A saucier () or sauté chef is a position in the classical brigade style kitchen. It can be translated into English as ''

sauce In cooking, a sauce is a liquid, cream, or semi-solid food, served on or used in preparing other foods. Most sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to a dish. ''Sauce'' is a French word t ...

chef''. In addition to preparing sauces, the saucier prepares

stew A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients that have been cooked in liquid and served in the resultant gravy. A stew needs to have raw ingredients added to the gravy. Ingredients in a stew can include any combination of vegetables and ...

s, hot

hors d'œuvre An hors d'oeuvre ( ; french: hors-d'œuvre ), appetiser or starter is a small dish served before a meal in European cuisine. Some hors d'oeuvres are served cold, others hot. Hors d'oeuvres may be served at the dinner table as a part of the m ...

s, and sautés food to order. Although it is often considered the highest position of the station cooks, the saucier is typically still tertiary to the

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and

sous-chef A sous-chef is a chef who is second in command in a kitchen; the person ranking next after the head chef, usually the more hands on manager with regards to training staff and organising the kitchen. Duties and functions The sous-chef has many re ...

Escoffier definition

Georges Auguste Escoffier Georges Auguste Escoffier (; 28 October 1846 – 12 February 1935) was a French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer who popularized and updated traditional French cooking methods. Much of Escoffier's technique was based on that of Marie-Antoi ...

's system of the classic kitchen brigade, outlined in his ''

Guide Culinaire ''Le Guide Culinaire'' () is Escoffier's 1903 French restaurant cuisine cookbook, his first. It is a classic and still in print. Escoffier developed the recipes while working at the Savoy, Ritz and Carlton hotels from the late 1880s to the time o ...

'', the saucier is "responsible for all sautéed items and most sauces".

Sauciers in popular culture

The 1979 film ''

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'' character, "Chef" Hicks (played by

Frederic Forrest Frederic Fenimore Forrest Jr. (born December 23, 1936) is an American actor. Forrest came to public attention for his performance in ''When the Legends Die'' (1972), which earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising N ...

) says that he was "raised to be a saucier" in

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. In ''

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'', the character Kirk Lazarus (played by

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) claims to have been a saucier in San Antonio in reference to ''Apocalypse Now.'' In ''

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'',

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claims the title of "Zinc Saucier" (instead of ''

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'') after defeating Elzar in

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. In ''

'',

gets a job at Elzar's restaurant (to pay off Planet Express's presumed free meal). He asks Elzar if he can be "pastry chef, ''saucier'', soup guy". Instead, Elzar hands him a toilet plunger, using his catchphrase "Bam!" in

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Escoffier definition

Sauciers in popular culture

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