Dominos make pizza with their bare hands???

ROTTING CHRIST · 12-05-2010 3:35am #1

I was in Dominos with a friend tonight, usually never eat fast food as I'm allergic to eggs and some other foods so have to be careful. Anyway you could see where they were preparing the pizza and to my horror the guy was rolling the dough, spreading the toppings etc with his bare hands!! I asked my friend and he said that's the same in all dominos?? He could have anything on his hands! Wiped his nose, etc.

Does anyone find this disgusting? And is this normal, like does it go on in apache, four star, etc also?

Celly Smunt · 12-05-2010 3:36am

they do it everywhere,i used to make it

12-05-2010 3:37am

You should live in a tent.

artanevilla · 12-05-2010 3:38am

Yeah I've seen it happen everywhere. I see no problem, sure aren't they cooking the food to kill all the germs. You think chefs wear gloves? If they were serving it raw with bare hands then it'd be a different matter.

indough · 12-05-2010 3:39am

mayhaps they should ban pizza?

KeithM89_old · 12-05-2010 3:40am

Never had a problem with it - pretty sure itd be hard to spin the dough around wih plastic gloves on

Celly Smunt · 12-05-2010 3:40am

indough wrote: »

mayhaps they should ban pizza?

i've really gone off the stuff so i'd probably support ya

sdanseo · 12-05-2010 3:47am

ROTTING CHRIST wrote: »

I was in Dominos with a friend tonight, usually never eat fast food as I'm allergic to eggs and some other foods so have to be careful. Anyway you could see where they were preparing the pizza and to my horror the guy was rolling the dough, spreading the toppings etc with his bare hands!! I asked my friend and he said that's the same in all dominos?? He could have anything on his hands! Wiped his nose, etc.

Does anyone find this disgusting? And is this normal, like does it go on in apache, four star, etc also?

You either live under a rock or in a translucent bubble - you think chefs wear gloves? Just because they're fast food workers doesn't make them any less likely to snot themselves than Gordon Ramsay.

In fact, 3 years of deli work taught me that without constant hand washing and glove changes, you may as well not bother with gloves anyway. They are there to reassure the customer, not necessarily to protect against cross contamination. Most of them are not impervious anyway. Any food that is prepared out of sight pretty much anywhere will be prepared with bare, but clean, hands.

Once his or her hands are clean - and remember they're handling food all night, not taking money etc etc. - then it is perfectly safe. And normal practice.

javaboy · 12-05-2010 3:48am

Pfft. Most of the ingredients in that pizza were either grown in sh1t or were once animals who lived in their own filth.
What's a couple of snots or pubes in comparison?

af_thefragile · 12-05-2010 3:57am

Most restaurants prepare food with their bare hands.

Watch Bear Grills and see how he survives eating all sorts of ****. And then think to yourself you at least get to wash your hands before you eat your dinner!

jimmycrackcorm · 12-05-2010 3:58am

Op, if you can't understand how the oven temperature kills bacteria then you'll get a shock when you find out how tap water gets to you...

ROTTING CHRIST · 12-05-2010 4:03am

sdonn wrote: »

You either live under a rock or in a translucent bubble - you think chefs wear gloves? Just because they're fast food workers doesn't make them any less likely to snot themselves than Gordon Ramsay.

No I don't live under a rock, and I don't eat in restaurants either so the chef comment doesn't mean anything. I'm forced to prepare my own food so I just had never seen anything like this before and wondered was it normal, apparently it is. I just found it it a bit disgusting, I know cooking the food kills the germs but seeing some teenager practically maul the dough with his bare hands that I would then be eating was horrible.

ROTTING CHRIST · 12-05-2010 4:05am

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Op, if you can't understand how the oven temperature kills bacteria then you'll get a shock when you find out how tap water gets to you...

It might kill harmful bacteria, but it doesn't get rid of anything like fingernails, snots, hair, sweat, or god knows what else is on their hands.

GLaDOS · 12-05-2010 4:08am

ROTTING CHRIST wrote: »

It might kill harmful bacteria, but it doesn't get rid of anything like fingernails, snots, hair, sweat, or god knows what else is on their hands.

Most of which is also on your own hands, regardless of hand washing.

