Amy forwarded this, and it’s a well-earned skewer at the cooking show world. It’s been over a decade since my research lab made food safety fun of TV chefs, but maybe we should have been funnier. We were trying to … Continue reading
Celebrity chef-type Jamie Oliver – who was a stand-out in our 2004 paper, Spot the Mistake about celebrity chefs and food safety mistakes — has been appearing with increasing irritation on a television advert for Woolworths in Australia, hawking dinnerware. … Continue reading
A spike in food poisoning cases has been linked to South Australians undercooking eggs at home. The new cases have sparked warnings from health authorities to be wary of attempting techniques used on television cooking shows. SA Health figures show … Continue reading
Talk less, do more. That’s what I’m telling 5-year-old Sorenne as she explains for the eighth time she’s about to go get her shoes on, so we can walk to school. And after 20 years of food safety stuff, it’s … Continue reading
Dean Ralph likes to hunt pheasant in Kansas. He likes to grill them as well. After years of hearing me go on about tip-sensitive digital thermometers and their role in producing safe food, he finally got an automated contraption that … Continue reading
New Zealand chef Peta Mathias has been criticized for the flashy jewelry she wears during her TV show, with critics saying the rings and other 
jewellery would never be tolerated in a commercial kitchen because of the bacteria that gathers underneath.
Last week, researchers at Texas Tech gushed in a press release about the food safety errors on cooking shows broadcast by the Food Network.“Researchers analyzed 49 shows airing over a two-week period and used 17 different coded categories: six positive and 11 negative. Positive categories included hand washing, cleaning equipment, washing fruits and vegetables, adequate refrigeration, and use of a thermometer
BBC News reports that Dr Layla Jader, of the National Public Health Service for Wales, said at the British Medical Association conference in Edinburgh that TV chefs are setting a bad example by failing to follow basic hygiene standards, and that programmes often did not wash vegetables before using them or separate uncooked meat from other food, raising the risk of food poisoning
The show opens with a discussion about privacy, whether you should cover the microphone on your computer, or how you can scare your kids using Alexa. The guys talked briefly about what they’re watching, Ben’s trip to Athens Georgia, and … Continue reading
