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==Culinary education==
Education is available from many culinary institutions offering diploma, associate, and bachelor's degree programs in culinary arts. Depending on the level of education, this can take one to four years. An internship is often part of the curriculum. Regardless of the education received, most professional kitchens follow the [[apprenticeship]] system, and most new cooks will start at a lower-level 2nd or 1st cook position and work their way up. 

Like many skilled trades, chefs usually go through a formal apprenticeship which includes many years of on-the-job training. Culinary schools and restaurants offer these apprenticeships. Apprenticeships usually take 3 to 4 years to complete and combine classroom instruction with on-the-job training. The training period for a chef is generally four years as an apprentice. A newly qualified chef is advanced or more commonly a toquecommis-chef, consisting of first-year ''commis'', second-year ''commis'', and so on. The rate of pay is usually in accordance with the chefs. Like all other chefs except the executive-chef, trainees are placed in sections of the kitchen (e.g., the starter ([[Hors d'œuvre|appetizer]]) or [[entrée]] sections) under the guidance of a ''demi-chef de partie'' and are given relatively basic tasks. Ideally, over time, a ''commis'' will spend a certain period in each section of the kitchen to learn the basics. Unaided, a ''commis'' may work on the vegetable station of a kitchen.<ref>[https://kitchenwarrior.co.uk/blogs/chef/chef-training-options chef training options] - kitchenwarrior.co.uk</ref>

The usual formal training period for a chef is two to four years in catering college. They often spend the summer in work placements. In some cases this is modified to 'day-release' courses; a chef will work full-time in a kitchen as an apprentice and then would have allocated days off to attend catering college. These courses can last between one and three years. In the [[United Kingdom|UK]], most chefs are trained in the workplace, with most doing a formal [[National Vocational Qualification|NVQ]] level 2 or 3 in the workplace.

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File:Oxford - Chef School - 0405.jpg|Chefs in training at chef school in Oxford, England
Image:Chef préparant une truffe.jpg|A chef preparing a truffle for diners
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