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Anonymous wrote:I always thought it was strange that Martha never pushed up her sleeve cuffs

Yes the sleeves too

The sleeves always drives me crazy. Not for hygiene, it just seems uncomfortable and like they would get dirty. I don't get why you so often see that on TV.

At chef school, they taught that a good chef has clean sleeves but a messy front. If your sleeves are dirty it’s because you don’t know what you’re doing.

I was taught in home ec in middle school to always push up sleeves before cooking for hygiene reasons. It makes me wonder about the general cleanliness of a cook who has their sleeves down.

But my sleeves help keep my arm hair out of the food.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s fine for TV chefs or food creators on Instagram, TikTok or YouTube — the point there is to make it as good as a visual experience as possible. It’s not real food production for strangers or paying customer's, obviously, because there’s a camera there recording everything and they narrate as they go.

If in a restaurant, I see someone preparing food with their hair down — yes, gross.

Do you ask them to tie it up? Have the manager ask them? Stay quiet and inspect before eating? Other?

Since you don't often see into the kitchen at a restaurant, or if you do, they usually do have their hair back, I was thinking of one specific instance. I was at a restaurant and a woman was preparing Caesar salad tableside. She had long hair (past mid-back) and while it was tied in loose ponytails on each side of her head, the ponytails were arranged so that the hair fell in front of her - down her chest - rather than down her back. Since she was bending over to mix the salad, the ends of her ponytails were maybe 4 inches from the top of the bowl. Fortunately it was not MY food so I didn't have to say anything but we did comment to each other that we were glad we hadn't ordered the Caesar, and were surprised management allowed her to wear her hair that way. I am not sure how I would have handled it if it were my food.

It's never occurred to me to worry about a TV chef's long hair.

-- excellent home cook.

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Anonymous wrote:I always thought it was strange that Martha never pushed up her sleeve cuffs

Yes the sleeves too

The sleeves always drives me crazy. Not for hygiene, it just seems uncomfortable and like they would get dirty. I don't get why you so often see that on TV.

At chef school, they taught that a good chef has clean sleeves but a messy front. If your sleeves are dirty it’s because you don’t know what you’re doing.

I was taught in home ec in middle school to always push up sleeves before cooking for hygiene reasons. It makes me wonder about the general cleanliness of a cook who has their sleeves down.

Anonymous wrote:I refuse to eat any food cooked on a TV show.

Who's talking about eating that food?

Anonymous wrote:It’s fine for TV chefs or food creators on Instagram, TikTok or YouTube — the point there is to make it as good as a visual experience as possible. It’s not real food production for strangers or paying customer's, obviously, because there’s a camera there recording everything and they narrate as they go.

If in a restaurant, I see someone preparing food with their hair down — yes, gross.

Do you ask them to tie it up? Have the manager ask them? Stay quiet and inspect before eating? Other?

Anonymous wrote:I refuse to eat any food cooked on a TV show.

🤭

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Anonymous wrote:I always thought it was strange that Martha never pushed up her sleeve cuffs

Yes the sleeves too

The sleeves always drives me crazy. Not for hygiene, it just seems uncomfortable and like they would get dirty. I don't get why you so often see that on TV.

At chef school, they taught that a good chef has clean sleeves but a messy front. If your sleeves are dirty it’s because you don’t know what you’re doing.

Anonymous wrote:It’s fine for TV chefs or food creators on Instagram, TikTok or YouTube — the point there is to make it as good as a visual experience as possible. It’s not real food production for strangers or paying customer's, obviously, because there’s a camera there recording everything and they narrate as they go.

If in a restaurant, I see someone preparing food with their hair down — yes, gross.

+1 but imo in a restaurant or cooking at home.

And yes, OP I notice it when it’s on TV but I also remember that it’s fake and for TV. I always put my hair up and roll my sleeves up when I’m cooking.

News flash OP--stuff on TV isn't real.

Personally, I would like to watch a cooking show from a biosafety level 3 containment facility. You know, something that the home cook could aspire to.

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Anonymous wrote:I always thought it was strange that Martha never pushed up her sleeve cuffs

Yes the sleeves too

The sleeves always drives me crazy. Not for hygiene, it just seems uncomfortable and like they would get dirty. I don't get why you so often see that on TV.

I refuse to eat any food cooked on a TV show.

It’s fine for TV chefs or food creators on Instagram, TikTok or YouTube — the point there is to make it as good as a visual experience as possible. It’s not real food production for strangers or paying customer's, obviously, because there’s a camera there recording everything and they narrate as they go.

If in a restaurant, I see someone preparing food with their hair down — yes, gross.