Dec 17, 2019 | Food Service
Your Chef got sick and can’t come to work. While I know of some chefs who will still come to work while feeling unwell, this isn’t always the case. As owners of a food service business, how do you make sure that your kitchen will still be serving the same...
Dec 28, 2020 | Food Service
Hiring and firing employees, regardless of industry, are never fun. In restaurants, food catering businesses and food establishments, chefs are prime and critical positions that any shift involving their employments can significantly affect the business. If you find...
Dec 16, 2020 | Food Service
When hiring someone to work in cooking or food preparation, one of the desired traits to look for is having an eye for precision and detail. Executing accuracy in measurements falls under these traits. All in all, these traits play a significant role in guaranteeing...
Nov 16, 2020 | Food Service
When looking for a chef to handle large volume cooking, either as temporary hire or permanent hire, you need to look for someone who knows their way around big batch preparation. But more importantly, someone who knows how to do them safely. It is a great skill...
Oct 8, 2020 | Food Service
Braising is a method of food preparation where food is cooked slowly in low heat. This method has its roots in French cooking (from the French word “braiser”) and is one of the basic French cooking techniques that every Chef should know. Aside from being...
Sep 23, 2020 | Food Service
A Chef’s skill in controlling heat runs a spectrum, ranging from the highest heat to the lowest heat. Each cooking technique has a specific purpose of achieving the desired cooking outcome. Skilled Chefs know that for each method, you can yield a considerable...
Sep 15, 2020 | Food Service
How does a Chef create fork-tender foods rich in flavour? He does it by doing one of the most fundamental technique in cooking – simmering. Simmering is done by raising the temperature of the liquid where either meat or vegetable is cooked into, to just below...
Sep 9, 2020 | Food Service
What’s a not so secret to faster but flavourful cooking? Parboiling. It is a method of precooking food items by putting them into boiling water and cooking until they begin to soften. However, the food item is removed before they are fully cooked as intended in...
Jul 21, 2020 | Food Service
Are you thinking of revising your menu? Many Chefs and restaurateurs now are either tweaking or doing overhauls of their menus to retain the patronage of their loyal customers as they adapt to the “new normal” of the industry pique the interest of people who are...
Jul 14, 2020 | Food Service
Restaurants are feeling the need to reinvent and expand their services. One way to achieve this is by offering restaurant meal kits. A meal kit service may offer fresh ingredients or almost ready meals in fresh or frozen forms – all prepared, packaged and...
May 12, 2020 | Food Service
The easing of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown laws is being felt all over the country. At the moment, it is legally allowed for ten people to gather publicly and privately. And come May 18th, the restriction will adjust, even more, allowing up to 20 people to...
Apr 21, 2020 | Food Service
Now that the Coronavirus has reached pandemic levels, the way of life as we in this lifetime used to know, has radically and abruptly changed. The proximity to other people poses such a significant risk of contagion. As people choose their priorities in these...
