Top sushi chef skills needed to get the job.

What are the top 3 traits or skills every sushi chef must have to excel?

Can you suggest any tips or insights to develop your sushi chef expertise?

katsuramuki, tamagoyaki, and filleting yellowtail and halibut into schbuichi

most customers don't have any clue what goes on behind the scenes, but they do notice cleanliness and personality. other than that, the skill will always show.

I agree, cleanliness and personality are big. Sushi is something that people will experience and not know if what they had was the best sushi or not, but they will remember the chef, presentation, and timelines.

-Jake
www.SushiMaker.org

midas li in Pleasant Hill, California said: I have 15 years experience. I have owned two sushi restaurants which were very successful. (Starmidas in Concord and Taisho in San Mateo)I can do any task for a japanese restaurant and sushi chef. I am willing to relocate anywhere. Please contact me if you are interested.

Also I speak fluent English and Mandarin Chinese

Hi, so I really want to learn how to be sushi chef but I'll be working full time during the week. What's the best way to learn outside of this schedule? Are there weekends sushi classes available around LA? Please email me at kmiwa@hotmail.com

You must like eating raw fish and maintain the quality of valueable fishes.
You must cook sushi rice good and know how to make sushi vinegar to m ix with rice.
You must make sushi with confident and love for your customers.
All the skills that you are looking for will come with time and experiences.

Host said: What are the top 3 traits or skills every sushi chef must have to excel?

Can you suggest any tips or insights to develop your sushi chef expertise?

the sushi man should know about :
1. characteristic of the food what they will make
2. taste of the food
3. hygien and sanitation

tips : every body can make sushi, nigiri, temaki, urumaki hosomaki or whatever, but they should know about the food cost, menu knowledge, and how to manage their job, with a limit time can make more menu

Pride, you should always take pride in everything you do, whether someone is watching or not. Don't be lazy or sloppy because the food you send out is a piece of you. It is a direct reflection of you. And not only when it comes to your food but also your job as a whole. Take pride in your job! Go in ready to work, mess? clean it up! bored? help someone else! And for the sake of all of us in the industry that love our jobs, don't ever go to work and say "thats not my job" it is in fact, everyones job. The job is to get it done, period.

Common sense, most of the "behind the scenes" stuff customers don't see, just takes common sense. Something that most people don't have :) So think, be smart, everything you do behind that bar should be intentional. Move with intent, work with intent.

Attention to detail, not all are, but all should be very detail oriented people, this will not only show in your food but trickle down into everything else you do.

Host said: What are the top 3 traits or skills every sushi chef must have to excel?

Can you suggest any tips or insights to develop your sushi chef expertise?

1.Know how to sharpen the knife and knife skills
2.has the ability to determine the freshness of the raw materials/fish used in making sushi.
3.Enough ability in filleting of fish
4.Good communication skills towards guest and enough know how of what he is doing to inform the guest of what you can serve to them.

3 most important skills are hard to determine, but in my opinion, in this order, top 3 skills are:

1 - Chefs presentation/hygiene (clean hands, shaved, smiling, friendly, clean clothes, clean kitchen, clean working style)
2 - Food quality (straight cuts, good fillet skills, determine meat/vegetable quality, sacrificing older products for better quality, fluffy and balanced rice)
3 - Speed (making the preparation fast and especially making the orders fast will show self-confidence, therefore you easily win the customers confidence.)