What basic skills and concepts should every chef know?
user
It’s a good idea for chefs to know some important basic skills and cooking techniques, such as managing heat sources and temperature control, knife work and cutting, food safety, cooking styles, and proper use of ingredients. Providing good customer service and dedication to food quality are also very important for chefs to know, as well as general knowledge of food value, basic nutrition, healthy meal preparation, and food habits around the world. Learning about nutrition is also essential for chefs, because understanding nutritional ingredients of food and calorie content of meals allows them to provide nutritionally sound and balanced meals that meet their customers’ needs. In addition, in order to advance to more experienced or better-paid chef positions, chefs will need to know how to handle the demands of professional kitchens, including how to deal with management and customer issues, how to manage a staff, and how to cater to customer needs by carrying out proper food preparation work swiftly and efficiently.
assistant
What basic skills and concepts should every chef know?
user
Most chefs learn key cooking techniques and kitchen skills including how to stir-fry, sauté, braise, roast, work with oils, and make different kinds of soups.  They also learn some basic kitchen safety and sanitation skills, and how to manage a restaurant.
assistant
What basic skills and concepts should every chef know?