Do tattooed chefs seem unsanitary to you?

[Pryderi]

I guess I'm old and prejudiced...

[Luciferous]

1. Nope.

[Pryderi]

2. Maybe the combination of no hair nets and tattoos on these tv cooking shows that make me leary.

[petronius]

3. Not unsanitary, but my general reaction is that the more covered up a person is

the more sanitary of a chef they are. So, if I can see tattoos it's more likely to mean they're wearing short sleeves and therefore my instinct would be that they're not as sanitary as they could be. (Not saying my 'hide the skin' reaction is rational, mind you, just that that's how I respond...)

[Pryderi]

4. Like Mel- Vic Tayback from "Alice"

[geardaddy]

26. Pryderi! Kiss my grits!

:hide:

eta: spelling Pryderi.

[Pryderi]

33. lol! Hey, I'm half Welsh! :)

[geardaddy]

35. Don't "worry"

lol I know.

[Duer 157099]

5. No. But chefs who smoke, and that seems to be an industry standard,

is unfathomable to me.

Don't care whether they have inked skin though, since it doesn't influence the food.

[grace0418]

15. Yeah, I do not understand that. They rhapsodize about the tiniest, subtlest differences in

flavor between vegetables from different farms, or meat from different ranches, or spices from different places in the world. And then they fuck up their sense of taste and sense of smell with cigarettes (not to mention their health). It makes no sense to me at all.

[mitchum]

30. It is enough to make one suspect that they are bullshitting about their highly developed senses

Shocking! :)

[grace0418]

31. I know a few chefs and they are definitely not bullshitting. But I do remind them

that their highly developed senses are not going to survive a pack a day habit.

[Orrex]

6. Only if they have tattoos on their asses and they keep touching them while cooking

[KossackRealityCheck]

7. No

tatoos are ink, they aren't dirty.

[Mojambo]

8. Personally, I like my main course with a side of hepatitis.

Kidding! It's no big deal.

[SwampG8r]

9. only if the tat is new

they seep and its gross
and i am a chef btw

[proteus_lives]

10. Nope.

[Rhythm]

11. Not a bit... n/t

[Sweet Charming Dem]

12. I'd say you guessed correctly

[Phentex]

20. LOL!

:)

[tigereye]

13. no, not really

[Deep13]

14. No. Tattooed skin is just as easy to clean as plain skin. nt

[grace0418]

16. If it did I could probably never go out to eat because it sure seems like 90% of

all chefs are inked up. Good thing it doesn't bother me.

[In_The_Wind]

17. Not at all. The ink is under the skin not on it.

BTW ~ Anyone who has a tat needs to keep it clean while it is healing and moisturize it after the healing process is completed.

:think: Therefore a tattooed chef may be cleaner than a non-tattooed chef.

[fizzgig]

18. my chef hubby has plenty of ink

there's absolutely nothing unsanitary about it

[we can do it]

19. No But Servers Who Whip Ratty Hair Around and Run Fingers Thru It Do

[Phentex]

21. No...

why would they seem that way to you?

:shrug:

[Arkansas Granny]

22. No, it doesn't seem unsanitary. Personally, I don't like to see that much ink, but

that just my taste. To each, his own.

[snooper2]

23. you know that ink just comes right off sometimes into the food

shit, when I'm in the show the water turns blue and green sometimes from my tat :rofl: :rofl:

[RandomThoughts]

24. No fear!

[yawnmaster]

25. Only if her hair is greasy and she's wearing a pit stained t-shirt...

and has a cigarette barely clinging to her lip as she cooks.

[TroglodyteScholar]

27. No.

You are old and prejudiced.

[grasswire]

28. absolutely not

If you come to the Pacific NW, you will see that most people under 40 in the cities are tattooed. Educated people and un. Blue collar and white collar. Everywhere. In most eating establishments, tho, help must wear long sleeves to cover the tats.

[Lucian]

29. There were tattooed chefs on "Top Chef."

If the producers of the show thought they were "unsanitary," they wouldn't have been on the show.

And Michael Voltaggio, who won season six, had tattoos all over his arms.

[cherokeeprogressive]

32. It only bothers me when they, tats or not, sweat over the food.

OMG

[BarenakedLady]

34. Absolutely not.

What an odd thing to worry about.