Playing with your food
 

I've always been told not to play with my food, and eating with my fingers is one of my guiltiest secrets - I love it but at least it's my food!

But what gets me is the amount of times chefs touch your food before it gets to you. I've been watching Hell's Kitchen and Marco is continually playing with the food before it gets to the table. In fact, if you watch any of the cookery programmes they all do it. So, it almost puts me off going to restaurants knowing how much the chefs touch the food.

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Food is sensuous, natural and can be devastatingly come either and have a bite. Eating with fingers is also natural and should be second nature to all of us. When you go out to eat or go to a take away always watch the hands of the chef or the person serving you. That will give you a clear idea of whats on your food before you eat it.

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Precisely.

I don't mind playing with my own food - I know where my fingers have been!

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Yes, but do the rest of your family........:D Check yourself when you make supper.

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I check myself frequently!

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Those women that called themselves the Two Fat Ladies used to make me cringe. They never looked clean, always had nail varnish on (a no no when preparing food, we were told at school) and played with the ingredients something shocking. My mum always watched it and I sat there caughtening at the thought of eating what they'd made.:(

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I liked the Fat Birds. I think there are a couple of different schools of thought in play here. I was always taught that food was something to be tested at every stage of the process, from preparation to eating.

One real way of testing the freshness of food, especially fish, game or meat is to feel it, smell it and in many cases taste it. The over riding principle is hygiene. If you wash your mitts properly and keep them away for your various orifices your will be ok. But believe me a bit of dirt and the odd bit of bacteria in the process will serve you well. It’s today sterility with food that leaves us so vulnerable at times.

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the best way to test food is to scran it if yer hungry and sod owt else.:D

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I like Clarissa Dickson Wright,, her father must have had a warped sense of humour though , he gave her 11 christian names,the last one being Esmeralda after his favourite pig,,,,,,:rolleyes:

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They did make me laugh with some of the things they said. I just wouldn't want to eat anything they'd cooked.:eek:
I remember Clarissa Dickson Wright being interviewed shortly after the other one (Jennifer I think her name was) had died of cancer. On a visit just prior to her death Clarissa said to her 'Darling, you look ghastly' and Jennifer said 'I'm bloody dying darling what do you expect?' Lol :D

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They were always whizzing about on their motor bike...they certainly wernt the most feminine of ladies...:banlama:
I couldent find a smiley with a motor bike

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I always wash my hands immediately after cracking an egg - just remember where it's been :eek:

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Your wit is brilliant:D;):)

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Oh I loved them. Miss Patterson, as I knew her before her tv career, was a customer of mine, and she was a scream. She was always in full make up, and used to arrive on her moped, wearing an old fashioned leather helmet. She was an absolute sweety, and I assure you, always spotlessly clean.;)

As for not eating with your fingers, blame the fussy old Victorians, and their silly rules of social etiquette.

Fish knives should be stuffed up a Dover sole's parson's nose!

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YUK. I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT...

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:eek: What's wrong with Sainsbury's :D

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My gripe is not so much about the cooking process it's about the presentation of it. For instance, last night on Hell's Kitchen, they put the fish on the plate (fair enough if it needs a little poke with your fingers to get it off the palate knife) but then spent five minutes rearranging mushrooms on it.

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Ah but that wasn't so much food for eating purposes as a work of art for admiring! :D

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I once went to an Indian restaurant in Accrington.

I went to the Loo's, which are up some stairs and accidentally walked into the staff loo's!! :eek: I have never seen such FILTH in all my life!! and the thought of them using the Loo then not washing their hands properly has put me off that place for ever!!

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It certainly seems that the posher the chef the more likely they are to fiddle with the food! :)

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Its not the touching of the food that bothers me on Hells kitchen, its the amount of times they taste it then put the same spoon back in the pan.

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Can't beat fish and chips for that -fried at extremely high temps and served immediately untouched by human hand until you eat them yourself -with your fingers naturally! I think vinegar is anti-bacterial too....

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Good chip shops are fewer nowadays - been taken over as either curry places , chinese takeaways or pizzarias (never had a decent pizza in UK yet - make my own :D)

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What a coincidence i'm just off to finish preparing my home-made pizzas - the wolves are howling down below!
There was a great chippy in Great Harwood outside Netherton House on Clayton Street where my Grandma and Grandad used to live....wonder if it's still going? You had to queue outside the shop!

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I'm sickened by this nonsense. Can anyone cook in Accy anymore? - obviously not judging by this old crap.

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I can ! Me and Kelsey have just had home made chilli con carne with rice , tortillas and sour cream dip. ( Very nice it was too !):)

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if you cook it your self you will know its right and no one else can be blamed for it.

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Yes. Hyndburn Borough Council do a lovely 'cooked the books', artfully dizzled with a delicate, idiot's jus.

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You can't beat playing with your sausage !!!
Nice and firm some even drizzle theirs with oil !!!