the streamer and video game narrator Ibai Llanos never ceases to fascinate to the world of the Internet with new and surprising formats of entertainment. From the Boxing Evening of the Year to the first Balloon World Cup, passing through the last chimes next to the television totem Ramón García, the Basque does not stop surprising us with each one of his massive events. The most recent of them is Disaster Chefsa cooking show that brings together the best content creators on the national scene to put their culinary skills to the test.
In this kind of gastronomic contest in pairs, the participants must prepare their best dishes before the astonished gaze of a specialized jury made up of the well-known pizza chef Pino Presanizzi, the winner of Masterchef 7 Aleix Puig and Marifé, the head chef of the KOI Gaming House, Ibai’s own eSports team. The grace of the matter is that, a priori, none of the contestants is exactly a star of the kitchen.
The success of this first installment of Disaster Chefs has been undoubted, however some food practices have been seen that are less risky. For those of us who are specialized in the food sector, see this program can become a true odyssey for the senses. And for various reasons. Many of them are related to the incorrect handling of food and some practices that, despite being common to all mortals, are not without certain food poisoning risks. Therefore, it is a fantastic opportunity to review basic concepts of food safety that we should all know when we cook in the heat of our own home.
Watch out for the eggs in the kitchen of Disaster Chefs
The egg is a microbiologically very active food, since it usually contains a high presence of pathogens like Salmonella. Surely the relationship between the egg and salmonellosis sounds familiar to you, right? Salmonellosis is a gastrointestinal disease closely linked to the consumption of raw or undercooked eggs, and which can lead to serious health problems beyond an untimely stomach ache and a night of passion by the toilet.
Therefore, handling raw eggs carries a risk of food poisoning. To reduce this risk to a minimum, it is recommended to wash hands with soap and water after handling fresh eggs and before touching any other food or utensils to avoid cross-contamination. This is due to Salmonella is naturally present in the egg shell, and not inside. However, if we crack and handle the egg incorrectly, we are running the risk of contaminating Salmonella the whole egg completely.
We should not leave the eggshells on cutting boards or any other surface where other foods will later be. It’s not right either crack the egg on the counter or the edge of the pan, since we will be contaminating these surfaces. The ideal would be to use a napkin or disposable paper to break the egg without contacting any surface, for example. Unfortunately, throughout the first test of the Ibai Llanos Disaster Chefs it can be seen an absolute lack of respect towards this basic premise of food hygiene. And it’s a shame. You don’t play with eggs.
Ibai Llanos could not turn the tortilla
The first test of Disaster Chefs consisted of using the potato according to the criteria of each pair of contestants. in a display of unprecedented innovation, Ibai Llanos decided to take a risk in this test with a potato omelette. As soon as he started, the matter got complicated, since it was not long before one of his fingers was severed by the potato peeler. At this point we could see an absolute ignorance on the part of the streamer of the handling of this complex contraption. Although a misfortune was about to happen, luckily the blood did not reach the river. Not even the potatoes.
This was not the most serious part of the matter, since Ibai Llanos’ food preparation fell on the kitchen furniture arranged on the set of Disaster Chefs, a visibly dirty surface. The Basque could not turn the tortilla. This caused its subsequent reconstruction in the frying pan, using part of the food that had slipped through the gaps in the stove with food remains and additional rust. If this ever happens at home, it’s best to throw the tortilla in the trash and start from scratch. The exception would be if the tortilla landed on a completely clean surface, but this was not the case.
ElXokas and Staphylococcus aureus by Disaster Chefs
Another of the great protagonists of this culinary event was ElXokasgraced with the award for the revelation streamer of 2021 according to the recent esland awards. Unfortunately, ElXokas also committed some food safety mistakes which is worth commenting on.
Although it is not such a flagrant failure as the one previously mentioned in the case of the egg, we could see ElXokas scratching the face and nose on several occasions. Yes, it is a fairly common practice that the vast majority of mortals carry out, but it is not correct for that.
Our nose is a natural reservoir of pathogenic bacteria Staphylococcus aureus, —also known colloquially as “cocolectus”— so scratching our nose implies a possible risk of contamination to the food we are preparing. In this sense, it is convenient to be careful when handling food and to carry out good hygienic practices and not to touch our skin, hair and nose excessively when we are in the kitchen.
The importance of hand washing
At a certain point in the program, the streamer and presenter Cristinini reproached Illojuan that he had not washed his hands. Washing your hands with soap and water is an extremely simple gesture, but unfortunately not all people do it on a daily basis. Doing it before handling food is crucial to prevent food poisoning, since the germs present on our hands can be transferred to our food by direct contact. This practice is crucial especially if we come from the bathroom, since many pathogenic microorganisms such as Escherichia coli They are commonly found in human feces.
In addition, we were able to see Illojuan himself blow repeatedly the pizza made in the second test of the contest, a space that was sponsored by the Telepizza brand. This practice is also very widespread, but we must discard it as much as possible so as not to transmit possible germs from our mouth to the food. Birthday cakes have done a lot of damage.
In general, it was possible to appreciate quite a lack of hygiene and order in the kitchen. We saw raw food mixed with cooked food, cross-contamination of utensils, and plenty of mess on work tables. Disaster Chefs will have three more episodes. I hope that food safety is taken into account more in this Twitch contest for the good of our retinas, and also our stomachs. We’ll be alert. Because being a mess in the kitchen doesn’t have to be associated with filth. Ibai, do it. Please.