Part-time
2–4 hrs · morning or evening
One meal block handled — breakfast tiffin or evening dinner — in a fixed window.
Best forWorking couples, small families with simple evenings
Home Cook · Part-time & Live-in · OMR & Chennai
Cook Services in Chennai— daily meals, part-time or live-in
A home cook who learns your family's sambar, your oil limits, your 8am tiffin — and keeps the kitchen running whether you're home or not. Tell us your area and shift on WhatsApp; you'll usually hear back usually within the hour.
WhatsApp answered 8am–9pm, usually within the hour
What you get with a cook in Chennai
Handled for you
- Breakfast — idli, dosa, upma, poori, parathas, filter coffee, your morning tiffin routine
- Lunch — rice, sambar, rasam, kootu, poriyal, dal, chapatis and fresh curries
- Dinner — lighter family meals: phulkas, subzis, khichdi, soups
- Vegetable washing, peeling, chopping, and fresh masala or batter preparation
- Cleaning the stove, countertops and cooking vessels after the meal
- Telling you what's running low so next week's menu isn't a surprise
You arrange
- Groceries and vegetables — you buy them, or send a list and someone picks them up
- The menu decision — you set it, and they cook to it
- Cooking vessels and storage containers — these stay yours
- Heavy kitchen deep-cleaning and fridge defrosting
Cook services are provided as private home assistance for domestic meal preparation. Menu planning, ingredients, and cooking vessels are provided by the client household.
Is this for you?
- Both of you leave for work by 8am and the dinner question is still open at 6pm.
- Your toddler needs a fixed 7pm dinner and you're stuck in OMR traffic until 8.
- Your parents live with you, but standing at the stove for two meals a day is getting harder for them.
- You've just moved into a flat on the corridor and the kitchen still feels like a hotel-kitchen problem.
- Weekends mean guests — and cooking for ten on top of a full working week isn't sustainable.
Part-time, full-time or live-in — choose your shift
Full-time
8–12 hrs · day shift
Breakfast, lunch and the evening tiffin, with the kitchen left tidy at the end of it.
Best forHomes with kids or elders who eat through the day
Live-in
Stays in your home · structured hours with rest
End-to-end kitchen duties — all meals, plus festival cooking when asked. Not 24 hours on call.
Best forLarge households, joint families, homes that host often
How hiring works
Tell us what you need
WhatsApp your locality, your shift and the duties that matter. Thirty seconds of typing is the whole first step.
See matched profiles
You get verified candidates whose experience and locality fit your home. You talk to them before deciding — never a blind assignment.
Start with an introduction
Once you choose, the person starts. You keep one number for anything that comes after.
You send your locality + shifthear back usually within the hoursee verified profilesyou chooseNo office visit needed.
What's checked before anyone enters your home
Whoever is placed with you has had their ID checked, references spoken to, and duties clarified with you before day one. You see the verification details before they start.
Checked before day one
- Aadhaar government identity check
- Residential background verification
- Prior-work references spoken to, where available
If it isn't working out
- Replacement support if the cook and your kitchen don't click
- You speak with the person before day one — no stranger at the stove
- Duties, timings and leave expectations agreed before they start
What Chennai families say
“Excellent service providing, recently booked a cook from this agency good and neat candidates and the agency responsed well compared to others. Thanks to staff Mrs.Kuzhali”
D. Lakshmi
Nehru Nagar, Okkiyam Thoraipakkam
Before you decide
The questions worth asking before anyone starts in your home — answered here, so nothing catches you off guard later.
Will she cook her food or ours?
Yours. The first few days are your recipes: you show the sambar, the spice level, the oil limit. Cooks are hired to follow your kitchen's way, not theirs.
What happens if we're travelling for a week?
Tell us in advance. Planned absences are easier to cover with notice — replacement support is available where possible, but a week's warning helps far more than a day's.
Can she cook for guests or a small function at home?
Say so before you confirm the shift. Extra-quantity cooking works when it's part of the agreement from day one, not an assumption later.
My father's doctor has put him on a no-salt diet. Is that followed?
Medical diets are followed exactly as written. Give the instructions in writing if it helps — low-oil, no-onion and diabetic-friendly meals are routine asks.
Do I have to be home while she cooks?
No. Most families hand over the kitchen and leave for work. Trust is built on the profile, the introduction and the first week — not on you standing in the kitchen.
What languages will she speak with my mother?
Tell us your language preference in the first message — you'll see it on each profile, and your mother will meet her before anything is confirmed.
Can the same person also do evening snack prep?
Duties are what you agree. If the shift includes evening prep, say so — the scope is set before she starts, not renegotiated daily.
Areas we cover
Common questions
Questions about cooking in Chennai
Practical answers on shifts, duties, verification, and what happens after you message.
Ask on WhatsAppCall +91 9176555533Message on WhatsApp with your locality, which meals you need (breakfast, lunch or dinner), and your shift preference. You'll hear back usually within the hour with matching cooks, and the next step is an introduction — you talk to the person before deciding.
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