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Top Tips for Improving Your Plate Presentation

The presentation of your plate is the first impression your customer receives and a great presentation can set the whole meal off right. Let’s face it, presentation is just as important as how the food tastes when working in a … Continue reading

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Tips for creating new recipes

As a chef, it can be difficult to keep coming up with new and interesting recipes, no matter how much you love to be inventive. Here are a few tips on ways you can come up with some new ideas … Continue reading

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How To Cut Costs As A Head Chef

Cutting costs when running a business is often at the top of the list. In the food industry a lot of money is lost in the kitchen and therefore, the head chef is often tasked with the responsibility of reducing … Continue reading

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Your Culinary Dictionary As A Top Chef

Working as a chef in a busy kitchen can be a demanding and stressful role, a role in which can become even more stressful if you haven’t the foggiest what someone is talking about! Yes, sometimes it might seem that … Continue reading

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Top Tips For Managing Stress As A Chef

  A busy kitchen can often be a stressful environment for the head chef and their team. As a Head Chef you are often tasked with ordering stock, creating the menu, budgeting, organising staff rotas on top of your commitment … Continue reading

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The Importance of Presentation in Professional Cooking

Dining out is no longer just about the food, it is an experience to be enjoyed in several ways. Restaurants should have a good atmosphere and the food should taste great, but look great too. In fact, the appearance of … Continue reading

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How to Avoid Food Poisoning this Christmas

The festive period is nearly upon us, make sure that this is an enjoyable time for all and help prevent any food poisoning with these top tips. -Only put your buffet food out and your beloved turkey just before you … Continue reading

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Keeping Your Kitchen Clean

Running a kitchen can be a demanding chef role with so many tasks that must completed to ensure a smooth operation is maintained. Keeping your restaurant kitchen clean is one of the many roles that chef’s take great pride over, … Continue reading

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7 Top Chef Tips

At personnel solutions we have plenty of chef job vacancies varying from head chef, chef de partie and so on. No matter what chef position you are looking for are working for there are certain tips that can help you … Continue reading

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Preparing Mussels

Your simple guide to preparing mussels. Run mussels under cold water and rinse them off so that any seaweed or debris on their shell is removed and if you feel any rough spots, rub them under the water.

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