Food Handling Quotes

Do not taste food while you're cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.

Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate.

We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.

If I took my turkey out of the refrigerator and, like, threw it in a dumpster or drug it down the street in New York for a while [it will make people sick].

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

My first job was as a sandwich artist at Subway.

Food is much better off the hand than the fork.

Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

Diapers do not belong on the same table as food.

There's nothing going into my mouth that's not wrapped.

The processing and preparation of food can transform a kosher item into a non-kosher item.

I never was a caterer, but I did deliver pizzas.

Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.

It wasnt until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something. Well, I wasnt in there five minutes before she said, OK, honey, you have to go now. I made her so nervous she was about ready to throw up. So I really didnt have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didnt take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.

The Department of Agriculture announced that it will ban six new strains of E. coli. Which explains why the hot dog vendor outside my building is now just selling napkins.

The Centers for Disease Control says that there are 76 million cases of food poisoning in the United States every year, 350,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths. Is that a lot or a little? Well, it depends on how you look at it.

You're not allowed to put anything on a steak.

I think more people should worry about where they store things in the fridge. I don't think people are on top of separating raw and cooked ingredients.

Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap.

My mother had been slicing up the chicken. She took a drumstick and dropped it on the floor. She kicked it around a little, picked it up and put it on the edge of the plate. "There," she said, "we'll give him this drumstick." "Deal.

Incubated. And then raised. And then beheaded. And then plucked. And then cut up. And then put on a grill. And then put on a bun. Damn, it's gonna take a while. I don't have time. Scrambled!

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

I won't eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms. This isn't a hard call. They let you see the bathrooms. If the restaurant can't be bothered to replace the puck in the urinal or keep the toilets and floors clean, then just imagine what their refrigeration and work spaces look like.

IMBECILE!" the chef shouted. "Next time why don't you just put your whole HAND in the food, hey? Yes, your whole hand, or maybe your FACE! I arrange the food on plates with care, are you understanding what I am telling you? It is part of the art form of cooking, yes? A lovely plate of food is a thing of beauty! And then you, NUMBSKULL, come along and put your fat greasy FINGERS all over my plate, and SHAKE the plate, and move my food all around the plate until it looks like pigs' vomit!" "Chef Vlad!" I cried out in delight.