Not only on Iron Chef: America, but just about any other cooking shows on TV these days: when the chefs begin plating, they are always putting their hands all over the food. What ever happened to using spoons and ladles? Maybe it's just me, but if I knew somebody was putting their hands all over the food I was about to eat, I probably wouldn't frequent that restaurant anymore.
shareif their hands are clean it's cool.
Oh, and remember, next Friday is Hawaiian shirt day.
Hands are the best tool one could have, and one gets a lot more precision using them rather than utensils. As long as one keeps one's hands clean, there is no reason not to use them.
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—Joseph of Cordoba
agree ... I'd like to see more of a barrier between human handler and food ... utensils ... do any use gloves ?
" Three can keep a secret, if two are dead "
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If you knew what really went on in restaurant kitchens you might not want to eat out. Have you read Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential? It's quite informative. Chefs cut themselves, touch the food with their hands all the time, and sweat buckets in hot kitchens.
shareIf my food was being cooked by an iron chef I wouldn't care if they touched it. They are experienced enough to know when and how often to wash thier hadns. Also if you really think that chefs use gloves when they're plating you're wrong. They are chefs not Mc Donalds workers.
But the sweat will bother me though.
hand washing is a good thing.
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Yes, it bothers me to no end. But if you eat out, someone's likely putting their hands all over your food.
I hope the Health Dept. is doing it's job while I live in a state of denial.
If you can't walk and talk/text at the same time, do the rest of us a favor and get out of the way.
The worst is when I see them eating the food with their hands and then continuing to cook with the hands they just stuck in their mouth. OR, when they take one spoon and try one thing they are working on, getting their mouth all over the spoon, and then try something else with the same spoon **COUGH** AN EPISODE OF CHOPPED **COUGH**.
Seriously, all I could think of was "what if that guy has some kind of disease or something"...I mean, it's completely plausible that a chef preparing your food has some kind of illness...uhhh, I feel sick just thinking about it.
I don't see the big deal if they've washed them since going to the bathroom and they're not sick. You see judges eat the food all the time and they're fine. People are trying to keep things too pristine clean these days.
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^ Agreed. This obsession with pristine cleanness is actually making us sick. Getting exposed to a bit of germs every now and then is what builds up your immune system, don't get so paranoid people. And the bad ones are cooked out. That's why we cook food!
The chef's hands are clean anyway, as clean as any utensils. And gloves are more likely to contaminate food than clean hands as plastic tends to leak into food and is really bad for you.
I rarely wash my hands (of course I do sometimes after certain situations), and I haven't been sick in over two years.
shareI'm sure a hour or so of filming the OP would show'em stick a finger up the nose and then back on the car wheel. Everybody does it. It's life. The key is keeping it managed not perfected. Big difference between peep's of the caliber we see on the show vs the modern-day-slave in the local restaurants!
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