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Cooks, Private Household
Prepare meals in private homes. Includes personal chefs.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Peel, wash, trim, and cook vegetables and meats, and bake breads and pastries.Mostly human for now
- 02Cool, package, label, and freeze foods for later consumption and provide instructions for reheating.Mostly human for now
- 03Plan menus according to employers' needs and diet restrictions.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Shop for or order food and kitchen supplies and equipment.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Prepare meals in private homes according to employers' recipes or tastes, handling all meals for the family and possibly for other household staff.Mostly human for now
- 06Keep records pertaining to menus, finances, and other business-related issues.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Stock, organize, and clean kitchens and cooking utensils.Mostly human for now
- 08Direct the operation and organization of kitchens and all food-related activities, including the presentation and serving of food.Mostly human for now
- 09Specialize in preparing fancy dishes or food for special diets.Mostly human for now
- 10Plan and prepare food for parties, holiday meals, luncheons, special functions, and other social events.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
24%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 83% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 78% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Peel, wash, trim, and cook vegetables and meats, and bake breads and pastries.
- Cool, package, label, and freeze foods for later consumption and provide instructions for reheating.
- Prepare meals in private homes according to employers' recipes or tastes, handling all meals for the family and possibly for other household staff.