‘Bar Rescue’ host Jon Taffer dishes on the dirtiest discovery he’s ever made
nypost.comahead of the Season 9 premiere of “Bar Rescue,” which airs Sunday on Paramount Network. “He climbed into the kitchen one night, and he obviously fell asleep or died there.”Taffer just finished filming his 250th episode of the reality series, where he rescues failing bars around the nation with his signature no-nonsense attitude.He’s been in so many foul-smelling bar kitchens that he’s devised a method to withstand the stench often brought on by uncleaned grease traps.“There are some kitchens that I go into that smell so bad, I have to pour garlic on the tip of my tongue and breathe through my nose.
And I can still only stay in there for a minute or so,” he revealed. A common problem he sees is “black mold in ice machines,” he said. “Because many bars don’t clean the ice machine.
So black mold [grows] in it and then that goes into your drink,” he said. “When they lose money, I get stern. When they get people sick, that’s when I really lose it.”Lack of oversight from local health departments is part of the reason bars are getting away with such unsafe conditions, said Taffer, a Long Island native who now lives in Las Vegas. “Where the hell is the health department in these operations?
And why do I see this so often in so many different states?” he asked.“And it’s extremely frustrating. We were in a bar a few weeks ago … every hood system in a kitchen has to have a seal on it to make sure that it’s been cleaned, because it’s a terrible fire hazard.
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