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Personal Chef To Cook Your Meals
By Jennifer Bowers
Everyone at some time or another has dreaded cooking dinner.
After a long day at the office, the last thing you want to do
is get creative with a casserole. Eating is an essential part
to living, so there are few alternatives to cooking.
One alternative is to go out, but if you do that enough, you
will find yourself with an extra forty pounds and working to eat,
literally. The other alternative is a personal chef. This may
seem like a pricey option, but you would be surprised.
There are great benefits to hiring a personal chef. Instead of
having to constantly be preparing new meals every day, a personal
chef can save you the trouble of menu and effort by coming to
your home to prepare meals that you can freeze. Most times, you’ll
have a supply of meals for two weeks, and each of them will be
customized to preferences and nutritional requirements or allergies.
The best thing is that personal chefs clean up after themselves!
Prices Depend On Your Location And Services
There is a factor of money. Although a personal chef is not extremely
pricey (definitely cheaper than eating out every night), you doing
the legwork yourself will always be the more frugal choice to
outsourcing. There is a wide range in pricing depending on where
you live and the services that are offered.
Generally, a chef will charge approximately $350 for twenty meals
or $25 an hour. Sometimes you will find a chef that is just starting
out, or is in between jobs, but their prices are usually close
to the same.
Using The Service Allows You More Time With Your Family
Prices are more for families ($450 for ten meals 2 adults and
2 children under 12 years old), and there is a container fee of
$15 with groceries normally totaling 20% of the bill. You have
to remember that you are paying for a service, but it is a service
that will allow you to spend more time doing other things.
A thorough Internet search is the best way to find a cooking
service. Most places have individuals that advertise their expertise
in some way. However, if you want to save even more time by cutting
through the screening process, hireachef.com
is your best bet. Hireachef.com
is the largest database for personal chefs.
Get A List Of Personal Chefs In Your Area
There is a map where you click on your state, then city, and
it supplies a list of chefs for you. All of the chefs that are
listed on the site are registered with a professional organization
like United States Personal Chefs Organization.
Regardless of how you do your hiring, there are certain questions
that must be asked to a potential chef before handing over your
family’s health to his or her cutting board. You should know where
they went to culinary school or what their background is that
makes them qualified to cook in your home.
Check Out Their Details Before Hiring A Chef
They should have personal insurance in order to be freelancing.
They should be registered with some sort of professional organization,
which will verify their credentials. They should be able to supply
you with references, and also with sample menus of what they can
do.
Letting someone into your home, whether it is to provide a useful
service or not, should be taken with precaution and inquiry. Make
sure to ask all of the questions that you feel are important to
you. Try not to be persuaded by appearance or charm.
When dealing with food, everyone’s health and sanitation is on
the line, and you need to take the decision to hire a personal
chef seriously.
About the Author:
Jennifer Bowers is an author on food articles, her other articles
include Ideas
For Birthday Parties, Decaffeinated
Coffee, Food
Cooking Shows, Cooking
Vacations.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
Did You Know?
What is the difference between all the chefs I read about?
When discussing the varying types of chefs,
it is more common to be talking about a restaurant. The culinary
world is similar to the military in some aspects. At the top of
the chain of command is the Chef.
He or she is in charge of the entire kitchen. Everyone takes
their orders from him. The varying cooks beneath the Chef are
the Sous Chef, the Pastry Chef. The Sous Chef takes his or her
orders from the Chef and is essential to helping prepare the dish
for the customer. They could be working on appetizers, entrées,
or side dishes. The Pastry Chef is responsible for desserts.
The kitchen must work as a team in order for their meal to be
a success. It is not about one person ranking above another but
more as a joint effort for things to go smoothly and the customers
to be satisfied.
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