To become a professional chef at home, you should;
1. Be passionate about food
You just have to love food to become a professional chef and i don’t mean you must be a glutton. What i mean is that you have to enjoy cooking. Being a professional chef means spending hours on end in the kitchen preparing food and if you don’t have a passion for cooking, you will drop the idea of being a chef within a short period.
So your first assignment when you want to become a professional caterer is to fall in love with food. Cook different meals for your family and friends. Host parties regularly and prepare meals for your guests. You can even offer to be in charge of cooking at gatherings of your friends and family members. If you want to become a professional chef at home, then eating at restaurants or ordering take-outs should not be a regular practice in your home.
2. Experiment with food regularly-:You see, as a professional chef, food is your art. You need to experiment with food constantly. Cook different meals, try something new daily even if it doesn’t taste nice. Constant practice would help you improve on your skills eventually.
3. Understand the concept of food substitution
There are no rules set in stone when it comes to cooking. If a particular ingredient doesn’t work quite well for you, who says you cannot substitute with another ingredient? The key lies with knowing what works for you and doing accordingly. If a recipe says ‘fry‘ who says you cannot grill if that is how you prefer to cook your chicken?
But the key to substitution is to understand the whole concept behind it in the first place. For instance, if the recipe says you should fry the chicken, you need to understand why you were asked to fry the chicken because that is when you will be able to say ‘oh, grilling the kitchen would also work and the food would turn out the same way whether i grill or i fry’4. Cook often
Yes, I am going to reiterate this very important point again. To become a professional chef at home, you must cook at home regularly and this does not mean cooking regular family meals; you must cook like a professional regularly. You can choose a day of the week, preferably weekends to do your thing.
Pick out one recipe per week and prepare the dish and serve it professionally. You don’t have to cook for a whole large crowd. If you have a large family, you don’t even have to cook for everyone. Just make sure you cook and serve a new meal every week and before you know it, you will become extremely good at your chosen professional.
5. Organize food tastings
To become a successful professional chef at home, you must be ready to listen to criticisms and make necessary adjustments. This would help you to be a better chef. Pick out someone or a group of people that you trust to give an unbiased opinion of your skills and invite them over to your house for food tastings.
6. Develop your own recipes
Another thing that would help you on your journey to becoming a professional chef is to develop recipes of your own. I saw a popular movie series sometime ago, desperate housewives and in one of the seasons, one of the characters loved cooking so much and she started developing her own recipes. Her recipes became so popular that her friends would usually come to her to borrow or even ‘steal’ some of the recipes. Eventually, she was able to launch her own professional catering business just from developing recipes.
You too can take a step in that direction and develop recipes. You can create a blog where you can share those recipes or publish them in magazines regularly. You can even do that on social network. This would make your business very popular and increase your chances of becoming a professional chef.
You can map out a small space in your home and use it as a restaurant. Inform your family and friends and encourage them to patronize you and refer others. You could entice them with freebies and discounts. You can create a kind of romantic atmosphere with scented candles, soft music and good food so that lovers can come and have a private moment at your home based restaurant. You will be surprised at how fast your business would grow just by doing this.
8. Advertise
Advertising is the sole of business. That sounds very cliché though. You already know that so why not start advertising your business vigorously at this point? Let your Facebook friends know that you are now a professional chef and you have a restaurant at home, inform your twitter followers, put it on your LinkedIn profile, create a business website, Just do whatever it takes to increase awareness of your services and boost patronage.
9. Send out your CVs
When you have gained enough experience and you are sure that you can handle being a professional chef, you should start applying for jobs as a professional chef, so that you can gain professional hands-on experience required to boost your career profile.
Yes, you are now a professional chef, hurray! That doesn’t mean that you should totally forget all about training and certification. When you have made enough money, go to school and learn more; so that you can compete with the best professional chefs’ anywhere in the world.
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