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saucier

saucier

1 8.1
A chef who makes sauces for meals
  • noun
  • /ˈsɔːsiˌeɪ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : saucier
  • He is a saucier.

Examples

  • The saucier prepared a rich mushroom sauce that elevated the entire meal.

  • Saucier, in charge of sauces.

  • You know, back before the war braked out, I was a saucier in San Antone.

  • I'm a saucier.

  • But there's they're not broken as literally down to a meat cook, fish cook, saucier plater and so on and so forth.

  • In a professional kitchen, the saucier is responsible for creating all the restaurant's signature sauces.

  • As a skilled saucier, she ensured that every dish was complemented by a perfectly crafted sauce.

Synonyms

chef
vssaucier
559 2.3

A professional cook who leads a restaurant or hotel kitchen

focuses on making sauces rather than leading the whole kitchen
cook
vssaucier
356 1.0

A person who prepares food at home or at work

works professionally in a kitchen specializing only in sauces
professional chef
vssaucier
4 3.4

A trained cook who works in a restaurant or at events

works as a specialist in sauces rather than a general trained professional
culinarian
vssaucier
1 6.9

A person who cooks and prepares food

specializes in sauce preparation rather than general culinary skill

How Specialized

saucier
  • Specialized
1 8.1
chef
559 2.3
cook
356 1.0
kitchen help
1 2.5

Surface Forms

saucier singular
sauciers plural

Morphology

saucier = sauce (semi-transparent) = sauce + ier

The suffix '-ier' indicates a person associated with a particular activity, but the specific role of a chef specializing in sauces may not be immediately clear.

Etymology

Saucier as a kitchen job comes from French sauce 'sauce' plus a word ending that means 'one who does', so a saucier is the cook who makes the sauces in a professional kitchen.