Playing with your food

Gayle · 11-09-2007, 20:42

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.

Doug · 11-09-2007, 20:49

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.

Gayle · 11-09-2007, 20:51

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Originally Posted by Doug

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.

Precisely.

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

Doug · 11-09-2007, 20:54

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Originally Posted by Gayle

Precisely.

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

Yes, but do the rest of your family........

Check yourself when you make supper.

Gayle · 11-09-2007, 20:55

I check myself frequently!

Lilly · 11-09-2007, 21:26

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.

Doug · 11-09-2007, 21:42

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.

cashman · 11-09-2007, 21:57

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

grannyclaret · 11-09-2007, 21:59

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,,,,,,

Lilly · 11-09-2007, 22:08

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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,,,,,,

They did make me laugh with some of the things they said. I just wouldn't want to eat anything they'd cooked.

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

grannyclaret · 11-09-2007, 22:43

They were always whizzing about on their motor bike...they certainly wernt the most feminine of ladies...

I couldent find a smiley with a motor bike

MargaretR · 11-09-2007, 22:53

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

BERNADETTE · 11-09-2007, 22:55

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

Your wit is brilliant

garinda · 11-09-2007, 23:28

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Originally Posted by Lilly

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.

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!

grannyclaret · 11-09-2007, 23:48

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

YUK. I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT...