saucier
Sauté and sauce chef — the most prestigious station on the line.
Definitions
In Escoffier's brigade, the saucier runs sautéed dishes and all the mother sauces. Highest-ranked chef de partie under the sous, and the spot most cooks grind years to reach. Reduce, mount, plate, repeat — at speed, without a slip.
saucier In A Sentence
Origin & Usage
French. Codified by Auguste Escoffier in his late-19th-century brigade de cuisine.
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