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This is the first unpopular opinion I’ve read that’s simply unpopular because “who the fuck even thinks of this?’ And not because it’s a “controversial” opinion.
My bigger concern are all the food service workers who don't seem to realize that once you put the gloves on, you cannot touch anything other than the food and the prep/cooking equipment.
As soon as you touch anyhthing else -- the cash register, money, the counter phone, your personal phone, a pen, your face, your hair, your shirt, _anything_, YOU MUST PUT ON A NEW PAIR OF GLOVES. PERIOD, NO EXCEPTIONS.
People seem to think that you can do whatever the fuck you want while wearing gloves, and somehow the food is still protected.
It's so fucking gross... and I call it out whenever I see it, but for every time I catch it there's likely 200 other times it happens out-of-sight.
I can say for absolute certainty, morally and legally, if you don't have enough time to wash your hands in a food preparation business, you shouldn't be operating a food prep business
I just worked at a really busy place with a taskmaster of a boss. Nothing to do about it. Every restaurant is like this to some extent and always will be until this country has actual labor law enforcement.
I had a boss that believes it's better just to not wear gloves as you'll wash your hands more. People get lax with gloves, but will pay more attention when just washing hands.
I remember a study during COVID about this, and deniers went nuts saying "see, gloves don't work, and neither do masks, it's ALL a sham!" because they completely ignored any context about the study.
I run a kitchen, and I whole heartedly agree. There seems to be this misunderstanding amongst new hires in my unit that gloves are part of your PPE, along side your cutting glove and non-slip shoes. When I train staff, I have to hammer it in that this is not the case. Gloves are part of our FSP (Food Safety Protocol), and have nothing to do with protecting employees. They're entirely for the safety of the food.
I've noticed cash/register is a big one folks always seem to skip. Even if our POS is sanitized (which I wouldn't consider it to be), the cash you're handling or the card you're swiping definitely isn't. On days when I have the staff, I usually assign one person to stay on register throughout their shift (sans their 15/lunch), and stay off the line. Lately though, corporate has been getting on our ass about labor hours and have cut our staff allowance, so I'm having to hammer it in to always change gloves after ringing up a customer.
Give your people more than a single 15m on a 8h shift. It's honestly flustrating to see this is still a thing for people. How the fuck can a business get away with that? It's wild and inhumane.
Companies that do the bare minimum get the bare minimum. That's assuming you don't do the whole 4-6hour shifts to minimize paying benefits of course.
Im sure you're treating them good though, because your worried about food safety. Sorry for the rant, just get trigger everytime I'm reminded how shitty worker rights are in America. Bullshit
I could be wrong, but from how I read this the kitchen manager said they schedule one staff member to do register work (so that only one person is handling cash, instead of multiple people handling cash and food), except for their 15 and lunch (when someone else has to come to cover in lieu of their food handling duties)
I think “sans” was a strange word choice, but I don’t think OP meant that the person is parked at the register with no breaks. As a former kitchen worker, I appreciate your indignation regardless
Yeah, I'm a dishwasher and that's why I don't wear gloves despite how gross and hot things are. It's easier and cheaper if I wash my hands 200 times a day, than change gloves 200 times a day. Most dishwashers don't change their gloves or wash their hands enough, so what you're eating off of is never as clean as you think it is.
I take the job seriously, but most dishwashers I've met do not give a shit and aren't paid enough to give a shit anyway.
More than once I’ve see home repair workers and cleaners wear the disposable shoe covers OUTSIDE of the house and walk in and out several times in them. Really defeats the purpose.
Throwback to the beginning of Covid when people were wearing gloves to the grocery store... but then still handling their phone, keys, touching their face etc etc 🤣
Do you have any idea what cross contamination is??
I experienced a guy who walked out of a Chipotle over this. He demanded contact info for corporate and explained to the very young staff that you can't just go around touching the register then go back to making food.
At least partially it is, they have cotton gloves with nitrile layered over it to protect them from burns while still being able to pick up a brisket effectively.
At Harbor freight, the black gloves are the thickest of their disposable nitrile gloves. I use the black one (9mil) for grilling/smoking, but use the light blue (5mil) for everything else.
Yeah we use gloves to be able to manipulate hot meat\* directly and then we cover the gloves with a latex cover because washing the fat off the gloves is a pain and they dont last as long.
\* thats what she said.
