Chef vs. Cook — What's the Difference?

A chef is a trained professional cook and tradesman who is proficient in all aspects of food preparation, often focusing on a particular cuisine. The word "chef" is derived from the term chef de cuisine (French pronunciation: ​[ʃɛf.də.kɥi.zin]), the director or head of a kitchen.

To prepare (food) for eating by applying heat.

A cook, especially the chief cook of a large kitchen staff.

To prepare or treat by heating

The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.

(Slang) To alter or falsify so as to make a more favorable impression; doctor

The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.

To prepare food for eating by applying heat.

Any cook.

To undergo application of heat especially for the purpose of later ingestion.

(slang) One who manufactures illegal drugs; a cook.

(Slang) To happen, develop, or take place

(historical) A reliquary in the shape of a head.

(Slang) To proceed or perform very well

To work as a chef; to prepare and cook food professionally.

A person who prepares food for eating.

To stab with a knife, to shank.

(cooking) A person who prepares food.

A chief or head person.

(cooking) The head cook of a manor house.

The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.

(cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.

Same as Chief.

(slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

A professional cook

(slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.

(intransitive) To be cooked.

To be uncomfortably hot.

(slang) To execute by electric chair.

To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.

To concoct or prepare.

To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)

To play music vigorously.

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

To throw.

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

To throw.

To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.

To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; - often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.

To prepare food for the table.

One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

A fish, the European striped wrasse.

Someone who cooks food

English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)

Prepare a hot meal;

Prepare for eating by applying heat;

Transform and make suitable for consumption by heating;

Transform by heating;

Fake or falsify;