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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sure most if not all sellers are not using a licensed commercial kitchen. They are probably using their own kitchen, where they let their cat jump all over the counters and sample the food. It's really unhygenic[/quote]

You have a vivid imagination. [/quote]

Actually, imaging a home kitchen to have the basic infrastructure to support adherence to health and safety regulations is having a vivid imagination.[/quote]

A home kitchen doesn’t meet the regulations but not the ones that are crucial for food safety. Of course you can prepare food safely in a home kitchen. But quantity will start to strain it.

Like here’s a place a home kitchen can get in trouble: cooling time. Suppose the Facebook chef is making a huge batch of curry. They use a giant pot but their home burners handle it and now they have a giant pot of hot curry.

Well, you need to get that down to 70F in two hours and from 70F to below 41F in 4 more to adhere to regulations. In a commercial kitchen you’re likely to have a big walk in cooler to help you. You can also use ice paddles which are big and bulky and probably wouldn’t fit in even an empty home freezer. If the home chef hasn’t made quantities like this before they may be thinking they’ll just pack a reach in fridge with containers of hot curry and that might not work.

But it’s not as if you’ll die if it takes 10 hours to cool the food instead of 6.

You can see how even if they are trying, this gets back to the zoning stuff. Like if the apartment next door suddenly adds two chest freezers and a second fridge? Plus, the home ventilation is not going to keep up. Etc. [/quote]

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