noun General Slang

line cook

· noun · kitchen

The cook manning one station on the hot line during service.

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The workhorse of any restaurant kitchen. Owns a single station — sauté, grill, fry, pasta — and is responsible for every plate that touches it during a shift. Below sous chef, above prep. The job Bourdain immortalised: hot, fast, physical, unforgiving.

“She started as a line cook on garde manger and worked her way up to chef de cuisine in four years.”
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line cook In A Sentence

She started as a line cook on garde manger and worked her way up to chef de cuisine in four years.

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