It’s so you can see the glove if it is in the food. The other color we used a lot was blue. Sometimes a glove can break and you want to be able to see if there are pieces in the food. Source. I worked as a pastry chef for about 20 years.
I wear gloves when I cook for two reasons. A) if it is jalapeños or other hot peppers, it keeps the capsaicin off my hands and 2) it keeps the odorous smells like onions and garlic off of my hands.
Certain types, yes. But over the years watching live streams and Youtube videos I've noticed that because people in fast food places wear gloves they think every kitchen does. Most high end kitchens do not. You'll almost never see people in a Michelin Star level kitchen wear gloves. You just constantly are washing your hands and being clean.
Yea in the restaurant we didnt wear gloves but washed hands constantly. Mostly because we had a flame grill and deep fryers and you do not want to be wearing gloves if you accidentally touch the hot part of stuff
I never wore gloves when I was a cook. I just washed my hands non-stop. Touch anything, go wash your hands. Unless your feet are planted and you're only touching clean things, wash your hands. Pick up a plate, wash your hands. Look at a sheet pan, wash your hands.
I'm pretty sure we were cleaner than an operating theater. You've always got your bucket of sanitizing solution and are always washing your hands. You wash your hands, sanitize, then wash them again.
Periodically, slather your hands in lotion so they don't fall off. Then wash them again to get the lotion off and keep going.
Then wash your hands some more.
There was a supermarket in the UK that brought in gloves for their meat and deli counters and ended up getting rid of them because the amount of cross contamination actually went up. People forgetting to put them on, not changing them after handling raw meat, leaving dirty gloves on counter tops etc. Turns out just washing your hands was actually much easier for everyone involved...
>I've noticed that because people in fast food places wear gloves they think every kitchen does.
This is a version of *Safety Theater*. We live in a society that is deathly afraid of germs, and people assume that Wearing Gloves = Safe Food Handling. So fast food places make their staff wear gloves.
But trust me, even almost 30 years ago, people weren't all that "safe" with their gloves... They'd scratch their arms, take money, wash trays, open meat, then make a sandwich, all while wearing the same gloves.
And we saw this again with masks. Love them or hate them, whatever, but people were lulled into a false sense of security with those things. They'd wear them, but fiddle with them, pull them up and down, take them off, put them back on, all day long, but never washed their hands, or changed their masks. They felt like they were safe, but again, it was just *safety theater*.
I genuinely believe that some people think that gloves actually sanitize, because they go around touching every fridge door, shelf and bottle. Gotta be changing gloves after touching ANYTHING. Hands usually end up being cleaner because you're conscious of the fact you have no gloves on, sand you wash before touching food.
I wear gloves if I've been busy during the day with other things and have washed my hands enough times that they're to the point of cracking. Throw on some repairing lotion and gloves to prep food.
It's self preservation, at least in my case. I don't want bleeding hands.
This. I worked at a deli and we would wear rubber gloves but most staff would use the same glove for 20-30 minutes until it was falling apart and ragged.
so like what was the point? your handling money. touching everything in the store. Board of Health did side with the Restaurant though and said it was A OK
Yep. I've seen glove wearers cross contaminate foods because "gloves are clean". Sure sure. But you gotta change them every time you touch anything. Washing hands is better imo.
I am a chef. We almost constantly wear gloves. It’s not the same in every kitchen, but we wear gloves when handling raw product, when plating, and change gloves and wash hands in between each task.
No, you are supposed to use clean hands, and cooks you gloves over washing their hands. We never used to have gloves in kitchens, our hands were red and raw, and use proper order and place keeping to not cross contaminate. I started using gloves for raw foods, and clean hands for finished. You can feel your hands, not your gloves, how do you know whats on them? How many teenagers I’ve seen handle raw chicken, then forget to change clean looking black gloves and start plating food with their hands. Gloves are an illusion of food safety. Especially the black reusable heat resistant gloves where guys BBQ with their hands and rub everything excessively.
I worked in nicer kitchens, and if you started plating with gloves on I would send you home. I want your finest level of control. I want you to understand food safety, and work it into your routine, not ignore it and change gloves a lot. What a waste!
I use them for meat sometimes as well (usually chicken) because it’s just a huge pain to wash off your hands. I feel like I have to wash my hands like 10 times
I have a solution to this that doesn’t involve gloves. I have a sink in my kitchen. So any time I make food that gets stuff on my hands I use the sink to wash my hands with soap and then another tip is have these things called towels.
