Hair and Food

[Nancy2]

Something that really, really bugs me about the cooking shows and
competitions - hardly anyone ever covers their hair! Top Chef - nope;
Chopped - nope; iron Chef America - nope, and on and on, to say
nothing of shows like Martha's and RRay's - never. It's disgusting.

N.

[Nancy2]

[Ophelia]

"Nancy2" <ellor...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Amen!

--
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[Brooklyn1]

Some have facial hair as well, disgusting... looks like they don't
bathe either. Those Kooking shows have very little redeeming value.

[Nancy2]

My bad, didn't mean to post twice. Damn keyboard.

N.

[David Dyer-Bennet]

Very few people cover their hair in the kitchen at home. Do you? I
essentially never do.

(Sure, there are reasons for people cooking commercially for hundreds of
people to be more careful than people cooking for two or five or even a
dozen family and friends, too. But "disgusting" isn't about actual
health risks, it's an emotional reaction, and should be the same in
either case.)
--
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[Bryan]

On Mar 7, 3:49 pm, David Dyer-Bennet <d...@dd-b.net> wrote:

> Nancy2 <ellorysg...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Something that really, really bugs me about the cooking shows and
> > competitions - hardly anyone ever covers their hair!  Top Chef - nope;
> > Chopped - nope; iron Chef America - nope, and on and on, to say
> > nothing of shows like Martha's and RRay's - never.  It's disgusting.
>
> Very few people cover their hair in the kitchen at home.  Do you?  I
> essentially never do.
>
> (Sure, there are reasons for people cooking commercially for hundreds of
> people to be more careful than people cooking for two or five or even a
> dozen family and friends, too.  But "disgusting" isn't about actual
> health risks, it's an emotional reaction, and should be the same in
> either case.)

That is true. I doubt anyone ever got a disease from a hair in their
soup.

There are folks who are lovers, and put their mouths all over each
other, but who wouldn't finish off a piece of fried chicken that their
partner had eaten half of. That seems very silly.

> --
> David Dyer-Bennet

--Bryan

[ViLco]

I happened to see the final part of a masterchef usa issue few hours
ago, it was ridiculous, totally. It was a team challenge, 6 or 8 persono
total, ok let's go with the show: one of the contenders forgot to put
salt in his pasta pot, another one burnt something else, a girl let her
salmon pan fall on the floor, then I sadly switched channel
--
Vilco
And the Family Stone
Ovviamente so benissimo...

[Janet]

In article <barbschaller-2F0E...@news.iphouse.com>,
barbsc...@earthlink.net says...

> I never cover my hair when I'm cooking. <hangs head in shame>

Thassokay Barb; I'm told there are posters here who don't wear a white
jacket in their home kitchen, either.

Janet

[Julie Bove]

"Nancy2" <ellor...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I don't cover my hair but it is short. I do think if they have long hair,
it should be pulled back.

[Dave Smith]

On 07/03/2012 5:46 PM, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> In article
> <4b833817-c710-4c33...@j5g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,

> I never cover my hair when I'm cooking.<hangs head in shame>

Nor do I. I have to wonder how many of the people who insist on
professional kitchen staff wearing hair nuts.... what do they do do
about their hair?

[Chemo the Clown]

On Mar 7, 3:14 pm, Dave Smith <adavid.sm...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On 07/03/2012 5:46 PM, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>
> > In article

> > <4b833817-c710-4c33-afa3-130fd26d5...@j5g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
> >   Nancy2<ellorysg...@gmail.com>  wrote:

>
> >> Something that really, really bugs me about the cooking shows and
> >> competitions - hardly anyone ever covers their hair!  Top Chef - nope;
> >> Chopped - nope; iron Chef America - nope, and on and on, to say
> >> nothing of shows like Martha's and RRay's - never.  It's disgusting.
>
> >> N.
>
> > I never cover my hair when I'm cooking.<hangs head in shame>
>
> Nor do I. I have to wonder how many of the people who insist on
> professional kitchen staff wearing hair nuts.... what do they do do
> about their hair?

do do about their hair??? Poopy head!

