mise en place vs operation

mise en place

noun
  • development 

  • The preparations to cook, having the ingredients ready, such as cuts of meat, relishes, sauces, par-cooked items, spices, freshly chopped vegetables, and other components that are required for the menu and recipes ingredients measured out, washed, chopped and placed in individual bowls; and equipment such as spatulas and blenders prepared, and oven preheated. 

  • The preparation and layouts that are set up and used by line cooks at their stations in a commercial or restaurant kitchen. 

operation

noun
  • A planned undertaking. 

  • The method or practice by which actions are done. 

  • The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral. 

  • A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands); 

  • A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm) 

  • A business or organization. 

  • a function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value. 

  • The method by which a device performs its function. 

  • A surgical procedure. 

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