Hygiene question when cooking

#1

Do you guys wash your hands when every time you touch fresh meat, seafood, etc?
and frozen things as well?

(Allie) #2

I do

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #3

It depends on the frozen thing, but yes to the meat/seafood.

(Rebecca ) #4

Yes

(Joey) #5

@lee_4_12 You bet. And having once owned/operated restaurants, I’d fire staff who failed to do so. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

If you google around food safety regulations pertaining to commercial food operations you will find training materials that typically include the science behind why this is so important (spoiler alert: dangerous bacteria grow/spread at an eye-popping pace).

(Allie) #6

Same here.

(Laurie) #7

I wash my hands before cooking meat, and before eating. I don’t eat vegetables, so cross-contamination between foods is not a concern.

I wash utensils (e.g., spatula, wooden spoon) once or twice during cooking, so blood and pathogens from raw state aren’t transferred to finished product.

#8

depends cause I am zc and not keto so I don’t do ‘different items at a time’ and I just slap the steak in the pan or cook the chicken in the pan or cook the seafood in the pot or flash fry some meat on the stovetop or I just put 1 meat or more into the oven…so my ‘cross over’ is nil but yes when I cook for family I do wash hands alot between touching meat and touching veg or using utensils to handle that meal.

#9

I am not very worrying about such things but of course, I wash hands often in the kitchen (it gets dirty) especially when I handle raw meat… It seems pretty normal to me.

(Polly) #10

Yes