mise en place
noun
: a culinary process in which ingredients are prepared and organized (as in a restaurant kitchen) before cooking
Wash and chop vegetables the night before the party: Professionals call it mise en place; we call it making life easier.—
Glamour
GlamourMise en place is the religion of all good line cooks.—Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain
also
: the set of ingredients prepared using this process
The class's combined mise en place would amount to thirty-six pounds of mirepoix, big bags of all the other minces, chops, and dices … —Michael Ruhlman
Michael Ruhlman Examples of mise en place in a Sentence
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Any dish that requires ingredients be added all at once or in rapid succession is an obvious scenario for mise en place.
—Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
Yes, there are certain instances when mise en place makes the most sense.
—Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
To my left on a butcher block cart, the mise en place for savory rice pudding sits neatly.
—Eddie Lin, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
Hansen talks of the new system as a kind of mise en place for information—i.e. a place for everything, and everything in its place.
—Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2023
The smaller sizes are helpful for mise en place, or having all of your ingredients in place before cooking.
—Michelle Rostamian, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 May 2023
Employees arrive four hours before a restaurant opens to cut peppers, grate cheese, make guacamole, and generally do the mise en place—prepping ingredients for cooking the way a sit-down restaurant would.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
Yes, there are certain instances when mise en place makes the most sense.
—Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
To my left on a butcher block cart, the mise en place for savory rice pudding sits neatly.
—Eddie Lin, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
Hansen talks of the new system as a kind of mise en place for information—i.e. a place for everything, and everything in its place.
—Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2023
The smaller sizes are helpful for mise en place, or having all of your ingredients in place before cooking.
—Michelle Rostamian, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 May 2023
Employees arrive four hours before a restaurant opens to cut peppers, grate cheese, make guacamole, and generally do the mise en place—prepping ingredients for cooking the way a sit-down restaurant would.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
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