What does culinary school actually help you accomplish?

>>8672480
It helps you accomplish getting a job at somewhere other than Wendy's.

>>8672480

Networking and rudimentary skills for non-social aspies without kitchen experience.

Experience once was a prerequisite, now anyone can matriculate at my Alma Mater, makes me mad in a way.

>>8672529

This.

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>>8672485
I've worked at restaurants since I was 16. Now I can go to college and maintain an okay job at a fine dining establishment with my resume. And it only took me 6 years of begging for more shifts and responsibilities at the other restuarants. The restaurant business is worth it guys!

How come the worst cooks I've worked with were culinary arts trained and chefs?
Is it because being a high volume cook and being a chef are two different things?

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>>8673467
same problem as every other higher education program: they train you like you're going to skip the bottom rung when you graduate. Then when you don't, you realize quickly that the things you learned in school will be pretty useful in around half a decade, but right now you need to focus on cleaning these fish faster because you've actually only done it twice.

>>8672480
They put you in a shitload of debt to your jew overlords. Be a good goy, pay that debt off with maximum interest and penalties.

>>8672480
What I learned in culinary school is...

>>8673467
I've had the same problem anywhere I worked. They always get pissed off after a couple of weeks because the rest of us who have been working for years are all way better and in higher positions, and because they're completely unprepared to work in a real business environment where everything isn't ideal but you still have to be perfect for anywhere between ten to sixteen hours and so they inevitably walk out during a rush

Actual answer here.

Culinary school gives you knowledge. You experience a wide variety of things that you wouldn't if you where just working at a restaurant. From classic French cuisine to bread baking to chocolate works, you cover the basics of everything.

However working at a restaurant gives you more experience which is the prime factor in your ability to cook. Cooking a steak in a class a couple times will not let you cook it better than if you work in a restaurant and cook 10 steaks a day.

Some culinary institutions will also be a restaurant so you will be learning and working in an actual kitchen. These will often cost less to enroll in because you are basically paying half your intuition with labor.

You will also get some basic networking if you go through culinary school. The chef instructors have connections and they could hook you up with a better job than starting as a dishwasher for a year.