Is it just me...

[Velvetee]

Or does anyone else think River Cottage's Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and his mates have really unhygienic habits?

I know it's meant to be rustic, but he never appears to wash anything and is always tasting things then putting the spoon back into the pot.

His associates are no better, you have women with long hair baking with all their hair hanging over the bowl and some guy today kept dipping his fingers into things and leaning over sniffing food. They just all seem a bit skanky.

[trt]

All chefs on TV these days seem to do the tasting thing with a spoon then put it back in the pot, YUK.

I also hate seeing them playing around with the food on the plate to give it a nice presentation with their fingers, why don't they use a spoon and fork, or wear rubber gloves?

I always think: Did they wash their hands after the LOO?

[trt]

I forgot to add Velvetee,

Apart from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall unhygienic habits, he always looks as though he needs a good bath and a haircut.

Will have to check his finger nails next time he's on telly. lol

[Velvetee]

I agree, his hair is always so greasy looking too. He doesn't look as though he washes anything regularly.

[kippyboo]

they're minging just like marco pierre dirty greasy hair !

[Velvetee]

I can't stand Jamie Oliver either, dragging muddy carrots and mushrooms out of paper bags and just adding them to the pan. Filthy grungey wannabee cockney!

[Tizzi247]

I don't really watch HFW much, but have read a letter in the Daily Mail today which says (and this was in a HFW show last week) that he went fishing for grey mullet in a yacht harbour and duly caught one, which he cooked and ate.

Every marina in Europe is teeming with these fish, but no one ever tries to catch them. Apparently, a Spanish sailor told the writer of the letter about the diet of these fish and advised him not to eat them. Every yacht has a pump-out loo, but marina waters are always very clean - and the mullet are very big.

It doesn't bear thinking about does it?

[Velvetee]

Everything he cooks looks rather nasty. The last episode, he and his friend went to the beach and got loads of bits of Seaweed, from what I could see, they just cut it up and deep fried it.