Lurching · 12-05-2010 4:10am

ROTTING CHRIST wrote: »

It might kill harmful bacteria, but it doesn't get rid of anything like fingernails, snots, hair, sweat, or god knows what else is on their hands.

Which is the exact same in just about every restaurant in the world.
If your worried about this, I think it might be time to give up on humanity, turn into a hermit and shut out the outside world.

The Pizzas in Dominoes in Australia are pre-made bases. Not half as nice.

ROTTING CHRIST · 12-05-2010 4:10am

Ah come on now, there's a difference between consuming your own sweat, hair, spit, etc than a complete strangers.

ROTTING CHRIST · 12-05-2010 4:11am

Lurching wrote: »

Which is the exact same in just about every restaurant in the world.

I just said I don't eat in restaurants, not for this reason though but now I'd be even more weary if this is standard practice.

Lurching · 12-05-2010 4:15am

I still don't see the issue. People aren't dieing on the way out the door of restaurants every day due to the odd hair in their food. Otherwise, what you dont know, cant hurt you.
However, that doesn't condone some of the incredible hygiene breaches happening in some restaurants due to rodent and insect infestations etc.

Irish_wolf · 12-05-2010 4:15am

I work in a fast food place and the second we get a break in customers I have to clean down all of the surfaces and clean my hands, replace the cloths, mop the floors, clean my hands again etc. My manager went ballistic at a fellow crew member the other day cause he scratched his nose while working on the tills, she was nearly calling the head office.

Obviously it's impossible to get rid of all germs but we do try. The food you get in a fast food place will probably have as many or perhaps less germs than what you cook at home unless you have ocd or something.

ROTTING CHRIST · 12-05-2010 4:19am

Irish_wolf wrote: »

Obviously it's impossible to get rid of all germs but we do try. The food you get in a fast food place will probably have as many or perhaps less germs than what you cook at home unless you have ocd or something.

I find that unlikely, at home you can peel or wash fruit, vegetables, grain, etc yourself as most people would do and then prepare them. nothing OCD about that.

m@cc@ · 12-05-2010 4:20am

ROTTING CHRIST wrote: »

Ah come on now, there's a difference between consuming your own sweat, hair, spit, etc than a complete strangers.

Well if that keeps you up at night, think about a loaf of bread, a packet of crisps or a pre-packaged salad. How can you guarantee who or what has handled it? You can't. Unless you're producing the food from the cradle to the grave, you can't guarantee anything. That's life, move on.

Xavi6 · 12-05-2010 4:21am

OP, do you own a Spruce Moose by any chance?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCy8K968Alo

ROTTING CHRIST · 12-05-2010 4:26am

Get in the plane ! but sir...

Irish_wolf · 12-05-2010 4:30am

ROTTING CHRIST wrote: »

I find that unlikely, at home you can peel or wash fruit, vegetables, grain, etc yourself as most people would do and then prepare them. nothing OCD about that.

I was refering really to the area in which it's perpared. Your chopping boards and counter tops and cutlery are probably not cleaned down as often as they are in fast food places (well good ones anyway). Germs are everywhere. I doubt you go to the bathroom and clean your hand every 30minutes whether they are dirty or not.

And also if I was preparing fruit or grains or whatever i would wash it and peel it. The same preparation goes on in restaurants as it does in the home. We're not a bunch of slobs firing out half cooked meat and unwashed veg without a care as many people seem to think.

Therefore it is easy to assume that there is the same amount of germs or maybe less are in the food you eat out in restaurants unless you have to clean the place as often as I have to, every 25minutes or so, which would be ocd behaviour in my unprofessional opinion.

12-05-2010 4:37am

Would the OP prefer it if the pizza cook was like this!

happyoutscan · 12-05-2010 5:01am

ROTTING CHRIST wrote: »

It might kill harmful bacteria, but it doesn't get rid of anything like fingernails, snots, hair, sweat, or god knows what else is on their hands.

I'd be more grossed out over saliva, but then again I couldn't be arsed.:D

dazed+confused · 12-05-2010 6:08am

In McDonalds they teach staff that clean hands are better than gloves. Staff have to wash their hands at least every 30min. People wearing gloves in Deli's often wear them for hours, by which time they've picked up as much grime and bacteria as unwashed hands would have in that time.

