And then finally with extreme care place the fish on the bread. The fish finger sandwich!
Appearing recently on Celebrity MasterChef Ireland, singer and actress Samantha Mumba (appearing most recently on ITV’s Dancing on Ice) revealed how she always wanted to be a chef, but couldn’t afford it and had to enter showbiz instead
Sound familiar?
Like any job, you can make it in the business by starting at your local- and pot-washing your way up – but it’s undeniable that formal chef education helps. With more jobs in the UK than there are chefs, you can easily get a job in a kitchen, but if you are after a good job, the industry is moving towards formal education as a prerequisite.
Gordon Ramsay may have started out as a football player until he cursedly fell into catering, describing it as an “a complete accident”, but most of us have to work hard to get into the industry.
The Chef Academy of London offers a 325 hour professional chef course for five grand while the University of West London charges £9,250 for their BA (Hons) Food & Professional Cookery.
Most aspiring chefs simply don’t have that kind of money.
At it’s most ridiculous, Le Cordon Bleu charges a whopping £33, 995 for a nine month diploma course.
That works out at about £190 a day!
We can only hope that prices go down and we don’t all have to end up singing and dancing like Samantha Mumba!
