become a chef

I’ve wanted to be a chef for a while now. It started when I was in 8th grade and my family started teaching me interesting cooking techniques. From then on, I would go into high school and be one in probably 5 or 4 kids ACTUALLY interested in culinary arts out of the 2000 or so kids that attended the same school as me. I joined the culinary arts team and, even though my team and I never won, we enjoyed the experience and I got to cook with a renowned chef of the city my school is in. Now, I’m going to be a second year culinary student. I finished my first year in June. It was a tough year- I had to deal with a team that didn’t help me at all which made it difficult to get things done in my section of my school’s student run restaurant. I had trouble dealing with one of my main chef’s- he tends to like embarrassing people a little too much in front of the class. My first term was worse than my other two terms but I had a tough time trying to correctly cut up a frozen chicken into airline breasts in 2 hours and still do 3 other harder dishes in my second term. Although my year was tough, I persevered and will be one of the remaining people from my first year continuing on while many of the people from my first year quit! I have a feeling that this year and my third year will go great and will present even better experience for my lessons learned to become a well-skilled chef!

I love cooking, always have even since I was little and cooked with my mom on holidays. I never realized it was my passion until she passed away and I had to do it alone, it’s what I really want to be,

to be only a pastry chef but now i would like to be a chef with a bit of an emaphsis on pastry.

I have always wanted to be a chef since i was 3 now i can cook alomost anything

been cooking @ a restaurant for a two and a half years
woohoo

want to take training tho
like at college or something

It is a passion, a thorough love and addiction to the art. I Have my whole life before me, and i shall most definitely incorporate this as my first goal, then after my travels, settle down and open a restauraunt and publish the books and photojournals on my travels.

i might skip the school route on this one and just partner in a resturant and do all the baking.

Long hours. Crap pay. No social hours. And all in all a very repetitive job.

My dream is to be a chef! :) I’m starting to cook for my parents and family every night.

so why not becone a chef?
then maybe i can open my own restaurant.