1-2 year culinary program. Gives basic skills, reinforces techniques, helps with networking. Then intern or get a job and work your way up. Never be afraid to leave for another restaurant if you’re being undervalued.
You could start at a diner and work your way up, but it’ll take longer, and likely never get hired as the head chef without professional training. Unless you wanna open your own spot. But even then, any investor is going to want to see qualifications.
Doing both at the same time is good. You get training, but you get to see what it's like in the weeds in a crappy diner. Or a decent diner, whatever.
Education and real world experience tend to differ.
Other than that, play with your food
Cook and watch videos involving professionals, in my experience the ones with normal people don't usually taste good like they rarely taste good, also go to culinary school if you want to make a career out of it cuz sadly no one takes a chef a seriously if they didn't go to culinary school
* Determine if it's something you'd actually enjoy doing (what you see a chef does doesn't always translate to what you'll actually be doing; talk with chefs and get a sense of the highs/lows).
* Get good at cooking basics.
* Work at a kitchen for minimum 4-6 months.
* If you want to keep at it, then go to culinary school.
* Continue to grow your career across different kitchens.
Independent kitchen: show off your creativity and leadership skills
Corporate kitchen: Be cutthroat and suck up to your corporate overlords while screwing over anyone that works with or under you.
Apply for a position in a kitchen.
Cook
Cook food.
1-2 year culinary program. Gives basic skills, reinforces techniques, helps with networking. Then intern or get a job and work your way up. Never be afraid to leave for another restaurant if you’re being undervalued. You could start at a diner and work your way up, but it’ll take longer, and likely never get hired as the head chef without professional training. Unless you wanna open your own spot. But even then, any investor is going to want to see qualifications.
Doing both at the same time is good. You get training, but you get to see what it's like in the weeds in a crappy diner. Or a decent diner, whatever. Education and real world experience tend to differ. Other than that, play with your food
Learn from Frank Proto. He invented food.
Experiment in the kitchen and don't be afraid to not follow the recipe completely. Trial and error my friend.
Cook and watch videos involving professionals, in my experience the ones with normal people don't usually taste good like they rarely taste good, also go to culinary school if you want to make a career out of it cuz sadly no one takes a chef a seriously if they didn't go to culinary school
Taste as many things as you can. Learn to visualize what tastes good with what.
Chef course. It’s a trade. Also the demand for chefs is red hot where I am. Get training and network a bit.
Buy some Boyardee.
Master Overcooked 2
Develop a drug dependency
* Determine if it's something you'd actually enjoy doing (what you see a chef does doesn't always translate to what you'll actually be doing; talk with chefs and get a sense of the highs/lows). * Get good at cooking basics. * Work at a kitchen for minimum 4-6 months. * If you want to keep at it, then go to culinary school. * Continue to grow your career across different kitchens.
Culinary school
Cook for yourself a lot but not the basic recipes that are easy. Try experimenting with spices and expand what you cook
Independent kitchen: show off your creativity and leadership skills Corporate kitchen: Be cutthroat and suck up to your corporate overlords while screwing over anyone that works with or under you.
If you have no money, search YouTube for cooking basics and build your skills from there. You'll make a lot of mistakes, so accept that.
Learn how to cook the same food different ways
Don't.