The kitchen maid
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Typology:
The kitchen maid is usually owned by a restaurant, club or wealthy household. She is kept together with other kitchen staff in slave quarters near the kitchen and normally has no business outside this area unless she is sent - specially secured - to buy food or drink.
Their core tasks include any kind of auxiliary work in the kitchen, such as shopping for and preparing cooking ingredients, assisting the cooks in preparing the food, washing the dirty dishes and tidying and cleaning the kitchen. Because kitchen maids tended to perform their duties in the semi-darkness of the hot and steamy kitchens and the masters did not often get to see this species, cheap and less attractive specimens with inferior intellectual abilities were usually employed.
They were supervised either by the slave overseers of the house and/or the chefs, who were often very rude and brutal with the kitchen maids, as they represented one of the lowest ranks in the domestic slave hierarchy. As the material value of this type of female was very low, the rest of the kitchen staff did not pay particular attention to their long durability.
