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Conference turris::cooks

Title:How to Make them Goodies
Notice:Please Don't Start New Notes for Old Topics! Check 5.*
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Created:Wed Feb 19 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4127
Total number of notes:31160

2272.0. "chef's hat?" by NZOV01::PARKINSON (Reunite Gondwannaland!) Sat Feb 24 1990 06:27

    Does anyone know what those funny hats chefs wear are called? Probably
    something French. I tried the dictionary but I don't know the word
    in the first place. Trickey, eh?
    
    Thanks for any help
    Roger
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2272.1CAM::BONDESat Feb 24 1990 19:122
    Toque (pronounced "toke")
    
2272.3not sure but....MSBTEM::MEDVECKYMon Feb 26 1990 15:324
    Try one of those gourmet kitchen shops....my kids got one for me
    about three years ago....some famous french name....
    
    Rick
2272.4They also have a shop in BraintreeWRKSYS::SIMSMon Feb 26 1990 15:525
    
    
    I saw them a few weeks ago in the Chestnut Hill Mall in the Kitchen
    Store.  (CHM is in Brookline, Mass)
    
2272.5TLE::EIKENBERRYSharon EikenberryMon Feb 26 1990 16:094
  Try a restaurant supply store.  They're apt to be lower priced than in
a gourmet kitchen store.

--Sharon
2272.6Uniform StoreCHOVAX::GILSONTue Feb 27 1990 15:538
   In many restaurants, the higher the chef's toque, the higher their
   rank in the kitchen.  You have to earn the tallest ones from schools
   like Escoffier, Culinary Institute of America, etc.  My son got his 
   lower ones from a uniform store when he was in training.

   
   Peg (mom of Chef Thomas at the Taj Mahal)  
    
2272.7One sourceJOKUR::MAYParts LocatorTue Feb 27 1990 18:0717
    During my current quest to purchase a few pieces of Calaphon commercial
    aluminum cookware, I happened to cross some chef hats which seem to
    have the shape of mushrooms. They were at United Resturant Equipment in
    Lowell. If my memory serves me correctly they were less than 5.00 each.
    
    They also have quite the assortment all types of commercial equipment
    from knives, stainless serving utensils, tongs, hotel pans, aprons,
    commercial aluminum (some coated with the super supra stuff) some
    stainless large stock pots ($$$), cleaning agents, grill weights and
    scrubbers, ad nasum... 
    
    Prices seem to be fair, or less expensive than the local Lechmere
    or Sears or whatever.
    
    No Calaphon, though...
    
    Dana 
2272.80=:-) (look who's wearing the chef's hat!)BARTLE::BARRLBlack Velvet, if you pleaseTue Feb 27 1990 19:447
    For Christmas, my boyfriend received from his brother a chef's hat
    and an apron that looks like a tuxedo shirt and cumberbund (you
    wear it over a white dress shirt).  It was purchased at Bradlees
    and came together as a set.  We thought it was cute and he says
    he can't wait for the summer time barbeques so he can wear it. :-)
    
    Lori B.