I know cleanliness is important, but people freak out about it way too much. So eat the odd blackberry straight off the bramble and let kids get as dirty as they want, its what being a kid is all about!

ball · 12-05-2010 6:12am

Surely if they used gloves, the dough would taste like latex?

Snowie · 12-05-2010 6:15am

ROTTING CHRIST wrote: »

I was in Dominos with a friend tonight, usually never eat fast food as I'm allergic to eggs and some other foods so have to be careful. Anyway you could see where they were preparing the pizza and to my horror the guy was rolling the dough, spreading the toppings etc with his bare hands!! I asked my friend and he said that's the same in all dominos?? He could have anything on his hands! Wiped his nose, etc.

Does anyone find this disgusting? And is this normal, like does it go on in apache, four star, etc also?

:rolleyes:

Im not really sure where to start, have you ever eatin in this thing called restuarunts ? well chefs handel food they dont wear rubber gloves....
If you go to forighn countrys they all make pizzas bare handed you have to same with any food. wear ing the rubber gloves are< dangerous, annoying....

No I dont find it dissgusting becaus eif hes following the H&S and hicap or how ever you pronounce it guide lines trhen there little chance of anyhting happening..

Oh bye the way you should get cheacked for OCD and make sure you also get your imune system cheacked cleerly you never ate wroms as a kid

Snowie · 12-05-2010 6:18am

ROTTING CHRIST wrote: »

I know cooking the food kills the germs but seeing some teenager practically maul the dough with his bare hands that I would then be eating was horrible.

what would you like him to do play a small violine at it while singing love poems in the hope that the ball of doh turns into a pizza base. ?

I bet your one of these really really really neet people. concerened I am

ball · 12-05-2010 6:20am

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

:rolleyes:

Im not really sure where to start, have you ever eatin in this thing called restuarunts ? well chefs handel food they dont wear rubber gloves....
If you go to forighn countrys they all make pizzas bare handed you have to same with any food. wear ing the rubber gloves are< dangerous, annoying....

No I dont find it dissgusting becaus eif hes following the H&S and hicap or how ever you pronounce it guide lines trhen there little chance of anyhting happening..

Oh bye the way you should get cheacked for OCD and make sure you also get your imune system cheacked cleerly you never ate wroms as a kid

I agree with you, but you are very drunk

dazed+confused · 12-05-2010 6:31am

ball wrote: »

Surely if they used gloves, the dough would taste like latex?

Funny that would spring to mind, you must be very accustomed to the taste of latex ha!

Snowie · 12-05-2010 6:33am

ball wrote: »

I agree with you, but you are very drunk

yep ive been drinking vodka with my eastern eurpoean friend whos over for the day to collect his dole

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ball · 12-05-2010 6:35am

dazed+confused wrote: »

Funny that would spring to mind, you must be very accustomed to the taste of latex ha!

I am, I used to wear gloves while making pizza

yogy · 12-05-2010 7:08am

OP don't EVER, EVER have sex..if you knew the sick shit that went on then you would be scarred for life if you think not-wearing gloves while food prepping is bad!!!

As has been said before get the number of a good psychiatrist...you may have a mild form of OCD or MR!

Abrasax · 12-05-2010 9:03am

ROTTING CHRIST wrote: »

I was in Dominos with a friend tonight, usually never eat fast food as I'm allergic to eggs and some other foods so have to be careful. Anyway you could see where they were preparing the pizza and to my horror the guy was rolling the dough, spreading the toppings etc with his bare hands!! I asked my friend and he said that's the same in all dominos?? He could have anything on his hands! Wiped his nose, etc.

Does anyone find this disgusting? And is this normal, like does it go on in apache, four star, etc also?

Bubble Boy, is that you?

conorhal · 12-05-2010 9:08am

Jeez, are you a bubble boy or something? Did you wear gloves to eat your pizza?

Frankly you sound phobic.

Dravokivich · 12-05-2010 9:11am

ROTTING CHRIST wrote: »

to my horror the guy was rolling the dough, spreading the toppings etc with his bare hands!! I asked my friend and he said that's the same in all dominos?? He could have anything on his hands! Wiped his nose, etc.

Does anyone find this disgusting? And is this normal, like does it go on in apache, four star, etc also?

There's a theory behind this...

Basically.. if the staff were to wear gloves they may be less inclined to wash their hands frequently...

