Re: Chefs - Washing hands
Originally Posted by
susiejaeger
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I don't know about you, but every cooking programme I watch, none of the Chefs wash their hands or tie their hair back.
I watched this morning, British Menu, three people in a contest to be a Chef and one bloke had a big long beard and scruffy hair, but not one of them tied their hairs back or washed their hands in between courses.
You don't know where their hands have been, quite disgusting, I wash my hands and put an apron on when cooking.
Oh how I agree with you sj. It turns my stomach too when I see them tasting their food with a spoon and then dipping that same spoon back into whatever dish they are concocting after having it in their mouth! It's disgusting.
Agree also how often one sees them handling raw fish and meat and then going on to handle salad stuff. You never see them going to the tap to wash their hands first. OMG!
The qualified Chefs, as you say, should know better too. When my brother owned a restaurant years ago before retiring, he had it built with the kitchen open for the public to see, both cooks and waiting staff had hair tied back, cooks in white with hats, waiters and waitresses with proper uniforms with the women having to have their hair tied into either a bun or topknot. (they didn't have any waiters with long hair).
Mind you, having built the whole premises in cooperation with the local Health & Hygiene department, he was bloomin paranoid about Hygiene in there and always inspected the staff dress before service, and woe betide any staff member who broke hygiene rules. Even the chap in the potato room with the rumbling potato peeler machine who did nothing else, had to have the correct whites on!!