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Practical guides to hiring a private chef, hosting a dinner party and cooking for people you like, from the team behind Private Chef Finder, co-founded by professional chef James Callery.
Kitchen Equipment
A chef's guide to the best food processors you can buy in the UK, from the Magimix 4200XL to compact and budget machines, with what each does well, who it suits and what to look for before you buy.
4 November 2026 · 10 min read
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What Mobay sauce is and how to make it at home: a rich, creamy jerk sauce built on a fresh Scotch bonnet and allspice paste, served with chicken, coconut rice and peas and fried plantain.
4 November 2026
Guides
How to hire a private chef for a dinner party, a celebration or a day at home: where to find one, what to ask, how much it costs for a night or a day, and how to book a chef directly through Private Chef Finder.
4 November 2026 · 8 min read
Food & Cooking
Who Auguste Escoffier was, how he and César Ritz changed hotel dining at the Savoy and the Carlton in London, why his brigade system and five mother sauces still run professional kitchens, and the dishes he created.
3 November 2026 · 7 min read
Food & Cooking
How an abandoned Paris child became the chef to Talleyrand, the Prince Regent and the Rothschilds, organised French sauces into the first mother sauces and is still remembered as the world's first celebrity chef.
3 November 2026 · 7 min read
Food & Cooking
From Carême and Escoffier to Paul Bocuse, Joël Robuchon and Anne-Sophie Pic, the famous French chefs who defined fine dining, plus the French chefs who changed restaurants in Britain.
1 November 2026 · 8 min read
Guides
A plain guide to insurance for private chefs in the UK: which cover is a legal requirement, which is sensible to have, what each policy does and what to ask an insurer or broker before you buy.
1 November 2026 · 8 min read
Guides
What private chefs earn in the UK in 2026, from freelance day rates and per-head prices to household salaries, with what affects pay and how private chefs compare with restaurant chefs.
1 November 2026 · 8 min read
Food & Cooking
Slow churned ice cream is a lighter ice cream made with a cold, slow churning process that makes it taste richer than its fat content suggests. Here's how it works, how it differs from regular and double churned ice cream, and how to make silky ice cream at home.
30 October 2026 · 7 min read
Guides
Private dining at home means a professional chef cooks a restaurant-quality meal in your own kitchen and serves it at your table. Here's how it works, what it costs in the UK, what your kitchen needs and how to find a private dining chef near you.
29 October 2026 · 8 min read
Recipe
A crystal clear, intensely flavoured tomato consommé made by hanging blended ripe tomatoes in muslin overnight. No egg whites, no stock and no cooking: an elegant, make-ahead starter.
28 October 2026
Recipe
Manchester's answer to the scotch egg: a pickled egg wrapped in pork sausage meat and black pudding, coated in panko breadcrumbs and fried until crisp.
28 October 2026
Recipe
A slow-baked French cassoulet of white beans, confit duck legs, Toulouse sausages and pork belly, with a golden crust on top. A generous, make-ahead centrepiece for a winter dinner party.
28 October 2026
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