Pizza Hut...

Freddie_Snowbits

Now wash your hands!

chuckley

LittleCharlie wrote: »

Prob have bigger things to worry about to be honest - Dad is manager of one of the local London boroughs for Enviro Health / Trading Standards.

Last week they shut down a kebab shop because not only was it rat infested, but they found TWO dead, deep fried rats in the deep fat fryer which must have fallen in there.

Give me no gloves and change handling any day!

the chips musta been black then...

uganda

Not often I agree with uktim in either his 29 or 31 incarnation, but the gloves thing is a bit of a red herring. Top chefs on telly and 'you at home' aren't handling money, nor are they generally cooking for the paying public, so the analogy isn't brilliant, and his prejudices will always place him alongside a big firm like Pizza Hut (how else would he annoy people on a consumer forum), but I do see what he means.

Hands that are preparing food should be clean, not necessarily gloved. Handling change then food is certainly wrong, but personally I would only find this an issue if the food being handled wasn't about to have all the germs cooked out of it.

It is of course impossible to guarantee complete sterility in a restaurant of any size, and the rather delicate fact is that just about everything you eat (in a restaurant or not) has unwanted bacteria on it from either direct or indirect contact with humans or even animals. Thankfully the vast majority of us have strong immune systems that not only deal with such things but are actually protected by them. It can of course be difficult to deal with this when you see for yourself a compromise of hygenic standards, as has happened here.

uganda

uktim31 wrote: »

Actually most of them on TV often are cooking for the public in one form or another.

Generally not, it's usually just for the benefit of studio guests and presenters.

I do agree with your general point however, even though I probably took a different path to get there.