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| - Let me get the positive stuff out of the way first. Overall, the food was good.
There done with that. Now let me tell you exactly why you shouldn't take a class from Dorothy.
Here's the main reason; this woman got her own blood in our food, and then thought it was OK for us to eat the food she had just bled in.
In case you don't believe me (which would be understandable) here's the story. One of my team members nicked Dorothy in the pinky with a knife. This I admit was an avoidable mistake. But then, and this is perhaps one of the most shocking things I've witnessed is a while, Dorothy preceded to put her bleeding hand back into the salad we were preparing and continue to mix the salad, getting her blood on the bowl and our food.
I suppose it's possible she didn't notice she was bleeding (even though she looked directly at her bleeding finger). But then, after someone pointed out the blood on our bowl, she wiped it off with a paper towel and said, and I'm not making this up, "it's fine". She then continued to prepare the food despite the fact that there was still blood in it.
Let me be extremely clear for any aspiring food professionals out there: BODILY FLUIDS OF ANY KIND (especially blood) ARE NOT "FINE" TO LEAVE IN FOOD YOU ARE SERVING TO OTHER PEOPLE. I have absolutely no idea how she thought this was OK. We also had to ask her to wash her hands after all this. You know, so that she didn't get BLOOD on our food again.
There were lots of other things as well that on their own would warrant a poor review. Dorothy was rude, not only to us, but to her assistant, who was very kind and helpful and didn't deserve such treatment. The class itself was also poorly run; it was almost entirely Dorothy telling us what to do and ordering us around, which meant that I didn't really learn anything, or have much fun for that matter. If you want good food, find a good restaurant. If you want a positive cooking class experience, don't come to Chop Wok and Talk.
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