How to become a Chef in India.
                     How to become a 
Chef in India?
Career as a Chef
 If you have a passion for cooking and 
want to pursue a career in the culinary 
field, then there are many 
opportunities in India to fulfill your 
dreams.
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Skills required
 To be a chef, you not only need to know 
how to cook but also must be hygienic, 
organized, confident, have a good 
memory, have an intense sense of 
taste and smell.
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Job profile
 The job of a chef is to prepare tried and 
tested dishes or creating new recipes, 
should be able to cook different kinds 
of cuisine. It is more of an art which 
needs to be mastered.
How to become a chef?
 To become a chef, one can enroll in one of 
the many hotel management institutes 
offering a course on hotel management, 
either at government-run institutes or the 
institutes run by some hotel chains.
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Hotel institutes
Some of the top institutes run by big hotel 
chains in India are WelcomGroup Graduate 
School of Hotel Administration in Manipal, 
the Taj Group's Institute of Hotel 
Management at Aurangabad etc.
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Requirements
 A candidate seeking admission in a hotel 
management program requires a minimum 
qualification of 10+2 with minimum aggregate 
marks secured to be 60 needs to pass an 
entrance exam which tests English, General 
Knowledge, Reasoning and General Science
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Basic courses
 The various courses that a student 
will learn as part of studies are front 
office training, housekeeping, food 
and beverages, kitchen and foreign 
languages.
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Other methods
 A number of food craft institutions 
spread across the country offer 
diploma courses in catering and food 
processing.
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Perks and downsides
 The perks of being a chef are good 
salary, great work environment, can 
start your own venture etc. The 
downsides are long working errors, 
no scope for error, consistently being 
perfect etc.
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