Food Tech

Bobby Bognar sticks his hands in everything. I don't understand how this show made it on air without anyone catching the food handling violations and lack of sanitation. He's absolutely disgusting. In the first episode, he's handling meat without gloves on and he sticks his hand in a truck full of flour meant to make hamburger buns. At one point, he grabbed sesame seeds from a bin, ate some of them, then shook off the excess with his dirty hands back into the same bin, contaminating the rest of them. Same thing with the cheese. And no one said anything?! So gross. All that happened less than 15 minutes into the first episode. This is sickening.

Food Tech has been a blessing for the History Channel. Not only do they finally have an informative and entertaining food show, they have also found a gem of a host in Bobby Bognar. Food Tech episodes are all theme based. Pancakes and Sausage were one episode, another was Mexican. They start with a plateful of food, and show you how each and every thing on that plate were made/grown/cooked/caught. It is a fascinating format. The host, Bobby Bognar is not a smarmy know-it-all. In fact, he goes into the factories and fields just as uninformed and curious as the viewer. It makes for a genuine and often humorous television show. I seriously hope History Channel keep up the good work on this one! It is far better than most of the shows they are airing at this time.

Found this on Prime in 2025 and started watching alone at my computer.

I guess I'd assumed that food was manufactured in large factories but had no idea how large those factories really are! And how many barrels and tanks and vats are used!

When I got to the baking soda segment, I knew my partner had to see it. After watching two episodes, his comment was, "This is better than Man Vs. Food!"

Bobby can be a little obnoxious but Food Tech is one of the best documentary series I've seen and his personality makes it so.

To "pipsqueakanonymous" -- the only time you see Bobby Bognar handling food with his bare hands is BEFORE the food is sterilized. No company is going to damage its reputation by allowing sterilized food to be handled in an unhealthy way.