sous chef
Noun
Meaning
sous chef (plural sous chefs)
Alternative form of sous-chef
sous-chef (plural sous-chefs)
(cooking) The chef underneath the head chef in the chef's hierarchy.
Alternative names
sous-chef
Synonyms
Examples
I train my chefs with a blindfold. I'll get my sous chef and myself to cook a dish. The young chef would have to sit down and eat it with a blindfold. If they can't identify the flavor, they shouldn't be cooking the dish.
After all, if a sous-chef needed an emergency appendectomy, the bill without insurance could be financially devastating.
Bottura shared the story of this dish during the afternoon session, relating after a sous-chef accidentally broke one of the two lemon tarts he was plating.
But cooking requires careful preparation, as any sous-chef will tell you.
He was sous-chef under Gusteau but became the head chef.
If you're more of a boxed mac-and-cheese type of gal, take the backseat as a sous-chef and help with the chopping and peeling.