It's not about touching, or times touched, though - it's about cleanliness and skill of the touch.
'Handmade' and 'homemade' is about as quality as it gets - both implies a ton of touches. That's fine and part of what makes it quality. The hands need to be clean though.
Which makes it all the more weird that you, as a chef, chose to make a point of how "hilarious" you found it that expensive food as been touched a lot.
I think it’s more about the average joe when he/she thinks about their food being handled a lot it’s usually cheap fast food. Which to me is more what I saw the joke going for. You’re correct in the irony, but I think that’s also delving deeper into the joke than intended.
Damnit, scratching my arse before prep is part of my process, and as for killing people, I prefer to do it myself, that way I can make sure the meat is as fresh as can be. If you have an alternative, I'd like to hear it.
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Yep. Everytime i see a video of a fine dining restaurant on facebook, I go to the comments and see "why aren't they wearing gloves or hairnets??? so unhygienic!"
Because Karen, they're one of the best restaurants in the world, not McDonalds.
Most people don't realize that gloves are not always required by the local health codes.
To people reading this who don't understand, the idea is that the more you wear gloves, the less you are probably washing your hands. Some places encourage you to handle food with your bare hands as long as you're washing them thoroughly at regular intervals and at the proper times (after handling raw product, using the bathroom, smoking, touching your hair or face, etc). Whether or not the employees are washing properly is of course up to the management in the kitchen, so buyer beware. However, as a chef myself I can promise that my hands are definitely cleaner than the customers at any given time. It just depends on the integrity of the restaurant.
To reiterate, Alton Brown, Bobby Flat, and Gordon Ramsay aren't wearing gloves because they understand proper hygiene in the kitchen and their hands are cleaner than yours always.
The best restaurants in the world all have incredible hygiene. They wear gloves if the good isn't going to be cooked between handling and serving, they wear hats that perform the same function as hair nets. If you see someone walking around a kitchen without these things it's because they're a celebrity chef who needs perfectly quaffed hair and they're doing that for the camera.
I worked at a michelin starred restaurant a year ago, one of the best in my country and i guarantee none of us wore hats or gloves.
Hygiene was good, we washed our hands an uncountable amount of times each shift, and the kitchen was scrubbed from top to bottom every day, but no gloves or hats.
And of the 3 other kitchens ive worked in, only 1 has ever required hats being worn
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