What is the working environment of the chef?

The chef has passed the test of high temperature baking.

What's the experience of cooking in the kitchen in summer? Ordinary people like Bian Xiao will feel suffocated when cooking two or three dishes in this weather. What if they want to stay in there for a few hours and continue cooking? What kind of experience is that?

Especially when the outdoor temperature reaches 35℃, there is no air conditioning indoors, and cooking with hot oil is almost above 40℃. How many people can stand it? But this environment is the real working environment of many chefs at present.

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Recently, in order to experience how hard a chef cooks in summer, a reporter in Xiamen chose to go directly to the hotel to experience the chef's daily work. Through the reporter's report, we saw the chef's real work at high temperature.

The reporter felt the "high temperature warning" when he entered the kitchen to dress. Chef's hat, trousers, long sleeves and apron are standard equipment in the kitchen. It looks very professional and handsome, but after wearing it, it is found to be airtight and stuffy.

After putting on the chef's clothes, the reporter watched the chef cook and stood in front of the stove for a while, sweating all over. However, chefs have to cook hundreds of dishes when standing in front of the stove, especially in the food market in the afternoon and evening, and they basically have to stand in front of the stove for an hour or two to rest.

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The fire is very big, the pot is very heavy, and it keeps stirring. Often when the chef is busy, his coat is soaked with sweat and even his pants are soaked.

The reporter also tried to fry a green vegetable himself during the kitchen experience. As a result, as soon as he got close to the stove, he found that the fire was very big and the pot was very heavy. In just a few minutes, he was sweating profusely. He said that he felt his fingers burning and he was very sad. It turned out that the hairs on the index finger, middle finger and ring finger of his left hand were burned "bald".

It's sad just to fry a dish, so you can imagine how high the temperature in the kitchen is.

It is in such a hot and high temperature environment that chefs have to work in overalls and chef's hats. That kind of hard work needs no words.

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In addition to high temperature baking

Knife injuries and burns are also the "routine" of chefs.

In fact, the reporter's experience is just the tip of the iceberg that chefs experience every day. In addition to the "baking" test of high temperature, chefs face the risk of being burned by fire, splashed by oil and cut by knives every day. Almost every chef has a "post-kitchen mark" on his hand.

When communicating with the chef's friends, red chef. Com (ID: hongchu 66) says it's normal for chefs to be burned and chopped. Because, in the back kitchen, even if you are careful, it is difficult to avoid being splashed by oil or hit by a knife.

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Vice Chairman of the Barbecue Professional Committee of Guangdong Cuisine Association, a roasted meat expert and a national professional skill appraiser, has been engaged in the chef industry for 50 years and has tattooed coal spots on his hands.

He said that when he was a child, he was rubbing coal in the kitchen, and then his hand was caught in a basket of bamboo sticks, which led to the infiltration of coal ash.