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any professional chefs?

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:54 pm
by hackman
nearly finished degree, need to find a job, cooking seems a good choice
just wandering what are the essential qualifications/any other important info
cheers

Re: any professional chefs?

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:34 pm
by firky
KFC say they have a chef in every kitchen.

Re: any professional chefs?

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:51 pm
by dubmatters
All you need is the food hygene certificate and be willing to work in a gruelling environment for long unsocaible hours and be treated like a tnuc.

Unless your already trained expect to peel a lot of potatoes.

Re: any professional chefs?

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:00 pm
by adamjames
Just don't.
I'm fairly happy in the kitchen I work at but that's only because the staff I work with are so great.
Worked in a lot of other places with shit people/pay/hours/general times.

Re: any professional chefs?

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:31 pm
by symmetricalsounds
dubmatters wrote:be willing to work in a gruelling environment for long unsocaible hours and be treated like a tnuc.
sounds bout right.

Re: any professional chefs?

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:41 pm
by hackman
dubmatters wrote:All you need is the food hygene certificate and be willing to work in a gruelling environment for long unsocaible hours and be treated like a tnuc.

Unless your already trained expect to peel a lot of potatoes.

yeah, what sort of course/diploma do i have to do to become a trained expert?
i (rather cockily) consider myself a bit of an expert anyway :6:

Re: any professional chefs?

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:23 pm
by dubmatters
hackman wrote:
dubmatters wrote:All you need is the food hygene certificate and be willing to work in a gruelling environment for long unsocaible hours and be treated like a tnuc.

Unless your already trained expect to peel a lot of potatoes.

yeah, what sort of course/diploma do i have to do to become a trained expert?
i (rather cockily) consider myself a bit of an expert anyway :6:
I dunno, lots of my non acedemic stoner mates did cooking or whatever its called at college.

I'm sure there are various gnvq's etc that you could do easily.

The only actual requirement is the food and hygene thing which costs 30 quid and you do online.

Re: any professional chefs?

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:31 pm
by DZA
Its a hard thing to try and get into, expect to be cleaning dishers for awhile

Re: any professional chefs?

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:53 pm
by gwa
thought ryan was a cook? ask him ya jebend

Re: any professional chefs?

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 4:38 pm
by AxeD
I think it's pretty easy to get a job as a chef right? All restaurants are in a competition with one n other.
I'd check with every seafood place in the area.

Re: any professional chefs?

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 6:02 pm
by hayze99
It's the same as absolutely anything. You're going to have to start at the bottom, and invest a fuck ton of time working your way to the top.