No Hats Or Hair Protection Whilst Cooking

[malagabob]

It still continues. Saturday morning kitchen I think it was. Janet Street Porter and others. No one except the actual kitchen chefs were wearing head protection. And yes before anyone says, Ah but they were not cooking for customers.. Would it not be the program makers responsibility to change this lack of hygiene
that continues irrespective of whether cooking for customers or not?

[Fitzer]

So whilst cooking at home for friends and family I should wear hair and beard nets?

[guilliebrougues]

When I make pastry pies for ourselves I do not bother wearing a hair protection, but , if I am making something to take for a function or a neighbour, I always wear hair protection. And always wear an apron regardless of who the meals baking etc., is for.

[guilliebrougues]

It makes me wonder, if caterers have taken the Basic Food Hygiene course. I took one ten years ago and still keep up the techniques. The more you use these rules and regulations it becomes a habit after a while.
Surely these cookery programmes should set a good example. I am not mentioning any names, but, didn't one well known cookery writer who was on the T. V, cook whilst wearing her fur coat!

[sandyRoe]

Fur coat and no hairnet?

[guilliebrougues]

That's right Sandyroe. and she has long hair to. It goes to show fur coat and no .... :) hairnet!

[diddlydo]

Not wearing hairnets is a very minor or even non-issue compared to TV chefs who touch raw meat and then stick their hand in e.g. a bowl of salt to take out a pinch or touch anything else in the kitchen without washing their hands.

[237SJ]

I agree with diddlydo. I hate to see the food fingered so much. Nowadays, food has become 'art' and has to be arranged on the plate in a way that is appealing to the eye (although I don`t call piling it up like a mountain and smearing the sauce around the plate in squiggles appealing). To get that effect, the food has been fingered, poked and prodded to within an inch of it`s life. I`ll be glad when that fad has passed.

[snags]

Surprisingly, the people who run my local kebab and burger van don't wear hats or hairnets either.

[dunnitall]

IMO there is rarely any hygienic practices on TV cookery shows, no washing of hands or foods and rarely ordinary people who do the cooking wearing head cover. Gives out the wrong message to the public as far as I am concerned.

[guilliebrougues]

credit where it is due. We are lucky to have bakery shops near us and ( a thirty mile radious ) and I am pleased to say that the staff always wear hats with hairnets attached.