Wearing the chef hat is not just an identity marker to a chef/cook or someone working in a kitchen. There are logical reason for the usage of the gear often seen wore by chefs.
1st reason: The kitchen is a very hot and humid place, with water boiling and steam going into the atmosphere. Not to mention the heat coming from the naked flame itself and also several kitchen equipment like the salamander, oven and grill just to name a few. There also a lot of movement and with the claustrophobic space in the kitchen, chefs will tend to sweat. Coming to my point why chef hat are needed, pardon me for my long windedness but explanation has to be done. The hat helps absorb the sweat that may be tickling down your head to your neck and maybe into your food, so by the time the sweat is released the hat helps to absorb the sweat into the food that will contaminate the food you took the entire day of hard work to prepare.
2nd reason: The hair act as a filter as I would call it, by preventing any hair from dropping into the food and cost unsightly sight and most importantly contamination. You wouldn't want to serve a dish with hair all over the plate to a customer.
I Can't paragraph it for some reason!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is a good personal hygiene as it can prevent hair strands or sweat from entering food, also preventing contamination of food.
ReplyDeleteThough wearing chef hat is a form of identity but most importantly it helps to prevent baby hair or strands of hair from falling into the food.This is another personal hygiene that we have to practice.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good practice of personal hygiene as it prevents sweat and hat falling onto the food.
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