From the first day a chef enters a western-style kitchen, he must recognize his goals. We must strive to be an excellent cook. Personally, I think there are two main criteria to measure whether a chef is excellent or not. One is to be a man and do things. The second is the technical level. The personality of western-style chefs is a necessary condition for excellent chefs. To put it simply, a chef should learn to be a man before learning to cook, and have a good code of conduct in morality, thought and cultivation. Secondly, it is to constantly study cooking at work. Only by doing these two things can we be called excellent.
In the process of learning, chefs should use their cooking knowledge flexibly and don't memorize some cooking methods. Also pay attention to some details of the kitchen operation, learn more professional skills of different chefs, and learn different things in different jobs. While ensuring your own work, you should also learn the skills and knowledge of other jobs with an open mind. Enrich your work experience and exchange professional knowledge with colleagues, but this is far from enough, and you need to refer to and learn through other ways. There is no end to learning, especially for the chef industry, learning the essence of others and absorbing other people's experiences and lessons. In the process of learning, we should also use our own views to conduct detailed research and innovation on dishes. Excellent western chefs should also have basic knowledge of English, which is of great help to their own development. Whether in a hotel or a western restaurant, kitchen English will increase your chances of learning in front of foreign chefs or foreign consumers.
There is an old saying in China that a threesome must have a teacher. As a chef of western food, he should have this attitude towards his work, and improve himself from the perspective of how to be a man, how to learn and how to stand as a leader and operator.