To be very concerned and mildly disgusted

[CuppaSarah]

That the hairy bikers NEVER bother with hair nets or even ponytails. It's awfull and obscene. Just imagine the amount of hair that must make its way into their food!!!

Have they never heard of Food hygiene?!

world. not word. gah!

Are they really though?

well squoosh, I have my doubts about lots of places, but I do know in my own gaff, and those I know well, the handwashing reaches ocd standards. it depends on the chef/owner to outline what is acceptable and not acceptable. for example I have fired staff who repeatedly refused/forget about hand hygiene. and have been in high end eateries whose food hygiene made me gag. Its up to us to complain. recently I shopped a staff member in a local caff who picked his ear then started to dress a salad dish. bleurgh! Don't have an open kitchen if that's your standard!

I've never watched Hairy Bikers (but I know who they are)
The ones that made me barf are the ChoccywoccyDooDah artistes.
Just something about that whole set up makes me itch.

What about the lovely Paul Hollywood- he has a beard?
Or the beautifully shaven Heston Blumenthal.

Hairy Bikers pale into insignificance next to Cooking in a French Flat in Paris Woman.
Her enamel mixing bowl looks like she's taken it from the dog

I've never seen Nigella wear a hairnet either!

oh rachel wotserhame...shite food shite everything...but again, at home so no need to follow hygiene rules!

TV SHOWS DO NOT HAVE TO FOLLOW FOOD HYGIENE RULES!!!!!

Unless Nigella is trying to tempt you in to pay for her grub no hair net needed.

Did anyone see the Hairies when they went to Norway ? .... and wore nothing except knitted willy "socks" ? Now that was obscene! ... though admittedly they weren't cooking at the time .

My brother used to wear a beard net at work as a baker. It looked bloody hilarious.

OP, am a bit confused - surely you understand why they don't wear hairnets? They are cooking ON TELLY. You don't act and look on telly like you would do at home doing the same thing, otherwise they'd be scratching their arses and dancing badly to some old song that cMe on the radio halfway through the programme, that sort of thing. If they wore hairnets, they would look like twunts and it'd put viewers off. It's just to show you how to do it and what the result will be like. We don't have tv where you can reach in and take the food, like Wonkavision, you know, so you are quite safe from any errant hairs. It's to encourage people to cook at home. People do not wear catering industry gear when cooking at home (unless they're very anal or a bit kinky, ahem). If people at home get their own hairs in their own food then they cope.

Ooh you should have heard my grandad ranting about the filthy, disgusting two fat ladies that filthy nailpolish they wore when they stuck their grubby fingers in the pastry.

I often brush my hair in the kitchen. It has the biggest mirror and the best light! I have loads of hair, but have never found any in food, even when I was moulting post babies.

Never thought about it, but I have always had a pony tail with the top scraped back. Couldn't bear hair on my neck and swinging/tickling my face. Never had short hair, but always tied it back or up and only had it down when going out socially. < even though I'm now in my 60s >

the DC's are forever finding dog hairs in their food - they have a competition about it now, I think hope that they are topping them up to win the comp.

what doesnt kill you makes you stronger right???!!!!!!

It's the sweaters on competative things like masterchef that get my gag reflex going - I'd take a random beard hair over self-brewed salt any day.

i think they must get hairballs like a cat

My boyfriend is constantly pulling my hair out of his dinner even if he cooked it himself and I am in the kitchen with my hair tied back not loose
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I am ashamed of my hair shedding all over the place.