/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Seems restaurant experience would be a better option.

I've only seen "culinary arts" degrees from schools like "devry" so I don't know how valid it actually is.

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They can be useful to introduce you to a variety of cooking methods and cuisines and get your foot in the door of a decent restaurant. Beyond that, practical experience in a kitchen is much more useful.

>>6590717
Pointless degree

>>6590717
I'm a chef at a resort and I have a degree in chemistry

The manager said she hired me because

>"out of all the applicants with degrees, yours was the only one that wasn't culinary arts and I figured you were smarter than them for picking a science."

>>6590717
Those are two totally different degrees offered at exclusive schools.

Culinary arts prepares you for slave labor in the kitchen, but you can impress a date better with your skills.

Food science prepares you for whatever career you have the ambition for.

not if you have to pay for it

>>6590775
>degree in chemistry
>becomes a chef
Sorry to hear that anon

It always seems to be hit or miss.

I remember a culinary arts professor I was talking to back at my university told me this

Ideally, you should already have several months of experience working in a kitchen before you blow your money on a culinary degree. Work in a Applebees, Olive Garden, anything. It will teach you the brutal parts of the kitchen life. You have to deal with shitty customers and shitty tasks. If for some reason, you're insane enough to love it, culinary school might be worth it for you. Culinary arts degrees can help improve a resume and get your foot in the door, but you also have to talk to people, attend parties, know friends of friends, etc. And small restaurants have a pretty high chance of failure in the first few years, so it's not a consistent job if you're unlucky. The job doesn't pay very well unless you're a exceptionally skilled chef either, so you have to do it because you love it. Culinary degrees are basically there to tell your employer you don't need to be taught what the tools of the kitchen are and don't have to hold your hand.

And go to a decent and well recognized culinary school if you do.


tl;dr: can be worth it if you already have experience and love it, not worth otherwise

>>6590717

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Please don't

YES

I'm saying this if you need to learn.

If you didn't live in a strong cultural background with people cooking, then you need it.

Don't think you don't. If you're not Sicillian, Greek, or French then you didn't grow up following your mother around.

>>6590949

I'm wrong then too, but I don't like your food, no offense.

>>6590949
>If you didn't live in a strong cultural background with people cooking

But I am american like most people here.

for what purpose

>>6590805
>What is Marcella Hazan
>What is understanding what goes on when you cook the food

>>6590717

Yes as long as it's in Celsius