Captain ‘Cook’
- POSTED ON: 2 Dec, 2017
- TOTAL VIEWS: 1388 Views
- POSTED BY: Bhavya Venkatesh
- ARTICLE POINTS: 150 Points
Amidst all the recipes, equipment and ingredients, one of the most fun parts of being a professional chef is wearing the tall chef’s hat. Do you agree?
Try this memory game featuring different hats! Match them as quickly as possible.
It is believed that the practice of wearing hats in the kitchen dates back to more than a thousand years. This was probably done to keep cooks happy, as unhappy cooks would think of poisoning the king! In the 1800s, the colour white was assigned to chefs as it symbolised cleanliness in the kitchen. The most senior chef started wearing the tallest hat.
Did you know that at some point, the number of pleats in the hat also showed mastery in the kitchen? A chef who knew 100 different ways of making a dish would have 100 pleats in his hat.
Today, the chef’s hat is one of the most recognisable headgears in the world.