diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pychef/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pychef/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index ddd7dec820db..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pychef/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-{ lib
-, buildPythonPackage
-, fetchPypi
-, six
-, requests
-, mock
-, unittest2
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname    = "PyChef";
-  version = "0.3.0";
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "0zdz8lw545cd3a34cpib7mdwnad83gr2mrrxyj3v74h4zhwabhmg";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ six requests mock unittest2 ];
-
-  # FIXME
-  doCheck = false;
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    homepage = "https://github.com/coderanger/pychef";
-    description = "Python implementation of a Chef API client";
-    license = licenses.bsd0;
-  };
-
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index fd1f7cb50bf9..67e22288a89c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   pydrive = throw "pydrive is broken and deprecated and has been replaced with pydrive2."; # added 2022-06-01
   pyGtkGlade = throw "Glade support for pygtk has been removed"; # added 2022-01-15
   pycallgraph = throw "pycallgraph has been removed, it was using setuptools 2to3 translation feature, which has been removed in setuptools 58"; # added 2022-01-18
+  pychef = throw "pychef has been removed because it's been archived upstream and abandoned since 2017."; # added 2022-11-14
   pycryptodome-test-vectors = throw "pycryptodome-test-vectors has been removed because it is an internal package to pycryptodome"; # added 2022-05-28
   pyialarmxr = pyialarmxr-homeassistant; # added 2022-06-07
   pyialarmxr-homeassistant = throw "The package was removed together with the component support in home-assistant 2022.7.0"; # added 2022-07-07
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index e53cc1f64213..25cf19cdb64f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -7595,8 +7595,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   pychart = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pychart { };
 
-  pychef = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pychef { };
-
   pychm = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pychm { };
 
   PyChromecast = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pychromecast { };