Here's a list of common culinary and kitchen skills.
For job seekers: Consider referencing this list to help you showcase your own experience on your resume or Culinary Agents profile.
For employers: When hiring, you can reference this list to hone in on the top skills you are seeking when it comes to required experience for each position you would like to fill.
• Advanced Knife Skills
• Barbecue
• Basic Knife Skills
• Battering Ingredients
• Beans / Legumes Cookery
• Blending Ingredients
• Boiling
• Braising
• Breading Ingredients
• Brining Ingredients
• Broiling
• Butchery
• Canning
• Charcuterie and Cheese Board Making
• Cheese Making
• Cold Food Making
• Commissary Knowledge
• Cooking for Catering and Events
• Cooking for Food Allergies
• Cooking Methods
• Cookware Knowledge
• Creaming Ingredients
• Deep Frying
• Dips and Spreads Making
• Dressing Making
• Drying Ingredients
• Egg Cookery
• Expediting
• Family Meal Preparation
• Farm to Table Knowledge
• Fermenting Ingredients
• Fish Butchery
• Fish Cookery
• Flambéing
• Flash Freezing
• Following Recipes
• Food Preparation Methods
• Frying
• Garnishing
• Gluten Free Cooking
• Grating Ingredients
• Grilling
• High Volume Baking
• High Volume Cooking
• Kitchen Equipment Maintenance
• Kitchen Equipment Use
• Kitchen Management
• Kneading Doughs
• Knife Maintenance
• Knowledge of Cooking Terminology
• Kosher Cooking
• Low Sugar Cooking
• Marinating Ingredients
• Measuring Ingredients
• Meat Butchery
• Meat Cookery
• Menu Design and Formatting
• Menu Development
• Mise en Place
• Mixing Ingredients
• Molecular Gastronomy
• Parboiling Ingredients
• Pasta Cooking
• Pasta Dough Making
• Pastry Menu Development
• Peeling Ingredients
• Pickling Ingredients
• Pizza Cooking
• Plating and Presentation
• Portioning
• Poultry Butchery
• Prepping Ingredients
• Pureeing Ingredients
• Quality Control
• Reading Recipes
• Recipe Development
• Recipe Scaling
• Rice / Grains Cookery
• Roasting
• Rotisserie
• Salting Foods
• Sauce Making
• Sauteing
• Scratch Cooking
• Seasonal Menu Development
• Smoking
• Soup and Stock Making
• Souring Ingredients
• Sous Vide
• Sprouting Ingredients
• Station Setup / Breakdown
• Steaming
• Stewing
• Sugaring
• Sushi Making
• Tasting Food
• Tenderizing Meats
• Toasting Ingredients
• Understanding Different Knives
• Vegan / Vegetarian Cooking
• Vegetable Cookery
• Wok Cooking
• Wood Fire Cooking
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