Saurabh Shahi

YCO IS ABOUT CULINARY CHALLENGES
In my opinion it is a great concept for the young chefs who want to make a career out of being a chef. It gives you an opportunity to showcase your talent and skills in front of the whole world. You also get to know and learn what is cooking in other parts of the world. YCO also gives an opportunity to develop the participants’ competitive skills by bringing them face-to-face with real-world culinary challenges and other young chefs from different parts of the world.

WORKSTATION WONDER
Being a technical judge is not an easy task! A chef is a combination of many skills. But in my opinion being organ-ised is one of the most important attri-butes of being a chef. By looking at the workstation, you can easily make out what the end result will look like.

THE WAY FORWARD FOR YCO
Perhaps, addition of new methods of modern cooking techniques, cutting-edge machinery and keeping the de-mand of modern or “fashionable” food with all the basics of cooking intact. I think we should look towards bringing in even more prestigious names in the internation-al culinary world.

Currently : Executive pastry chef, Hilton Conrad, Pune.

Previously : Pastry chef of Bengaluru Marriott Whitefield, pastry chef of The Oberoi Gurgaon, senior kitchen executive of The Trident Gurgaon.

Judge : At Young Chef Olympiad 2017.

Loves to : Play table tennis and spend time with family.

Comfort food : Anything vegetarian.

Dream dessert : Yet to bake.