You've watched cooking shows on the tv right?

Bare hands there too usually...

topper75 · 12-05-2010 9:22am

There are more germ cells in your body than there are actual cells in your body.

Once I found this out, I never worried about germs again. Eat nutritious food, sleep well, and wrap yourself up in colder weather and let your natural defenses take care of it all.

Please don't go around with the notion that your mouth is sterile but for the pizza guy's hands.

Jax Teller · 12-05-2010 9:31am

Op reminds me of that chick out of glee , the one who's always cleaning things down for germs .

liah · 12-05-2010 9:32am

Have you ever gotten sick eating restaurant food? Packaged food? "Fresh" food from your supermarket (bread, salads, etc.)?

All those could've been handled by bare hands. Chances are, while you may have been coincidentally sick once or twice before, overall your experience has been pretty much normal-- you feel just fine.

Your body's used to different bacteria. It has a good immune system. Those germs don't matter, your body can handle them, so what's there to get worried about?

Sounds like you're germophobic, people like that drive me mad.. they're often more sickly than the average population since they keep everything too sterile so their body cannot build natural defenses due to lack of exposure, so when they go out into the big bad dirty world they're far more likely to get sick. Kind of silly, don't you think?

Embrace your immune system.

Naos · 12-05-2010 10:38am

I worked in the restaurant in Dunnes Stores, looked after the wok & pizza (I'm that elite).

The management told me to where gloves whilst doing all this. The pizza oven there was an Artisan Fire oven (essentially like an open oven with a fire in it to bake the pizza). One time while getting a pizza out, the gloves started to melt on my hand.

They were told to f*ck right off with their gloves policy after that.

Canis Lupus · 12-05-2010 10:41am

ROTTING CHRIST wrote: »

I was in Dominos with a friend tonight, usually never eat fast food as I'm allergic to eggs and some other foods so have to be careful. Anyway you could see where they were preparing the pizza and to my horror the guy was rolling the dough, spreading the toppings etc with his bare hands!! I asked my friend and he said that's the same in all dominos?? He could have anything on his hands! Wiped his nose, etc.

Does anyone find this disgusting? And is this normal, like does it go on in apache, four star, etc also?

LOL

That is all.

General Zod · 12-05-2010 10:50am

Can I recommend you move into a bubble?

Darksaga87 · 12-05-2010 10:55am

If bare hands cooking food freaks ya out, wait till you hear whats in the secret sauce, and the KFC secret herbs and spices. :eek::eek:

trakeena · 12-05-2010 11:16am

Food preperation places have a choice between wasking their hands more frequently (every 15 min or something) and wearing gloves. I was at a food safety thing and the guy was saying that washing hands was preferable to gloves as people tend to rarely change their gloves but will wash their hands more often.

NothingMan · 12-05-2010 11:32am

I worked in McDonalds for a summer 9 years ago (Wow that sounds like i'm old) and evrything was prepared with bare hands. Buns put onto toaster tray, burgers put on grill, lettuce, onion, tomato etc... put on my hand. The odd bun or burger may drop to the floor, if the manager isn't looking it is generally picked up quickly and put back on. The large barrel of salt for pre salting fries had dead flies in it, you just scooped around them.

After seeing all of this, I still eat in fast food restaurants. As long as the meat is cooked and the food is in date then it's all good.

Truley · 12-05-2010 11:39am

Wow does nobody think we've gone a bit OTT with cleaniness and sanitation these days?? And people wonder why we have problems with superbugs and poor immune systems :rolleyes:

Ridley · 12-05-2010 11:46am

ROTTING CHRIST wrote: »

It might kill harmful bacteria, but it doesn't get rid of anything like fingernails, snots, hair, sweat, or god knows what else is on their hands.

If that's what you're worried about, what use are the gloves?

Penisland · 12-05-2010 11:54am

If you knew all the details for everywhere you ate, you would never eat anywhere and most likely end up to be some sort of troll (the creature kind :P)!

Nuggles · 12-05-2010 12:15pm

OP is being a sensitive sally.

People's bare hands touch everything.

The boy's hands touched the pizza.

That €50 note in your wallet could have been in a prostitute's snatch a few weeks ago.

Get over it.

Dominos make pizza with their bare hands???

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