[Bryan]

On Mar 7, 5:14 pm, Dave Smith <adavid.sm...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On 07/03/2012 5:46 PM, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>
> > In article

> > <4b833817-c710-4c33-afa3-130fd26d5...@j5g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
> >   Nancy2<ellorysg...@gmail.com>  wrote:

>
> >> Something that really, really bugs me about the cooking shows and
> >> competitions - hardly anyone ever covers their hair!  Top Chef - nope;
> >> Chopped - nope; iron Chef America - nope, and on and on, to say
> >> nothing of shows like Martha's and RRay's - never.  It's disgusting.
>
> >> N.
>
> > I never cover my hair when I'm cooking.<hangs head in shame>
>
> Nor do I. I have to wonder how many of the people who insist on
> professional kitchen staff wearing hair nuts.... what do they do do
> about their hair?

Professional kitchen staff should wear hair nets because customers get
freaked out by hair in their food, and however silly that might be,
they are the customers. A year or two ago, I found a little gnat in a
salad. It was my son's salad, and he wasn't going to eat it, I was.
I asked for a new salad, and they fell all over themselves
apologizing. I told them that it was no big deal, and there's not
much way to prevent something like that. They brought out a
replacement salad that was almost twice the size, which was great. It
meant I got almost three salads with my meal. Then they offered a
free dessert, which I declined. They really wanted to give me that
dessert so I'd not leave thinking poorly of them, but the big salad
and just the offer of free dessert were plenty.

The same would have been the case had I found hair. Now if I'd found
anything to do with cockroaches, that'd be very different.

--Bryan

[Ed Pawlowski]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 13:16:58 -0800 (PST), Nancy2
<ellor...@gmail.com> wrote:

Most of the time, the hair does not bother me if it is neat and not
flying around.

What I do find disgusting is sweat dripping from the cook's nose.

[Jerry Avins]

You do know, don't you, that health departments and the FDA have
specification for the maximum number of insect parts permitted in flour
and bulk foods? It is not zero. (If it were, we'd all starve.)

Jerry
--
Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
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[Ophelia]

"Melba's Jammin'" <barbsc...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:barbschaller-2F0E...@news.iphouse.com...

> In article
> <4b833817-c710-4c33...@j5g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
> Nancy2 <ellor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

> I never cover my hair when I'm cooking. <hangs head in shame>

My hair is always up anyway so I don't have to worry.

--
http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/

[Ophelia]

"Sqwertz" <swe...@cluemail.compost> wrote in message
news:1144wlu4zbbx9$.dlg@sqwertz.com...

> Hairalelujah!

lol I don't have problem with hair as such unless it is long and flying
about.

--
http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/

[S Viemeister]

That's why I keep a hairclip in the kitchen - even if it's just my own
hair, I don't want it in my food.

[Ophelia]

"S Viemeister" <firs...@lastname.oc.ku> wrote in message
news:9rs2c6...@mid.individual.net...

Quite so:)


--
http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/

[Bryan]

On Mar 8, 1:16 am, Sqwertz <swe...@cluemail.compost> wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 14:43:35 -0800 (PST), Bryan wrote:
> > There are folks who are lovers, and put their mouths all over each
> > other, but who wouldn't finish off a piece of fried chicken that their
> > partner had eaten half of.  That seems very silly.
>

> You still have a week left to drop hints about:
>
> http://www.officialsteakandblowjobday.com/

Two things that I already indulge in a lot anyway. Earlier this
morning, in another thread, I typed, "I really love beef."
Well, I really love oral sex too. It's the best thing in the world.
>
> -sw

--Bryan

[Nancy2]

On Mar 7, 3:49 pm, David Dyer-Bennet <d...@dd-b.net> wrote:

> Nancy2 <ellorysg...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Something that really, really bugs me about the cooking shows and
> > competitions - hardly anyone ever covers their hair!  Top Chef - nope;
> > Chopped - nope; iron Chef America - nope, and on and on, to say
> > nothing of shows like Martha's and RRay's - never.  It's disgusting.
>
> Very few people cover their hair in the kitchen at home.  Do you?  I
> essentially never do.
>
> (Sure, there are reasons for people cooking commercially for hundreds of
> people to be more careful than people cooking for two or five or even a
> dozen family and friends, too.  But "disgusting" isn't about actual
> health risks, it's an emotional reaction, and should be the same in
> either case.)
> --

> David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net;http://dd-b.net/

> Snapshots:http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/
> Photos:http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/
> Dragaera:http://dragaera.info

Of course I don't cover my hair at home; for one thing, I feed only
myself, usually. For another thing, I'm not presenting food to judges
or professional chefs.

N.

