fry cooks
Short-order kitchen staff
Fry cooks are kitchen workers who prepare food by frying—typically at diners, fast-food restaurants, or short-order establishments.
The term emphasizes the cooking method and the modest position in a kitchen hierarchy: He worked as a fry cook at a burger joint before culinary school.
Often used to suggest unglamorous, entry-level food service work.
- short orderRapidly prepared food
- burger flipperFast-food line cook
- griddleFlat metal cooking surface
- greaseThick oily lubricant
- spatulaFlat-bladed kitchen tool
sauté · flattop · oil splatter · tickets · order up · lunch rush · tongs · flames · oils · restaurants · diner · hash browns · heat lamp · pans · orders · batter · sous chef · onion rings
culinary hierarchy
fry cookshead chefs
Lead kitchen authorities
chef de cuisine · sous chefs · celebrity chefs · Gordon Ramsay · pastry chefs
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