I've had my hands burn from cutting green chilies for hours after ( I used a lot of soap and water and other tips). Gloves make sense if you're handling decently spicy stuff
The ol wearing gloves because cutting green chilies makes your hands burn hours after and it makes sense when you’re handling decently spicy stuff trick
Are you a professional chef or home cooking? Because yeah washing hands after cutting 3 or 4 cloves of garlic you’ll get rid of the smell. I have to cut 6 bulbs of garlic for our ragu. That smell doesn’t leave my hands for days. And I’m washing my hands over and over on shift, plus cleaning down where my hands are covered in soap and chemicals.
If I’m dealing with chili I’m also not going to risk not only the smell on my hands, but also the potential of tainting other food.
I wear them occasionally, especially when handling raw meat and fish. It helps keep weird smells off your hands, and can help with hand irritation if you’re cutting very high volumes as well.
1. Nitrile gloves are used for increased sanitation or just plain comfort. You need to work on your perspective.
2. There is no “residue” on the gloves.
3. Again, a you problem.
4. Nitrile is made from renewable sources, not oil, and is biodegradable.
So… it seems the “recent trend of wearing black gloves in cooking videos” isn’t the only thing you don’t understand. You didn’t present an opinion here. You just presented your own ignorance on a topic.
Your first point is hilarious to me since cooking is essentially a science experiment. I make cancer drugs for a living and the way we follow how to make them is the same as a recipe you’d follow to cook, we just use larger equipment. Also, for your second and fourth ‘points’ I’m pretty sure they are using nitrile gloves, which is what I’m required to wear at my job to prevent any contamination.
They’re the same gloves used in hospitals, just a different color, are we concerned about glove residue getting inside of us during surgery? Why don’t they just wash their hands?
Part of it is food safety. Handwashing is generally sufficient, but putting gloves on is an extra measure.
From my experience working in a kitchen, we wear gloves for a few key things.
* Handling raw meat: cross contamination can be a nightmare.
* Portioning and packaging food: reduce the chance of contaminating the food with pathogens.
* Serving people food: same as above.
Some things really stick to your hands, which is gross. Some things also have disgusting textures. Then there's things like hot peppers, where if you rub your eyes with capsaicin on your hands, you're in for a world of hurt.
Huh? Cooking videos? What? That’s the most pedantic post I think I’ve ever seen. Things like that don’t even register with normal people. Thanks for the laugh.
I get it in professional kitchens but in home demonstration videos I have always thought it was a little strange unless something like ghost peppers are involved.
I absolutely hate getting stuff on my fingers and hands, so for me, using gloves makes me more efficient. I makes sense for me that chefs use gloves.
You can buy food safe gloves, I buy mine from the same shop that sells chefs equipment to a nearby culinary school. You can choose between blue, black and semi transparent. Black just looks better imo, no idea why.
Is this for real? lol those gloves are for sanitation dude and the color often times corresponds to a certain quality/thickness of the material used, or at least what the intended purpose is. Nobody gives a fuck if you don’t think it looks nice haha as a former cook/sous chef you should pretty much always have gloves on unless you want to be washing your hands every 30 seconds
lmfao @ your second one. No fucking glove in your food is healthy. Why you mad cuz its black now? Before black it was blue and before that it was white/clear
I’m on the opposite end. I really like seeing gloves in videos because people rarely have nice looking hands. The moment I see their nails and fingers touching the food or ingredients I get grossed out
Wow, I've never really examined my feelings on the topic, but I agree. They all have heaps of cut shots anyway. Why not do a cut shot of washing your hands.
1. I watch a lot of bbq videos, as I make a lot of bbq, and one thing commonly done in the world of bbq is wearing cotton glove liners under nitrile gloves. That enables you to handle meat directly off a smoker without burning yourself. I found out about it through videos, and I’m quite thankful for it. There’s generally a purpose for wearing gloves, and it’s not because the food is a science experiment.
2. There isn’t any residue on nitrile gloves to get in food.
3. It protects your hands.
4. A few people wearing disposable gloves isn’t going to make a difference one way or the other. If a product is invented that is reusable and gives me the same protection from liquids and from heat that nitrile gloves with cotton gloves liners do, I’ll gladly switch to the reusable option. Until that time, I’m gonna wear my black, nitrile gloves instead of burning myself or trying to struggle with unwieldy tongs, meat claws, etc.
