10 Easy ways to reduce chef work stress in the kitchen
Overwhelmed. Nervous. Exhausted. Agitated. Pained. All at once? If you’re like, well, pretty much every chef ever, you’ll often find yourself under a lot of pressure at work. And no matter your role, work stress in the kitchen is like the zero on a roulette wheel: it’s coming around eventually. We’ve been out and about […]
11 Quick food photography tips for chefs
As a chef if you’ve ever needed to take some food photo’s its sometimes difficult to know what to do to make your dishes as ‘instagramable’ as possible. So, we asked some great food photographers in our network and have come up with 11 quick food photography tips you can start using today. 1 – […]
Top chefs share their best knife tips
At some point in their career, most chefs will have experienced working in less than ideal circumstances. Anything from over-cramped, over-heated kitchens, volatile ego-centric head chefs, over-critical customers and a lack of fresh ingredients can turn an already difficult job into hell on earth — and that’s even before the soup course! Despite all of […]
Chef tips: Managing stress
As professional chefs we work in an inherently stressful environment. Our daily routine is a constant grind to meet deadlines and reach for perfectly prepared and presented cuisine. For the restaurant chef it is the grind of meeting that 15 minute ticket time over and over again for hundreds of customers in a shift. For […]