I see cooking show hosts handling things like raw chicken, and then touching utensils and other things around the kitchen. Am I wrong that this is wanton cross-contamination? Or is that okay to do? food

The host will touch raw chicken, and then grab his/her knife or open the refrigerator or something. Is that not potentially spreading salmonella all around the kitchen, and to whatever else you touch when you later touch that knife/refrigerator/whatever?

Do they just do this because it would be bad television for them to wash their hands each time they touch raw meat? Or am I being overly cautious by doing that?

Also, speaking of cross contamination, I'll sometimes see someone touch the raw side of meat with a spatula before/after flipping it, and then later using that same spatula to take the finished meat off of the grill. Is this (touching raw meat to spatula to cooked meat) also a cross contamination risk? Isn't that just putting whatever contaminents that might be on the raw meat back onto the cooked meat?

Am I being paranoid or are less cautious people rolling the dice?

Thanks!

Submitted October 29, 2015 at 10:19PM by pateras http://ift.tt/1OaiAkg food