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A Discord for people who cook for a living, and people who want to.
It is free. You do not need to have bought anything to be in it. Come in, ask what you actually want to ask, and get an answer from someone who has done it on a busy service.
Cuisinier · free, for everyone
The open side of the server:
- General kitchen talk — stations, hours, where to stage, what to walk away from.
- Post a plate in the first critique room and have it looked at.
- The free sheets and anything else published openly.
Chef · comes with the guide
The advanced plating room.
Chef opens the second critique room and the private chef channel, where the work gets pulled apart properly:
- Post your plate and have it judged the way it would be judged at the pass — composition, height, negative space, what to cut.
- Technique and recipe questions answered in detail rather than in passing.
- New specialties before they are published anywhere else.
Buying Cuisine Étoilée includes 90 days as Chef. Your invite arrives with your download.
Get the guide →Étoile
There is a third room above Chef. It is not for sale and never will be — Étoile is given by hand, by me, to cooks whose work in the server has earned it.
Sam Dill — over 10,000 hours in some of the world’s best restaurants.
Cuisine Étoilée · cuisineetoilee.com