Knowledge · Home Cook Services
A cook works in the most particular room in the house, to a family's own taste, on a schedule that has to fit everyone's day. This section covers how to set that up — menus, timings, dietary needs and kitchen expectations — so the arrangement is clear before the first meal rather than argued about after it.
What this section covers
These are the things families ask us before a cook starts, and the things that cause friction when they are left unsaid. Writing them down here does not replace that call — it just means you are not starting from nothing.
Where a household needs a medically prescribed diet, we will place a cook who can follow it exactly as written — but the diet itself must come from the treating doctor or a qualified dietitian. We do not design or adjust medical diets, and we will not write about them as though we could.
The service behind this section
Experienced home cooks for daily, fresh, home-style meal preparation on a regular schedule. Every person we place is verified and briefed on the household's preferences before the first day.
The point of a home cook is that meals taste like your household's food. We brief the cook on preferences before they start rather than leaving it to be discovered over a fortnight.
One meal a day, two, or more, at timings agreed in advance. A cook arriving at an unpredictable hour helps nobody, so we settle this before the placement begins.
Identity, address and background checks are completed before anyone enters your home. The same standard applies to every placement without exception.
Guides
Practical guidance on arranging cooking help at home. None of it is nutrition or diet advice — each guide states plainly what it does not cover, and points anything medical or dietary back to your doctor or a qualified dietitian.
Starting from how your household actually eats rather than from a meal count, and what makes a cooking arrangement last past the first month.
What to ask and what to verify before someone has daily access to your kitchen — and what a fair conversation looks like from both sides.
The walk-through, the weekly pattern, groceries and storage — the household conventions nobody has ever had to explain before.
These are the first three guides in this section. More appear here once they are written and checked — no schedule, because we will not publish a date we might miss. The Home Cook Services page covers what we provide and how meals and timings are agreed.
If you are working out how many meals a day you need and at what times, a phone call will get you a straight answer in a few minutes. It costs nothing and there is no obligation attached to it.
