flay, Mario Batlia and Cat Cora are chefs. Rachel Ray and Paula Deen are cooks. Sandra Lee is not even a cook.
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A big hat.
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About $20 an hour.
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A cook tends to throw stuff together. A chef "blends" it. : )
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Fry vs. "sautee" Pound vs "tenderize" Soak vs "marinate"
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Nothing. I have been a chef/cook most of my life in french and English cooking and any top good chef normally calls himself a cook.annmac
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A cook works at mickie d's a chef at quiznos
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sauce R.I.P.
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A Chef knows the right way -the wrong way and the way you have to do it for the price point or food cost you are trying to acheve.
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about 100.00 bucks an hour
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