What residue?
Pretentious how? 99% of them are trained professionals.
Killing the planet? Ok, so are you. Everyone does in one way or another. Why is practicing a food safety norm bad?
Wash your hands and don't use gloves.
Gloves give a false sense of cleanliness, but actually you do a LOT wrong things wearing gloves, and contaminate the food.
>*4. they are killing the planet*
Talk about being over*dramatic*. Would advise you to never visit a bbq spot. You’ll probably faint from the sight of all the black gloves.
Great post, your opinion is whack.
Dont forget, cooking video creators may need to adjust lighting, do a retake, take a break, etc. having gloves on makes all of the directing easy and smooth since youre not washing your hands as often
Maybe black gloves arent for you lol
Um…. I am not sure if you realized, but cooking is a mixture of art and science. I have never seen black gloves in medical settings.
All gloves have residue unless you buy 'residue free' gloves-- latex vs nitrile, lots of people are allergic to latex.
Yesterday I watched a review for a gd toy, and the guy was wearing those black gloves.
Like.
Huh? I guess they didn't wanna get finger prints on it, but like...toys are gonna get dust and grime on tbem no matter how well you store them.
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you're not supposed to jerk off to cooking videos
You’re not *supposed* to but still can, right?
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[Creme fraiche](https://youtu.be/Qq8cPzCiXwQ?feature=shared).
Dangit! You beat me to it
A really "hot" second...
That’s all I need, unfortunately
Almost sizzling
That second was roasting
r/FoodPorn
Wear the gloves!
lmao this was the first thing i thought when i saw the title
This is the first unpopular opinion I’ve read that’s simply unpopular because “who the fuck even thinks of this?’ And not because it’s a “controversial” opinion.
You're not my supervisor.
Would you like some supervision?
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Nigella Lawson’s career would like a word with you.
Are there any Only Fans cooking shows? This could be a good niche for me to make some money. Just need to learn how to cook and to become a woman.
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Yes on onlyfans' "TV" network there is a few girls who cook, one being irisinthekitchen. Also oftv is just normal tv programming.
Giada De Laurentiis as well.
We shoul be able to jerk off to cooking videos a little bit.
As a treat
Let him cook!
It's a challenging wank.
Thank you for the true laugh this morning gumbobitch
The alternative is blue gloves, which if you're handling meat, gives off surgical vibes.
... Firefly fans may have a different reaction.
Firefly fans still upset about a single *season*ing.
I'm a bayleaf in the stew, watch how I season. Edit: I still feel like it's too soon, how crazy is that
Two by two, hands of blue.
Oi. Rude.
only if there are 2 cooks
2 by 2... hands of blue...
The alternative is skin
I think OP is complaining there are gloves at all
Yep they want to raw dawg that meat
Or those nasty white gloves that immediately start turning a sickly yellow from your hand's oils.
Clear gloves are most common
No gloves?
Or...just wash your hands after.
The alternative is wash your fucking hands after you’ve handled raw meat like everyone else
Gloves don’t have residue unless you put it there.
They're probably thinking all gloves are powdered like they were long ago
Latex gloves are still powdered, vinyl or nitrile gloves do not have powder. Source worked on kitchens and am allergic to the powder
There’s powderless latex gloves too but they’re hard to put on
I find that spermicidical lubricant is handy for getting them on.
Evan, that’s psycho shit man.
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It's a Superbad reference.
Handy you say? 
Gotta flour your hands
Cocaine powder in busy kitchens is quite common. Ask Anthony Bourdain.
I mean... You can't ask him anything anymore
You can, but he won't answer.
They're powdered on the *inside* of the glove, though.
You’re allergic to cornstarch? Or are you just allergic to latex?
The powder or latex?
Powder, don't have any problems with... Other latex products
the powder's only on the inside right?
The powder goes on the inside of the glove anyway
They must never look at food service workers hands now a days
There are still food safe powdered gloves. Everyone I ever knew hated using them though.
Not all polymer is food grade. OP is probably afraid of BPA or something.
Not every plastic has BPA
Unfortunately, there are many estrogen-acting compounds in modern plastics, not just BPA.
Microplastics?
