Meanings
plural kitchen hands
- alternativeAlternative form of kitchenhand.
At 16, he started work as a kitchen hand in a nearby restaurant.
1999 April 7, Achrene Sicakyuz, “The Chinese (Michelin) Star of Paris”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 20252 more examples
At no restaurant I’ve ever visited do the kitchen hands or customers present the chef with a surprise ingredient, give him or her a stringent time limit and say, “Go!”
2007 October 3, Frank Bruni, “TV Chefs, Far From Reality”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2012I stumbled into the world of cooking at 17, as a kitchen hand at a ski fields bistro in Mount Buller, Victoria.
2018 May 3, Zach Green, “I'm cooking to protect our culture, our food and our stories”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 May 2018
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