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re: Anybody ever watch cooking videos and get shocked at the poor handling of food?
Posted on 6/8/20 at 1:35 pm to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 6/8/20 at 1:35 pm to SlowFlowPro
1. I am constantly concerned about this during football season at my tailgates. I am pretty diligent on trying to keep things clean but always worry I am going to be the source of some food borne disease outbreak.
2. Had a friend that worked in commercial pest control and did many of the restaurants in town. He told me stuff a couple of times and I told him to stop telling me. My favorite was he went in a well-known Chinese restaurant and there was an Asian guy sitting on the floor in shorts and flip flops, no shirt - sweating profusely (it was summer and they either weren't running the AC or had it off/it wasn't keeping up). The guy had a huge bucket of raw chicken on one side, a chopping block in front of him and a bucket of chopped chicken on the other. He said guy was going to town with a cleaver chopping this chicken up and sweat, chicken juice and who knows what else was flying around visibly as he chopped away. Everyone else was just walking around the guy.
2. Had a friend that worked in commercial pest control and did many of the restaurants in town. He told me stuff a couple of times and I told him to stop telling me. My favorite was he went in a well-known Chinese restaurant and there was an Asian guy sitting on the floor in shorts and flip flops, no shirt - sweating profusely (it was summer and they either weren't running the AC or had it off/it wasn't keeping up). The guy had a huge bucket of raw chicken on one side, a chopping block in front of him and a bucket of chopped chicken on the other. He said guy was going to town with a cleaver chopping this chicken up and sweat, chicken juice and who knows what else was flying around visibly as he chopped away. Everyone else was just walking around the guy.
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Posted on 6/8/20 at 1:42 pm to SlowFlowPro
I do notice they will handle raw meat and then grab the pepper grinder
Posted on 6/8/20 at 2:21 pm to SlowFlowPro
Hope you don’t eat at restaurants.
Posted on 6/8/20 at 2:37 pm to Nicky Parrish
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I do notice they will handle raw meat and then grab the pepper grinder
Jacques Pepin has been doing some short cooking at home videos during the virus on Facebook. He does this all the time and goes right to the salt cellar without washing his hands, also. I notice it, but I don't freak out about it. I don't do it though.
Posted on 6/8/20 at 2:45 pm to jbgleason
This is content
Posted on 6/8/20 at 3:08 pm to Gris Gris
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He does this all the time and goes right to the salt cellar without washing his hands
i THINK this is kosher (puns for everyone) b/c salt kills the bacteria, apparently
Posted on 6/8/20 at 3:10 pm to schexyoung
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Hope you don’t eat at restaurants.
this has been referenced a few times and i have a couple responses
1. restaurants don't have the option of editing. you expect a more perfect presentation from a video
2. restaurants usually hide the cooking from the public (for this reason). they're not trying to display potential miscues
Posted on 6/8/20 at 3:15 pm to BigPerm30
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I love when they taste the food with a spoon and then put the spoon back in the pot. It happens all the time on these cooking competition shows.
No lie I've always felt the same. In chopped they ALWAYS do it... then one time out of no where one of the judges freaked out on the guy! Like lost his shite after all these years
Can't remember which judge but I believe it was the mid 40s man who know Italian food. He can kinda be a dick sometimes. Gonna see if I can find his name or the clip. ok so I think it was Scott Conant. But I can't really remember. The guy is normally nice. But would REALLY lose his shite on some weird small mistakes. Like if someone made an Italian dish and called it by the wrong name... watch out, Scott's about to tear them a new onw
This post was edited on 6/8/20 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 6/8/20 at 3:29 pm to SlowFlowPro
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i THINK this is kosher (puns for everyone) b/c salt kills the bacteria, apparently
It doesn't apply to grabbing the pepper grinder, though.
Posted on 6/8/20 at 4:13 pm to Gris Gris
no. not at all.
Posted on 6/8/20 at 10:05 pm to SlowFlowPro
Shocked? No.
Disgusted? Definitely.
As someone who has gone through multiple ServSafe classes, it kills me when someone thinks they are a chef with zero disregard to the people they are cooking for. If you can't follow simple things like washing hands and cross contamination, then I guarantee you everything else is filthy as frig. Lack of food safety isn't in every restaurant. Usually you can tell when you walk in the dining area if they give a crap or not. Just watch a Kitchen Nightmares and you'll see the 'tells' of these restaurants. The main thing being layers of dust on shelves and curtains.
