Brigade de cuisine

With kitchen Brigade (French Brigade de cuisine ) (including kitchen staff ), called - refers to the group of employees of a large kitchen in the restaurant business and in housekeeping

The work areas of the employees are mainly determined by the capacitance, the supply of food and the structural conditions. Within the brigade, a distinction upon qualifications, responsibilities and tasks.

Hierarchy

• Chef ( de cuisine ) - the chef, also commonly called Maître de Cuisine, this title requires a championship title
• Sous Chef - deputy
• Chef de Partie - Head of an item (kitchen area ) ( senior journeyman )
• Demi Chef de Partie - deputy and shift supervisor of an item ( bachelor of professional experience)
• Commis de Cuisine - Young Chef

Depending on the size kitchen more ranks are introduced, for example:

• ( Directeur de cuisine ) chef ( in large hotel with several kitchens)
• Executive Sous Chef - First Deputy in several Sous Chefs
• Junior Sous Chef ( junior sous chef )

In addition, in the kitchen other staff shall be:

• Aide de cuisine (kitchen help, assistant chef )
• Apprentis ( apprentice )
• Plongeur / Casserolier ( washing of cooking and serving dishes ) (partly also the utility attributed to )
• Trainees ( interns)

Distribution of tasks

Individual areas are taken over by special cooks who usually wear a French Occupation.

• Annonceur - Follow-up, garnish, coordination of orders and the output to the Service
• Boucher ( kitchen butcher, partly trained butcher )
• Entremetier (Supplement Koch) Légumier (vegetable cook) Trancheur (vegetable carver / tailor )

• Boulanger (kitchen bakers )
• Confectioner ( desserts cooking )
• Glacier ( ice making )
• Kaltmamsell
• Patissier ( pastry kitchen )

• Brocheur ( spit roast cook)
• Fournier ( oven cooking )
• Grillardin (grill cook)
• Poissonnier (fish cook)
• Rôtisseur ( roast cook)

• Chef de nuit ( Night Koch)
• Tournant ( AC Koch, Springer )

Trivia

The kitchen brigade is also called the White Brigade because of the traditional color of clothing, and is therefore in contrast to the service area, the Black Brigade.