Food Network food safety sucks

Posted: March 9th, 2008 - 6:44pm by Doug Powell

amateurchef123 writes,

"the food network has a responsibility to it's (sic) viewers to present cooking that will not predispose them to 3 days of violent vomiting, fever, and possible neurological damage.

"I'm speaking, of course, about Ms. (Rachel) Ray's complete refusal to adhere to national guidelines regarding the consumption of raw eggs and seafood.  To be fair, Emeril "Beer Belly" Lagasse, as well as Mario "Anyeurism" Batali also ignore these warnings, and regularly use raw eggs in many of their concoctions.  But these two individuals, obese and stinky as they may be, can actually cook, whereas Rachael Ray cannot."

The post goes on in a similar vein. I agree. Food safety (of the microbiological kind) usually loses to food porn on the Food Network.
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Categories: Food Safety Culture
Tags: Cooking Show Video, Food Network, Rachel Ray

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Klaus Schallie says:

The issue here is supposed to be food safety. The ranter totally detracts from the message with the rambling diatribe which insults Rachel Ray, her cooking, her appearance, etc. That's totally unnecessary and will only turn people away from what are legitimate concerns about some of the poor practices we see all to frequently on many TV cooking shows.

Posted on March 10th, 2008 - 10:13pm

Melissa says:

Sorry Klaus, I don't think we read the same post. The only appearance I see referred to here is that of Emeril Lagasse and Mario Batali. Ray, and others on Food Network, do not practice safe food handling methods and hence are irresponsible and doing a disservice to their audience.If you are in fact referring to some other post on a now-defunct LiveJournal community I think you're wasting your virtual breath. No one went to the Rachael Ray Sux community for scholarly research on food born pathogens. There may have been a few trolls or RR employees who seemed to be paid by the word to dis the community, but I fail to see how that contributes to Ray's credibility.

Posted on May 23rd, 2009 - 12:12pm

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