What is the common practice at clothing optional places regarding clothing in the communal kitchen? Is clothing required? Is the wearing of clothing in the kitchen a serious food safety/cleanliness issue? Is it like hairnets, a "best practice" that is generally not followed.
Clothing is a tool. You use it to protect your body when cooking and to protect your guests from body hair dropping into the food. Mostly I've seen cooks wearing aprons and chef caps, shoes and nothing else. Then when you are finished cooking, you take off your clothes and sit with your friends.
Most of my friends have no problem wearing some clothes when preparing food. If I am at home just cooking for myself, I don't care, but yeah, if I am preparing a dish for people, it is common courtesy and hygienic to have something on.
Professional cooks are required to wear clothing, especially headgear. At home, it doesn't matter. If anyone wears an apron but no hat, and claims to be protecting their guests from anything, I'd wonder how much they really like the human body. And who wears a hat in their own kitchen? And of course blah blah blah, frying bacon, blah blah blah.
I have fried bacon while naked, but I was very, very careful. Aprons or a long tee shirt help block the spatter. I guess bare feet are vulnerable if you drop a chicken breast from the pan to your toes, but hey being naked means you have to be more careful with your body! A human hair dropping into something cooking at 250 degrees or so is going to be sterilized pretty quickly, it just grosses a lot of people out, thus the hair nets for professional cooks. At home, just pick it out before you carry it to the supper table. If you own a restaurant or insure one, you want your kitchen workers protected from the inevitable accident, so protective clothing is needed in a business setting.
I wear an apron for protection. If I'm cooking for non-nudist friends I wear a robe as well - my friends know I am a nudist and I mostly choose to remain nude while they visit, but one time I had some over for dinner and was finishing preparing the food nude when they arrived, they seemed uncomfortable with this so I make a concession now.
I'm not into social nudism but I do most of the cooking and baking at home. Quite often especially if I have a lot of baking to do I simply find it much better to strip off first. Why - well apart form the comfort factor which applies to most household chores - baking is often quite messy. If you are wearing clothes you need to change and wash them afterwards where as if you are nude you wipe yourself down or even take a shower. Of course when using hot things you do need to be careful and sometimes wear protective covering. My nude domestic chores only take place when I'm alone or when just my wife is around; she usually passes unwelcome comments but does not really object.
Depends who I'm cooking for and what. If it's family then I'm quite casual about clothing, however if it's guests even if they are okay with nudity I put something on out of respect for people's idea of hygiene. Also if I'm cooking something that's going to potentially hurt they yeah I'm wearing an apron!
Chef caps were mostly a fashion thing and the setting was outdoor cooking at the nudist campground. It would be kinda weird to do the cap thing indoors, I admit. So why do nudist chefs wear chef caps outdoors? Yeah, a little silly, but it is not the weirdest thing these folks have done.
Do you cook nude? Typically, I do. There are few occasions when I think an apron is suggested such as cooking bacon or taking something out of the oven that likes to sizzle and pop. With those few exceptions, why don clothing just so you can cook? I understand that from a sanitary perspective you probably should wear clothing. It helps keep random hairs from falling into the meal, but lets be honest our kitchens are not five star restaurants, and we aren't inspected by the food and health inspector. When was the last time you looked at the rules and regulations that city and states require in order to be deemed safe to eat at. Animals in the kitchen? I have both cats and dogs so you know I either have had cats walking on my counters or dogs sitting beneath my feet waiting for fall out. So, it would be a bit silly for me to allow my pets in my kitchen but be fussy over a random hair in my food. I also understand the safety aspects, and as I mentioned I use common sense when I can and I know ahead of time when something is going to be a possible bad situation.
Some resorts (speaking in the context of Australia) require to adhere to food safety standards of hygiene. IN a service area, that means a nudist would normally be required to wear latex gloves and an apron. In my personal time, I sometimes wear an apron when searing a steak on a skillet: the conflagration has in the past not only seared my steak, but my balls too.
I unfortunately, had an accident frying bacon, it spat hot fat into my groin area, i now do not cook naked....
The main kitchen accident is pouring boiling water or hot oil over you I guess. Probably this would be worse with clothes on as the fabric soaks up the hot liquid and you need to remove it first to stop the effect. Of course this is not funny naked also, but probably less damaging. Grease spatters? I guess the forearms are more endangered than your body as long as you know how to make one step back and stretch out your arms. I’ve never seen a professional cook using a special forearm shield *lol*. I think the danger of hurting your feet by an accidentally falling knife is much bigger than a sincere hurt by cooking goods. As always: practice makes perfect. But I think the OP didn’t worry about injuries, but about violation of hygienic rules in a kind of public catering. Of course this depends on country / communal regulations. No idea, but I guess as long as you are healthy and neat there would be no problem. Usually the meal will not get rotten when it sees the cook stiring it with a bare arm, so it will not when it sees him showing more skin *lol*.
An old fashioned neck to knees apron might be just the thing. In case of a spill it could be shed quickly.
As I said a month ago, "And of course blah blah blah, frying bacon, blah blah blah." You can't talk about cooking naked without someone mentioning bacon. You can't even prevent it by saying "frying bacon, blah blah blah" ahead of time.
