Cooks plan, organize, prepare and cook meals in hotels, restaurants and other eating places, on board ships, on passenger trains and in private households.
Skill level:
Semi-skilled
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- Salary range for the majority of workers in Cooks - from R8 123 to R23 571 per month - 2025.
- A Cooks typically earns between R8 123 and R15 992 net per month at the start of the job.
- After 5 years of service, this is between R8 452 and R16 765 per month for a working week of 45 hours.
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- A Cook in human health and social work activities in scale 2 with 4 years or less experience earned minimum R3 096,00 and maximum R12 133,00 per month in 2019.
Duties and tasks
- Planning meals, preparing and cooking foodstuffs
- Planning, supervising and coordinating the work of kitchen helpers
- Checking the quality of food
- Weighing, measuring and mixing ingredients according to recipes and personal judgement
- Regulating the temperature of ovens, grills, roasters and other cooking equipment; inspecting and cleaning the kitchen, kitchen equipment and serving areas to ensure safe and sanitary food handling practices
- Operating large volume cooking equipment such as grills, deep-fat fryers, or griddles
