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Chef Designs White Chef Coats

Every coat we cut in white, and the two details that decide whether it is still white in March: a button that does not yellow and a finish that lets grease go.

  • 7 lines
  • 2 colourways
  • XS to 5XL, plus L Tall to 3XL Tall size run
  • $15.87 to $33.89

Colourways on this page: White, White with black trim.

White is the hardest colour a kitchen wears and it stays because it is honest: a white coat shows the shift it has had, and the Food Code asks a food employee to wear clean outer clothing, which is easier to judge on white than on black. What makes a white coat last is not the whiteness of the cloth on the day it arrives but two details behind it. The buttons are made not to yellow under laundry chemistry, and the twill carries a stain-release finish, so grease sits on the weave and lifts in a hot wash rather than setting into it.

The rest is arithmetic a kitchen does once. Buy in threes against a laundry cycle, and no coat is asked to go two services without a wash. Order the size over the shirt you work in, because a white coat that is pulled tight shows every seam. And expect the whites to be the first thing anyone notices about a kitchen from the dining room, which is why a coat that goes grey slowly is a more expensive mistake than a coat that wears out fast.

Every colourway here is priced on its own; the Chef Designs range keeps the figures current and the till is what decides.

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Questions about Chef Designs White Chef Coats

The colour that shows everything

How do you keep a Chef Designs white coat white?

Wash it hot, wash it often, and do not let a grease mark sit for a week: the stain-release finish is what makes a mark lift, and it works best before the mark has dried into the weave. The label sewn into the coat is the document that governs the wash.

Do Chef Designs white coats go see-through when they are wet?

A double-breasted front is two layers of twill across the chest, which is the part of a white coat people worry about, and the cloth is a mid-weight twill rather than a shirting. A soaked sleeve will darken, as any white cloth does.

How many white Chef Designs coats does a kitchen need per cook?

Kitchens that send their whites out weekly usually keep three per person, which covers a rotation with one in the wash and one on the rail. It is the same arithmetic as aprons, one cycle behind.

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