Eating Not allowed? - Page 2

luvmyteddy4 · ‎09-04-2010

no one was eating on hsn when Curtis Stone was there. Just him.

ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

@Carmie wrote:
@Nightowlz wrote:
Why not people are still going to get take out?
Restaurants are inspected and follow procedures for hygienic reasons. They wear gloves and hairnets, remove jewelry and properly store and cook food. In other words, they handle food correctly.

QVC is a shopping channel. Their food has probably been handled by quite a few people with no proper food handling guidelines and they probably do not sanitize with proper chemicals to use around food.

Better safe than sorry.

@Carmie Because of state safety regulations, Q does as much food preperation as a food truck, so they would have a sanation score. No one in my experience has ever been exempt because improper handling can cause illness with dire results.

I taught Serve Save classes to my top foods students that I put into resturants. They had the credential that chefs have when they left.

May5 · ‎09-14-2014

Yes he was. Licking his fingers and wiping them on one of those towels, then going on with the rest of the food. It was really nasty.

GCR18 · ‎07-03-2013

Safety first. Can't be too careful.

depglass · ‎03-10-2010

I have a sister-in-law that used to be a food stylist for a national chain of grocery stores. Her work was used in promo handouts and catalogs. She said the goal was appearance, not taste. Some strange things are used to accomplish this, shoe polish for example. No wonder the hosts don't eat some of this stuff.

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

@ECBG wrote:
@Carmie wrote:
@Nightowlz wrote:
Why not people are still going to get take out?
Restaurants are inspected and follow procedures for hygienic reasons. They wear gloves and hairnets, remove jewelry and properly store and cook food. In other words, they handle food correctly.

QVC is a shopping channel. Their food has probably been handled by quite a few people with no proper food handling guidelines and they probably do not sanitize with proper chemicals to use around food.

Better safe than sorry.
@Carmie Because of state safety regulations, Q does as much food preperation as a food truck, so they would have a sanation score. No one in my experience has ever been exempt because improper handling can cause illness with dire results.

I taught Serve Save classes to my top foods students that I put into resturants. They had the credential that chefs have when they left.

I do a lot of food prep too. But I do not sell prepared food to the public. Neither does QVC. I can give food away, but cannot charge. My kitchen is not approved or inspected.

I have taken the Department of Agriculture classes here in PA that is required to work in food prep. Your certificate must be hanging in the kitchen of a restaurant and at least one person on duty must be certified.

My cousin prepares and bakes in her kitchen. Her kitchen has been inspected and she also took the same course as I have. She sells her baked items to the public. Her sisters help her, but they cannot make food in their own kitchens to sell, because they can't pass inspection because they have pets.

I don't think QVC would need any employees with the Dept of AG training. They do not sell any of their prepared food. The hosts and workers can eat some of if it is fresh at their own risk, but I am sure most of it gets thrown out after sitting under the lights all day unrefrigerated. How could a TV set kitchen be inspected and pass?

A food truck, a restaurant and a person preparing food in their home kitchen to sell to the public all need a Dept of Ag. certificate and yearly inspections.

QVC is not in the same catagory. In PA, being a trained chef or not, without the Department of Ag certificate, you cannot work in a restaurant kitchen unless somone else working with you is certified.

My parents owned a restaurant from the 1960's until my parents and my brother passed and my oldest sister retired. All of us children worked there for quite some time.

noodleann · ‎06-10-2015

@Carmie , do you know if there is a workaround or exemption from food prepared by uncertified cooks in home kitchens for sale in churches, or in an uninspected church kitchen?

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

@noodleann I am not really sure. I used to bake pies for the fire house ancillary to sell at their spaghetti dinners. My kitchen has not been inspected and I have dogs.

The profits went to the fire house. I wonder if this was allowed...it was done anyway and I suppose no one complained.

I know I am careful in keeping everything clean and I am pretty picky about food safety, but there were other home cooks making donations too.

That's a good question. I don't know the answer, but if I had to make a guess, I would say, the Dept of Agriculture would not approve.

If the church kitchen was approved and a person in charge was certified, anyone could cook in the church facility as a volunteer. Our church does this. I am pretty sure our church kitchen has been inspected. They cater receptions and meetings and fund raisers there.

Patriot3 · ‎06-07-2010

@Renata22 wrote:
Alberti is freaking out because he can't take a bite of the bagel. I've noticed no one has eaten today. I guess it's not allowed right now?

@Renata22 I know, I watched some of it and Alberti was having fits because he couldn't eat....giggling and carrying on. I was glad for it and glad Mary Beth was on instead of Rachel. Tired of seeing Alberti and Rachel and their poor manners.