Countless websites offer unique recipes, educational insight into rare product, and spotlights on new culinary trends. However, these sites are often meant for the home cook. If you’re tired of sifting through the online noise to find something more your speed, check out these 10 online chef resources for industry pros.
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Chef’s Resources is an excellent site for industry professionals concerned with kitchen management, basic ingredients knowledge, accounting, and more. Although some content is reserved for subscribers only, there are many excellent recipe templates, food cost calculation forms, prep sheet charts, and other digital tools available completely for free.
The Staff Canteen has been serving chefs information about jobs, career advice, suppliers, and recipes for a decade. The curated, contributor-driven content encourages networking. The site’s YouTube channel also regularly features demonstrations from Michelin star chefs.
The American Culinary Federation (ACF) claims to set “The Standard of Excellence for Chefs.” The ACF is all about recognizing and upholding excellence in the culinary profession, and will help you find quality educational programs if needed.
1995 may seem prehistoric in internet years, but Escoffier On Line (EOL) is no dinosaur. EOL has spent the past thirty years compiling a vast amount of information about all things related to working as a professional chef, including topics like restaurant design, food business, front of the house, and more.
If you’re just starting out in your professional chef career, or if you’re looking to find additional training, Chef2Chef is an excellent place to start. They have a database of culinary schools searchable by region, program, degree, and even campus type, so that you can find the best options. In addition, Chef2Chef compiles useful industry statistics, a student blog, how-to career guides, and more.
With well over 300,000 Facebook likes and followers, Chef’s Roll has taken big strides towards accomplishing its goal of “building the largest chef network in the world, where culinary professionals promote their talent and career achievements, and tell their entire culinary story.” Plenty of instructional videos offer up educational eye-candy. The site is updated almost daily and attracts plenty of international community engagement.
Not to be outdone, the World Association of Chefs Societies website brings together global culinary professionals for clubs, challenges, charity, certifications, and other forms of education and networking. They have their own magazine, job board, and even host events around the world to meet up and engage in-person, like the upcoming WorldChefs Congress & Expo 2018 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They’ve even created their own chefs-only online social network called myCHEFSPACE.
If the more traditional, no-frills message forum format is more your speed, you’ll love Chef Talk. This online forum bills itself as “a food lover’s link to professional chefs.” Topics include post-culinary school career options, job burnout, cooking techniques, and other topics related to restaurant management. The forums are fully searchable, and if you don’t find what you’re looking for, you can always start a new thread.
Since 1995, StarChefs magazine has chronicled and supported restaurant industry professionals. While it started as a glossy print publication, it also has an elegant, functional website to match. If you enjoy beautiful images and staying up to date on the latest industry information, you’ll want to keep tabs on StarChefs.
Get your creative juices flowing and check out Culinary Trends, an online and print publication delivering “inspiration for executive chefs.” Founded 18 years ago as a subscription-only magazine, it was originally intended for executive chefs “to be inspired by each others’ recipes.” Now, you can browse these recipes and other content on their website.
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