Fast food: Australian chefs prepare 1,600 meals for soldiers on Exercise Talisman Sabre

Members of the Australian Army Catering Corps have been demonstrating their skills in the field kitchen as they prepared over one thousand meals for Exercise Talisman Sabre.

Cooking and preparing 1,600 hot box meals in just one morning, the team filmed their work in a YouTube video released by the Australian Armed Forces.

"My guys have been up since two o'clock cooking," said Corporal Shakira Wells, who works with the AACC.

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Exercise Talisman Sabre is a biennial exercise between Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and colleagues from Tonga and Indonesia.

To ensure the exercise ran efficiently, the AACC had to work through the night to prepare 1,600 breakfasts for the serving personnel.

Corporal Wells added: "For breakfast this morning we have French toast.

"We've got oven-roasted tomatoes, fried and scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, and baked beans and mushrooms."

Done in support of Seven and Three Brigade, as well as their international partners, the chefs had to first prepare all the meals and then had just 50 minutes to pack up all the food in hot boxes ready for serving.

The kitchen holds roughly 20 kilograms of baked beans, 130 kilograms of mushrooms, 3,200 eggs and 1,600 pieces of bacon.

The AACC also caters to vegans, vegetarians and gluten-free, as well as soldiers who do not eat pork or beef.

Another member of the AACC known as BB said: "It's my sixth year in the army and I was a chef beforehand.

"I was working in Civvie Street for about 10 years and came back here as a cook.

"It's so good in the army, you can explore lots of places. We're all here for the soldiers."