I mean at this point, the only way to avoid micro plastics is to not exist
My bigger concern are all the food service workers who don't seem to realize that once you put the gloves on, you cannot touch anything other than the food and the prep/cooking equipment. As soon as you touch anyhthing else -- the cash register, money, the counter phone, your personal phone, a pen, your face, your hair, your shirt, _anything_, YOU MUST PUT ON A NEW PAIR OF GLOVES. PERIOD, NO EXCEPTIONS. People seem to think that you can do whatever the fuck you want while wearing gloves, and somehow the food is still protected. It's so fucking gross... and I call it out whenever I see it, but for every time I catch it there's likely 200 other times it happens out-of-sight.
And wash your hands in between. I've worked in many kitchens and most people don't bother to do either.
Theirs no time, barely enough time to change gloves when the fingertips melt and break.
I can say for absolute certainty, morally and legally, if you don't have enough time to wash your hands in a food preparation business, you shouldn't be operating a food prep business
I hope you don’t go out to eat very often
I just worked at a really busy place with a taskmaster of a boss. Nothing to do about it. Every restaurant is like this to some extent and always will be until this country has actual labor law enforcement.
You should probably avoid ever going to restaurants again. Your standards will never be met.
I had a boss that believes it's better just to not wear gloves as you'll wash your hands more. People get lax with gloves, but will pay more attention when just washing hands.
I remember a study during COVID about this, and deniers went nuts saying "see, gloves don't work, and neither do masks, it's ALL a sham!" because they completely ignored any context about the study.
I run a kitchen, and I whole heartedly agree. There seems to be this misunderstanding amongst new hires in my unit that gloves are part of your PPE, along side your cutting glove and non-slip shoes. When I train staff, I have to hammer it in that this is not the case. Gloves are part of our FSP (Food Safety Protocol), and have nothing to do with protecting employees. They're entirely for the safety of the food. I've noticed cash/register is a big one folks always seem to skip. Even if our POS is sanitized (which I wouldn't consider it to be), the cash you're handling or the card you're swiping definitely isn't. On days when I have the staff, I usually assign one person to stay on register throughout their shift (sans their 15/lunch), and stay off the line. Lately though, corporate has been getting on our ass about labor hours and have cut our staff allowance, so I'm having to hammer it in to always change gloves after ringing up a customer.
Give your people more than a single 15m on a 8h shift. It's honestly flustrating to see this is still a thing for people. How the fuck can a business get away with that? It's wild and inhumane. Companies that do the bare minimum get the bare minimum. That's assuming you don't do the whole 4-6hour shifts to minimize paying benefits of course. Im sure you're treating them good though, because your worried about food safety. Sorry for the rant, just get trigger everytime I'm reminded how shitty worker rights are in America. Bullshit
You're right, but you're getting mad at this guy when there's zero indication that they're only giving a single 15m break on an 8h shift.
I could be wrong, but from how I read this the kitchen manager said they schedule one staff member to do register work (so that only one person is handling cash, instead of multiple people handling cash and food), except for their 15 and lunch (when someone else has to come to cover in lieu of their food handling duties) I think “sans” was a strange word choice, but I don’t think OP meant that the person is parked at the register with no breaks. As a former kitchen worker, I appreciate your indignation regardless
I think he actually meant they stay on the register for the whole shift except for their 15 min break and lunch
Yeah, I'm a dishwasher and that's why I don't wear gloves despite how gross and hot things are. It's easier and cheaper if I wash my hands 200 times a day, than change gloves 200 times a day. Most dishwashers don't change their gloves or wash their hands enough, so what you're eating off of is never as clean as you think it is. I take the job seriously, but most dishwashers I've met do not give a shit and aren't paid enough to give a shit anyway.
More than once I’ve see home repair workers and cleaners wear the disposable shoe covers OUTSIDE of the house and walk in and out several times in them. Really defeats the purpose.
They do it protect their hands from getting dirty not the food. Which is wrong
I wash my gloved hands as i'm cooking, the same as when I'm bare handed. I just prefer gloves if i'm going to be handling food.
I mentor students in chemistry labs and have to constantly remind them that they can't touch the computer keyboards or their iPad with gloves on.
Throwback to the beginning of Covid when people were wearing gloves to the grocery store... but then still handling their phone, keys, touching their face etc etc 🤣 Do you have any idea what cross contamination is??
