Hygiene on Masterchef

Yes he was. He played a maverick doctor.

Or have I got the wrong bloke?

Ade was in Holby wasn't he?

The fact that we never see a contestant washing his/her hands doesn't meant that they don't. These programmes are necessarily subject to a great deal of editing.

I like JSP but I think she had a brief to fulfill for the sake of the ratings. I didn't feel her stroppiness and stuborn attitude was genuine this time but just a big act.

I taught year 8s who could have done a better job of presenting her final dishes.

I think Ade Edmonson has done a really good job of re-inventing his TV profile. DH thinks his jokes are childish and unfunny but I've been living with that sort of humour for forty-five years so I'm used to it!!

#takesonetoknowone

I liked all the competitors - even JSP - for her honesty and sense of fun.

I'm trying to imagine Vivian in The Young Ones cooking anything

Well Done, Ade.

A lovely and underrrated bloke IMO

Glad it wasn't JSP

My daughter has just given me a fridge magnet which reads "Many people have eaten a meal in this house and gone on to lead long and happy lives" She may be trying to tell me something!

Good gracious! I will not be able to invite u to my place for a meal! Basic hygiene etc is fine but I think some of you would be horrified by my slap dash approach!
I have not poisoned anyone yet!

What is wrong with dipping your piece of bread into the same bowl of cheese goo that someone else has or flash frying a cube of meat in the same pot of hot oil ? It's on the end of a dipping fork! I used to love fondues!

You need to try eating form a communal bowl like many cultures do, then you might worry! All those hands scooping up food from a central tray...

The Hairy Bikers with all their rings and bracelets make me cringe.

I worked in a hospital in Greater London, and one summer, when the kitchens were being refurbished, they set up a barbecue every lunchtime in a grassy area outside the kitchens. Someone working in an office which overlooked this area saw the chef go into the bushes, have a pee, then go straight back to his cooking. He reported this and the chap was never see again.

Just watching tonight's episode of Celebrity Masterchef, and can't get this thread out of my mind watching the floppy hair, designer stubble, dangling earrings , tattoos - and I haven't yet seen anyone washing and properly drying their hands. Hygiene horror!

Also, I haven't heard of any of the celebrities, but then I rarely have - bit of that particular loop.

Oh Elegran - if that's true it's hilarious! Reminds me of that specsavers ad where the bloke goes into a sauna and then realises he's in Ramsay's kitchen .
My son used to work in a restaurant and said there used to be a pot of chocolate sauce (for the ice-cream dessert) perpetually on the stove. They just used to add more ingredients when it was getting low. He also mentioned how many cockroaches were running around after hours... Of course he only mentioned this AFTER I'd eaten there - though I didn't have the ice-cream thank goodness!

absent. Hopefully the chef washed his hands when he'd finished his ciggie.

JessM She also said that they lifted the pinnies to salute the waitresses.

I never went to a fondue party when they were all the rage [Abigails Party land here I think] but, had I been to one I don't think I could have coped with everyone dipping their food into the same bowl.

elegran phew, much fanning of hands in front of face. Reminds me of a photo of an England rugby team that was taken from the back in a similar state of undress. No pinnies though.

annodomini have we read the same books? I have never forgotten what Orwell said about a steak. 'The more expensive the steak, the more people have handled it before it arrives at your table'.
My worst nightmare of a hotel kitchen was in London where I stayed with two children. I had to leave for Heathrow and get up before 6 a.m. The Hotel proprietor - an Indian- told me to go into the ktchen and help myself to tea and cornflakes. The state of the gas stoves was terrible. Black fat caked inches thick, ragged tea towels hanging on the backs of chairs.
I have never eaten an Indian meal since.
As to MS it has descended into a farce. Its time it was taken off.

I really can't see that a chef/cook smoking a cigarette outside the kitchen is a hygiene issue.

We're always commenting about the hygiene standards on Masterchef but far and above that I'd like to take a hedge trimmer to Dick Strawbridge's moustache. Watching him eat makes me feel sick.

I was thinking about this a week or two ago while watching all the blonde pony tails and fringes dripping into the food
I don't understand Masterchef. A small crowd of people we have vaguely heard of shuffle in, with varying abilities to boil an egg. As the weeks go by there is much staring into the eyeballs of John and Greg, and they go off in batches to do lunchtime shifts in restaurants where they are shouted at and taught to arrange three prepared ingredients on a plate with a smear of mash. On their return to the studio they then all produce miracles of haute cuisine. How does this happen? I know I don't concentrate but I've never noticed a mention. let alone sight. of any lessons.

In George Orwell's 'Down and Out in Paris and London', he gives and account of his experiences working in Parisian restaurant kitchens. Put me right off the idea of eating in Paris but I'd hoped it was better in this century. I wouldn't be too optimistic though!

A friend of mine worked at the Dorchester when she was a catering student in the 70's and said it was the dirtiest kitchen she'd ever been in. Don't think she came across any nudity though.