Cooking button

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A cook button is a special button that is used to close chef and baker's jackets. Functionally, a cooking button is a push button , its shape a round button or ball button . As a rule, the button is bounded on the back by a washer and on the front by a ball.

function

A cooking button can be easily separated from the garment because it is not sewn on. The chef's jacket only has buttonholes on both sides, arranged in two rows. Since chef's jackets get dirty easily and are washed at high temperatures, removable buttons are an advantage. The buttonless jacket can also be easily ironed with the ironing machine . So that the buttons do not have to be assembled and removed individually, there are textile button strips with a series of buttonholes that can be removed from the jacket together with a whole row of buttons.

Thanks to the shape of the button, the jacket can be torn open quickly without the risk of damage, even in the event that it comes into contact with hot liquids or catches fire.

The wrap function with two rows of buttons also allows you to wear the dirty side of the jacket inside and the clean side outside by mounting the buttons in reverse.

variants

Because they can be separated from the garment, there are numerous fashionable variants of these buttons. Buttons made of different materials, in different colors and with different motifs are offered. Most cooking buttons today are made of plastic. The color of the buttons is generally not indicative of the level of training or the field of activity of the wearer. However, in terms of a corporate identity , the employer can determine the color and design of the buttons to be used.

One of the best-known German manufacturers of cooking knobs is Greiff Mode .

history

The copper engraving at the beginning of the second volume of Le Maître d'hôtel français (1822) by the kitchen pioneer Marie-Antoine Carême already shows chefs with double-row buttoned white chef's jackets with round buttons. Loose buttons that were inserted into double buttonholes were common in the 19th century and have only survived in isolated cases to this day on cufflinks , dress shirt buttons or collar buttons on uniforms and traditional costumes, not so much for practical reasons as with kitchen buttons, but rather because of their precious design that would make washing with it inadvisable.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Examples of cooking knobs

literature

  • Marie-Antonin Carême: Le Maître d'hôtel français , Vol. 2, Paris: Firmin Didot 1822, pp. 278–279.