Smut
Smut , Schmutt , Schmuud or Smutje is the name of a (even untrained) cook on board ships. On board of passenger ships , however, one speaks of a cook or ship's cook.
tasks
The smut is responsible for the preparation of all meals on board. In addition to breakfast, lunch and dinner is also part Seemann Sunday and the agent guard (a small, hot meal for the gathering at midnight Seewächter) to do so. The menu is jointly developed by the Smut.
The smut is also usually responsible for ordering and purchasing groceries. Particular attention must be paid to calculating the correct amount of food to be stored, as storage capacities are limited, but replenishment at sea is rarely possible. The smut is also responsible for the correct storage of the food. This also requires knowledge of the available storage options ( called loads ) and the technical conditions of the cold rooms. If the refrigerated loads in particular are not properly filled, large quantities of food can easily be lost.
Due to the long sea times, the role of the smuts is of particular importance to the morale of seafarers .
In the German Navy , the Smut is assigned to a combat station as an assistant during combat exercises or during combat. On larger units mostly as an auxiliary patient carrier, on small units but also in technical areas. On the torpedo speedboats of the German Navy he was z. B. assigned to the torpedo team.
Workspace
A smut's workplace is the galley ( also known as the pantry on smaller boats or yachts ). This ranges from the galley on a submarine, which is less than 3 square meters in size, to the galley with modern equipment on freighters or tankers that resemble large kitchens .
The number of smuts is determined by the size of the crew. On smaller units there is often only one smut, which is then provided with auxiliary personnel from the free sea guards. It is served by the bakeries .
In the German Navy of Smut belongs to the order of use 62nd
education
Training to become a chef and a certain amount of professional experience are usually expected as entry requirements. Related professions, such as butcher or baker, are also often accepted. However, the task of the smut is sometimes carried out by unskilled personnel or as a secondary task (cook / deckhand on smaller ships).
The German Navy offers targeted training. At the naval supply school (until mid-2007, then at the naval sergeant school ), soldiers in the catering service are specially trained for the duties of a smut on board. While all soldiers employed in the catering service are otherwise centrally trained, the special nature of the tasks of a smut was taken into account here by leaving their training in the hands of the navy, while he receives additional medical training .
Word history
Low German Smut, High German "dirt", was personalized from around 1900 and given the Low German / Dutch diminutive -tje , which means something like dirty. Initially a joke, this name is not considered derogatory on board. Early mention by Andreas Gildemeister, On a sailing ship around Cape Horn (1901): “And even stewards and smutje - that's what the seafarers call the cook, for whom cleanliness is the first virtue - have to turn their more feminine ones in favor of (...) turning Postpone duties and take their place at some bream . "
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- ↑ Dietmar Bartz: Sailor's Language. From ropes, Pütz and shrouds. Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-7688-1933-6 , p. 234.