When the temperatures drop in UAE, outings and barbecues grow in popularity. There's something appealing about cooking your meal out on the open coals, lapping up the sunshine and enjoying a social gathering with family or friends. Although barbecues are enjoyable, they do pose food safety risks.
Food Safety Issues
Don't forget that food safety issues are crucial when you're barbecuing. Raw meat and fish can contain food poisoning bugs and if raw meat is near to, or drips onto, cooked or ready to eat foods, the bugs can be transferred. Take care and use the following tips to ensure what you cook and eat will be fine for all the family.
- Always wash your hands after handing raw meat.
- Use separate utensils for cooked and raw meat.
- Don't put cooked food on a plate or surface that's been used for raw meat.
- Don't put raw meat next to cooked or partially cooked meat on the barbecue.
- Keep raw meat away from ready-to-eat foods.
- If a marinade or sauce has been used with raw meat, don't then add it to cooked food.
- Ensure frozen food is thoroughly thawed before you cook it.
- Don't start cooking until the charcoal is red hot, with a grey powdery surface.
- Cook food evenly, by turning it regularly and moving it around on the barbecue.
- Make sure the centre of food is piping hot and cooked right through.
- Don't make the mistake of assuming food must be cooked right through if it's charred on the outside, as this isn't always the case.
5 comments:
As my knowledge nutritive value of meat decrease with barbecue ,can you give your commentment
Thanks for this useful information about food safety.Now a days food poisoning has became a very big problem.Everybody should be aware about it.
Food safety courses already introduced in market.
Food Safety Manager
@ Tasneem, I am not a nutritionist, but will try and answer you. Cooking for me is done to ensure safety of meat. Cooking also makes meat palatable and makes it easy for us to digest. There is nutritional loss in most forms of cooking and this will be the case for barbecue as well.
The funny thing is that we don't always eat for nutrition. We eat some foods because we simply like the taste or look or smell of it.
i am very happy because many people interested in food safety i want to ask if any one know about food safty institute of american if it is good to train beacuse i studied food engineering
Good information. Food safety is in major surveillance now, because of the change in eating habits of the public, non-availability of good quality raw materials, good quality food, climatic conditions, lack of public awareness. The sanctity of food need to be considered by All, as you are living in a world where the food for intake is on sale on roadsides and footwear for the feet is on sale in A/c showrooms.
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