I would not let a professional chef into my house

[Randomguy]

I have said it before, but these guys and girls are absolutely disgusting with their hygiene.  They go from handling meat, dipping fingers into a salt bowl, then immediately grab a grinder for pepper, handle plates and other food, and will MAYBE wipe their hands with towels.  Gross.

[bikeman564™]

who?

[Razors Edge ★]

Yet you RUN to their restaurants and PAY for their food?  All the while exposing yourself to the horrific hygiene of the common man in the restaurant with you!

[Randomguy]

13 minutes ago, bikeman564™ said:

who?

Every single one that I have seen on tv.

[Randomguy]

13 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

Yet you RUN to their restaurants and PAY for their food?  All the while exposing yourself to the horrific hygiene of the common man in the restaurant with you!

Ha, everyone is SPRINTING to restaurants (that aren't even open)!

[MickinMD ★]

1 hour ago, Randomguy said:

I have said it before, but these guys and girls are absolutely disgusting with their hygiene.  They go from handling meat, dipping fingers into a salt bowl, then immediately grab a grinder for pepper, handle plates and other food, and will MAYBE wipe their hands with towels.  Gross.

True of most - lots of cross-contamination, though they've got a limited time to do everything so I don't think they'd do it off-camera.

Some are careful. Jacques Pepin spends half his shows washing and drying his hands.  Lidia Bastianich often lectures about cross-contamination on her Italian cooking shows.

I thought you were going to say you don't like their pet peeves.  My mother's older sister and her daughter, my cousin, were/are spectacularly great cooks but real particular about how you make Polish dishes.  I often consult my cousin about making things I've never made before and tell her I looked at several online recipes and she goes off with, "That's not how you make it!" even for simple stuff like Haluski (pronounced ha-loosh-key: simply cabbage fried to softness in butter and cooked egg noodles added).  I love sweet onions - I added a lot of onion slices to both the mac & cheese and sloppy Joes I made last night - and you can fry Haluski with onions, bacon, kielbasa, and basically anything else that goes with egg noodles. You can also stir in cottage cheese and or sour cream at the end. But she'll say, "No, it tastes best with butter, cabbage, and egg noodles ALONE - you can have all that other shit but serve it on the side."

I like it with kielbasa, cottaqe cheese, and sour cream and often leave out the cabbage altogether - which turns it into "Poor Man's Pierogies."

So, when I'm cooking, I don't think I'd like a great chef looking over my shoulder - except maybe Jacques Pepin and Sara Moulton (Weeknight Meals show) because they're always mentioning optional things you can do.

[Razors Edge ★]

1 hour ago, Randomguy said:

Ha, everyone is SPRINTING to restaurants (that aren't even open)!

So, cooking shows taped pre-COVID - back when you WERE sprinting to restaurants - are ?????  Seriously, you aren't going to restaurants NOW because of the Trump Flu, but once that's curtailed - sometime around Easter - you'll be back in the dens of germiness gladly eating what they cook.

And the chefs on TV are the CLEAN ones. God knows what you eat with the ones that cook at your local restaurants.

[Kzoo]

1 hour ago, Randomguy said:

Every single one that I have seen on tv.

It's TV you dolt.  No one eats the stuff they cook.  It's for the camera.

And who says they (whoever they is) would want to cook in your kitchen.  You have those fake butcher knives.

 

[MoseySusan]

I love cooking shows. Did you see the time(s) Rachel Ray sliced her finger? 

[Kzoo]

2 minutes ago, roadsue said:

I love cooking shows. Did you see the time(s) Rachel Ray sliced her finger? 

Added protein.

[MoseySusan]

Just now, Kzoo said:

Added protein.

She definitely flavored the dish with a little human heme. 

[Kzoo]

53 minutes ago, roadsue said:

a little human heme.

Is that anything like hummus?

 

[Randomguy]

I have the sound off while I am working.  Emmeril just stuffed garlic into holes he sliced in a rack of lamb, and then he immediately grabbed the blender and turned it on without wiping hands.  This is clearly habit for them.  

[Randomguy]

1 hour ago, MickinMD said:

Some are careful. Jacques Pepin spends half his shows washing and drying his hands.  Lidia Bastianich often lectures about cross-contamination on her Italian cooking shows.

Jacques I have seen, Lidia not.  When I cook for others, I go through so many spoons it is ridiculous, and I wash my hands several times when unpackaging meat and spicing it up.

 

 

[Randomguy]

1 hour ago, Razors Edge said:

So, cooking shows taped pre-COVID - back when you WERE sprinting to restaurants - are ?????  Seriously, you aren't going to restaurants NOW because of the Trump Flu, but once that's curtailed - sometime around Easter - you'll be back in the dens of germiness gladly eating what they cook.

And the chefs on TV are the CLEAN ones. God knows what you eat with the ones that cook at your local restaurants.

I haven't gone to a lot of restaurants in the last few years, kind of a money drain.  I did like it prior, though.  Watching these cooking shows is creeping me out, I certainly will be careful if I end up going back.  It is probable that in restaurants, division of prep work and actual cooking will be adhered to and make it safer.

I won't be sprinting, not with these shows.  I do like restaurant dining, but the trump slump means that won't be taking place well into the foreseeable future.

[Randomguy]

1 hour ago, Kzoo said:

It's TV you dolt.  No one eats the stuff they cook.  It's for the camera.

And who says they (whoever they is) would want to cook in your kitchen.  You have those fake butcher knives.

 

That is like saying they don't really orgasm in porn.  SOMEBODY in the audience or crew is eating what is made, or having orgasms, or something.

I have not had an orgasm in my kitchen, though.

[Razors Edge ★]

2 minutes ago, Randomguy said:

I haven't gone to a lot of restaurants in the last few years, kind of a money drain.  I did like it prior, though.  Watching these cooking shows is creeping me out, I certainly will be careful if I end up going back.  It is probable that in restaurants, division of prep work and actual cooking will be adhered to and make it safer.

I won't be sprinting, not with these shows...

Chipotle or Chik Fil a or local Pizza Shop or any number of restaurants have "chefs" which are very likely to surprise you with their cleanliness 

[Randomguy]

39 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

Chipotle or Chik Fil a or local Pizza Shop or any number of restaurants have "chefs" which are very likely to surprise you with their cleanliness 

Chipotle's are always getting shut down every few weeks before the pandemic, I think they are to be avoided in perpetuity.  Chick-fil-a I suspect to be reasonably clean.