[Nancy2]

On Mar 7, 4:46 pm, Melba's Jammin' <barbschal...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> In article
> <4b833817-c710-4c33-afa3-130fd26d5...@j5g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
>
>  Nancy2 <ellorysg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Something that really, really bugs me about the cooking shows and
> > competitions - hardly anyone ever covers their hair!  Top Chef - nope;
> > Chopped - nope; iron Chef America - nope, and on and on, to say
> > nothing of shows like Martha's and RRay's - never.  It's disgusting.
>

> > N.
>
> I never cover my hair when I'm cooking.  <hangs head in shame>

> --
> Barb,http://web.me.com/barbschallerSeptember 5, 2011

I'm not talking about home cooks. Sheesh.

N.

[spamtrap1888]

On Mar 7, 2:54 pm, "Julie Bove" <julieb...@frontier.com> wrote:
> "Nancy2" <ellorysg...@gmail.com> wrote in message

If your hair is clean and brushed/combed, I don't see how hair can
fall into your food. Further, I never lean over uncovered food when I
cook.

[spamtrap1888]

Masterchef got predictable after a while, but you might want to watch
one of the later shows, after the ones who crumple under pressure have
been weeded out. I think Gordon Ramsay is harder on the amateurs in
that show than on the professionals in his 1000 other series. I like
the episodes where the contestants get a box of ingredients and have
to make something.

Masterchef shows that there are a lot of home cooks who have one or a
few really excellent dishes in their repertoire, but who are not cut
out to be professionals.

[Brooklyn1]

Actually insect parts pose no real health problems, other than mental
health.

[Brooklyn1]

On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:03:54 -0500, Ed Pawlowski <e...@snet.net> wrote:

>On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 13:16:58 -0800 (PST), Nancy2
><ellor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Something that really, really bugs me about the cooking shows and
>>competitions - hardly anyone ever covers their hair! Top Chef - nope;
>>Chopped - nope; iron Chef America - nope, and on and on, to say
>>nothing of shows like Martha's and RRay's - never. It's disgusting.
>>
>>N.
>
>
>Most of the time, the hair does not bother me if it is neat and not
>flying around.

Finding a hair in food poses no real health issue but it certainlly
detracts from enjoying ones meal.

>What I do find disgusting is sweat dripping from the cook's nose.

Again, no real health issue but not something condusive to enjoying
ones meal... happens all the time but you just don't see it. There's
a real reason for those doors on the resto kitchen... hair and sweat
is the least of it.

[David Dyer-Bennet]

Nancy2 <ellor...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mar 7, 3:49 pm, David Dyer-Bennet <d...@dd-b.net> wrote:
>> Nancy2 <ellorysg...@gmail.com> writes:
>> > Something that really, really bugs me about the cooking shows and
>> > competitions - hardly anyone ever covers their hair!  Top Chef - nope;
>> > Chopped - nope; iron Chef America - nope, and on and on, to say
>> > nothing of shows like Martha's and RRay's - never.  It's disgusting.
>>
>> Very few people cover their hair in the kitchen at home.  Do you?  I
>> essentially never do.
>>
>> (Sure, there are reasons for people cooking commercially for hundreds of
>> people to be more careful than people cooking for two or five or even a
>> dozen family and friends, too.  But "disgusting" isn't about actual
>> health risks, it's an emotional reaction, and should be the same in
>> either case.)
>

> Of course I don't cover my hair at home; for one thing, I feed only
> myself, usually. For another thing, I'm not presenting food to judges
> or professional chefs.

I don't *really* like finding even my own hair in my food, but it's not
going to give me anything I don't already have. Doesn't happen that
often, anyway.
--
David Dyer-Bennet, dd...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/

[Kalmia]

On Mar 7, 4:16 pm, Nancy2 <ellorysg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Something that really, really bugs me about the cooking shows and
> competitions - hardly anyone ever covers their hair!  Top Chef - nope;
> Chopped - nope; iron Chef America - nope, and on and on, to say
> nothing of shows like Martha's and RRay's - never.  It's disgusting.
>

> N.

'Ey, they wouldn't want to ruin their look.

I dunno about disgusting -- I don't know too many home cooks either
who don a hat or net etc.

[Dave Smith]

On 08/03/2012 1:37 PM, Kalmia wrote:

>
> 'Ey, they wouldn't want to ruin their look.
>
> I dunno about disgusting -- I don't know too many home cooks either
> who don a hat or net etc.

That is my feeling. I don't put on a cap or beard cover when I cook at
home and don't expect my wife to wear a hear net. Nor do I expect our
hosts and hostesses to do it. If I ever find a piece of hair in my food
in a restaurant I will bring it to their attention, but I am not anal
enough to live in dread of the possibility.

