Cholesterol May Not Be The Only Hidden Killer In Your Dinner

What are the best five ways to irritate your waiter and the chef when you’re eating out?
- Put on an allergy just because you don’t like something
- Insist you know more than the waiter
- Order make special food requests during busy periods
- Arrive drunk
- Pretend you’re a food writer to get special treatment
The most important one there is making out you’re allergic when you’re not.Whether you have an intense dislike of something, if you’re trying to avoid calorific foods or you’re just really fussy about what you eat calling it an allergy is just wrong.
Certainly it’s dangerous if the chef is suspicious and scornful or he or she simply doesn’t believe you, if you do have an allergy it will at the least be extremely uncomfortable, at worst deadly. When anyone asks you in a restaurant if you’re allergic to anything on the menu it’s a serious question and should be treated as such. However, a recent survey has found that many cooks, chefs and waiters don’t know too much about allergies and their prevention.
In a survey studying restaurants in Brighton many people showed they had little or no education when it came to preventing the dangerous affects of food allergies. Going out or ordering food in take away Brighton could cost you more than is stated on the bill but if that’s reflective of chefs’ level of training it could spell disaster at any time to anybody. You may have Indian takeaways in Cardiff or a Chinese in Brighton and find that allergenic foodstuffs have been put in.
33% of chefs and house managers had training about food allergies but 81% said they could provide an allergen-free meal safely.Notwithstanding that 38% thought somebody having an allergic reaction should drink water to dilute the food, 23% thought it safe to consume a little of the allergen, 21% said it was safe to remove the allergen from a cooked meal while 16% said that they thought that cooking the food would render it un-allergenic. 12% did not know an allergy could prove fatal.