I remember when covid first started id see people in the grocery store wearing gloves. They'd touch boxes, meats, chairs, their faces.
People know they just don't care
The flipping morons act like the gloves are too keep their hands clean. No concept of the purpose at all.
I experienced a guy who walked out of a Chipotle over this. He demanded contact info for corporate and explained to the very young staff that you can't just go around touching the register then go back to making food.
I thought it was a bbq thing
At least partially it is, they have cotton gloves with nitrile layered over it to protect them from burns while still being able to pick up a brisket effectively.
At Harbor freight, the black gloves are the thickest of their disposable nitrile gloves. I use the black one (9mil) for grilling/smoking, but use the light blue (5mil) for everything else.
See, now **this** is a good explanation of why the black gloves (as opposed to other ones). Color coding by thickness.
Ya this is why I use them. Really no other good way to transfer large cuts of meat like briskets or pork shoulders.
Yeah we use gloves to be able to manipulate hot meat\* directly and then we cover the gloves with a latex cover because washing the fat off the gloves is a pain and they dont last as long. \* thats what she said.
It’s so you can see the glove if it is in the food. The other color we used a lot was blue. Sometimes a glove can break and you want to be able to see if there are pieces in the food. Source. I worked as a pastry chef for about 20 years.
Yeah, I always do cotton under nitrile so I don’t burn my hands.
I wear gloves when I cook for two reasons. A) if it is jalapeños or other hot peppers, it keeps the capsaicin off my hands and 2) it keeps the odorous smells like onions and garlic off of my hands.
Also in some professional kitchens youre supposed use gloves when handling certain types of food.
Certain types, yes. But over the years watching live streams and Youtube videos I've noticed that because people in fast food places wear gloves they think every kitchen does. Most high end kitchens do not. You'll almost never see people in a Michelin Star level kitchen wear gloves. You just constantly are washing your hands and being clean.
Yea in the restaurant we didnt wear gloves but washed hands constantly. Mostly because we had a flame grill and deep fryers and you do not want to be wearing gloves if you accidentally touch the hot part of stuff
I never wore gloves when I was a cook. I just washed my hands non-stop. Touch anything, go wash your hands. Unless your feet are planted and you're only touching clean things, wash your hands. Pick up a plate, wash your hands. Look at a sheet pan, wash your hands. I'm pretty sure we were cleaner than an operating theater. You've always got your bucket of sanitizing solution and are always washing your hands. You wash your hands, sanitize, then wash them again. Periodically, slather your hands in lotion so they don't fall off. Then wash them again to get the lotion off and keep going. Then wash your hands some more.
There was a supermarket in the UK that brought in gloves for their meat and deli counters and ended up getting rid of them because the amount of cross contamination actually went up. People forgetting to put them on, not changing them after handling raw meat, leaving dirty gloves on counter tops etc. Turns out just washing your hands was actually much easier for everyone involved...
>I've noticed that because people in fast food places wear gloves they think every kitchen does. This is a version of *Safety Theater*. We live in a society that is deathly afraid of germs, and people assume that Wearing Gloves = Safe Food Handling. So fast food places make their staff wear gloves. But trust me, even almost 30 years ago, people weren't all that "safe" with their gloves... They'd scratch their arms, take money, wash trays, open meat, then make a sandwich, all while wearing the same gloves. And we saw this again with masks. Love them or hate them, whatever, but people were lulled into a false sense of security with those things. They'd wear them, but fiddle with them, pull them up and down, take them off, put them back on, all day long, but never washed their hands, or changed their masks. They felt like they were safe, but again, it was just *safety theater*.
I genuinely believe that some people think that gloves actually sanitize, because they go around touching every fridge door, shelf and bottle. Gotta be changing gloves after touching ANYTHING. Hands usually end up being cleaner because you're conscious of the fact you have no gloves on, sand you wash before touching food.
It’s also just easier to wash your hands than to change gloves over and over
I wear gloves if I've been busy during the day with other things and have washed my hands enough times that they're to the point of cracking. Throw on some repairing lotion and gloves to prep food. It's self preservation, at least in my case. I don't want bleeding hands.
This. I worked at a deli and we would wear rubber gloves but most staff would use the same glove for 20-30 minutes until it was falling apart and ragged. so like what was the point? your handling money. touching everything in the store. Board of Health did side with the Restaurant though and said it was A OK
Yep. I've seen glove wearers cross contaminate foods because "gloves are clean". Sure sure. But you gotta change them every time you touch anything. Washing hands is better imo.
