Mise en place is everything prepared and laid out before service begins. Do your mise en place.
It is the difference between a kitchen that copes and one that does not. Mise en place takes hours and is what makes the cooking itself look effortless.
1nounmise en placeEverything prepared and laid out before service begins.
“The mise en place took four hours and the service took three.”
mise en place is a preparation.
French mise en place means setting in place, and names the preparation done before a service starts.
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English, today
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Borrowed from French mise en place literally “setting into place”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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