noun
General Slang
tournant
· noun · kitchen
Swing cook — roams between stations wherever it's burning.
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The relief cook in a brigade — has to know every station well enough to drop in and run it cold. Covers days off, jumps in when someone's buried, fills the gap when a cook walks mid-shift. Usually a senior, very capable line cook.
“She was tournant for two years — knows the whole menu by heart now.”
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tournant In A Sentence
She was tournant for two years — knows the whole menu by heart now.
Origin & Usage
French, literally 'turning' or 'rotating'. Escoffier brigade.
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