Which of these is not traditionally true of a chef's hat?

The traditional tall, white, pleated chef’s hat is officially called a ‘toque’, which is the Arabic word for hat. This word was used for thousands of years to mean any brimless hat but the French popularized using ‘toque’ to refer to a chef’s hat. (A ‘tuque’, on the other hand, is a woolly ski cap.)

Why hats? Some say King Henry VIII beheaded a chef after finding a hair in his meal, so all the chefs after that wore hats while cooking.

The reason chefs’ hats and uniforms are traditionally white is to show the kitchen and staff are clean. Today, especially in open kitchens, chefs can wear dark hats for a more polished look that doesn’t show stains or spills.

Traditionally, the height of a chef’s hat signified rank in the kitchen. The executive chef wore the tallest hat.

Historically, the number of pleats in a chef’s hat represented how many techniques or recipes they had mastered. For example, a chef would have 100 pleats in their hat to represent 100 ways they could prepare eggs.