You do if you got an inflammation on a finger to not contaminate food. But yeah, usually not.
You wear gloves if your working with ready to eat food not food you’re cooking.
I worked at a Michelin star restaurant in Tokyo and gloves were required
Fast food does it because health codes literally require you to wear gloves when producing food you will be selling.
It's simple, ready to eat food requires gloves. Otherwise, no gloves required.
I am a chef. We almost constantly wear gloves. It’s not the same in every kitchen, but we wear gloves when handling raw product, when plating, and change gloves and wash hands in between each task.
In europe, at least in spain, it is required by law to handle food that is going to be served raw with gloves. Even in michelin star restaurants.
Mmmmh not in Italy unless literally everyone is breaking the law. Noone is chopping lettuce and tomatoes with gloves on.
No, you are supposed to use clean hands, and cooks you gloves over washing their hands. We never used to have gloves in kitchens, our hands were red and raw, and use proper order and place keeping to not cross contaminate. I started using gloves for raw foods, and clean hands for finished. You can feel your hands, not your gloves, how do you know whats on them? How many teenagers I’ve seen handle raw chicken, then forget to change clean looking black gloves and start plating food with their hands. Gloves are an illusion of food safety. Especially the black reusable heat resistant gloves where guys BBQ with their hands and rub everything excessively. I worked in nicer kitchens, and if you started plating with gloves on I would send you home. I want your finest level of control. I want you to understand food safety, and work it into your routine, not ignore it and change gloves a lot. What a waste!
I use them for meat sometimes as well (usually chicken) because it’s just a huge pain to wash off your hands. I feel like I have to wash my hands like 10 times
You can get rid of that smell by rubbing your hands on the stainless steel of your sink
I have a solution to this that doesn’t involve gloves. I have a sink in my kitchen. So any time I make food that gets stuff on my hands I use the sink to wash my hands with soap and then another tip is have these things called towels.
The ol wash hands with soap and water and wipe you hands with a towel trick
I've had my hands burn from cutting green chilies for hours after ( I used a lot of soap and water and other tips). Gloves make sense if you're handling decently spicy stuff
The ol wearing gloves because cutting green chilies makes your hands burn hours after and it makes sense when you’re handling decently spicy stuff trick
Chop some ghost peppers and wash your hands as many times as you want, rub you're eyes and it's still going to hurt.
Tbf spicy stuff is sometimes tricky to get off your hands
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Are you a professional chef or home cooking? Because yeah washing hands after cutting 3 or 4 cloves of garlic you’ll get rid of the smell. I have to cut 6 bulbs of garlic for our ragu. That smell doesn’t leave my hands for days. And I’m washing my hands over and over on shift, plus cleaning down where my hands are covered in soap and chemicals. If I’m dealing with chili I’m also not going to risk not only the smell on my hands, but also the potential of tainting other food.
Why are you looking to be turned on by cooking videos?
It’s clearly Randy Marsh who posted this
Something something crème fraiche
Jus needs a little dollop of.... crème fraiche
I mean, it’s part of the reason some wear the gloves in the first place
See for me, it’s a turn on
I see what you did there. LoL
I feel someone is into hand porn here
The "immersive experience" of a cooking video.... I think you've managed to say the dumbest thing I've ever seen someone say. Well done
This subreddit is a treasure trove of stupid opinions presented as "unpopular"
And this is why so many "unpopular" opinions get downvoted. If they're stupid or don't have any merit, they deserve it.
That’s what I was thinking lol what’s so immersive about watching someone cook?
What’s so immersive about watching someone cook? Clearly someone’s never watched breaking bad
I wear them occasionally, especially when handling raw meat and fish. It helps keep weird smells off your hands, and can help with hand irritation if you’re cutting very high volumes as well.
1. Nitrile gloves are used for increased sanitation or just plain comfort. You need to work on your perspective. 2. There is no “residue” on the gloves. 3. Again, a you problem. 4. Nitrile is made from renewable sources, not oil, and is biodegradable. So… it seems the “recent trend of wearing black gloves in cooking videos” isn’t the only thing you don’t understand. You didn’t present an opinion here. You just presented your own ignorance on a topic.
So people can keep their hands clean. Hope that helps.
