What does it take for a person to become a great chef? The usual answer of already established chefs to this question would be to work hard and learn to appreciate any type of kitchen task there is available.
Jumping in to the kitchen and taking over a chef's job for your first day at work isn't going to cut it.
There are several qualities, traits and even beliefs a person needs to apply first in the kitchen working as a professional cook before he becomes a real chef.
An important phase in your quest of becoming a chef is training.
Non-stop training for what you want to do for the rest of your life is not a joke at all.
Working and cooking for hundreds of customers in a restaurant establishment or hotel is not a joke either.
Though kitchen job can sometimes be perceived as plain, simple and easy; it will certainly change the way you look at it if you do it every single day at work.
What's the point in all of this? Learning and striving how to become a cook and eventually; a chef is full of challenges even when all the work that is needed to be done is in the kitchen.
Your very talent of being able to taste whether a food is good or not is astounding since not everybody has this gift.
This is enhanced though, when you put it in to use properly, every single day.
A good cook also becomes a chef if he has the skill to put everything in order.
Tasting the food isn't only what counts; it's also the ingenious way of how it is cooked and presented for the diners.
On top of that, regardless how hectic a kitchen job can be, a good cook still manages to pull through a hectic day at work with a clean hygiene.
Dreaming for an executive chef position isn't prohibited.
You can dream all you want but first, love the life that you are currently living because you will need all that you can learn and experience at this point to reach a head chef rank.