Culinary Arts Job Titles

Culinary art is the art of preparing food and the person who has mastered this art is commonly known as the chef. In a kitchen the chef is the person in the white jacket and the white hat with the maximum information and skill in culinary arts. Basically there are two types of chefs or culinary job titles and they are the Chef (Chef de Cuisine) and Sous Chef (Second Chef). 

The word chef is derived from French and it means the chief and this tells us that the chef is in charge of something and here it means in charge of the entire culinary art in the kitchen. A head chef is at times referred to as the "chef de cuisine" or the "executive chef" and he will be in charge of the whole kitchen. Each part of the food service process, including menu planning, purchasing, hiring and staffing in under his supervision. The executive chef has the overall responsibility of the food coming out of his kitchen. One important point to be noticed is that even though the head chef has mastered all the techniques in culinary arts the person in the position doesn't cook. He/she just manages the entire system running in the kitchen.

The head chef just monitors all the process in the kitchen and is in control of the executive matters in a kitchen like the desk, phone and clipboard. Knife, whisk or sauté pan is not meant for the executive chef even though he holds responsibility for the outcome.

Another person in a kitchen who has mastered almost all the culinary arts is the Sous Chef or the Second Chef. The second chef's main duties are supervision but unlike the head chef the souse chef may sometimes do the actual cooking when the situation demands. Apart from the occasional cooking the second chef mainly monitors the kitchen like the head chef and is in charge of kitchen staff, line cooks, prep cooks and dishwashers, expediting, or relaying orders to the line cooks and ensuring that the team works together to get a great timely result.

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