it depends
"A Day in the Life of a Pastry Chef" is an excellent and very informative website on pastry chefs. Culimary school and an on the job apprenticeship are needed to become a pastry chef. http://www.hcareers.com/us/resourcecenter/tabid/306/articleid/288/default.aspx
depending on the restaurant the chef works for depends on the amount of hours, if its a low paid chef they'd work about 7 hours and a high paid chef would work about 13-14 hours a day
Depends on what kind of cake you are baking and how well you do it, some cakes take several days, but some cales take hours.
Marcel Cocit has: Played Himself - Private Chef in "The Anna Nicole Show" in 2002. Played Himself - Private Chef in "High Maintenance 90210" in 2007. Played Himself - Pastry Chef in "Private Chefs of Beverly Hills" in 2009. Played Himself - Chef Marcel in "The Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS" in 2009. Played Himself - Chef Marcel in "The Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS" in 2012.
A typical workday for a pastry chef is actually very simple. You go to work at time desired or the time you work and create pastrys.
10 days a week at least and 25 hours a day i am an expierienced chef. **EDIT- (Someone has to fix this, because there are only 7 days a week and 24 hours in a day.)
They uasally work 12 hours a day
On a hot day the shortening (butter/fat) in pastry will soften or melt. This makes it bind differently to the flour and reduces its ability to help incorporate air into the pastry. Good pastry is made in cool conditions and baked quickly at a hot temperature.
In Hollywood, the average video assist operator rate is $600 for 10 hours of work per day, guaranteed to be a minimum of 10 hours. So the average day of work being 12 -14 hours, the average day of work is aprox $750 + a day
You need to be extremely intorverted, almost to the point of agorophobia. You should spend your evenings at home with your pet birds, only visiting with friends and family on minor holidays such as President's day, Flag day, Palm Sunday. The major holidays you will spend deciphering ancient texts on puff pastry and vegetable based fillings. When you talk to people, you never look them in the eye, looking at the ground most of the time, but sometimes, when serious, looking just to the left of their face. You don't get jokes and smile only when you see somebody with buttercream spilled on their shirt. The life of a pastry chef is not for everyone, but if you fit the above description, go ahead and take a crack at it. What's the worst that could happen?
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A chef works varied hours depending on where they work. If they work in a hotel or cruise ship, the hours will be different than a fine dining restaurant. Most chefs work 8 to 10 hour days or more.