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REGULARS AND RESERVE ARMY CHEFS WORK SIDE BY SIDE

An Army chef is responsible for planning and preparing three meals a day for their soldiers. Army chefs are schooled from day 1 of training to prepare and cook healthy nutritious meals.

 

The job involves monitoring the levels of food, organising storage, ordering new supplies, planning meal patterns, preparation and cooking, and serving meals. Army chefs will work in a team in order to cater for the high number of soldiers that need feeding.

 

The working environment is largely dependent on where you be based. The army travels a lot and  Army chefs can be working in a well equipped kitchen or could be out in the field cooking in make-shift tented kitchens with food rations. The job requires a great deal of travel and working hours vary considerably depending on shift patterns. Watch the video below to get a better understanding of what Army chefs do.

Army Chef

Skills Required to be a British Army Chef

Army chefs work in an extremely busy environment and have to be prepared to produce food for large numbers of people in any type of condition. With this in mind, the military look for certain skills in a candidate that will prove useful as an armed forces chef. These skills include:

  • Excellent level of team work

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  • Organisational skills and personal management of time

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  • The ability to work under pressure and still produce effective results

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  • Creative thinking to produce a variety of meals under all types of conditions

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  • Being motivated and prepared for a challenge

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  • Being interested in food and catering

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  • An understanding of the importance of health and safety in a kitchen

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  • Adaptability

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  • Ability to take direction and follow instructions carefully

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  • Being able to record data efficiently and keep up to date records of stock that is needed and the ‘use by’ dates of this stock

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  • Basic level of numeracy to calculate costs and stock levels

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