Boobs, bums and baking: cooking in the nude

April 17th, 2012

Appliance Talk

We’re not prudes here at Appliances Online, but we have been slightly astonished recently at the apparent growth in popularity of cooking in the nude. Frankly, it’s got us a bit worried.

Our interest in the matter first arose when we saw a news article which claimed that one in 10 British men like to cook sans clothing. I mean, jeez, think of all that naked white flesh flapping around that isn’t raw chicken breast.

Leading public figures have also indicated their preference. No less a luminary than Khloe Kardashian says that she cooks in the buff in order to impress her husband. Apparently Khloe finds that taking her clothes off makes her more interesting. This would be a logical conclusion for a Kardashian – but, c’mon, has the poor woman even thought for a moment about the hygiene issues?

Apparently, there’s a lot of nudity on the web

A cursory Google search (using a work colleague’s computer while they were on lunch) shows an alarming amount of cooking presenters who prefer to flop their bits around rather than don the traditional white aprons and chef’s hat.

It’s liberating, apparently – it makes cooking a celebration of body and soul.

Take the Naked Vegan Cooking website.  This website, spawned by a couple out of Manchester, is touted as a celebration of vegan cooking recipes and positive body images.

These guys are so sincere in their quest to advocate their ideology, they are willing to strip off in Manchester – knowing full-well this is the coldest place in the world outside of the Arctic circle. Are these people actually willing to suffer frostbite in order to produce a decent lentil soup?

Meanwhile, another site, something called “ilove2cooknaked.com” –  similarly promotes healthy-cooking whilst also celebrating the human form. Admirably, it’s billed as the “first reality show about healthy eating and all the women are delicious”. A cursory examination of the website demonstrates that the presenters (all female, funnily enough) are all versatile and imaginative chefs. We note, a lot of them also seem to have tattoos, many of them in hard-to-reach places.

Public health concerns

But is all of this really healthy? I mean, let’s talk for a moment about the danger of one’s bare nipples being splattered with hot oil. Or how ’bout inadvertently trapping your love handles in the door of the grill? And how many of us don’t worry about the faux pas of having a curly hair ending up caught in the teeth of a dinner guest?

Well, let’s get serious people. Leave it to the experts, Appliances Online says please cover up in the kitchen.