Chef vs. Cook...............?

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PJdance

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What is difference.

I talked to people I thought were "chefs" who hate the term because they say it implies they do not cook.

I know I'm a cook because I cook but what is the difference or is there one at all?
 
Cooks are the ones normally in the kitchen executing the ideas that come from chefs. Chefs normally go to culinary school for a reasonable amount of time to truly learn the art as well. From another point of view people may say that a chef is typically the head of the kitchen or a station in the kitchen. Chef is the french word for chief a cook is some one who cooks on the line. I hope I helped!
 
A true "chef" has a degree from some culinary school and it could specialize in a certain food like chocolates. Of course their are chefs that have studied for all sort of cooking.
 
Its a position in a kitchen that is a managers position and is responsible
for the daily protocols, cooks are positions that assist the chef the way that person runs their kitchen.
 
I think of a chef as someone who cooks as a career. A cook is someone who makes food at home. Chefs usually have some form of culinary education where a cook might be self taught, or taught from the cook in their house when they were a child.
 
I have gotten my degree in culinary arts and i am not a chef. the way it works in my opinion is after your schooling you are just a cook as well as an apprentice on your way to becoming a chef after you obtain you chefs papers.

also being a chef could mean to some people being the head of the kitchen while everyone else are just cooks becuase they haven't recived that title
 
i think that a cook preps everything,u know all the ingredients.but a chef is the one who puts its all together and sends it out
 
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