Continuing Education

Keep your credential current. Learn from approved providers everywhere.

The requirement

Continuing education starts one year after your first belt above White Belt - the Brown Belt is the first one. Until then nothing is required, and anything you earn early still counts. From that date, CAIBOK certificants complete 12 continuing-education credit hours per year: at least 2 in Food Safety and 1 each in Professional Cooking and Business - the remaining 8 are your free choice, in any pillar. One credit generally equals one hour of instruction. (The annual food-safety card renewal itself earns 1 Food Safety credit.)

12 / year 2+ Food Safety1+ Professional Cooking1+ Business8 your choice

How credits work

  1. Approved providers register each activity with CAIBOK; the activity receives a unique CE reference number (like CE-A2B3C4).
  2. When you complete an activity, the provider gives you its reference number - some providers report your completion to CAIBOK automatically.
  3. Log in and submit the reference number on your My CE page. It must match the registry - that is what keeps credits meaningful.
  4. Your CE status (total and per pillar, rolling 12 months) is always visible on your My CE page.

Go to My CE

Approved CE providers

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CEP-1001BlackBeltCheflearn.blackbeltchef.com

CAIBOK publishes standards and keeps the registry; designated evaluation bodies review and approve credit-worthiness. Approval here is a real decision with a gate on it - a provider applies, meets published criteria, pays the registry fee, and every activity is approved before it can carry credit. What it means is exact and narrow: this provider may report continuing-education credit. It is not a judgment on their courses, and it never makes their training an official or preferred route to a CAIBOK credential. There is no such thing as CAIBOK-approved training.

Become a CE provider

Culinary schools, associations, seminar organizers and online educators can apply to offer CAIBOK-creditable training - online or in person. Approved providers are listed in the public directory, receive a provider number, and can register activities that carry CE reference numbers.

Apply to become a provider