A Journey to Become A Chef

Chef is the chief or leader in culinary organisation who planning menu, keep a quality
of the food, sanitation and safety of his kitchen. To run your career become a chef, you need
a great deal of many years experience strive near stoves and survive using a knife, it would
bring your step to reach that highest position. Chef also work in variety of hours, early
morning until late evening even holidays and week-ends, he must willing to lose his family
time. Heavier workloads and longer schedule than the other staff, a chef should have strong
dedication as their great personal sacrifice. This career is more than a normally cook like your
mothers did. If you’re passionate on food and ready to started your path in kitchen, these
steps are design to allowed your career to be a chef.
Before you climb into the highest place, you need to learn walking and running then
habituate those activity to give a strength and skilled your feet. This way same as the process
to climb the highest position in kitchen, you should to find out a lot of knowledge about how
to cook, keep a sanitary hygiene on your cooking area, manage the cooking time, and
mastering culinary art education to skilled your cook ability and train your creativity. You
can learn all of them at your own kitchen or by enrolling in culinary school for about three
years to complete, the professional teachers help to practice in cooking lab and give you some
basics how to associated with culinary career. The catchy point from this school is the fact
that they’ve already connected with some upscale restaurants or hotels so you can get an
opportunity to meet the real chef o with his cook assistants through on the job training.
Hopefully, you can find the suitable culinary school which has good education, facilitation
and connection to pass out the first step become a chef.
After graduated from culinary school, use your school certificate to apply for job in
hospitality kitchen or restaurant, this is the real arena to keep learning while set out your
career become a chef. For the newbie or usualy we called them as cook helper, maybe they
must be don’t know how hard the reality walking on the road to become a chef. Have a
passion and bachelor’s culinary degree aren’t ensure them to win a fight with other
professional cooker, that was so hard to understand how chaotic of dinner rush when a bunch
of “captain order” waiting for you, your mind is going to mess up, panic, nervous, even you
can turn into a monster with angry-face and shout out whenever you talk. But the real chef
wouldn’t do something like that, he should be calm and oversees his staff work to avoid
disorganized problem at the chaotic situation because a calm and focused mindset will deliver
a good decision. Thus, you may encounter an awesome chef with their special characteristic
and face many challenges by applying job in higher level restaurant then get some senior’s
advice to improve your career experience.
When you’ve reach that highest position, don’t ever think that you’re better than
anyone else, there are your team who support each other. Their own job-desk will bring your
kitchen into a success if you could manage them in a proper way. Being a chef on a
respectable level means you should have a patience, adaptable to any changes, mature enough
to handle situations, be inovative and creative to come across any problems. This can be a
good career for them who really capable to cook with a high pressure.