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Help with vegetarian cooking at our hostel in a Georgian village

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The experience

We are looking for kitchen help and experienced chefs to help with breakfast and dinner in our hostel. We are well-known in Georgia for our vegetarian cuisine.
We have amazing fresh local veggies, a full pantry and a creative cooking mindset. Perfect place to learn for motivated volunteers or more experienced chefs who can already cook independently.

We usually have around 10 volunteers who help with building, cleaning, gardening and cooking/

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

What you get

2 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Discounts on Drinks: Get discounts for drinks and beverages from our bar.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

Free Parties: Get free entrance for the best parties in town.

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Fluent English

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

You'll either be working the breakfast shift 7h-12h or the dinner shift 15h-20h. We've already worked together in the kitchen with a lot of volunteers and with the right motivation we can teach you a lot. We always cook vegetarian and love to get creative with the food and ingredients we have. The amount of people to cook for ranges between 20-50.

Activities & Shift

For breakfast we have a more fixed set of dishes (something sweet, savory, eggs, etc) within which we change it up every day. We have a big recipe book and cooking methods for all different types of dishes so that you can follow. When you are experienced enough you can make your own variations and we'll be open for your ideas as well.

We always have an experienced chef in charge of dinner. Dinner starts with making a menu based on whats seasonal and available and left overs. Our menus follow the ingredients rather than making a menu and buying what we need. Every day we make something completely different with recipes from around the world. Based on your skill set we'll give you tasks to do or we can do the whole process together.

Rules

As said before we have multiple chefs who are in charge of cooking. They will explain to you clearly what has to be done. It's important for us to have volunteers who are good a efficiently following tasks and can work independently and proactively.

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