Hello everybody! As I like cooking as a hobby I also have a little cousin around 18 that likes to start as a chef as he also likes cooking but I have seen a lot of people giving up being chef and wanted to ask if it's a good career to start or not? Or is it better to start as a private chef after a bit of experience? Has anybody for example have experience on a corporate or some football squad or something? Thank you!
Howdy! Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this.
TLDR: Is there a personal chef that I can ‘afford’?
Ramble / Context
I’ve been working a lot the past 2-3 months. It’s taken a toll on my body, I’ve been getting fat off fast food, been smoking lots, lazy, and I haven’t been using my free time to prioritize my health.
I’m wanting to focus on my health but I’m still working lots of hours. Recently I’ve hired a personal cleaner to come by every other week and it’s been great, I don’t mind paying a fee for a service that saves me time and benefits my household.
I want to stop eating as much fast food, but I’m just too tired/lazy to make dinner. Wife cooks some nights, but she works long/weird hours too. I used to love to cook, now I just can’t be bothered.
I want to be meal prepping, but I won’t do it myself. I’d like for someone to come into my house, spend a few hours cooking (good and ‘healthy’) food, make X amount of extra meals, ideally twice a week (I don’t want to be eating 4 day old meal prep). I’d like to be the one providing the ingredients (I get ‘more control’ on the ingredients I’m consuming) and simply pay for their labor.
I absolutely hated Factor and other meal prep to you door brands.
The more that I think about this… Am I asking for a personal chef???
Can I ‘afford’ a personal/professional chef??? - first job out of college. Good money, sub 80k/yr. DINK household so we are very comfortable.
I waste so much money on fast food that I can honestly justify paying someone good money to make me food twice a week.
I did some looking on Google but I have this weird thing where I hate googling a new topic. I feel like I get curated or pushed towards a certain ‘thing’.
So I wanted to ask a forum. Are there ‘reasonably’ priced personal chefs? What should I be expecting to pay for what I’m looking for? Should I be looking for a professional service? Should I be looking for some local no name dude/place? Is this a normal thing for middle class people?
Do people who cook for restaurants look for side work like this?
Just shouting questions into the abyss, hoping to hear a thought/opinion from chefs back.