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Station

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

/ˈsteɪʃən/nounCore term

In culinary arts & cooking, station means: An area of the kitchen where one cook or a small team prepares one type of food, such as the grill, fry, sauce or garnish station.

In Turkish: istasyon, bölüm

How it is used

Cooks are assigned to a station, set up their station before service and break it down and clean it afterwards. The French word partie, from chef de partie, means the same thing. Kitchen talk: "Who's on fish tonight?" "Which station are you on?"

Example sentences

  1. Set up your station before family meal; we open at six.

  2. I'm moving you to the grill station on Saturday.

Common collocations

  • set up your station
  • grill station
  • break down a station
  • on the fish station
  • work a station
  • mise en placeThe preparation and organisation of all ingredients and tools at a station before cooking or service begins. From French, meaning "putting in place".
  • chef de partieA chef in charge of one section of the kitchen, such as fish, sauce, grill or pastry, often with one or more commis chefs working under them.
  • line cookA cook who works at one station on the line, the row of cooking equipment where orders are cooked during service.
  • clean as you goThe working habit of cleaning your station, tools and spills continuously while you cook, instead of leaving all the cleaning until the end.

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