[Brooklyn1]

If I do find hair in my food it's almost always feline. <G>

[James Silverton]

Ultimately, what's so dangerous or disgusting about a hair? People's
hair is not teeming with dangerous microbes tho' aesthetically, I would
expect a cook *in a restaurant* to wear a hat of some description.

--
Jim Silverton

Extraneous "not" in Reply To.

[Dave Smith]

On 08/03/2012 5:11 PM, James Silverton wrote:

>> That is my feeling. I don't put on a cap or beard cover when I cook at
>> home and don't expect my wife to wear a hear net. Nor do I expect our
>> hosts and hostesses to do it. If I ever find a piece of hair in my food
>> in a restaurant I will bring it to their attention, but I am not anal
>> enough to live in dread of the possibility.
>
> Ultimately, what's so dangerous or disgusting about a hair? People's
> hair is not teeming with dangerous microbes tho' aesthetically, I would
> expect a cook *in a restaurant* to wear a hat of some description.
>

Hell, I am at the stage in my life were I have more hair on my arms and
in my ears than on the top of my head.

[Bob Terwilliger]

Bryan wrote:

> Professional kitchen staff should wear hair nets because customers get
> freaked out by hair in their food, and however silly that might be,
> they are the customers. A year or two ago, I found a little gnat in a
> salad. It was my son's salad, and he wasn't going to eat it, I was.
> I asked for a new salad, and they fell all over themselves
> apologizing. I told them that it was no big deal, and there's not
> much way to prevent something like that. They brought out a
> replacement salad that was almost twice the size, which was great. It
> meant I got almost three salads with my meal. Then they offered a
> free dessert, which I declined. They really wanted to give me that
> dessert so I'd not leave thinking poorly of them, but the big salad
> and just the offer of free dessert were plenty.
>
> The same would have been the case had I found hair. Now if I'd found
> anything to do with cockroaches, that'd be very different.

I was listening to an old Richard Pryor routine on the way in to work
tonight. He told about the aftermath of his stepmother's funeral, how
his family's friends and neighbors brought over vast quantities of food.
Pryor especially enjoyed the "dressing" made by an old relative, which
was loaded with good stuff like almonds -- until somebody noticed legs
on one of the almonds.

http://www.livedash.com/transcript/richard_pryor__live_in_concert/6732/COMEDYP/Sunday_July_11_2010/365637/

Bob

[Nancy2]

I inherited my mom's gag reflex when seeing a hair in/on food, or even
in a sink bowl.

N.

[James Silverton]

I'll agree that uncleaned bathroom sinks are a pet peeve with me too; my
main dislike is residue from brushing teeth.

[Brooklyn1]

If a couple hairs makes yoose gag I guess yoose don't have pets.

[jmcquown]

"Janet" <H...@invalid.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.29c1f7755...@news.eternal-september.org...
> In article <barbschaller-2F0E...@news.iphouse.com>,
> barbsc...@earthlink.net says...

>
>> I never cover my hair when I'm cooking. <hangs head in shame>
>

> Thassokay Barb; I'm told there are posters here who don't wear a white
> jacket in their home kitchen, either.
>
> Janet

I certainly don't, but I do wear an apron :) Has nothing to do with hair,
just potential splatter.

I have long (past my shoulders) hair but I don't wear hairnets. I do keep
my hair pulled back so it's out of the way.

Jill

[Nancy2]

On Mar 10, 1:00 pm, "jmcquown" <j_mcqu...@comcast.net> wrote:
> "Janet" <H...@invalid.net> wrote in message
>
> news:MPG.29c1f7755...@news.eternal-september.org...
>

> > In article <barbschaller-2F0E29.16461007032...@news.iphouse.com>,
> > barbschal...@earthlink.net says...

>
> >> I never cover my hair when I'm cooking.  <hangs head in shame>
>
> >   Thassokay Barb;  I'm told there are posters here who don't wear a white
> > jacket in their home kitchen, either.
>
> >   Janet
>
> I certainly don't, but I do wear an apron :)  Has nothing to do with hair,
> just potential splatter.
>
> I have long (past my shoulders) hair but I don't wear hairnets.  I do keep
> my hair pulled back so it's out of the way.
>
> Jill

The examples I gave in my original post were all about professional
chefs/kitchens, or wanna-bes. NOT a regular home-kitchen type cook or
chef. I don't know anyone who cooks in their own home who wears a
hairnet or hat while cooking. That wasn't my point.

N.