Anyway, even Sam the Cooking Guy messes up sometimes with his chicken handling. It's something he has acknowledged and I believe he has fixed his handling methods paying more attention. Food safety is all fun and games until you get sick or others sick. I'd rather see a tasting spoon go back than mishandling of chicken. But both are repulsive.
Disgusted? Definitely.
As someone who has gone through multiple ServSafe classes, it kills me when someone thinks they are a chef with zero disregard to the people they are cooking for. If you can't follow simple things like washing hands and cross contamination, then I guarantee you everything else is filthy as frig. Lack of food safety isn't in every restaurant. Usually you can tell when you walk in the dining area if they give a crap or not. Just watch a Kitchen Nightmares and you'll see the 'tells' of these restaurants. The main thing being layers of dust on shelves and curtains.
Anyway, even Sam the Cooking Guy messes up sometimes with his chicken handling. It's something he has acknowledged and I believe he has fixed his handling methods paying more attention. Food safety is all fun and games until you get sick or others sick. I'd rather see a tasting spoon go back than mishandling of chicken. But both are repulsive.
Posted on 6/8/20 at 10:18 pm to drdoct
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it kills me when someone thinks they are a chef with zero disregard to the people they are cooking for
Yeah, the person who mentioned tailgates is spot on. You see a lot of old guys out there patting themselves on the back for their cooking while their food sits in the danger zone for 3 hours.
I went to someone's house one time who let his raw chicken (that was out already when I arrived) sit on the counter all the way until halftime for the Super Bowl.
I just don't mess around with that kind of thing and don't take my chances. This is also why I was never a fan of office pot lucks and also why I always tell people no thank you when they offer to bring things over for events.
Posted on 6/8/20 at 10:42 pm to gumbo2176
quote:Thanks for going out of your way to say what race owned the restaurant. That was important.
One of the worst was a popular black owned restaurant
Posted on 6/9/20 at 6:41 am to FishinTygah84
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i'm always shocked at the amount of sweat pouring off of contestants while handling food. you know that crap ends up in the food somehow.
The thing I think about is what’s happening at actual restaurants.
People make fun of Waffle House and fast food places but what happens in closed kitchens of high end restaurants is probably much worse.
Posted on 6/9/20 at 6:51 am to drdoct
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even Sam the Cooking Guy messes up sometimes with his chicken handling. It's something he has acknowledged
The only thing that I have ever seen him acknowledge is him telling the audience that he washes his hands off camera and to stop complaining about his food handling
Posted on 6/9/20 at 6:54 am to Sus-Scrofa
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On shows like Chopped, if they're having a round that involves alcohol they always try to get at least one contestant to take a swig. They always just drink right out of the bottle before using it during the competition, which is surprising if it's real.
It's editing... they are drinking from the bottle after they use it for the food, but then edited to look the other way.
Or they have multiple bottles.
Posted on 6/9/20 at 7:16 am to LouisianaLady
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while their food sits in the danger zone for 3 hours.
oh this is a whole nother thing
"i always do this and i've never been sick before"
Posted on 6/9/20 at 7:24 am to SlowFlowPro
If you aren’t eating a boudin ball that was in the car for a hour from Scott than just in the box on a table for 3 hours then you aren’t tailgating my friend.
Posted on 6/9/20 at 7:36 am to LouisianaLady
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This is also why I was never a fan of office pot lucks and also why I always tell people no thank you when they offer to bring things over for events.
Where I worked back in 2008 they always went all out for Christmas. Nice restaurant, all the stops.
During the 2008 downturn they got a little cheap and held the Christmas party at the office and brought in a mix of catered food and homemade.
Overnight, people started texting each other asking if anyone else was getting sick. The next work day only half the office showed up.
Three employees and two wives ended up in the hospital.
We were back at the nice restaurant the next year.
Posted on 6/9/20 at 7:44 am to bigberg2000
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If you aren’t eating a boudin ball that was in the car for a hour from Scott than just in the box on a table for 3 hours then you aren’t tailgating my friend.
Factual statement.
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