Hire a full-time cook in Bangalore
A full-time cook handles all the day's meals for one household — breakfast, lunch, dinner and the prep around them. Review ID-verified profiles, agree the menu pattern, and put the hours in writing.
Hire a full-time cook in Bangalore
A full-time cook is for households where the kitchen genuinely runs all day — joint families, homes with young children or elderly parents, anyone who wants three fresh meals rather than two and a reheat. The cook works for you alone and handles the prep, not just the cooking.
It is also the best-paid household role, and worth treating as a skilled one. A cook your family likes is the hardest hire to replace, which is precisely why families who find a good one hold on to them — and why being clear about cuisine and quantity from day one pays for itself.
What a full-time cook usually does
How to hire, in four honest steps
Post your cook job
Share the role, your locality in Bangalore, timings and budget. It takes about two minutes.
Review verified applicants
Compare experience, skills and ID verification at a glance — you always know who you are talking to.
Chat & agree on terms
Settle salary, hours, weekly off and duties over secure in-app chat. You decide the terms.
Sign a digital agreement
What you both agreed is recorded in a simple digital work agreement — clear for both sides.
What sets the rate
Number of meals and people, cuisine range, whether grocery shopping and full kitchen clean-up are included, and the hours. Three meals for a joint family is a materially bigger job than three meals for two, and should be paid as one.
We do not publish a salary table for Bangalore, and that is deliberate. No independent source measures home-help pay reliably below city level, and an invented number would only anchor you to something with nothing behind it. Work it out from the job in front of you and agree it directly — Sevetu takes no commission either way.
How to get a police verification in Bangalore
Sevetu runs an identity (KYC) check — Aadhaar or government ID. That confirms a person is who they say they are. It is not a police or criminal-background check, and we will never describe it as one. What we do and do not check →
If you want a police check as well — and for live-in roles, childcare and drivers it is worth it — you arrange it yourself, and in Bangalore there is an official route. Karnataka State Police handles it through the Police Verification Certificate for domestic servants and housekeeping. Karnataka runs this as a fully online service — you apply with an OTP, upload the documents, and the digitally signed certificate is delivered by email. It is also available through Seva Sindhu and KarnatakaOne. Karnataka State Police — official portal →
Government processes change. Check the official Karnataka State Police site for the current form, fee and documents before you apply. Sevetu is not affiliated with any police department.
Full-time cooks by neighbourhood
Each Bangalore area has its own page with the roles households there hire most, and the areas next to it.
Koramangala · Indiranagar · Marathahalli · Sarjapur Road · Electronic City · Bellandur · JP Nagar · Jayanagar · BTM Layout · Hebbal · HSR Layout · Whitefield
Where Sevetu is in Bangalore right now
Sevetu is newest in Bangalore — we started in Bengaluru and are opening city by city. Posting a job is free and takes about two minutes, and verified helpers in your area apply to it. If nobody suitable applies, you have lost nothing but the two minutes. We would rather tell you that than pretend to a roster we do not yet have.
Why hire through Sevetu
ID-verified profiles
Every profile can carry a Verified badge from an identity (KYC) check — Aadhaar / government-ID — so you know who you are letting into your home. (It is an identity check, not a police background check.) How verification works →
Safe, in-app chat
Talk before you decide. Your phone number stays private and every conversation stays on record.
No commission, agreed in writing
You pay the worker directly — Sevetu never takes a cut. Salary, hours, weekly off, leave and notice are documented in a digital work agreement both sides accept.
Frequently asked questions
Usually a split day rather than a straight eight hours — morning for breakfast and lunch, a break, then back for dinner. Agree both windows explicitly, because an unplanned split day is really two commutes.
Not by default. Cooking is a distinct skill and most full-time cooks are hired for it alone. If you want cleaning too, that is a combined role — post it as one and pay for both rather than expanding it later.
Usually the household, though many full-time cooks will shop and keep accounts for an added amount. Decide before the first week and write down who keeps receipts.
Yes. Applicants list what they genuinely cook — South Indian and Karnataka cooking, North Indian, Andhra, Bengali, Jain and pure-veg. Listing a cuisine nobody in your house eats is how you end up replacing a perfectly good cook.
We do not publish a figure. Cooking pay varies with meals, people, cuisine and hours, and there is no reliable source below city level. Agree it directly with the cook — Sevetu takes no commission from either side.
A part-time cook comes once or twice for specific meals. A full-time cook runs the kitchen. Compare part-time →
Yes, paid. A full-time cook is a long engagement and one trial day tells you about quantity, timing and taste in a way no interview can.
Cooks can carry a Verified badge from an Aadhaar or government-ID identity check. It is an identity check, not a police check or a culinary qualification.
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