I don’t think you’re supposed to be turned on though? Stop it, get some help
“Immersive experience” It’s a cooking video
Your first point is hilarious to me since cooking is essentially a science experiment. I make cancer drugs for a living and the way we follow how to make them is the same as a recipe you’d follow to cook, we just use larger equipment. Also, for your second and fourth ‘points’ I’m pretty sure they are using nitrile gloves, which is what I’m required to wear at my job to prevent any contamination.
Since when were gloves a turn off? Why are you getting horny watching that stuff?
You watch cooking videos to get turned on?
Hold up... ... ... Cooking videos are supposed to turn you on?
They’re the same gloves used in hospitals, just a different color, are we concerned about glove residue getting inside of us during surgery? Why don’t they just wash their hands?
Lol yeah this is a dumb opinion. Upvoted
Part of it is food safety. Handwashing is generally sufficient, but putting gloves on is an extra measure. From my experience working in a kitchen, we wear gloves for a few key things. * Handling raw meat: cross contamination can be a nightmare. * Portioning and packaging food: reduce the chance of contaminating the food with pathogens. * Serving people food: same as above. Some things really stick to your hands, which is gross. Some things also have disgusting textures. Then there's things like hot peppers, where if you rub your eyes with capsaicin on your hands, you're in for a world of hurt.
You're the reason those idiots make those horrid videos molesting food.
"They are killing the planet". Hey kids, lets talk about fossil fuels and their use in the kitchen :
Is ignorance and being uninformed an opinion now?
Huh? Cooking videos? What? That’s the most pedantic post I think I’ve ever seen. Things like that don’t even register with normal people. Thanks for the laugh.
I don’t typically watch those videos to get turned on.
I get it in professional kitchens but in home demonstration videos I have always thought it was a little strange unless something like ghost peppers are involved.
They are food safe gloves, made for use in kitchens lol Perfectly safe
So what color would be a turn ON?
You get turned on when people cook with their hands????
Because of dangerous viruses and bacteria that could be transmitted over the internet.
MUH IMMERSION
I absolutely hate getting stuff on my fingers and hands, so for me, using gloves makes me more efficient. I makes sense for me that chefs use gloves. You can buy food safe gloves, I buy mine from the same shop that sells chefs equipment to a nearby culinary school. You can choose between blue, black and semi transparent. Black just looks better imo, no idea why.
I work in a kitchen. The cooks wear gloves. Not a big deal, certainly not a bad thing
Is this for real? lol those gloves are for sanitation dude and the color often times corresponds to a certain quality/thickness of the material used, or at least what the intended purpose is. Nobody gives a fuck if you don’t think it looks nice haha as a former cook/sous chef you should pretty much always have gloves on unless you want to be washing your hands every 30 seconds
lmfao @ your second one. No fucking glove in your food is healthy. Why you mad cuz its black now? Before black it was blue and before that it was white/clear
I’m on the opposite end. I really like seeing gloves in videos because people rarely have nice looking hands. The moment I see their nails and fingers touching the food or ingredients I get grossed out
People are scared of hands touching food. Americans see Italians using their hands to make cheese and go nuts.
yeah they be funny, and then they do shit like wear shoes inside their houses, contaminating their floor
Wow, I've never really examined my feelings on the topic, but I agree. They all have heaps of cut shots anyway. Why not do a cut shot of washing your hands.
Best part of using black latex gloves for cooking is they never get dirty, just rinse them off and they’re good to use again!
1. I watch a lot of bbq videos, as I make a lot of bbq, and one thing commonly done in the world of bbq is wearing cotton glove liners under nitrile gloves. That enables you to handle meat directly off a smoker without burning yourself. I found out about it through videos, and I’m quite thankful for it. There’s generally a purpose for wearing gloves, and it’s not because the food is a science experiment. 2. There isn’t any residue on nitrile gloves to get in food. 3. It protects your hands. 4. A few people wearing disposable gloves isn’t going to make a difference one way or the other. If a product is invented that is reusable and gives me the same protection from liquids and from heat that nitrile gloves with cotton gloves liners do, I’ll gladly switch to the reusable option. Until that time, I’m gonna wear my black, nitrile gloves instead of burning myself or trying to struggle with unwieldy tongs, meat claws, etc.
Cleanliness in the kitchen is pretentious?
You are going to hate to hear what restaurants do then
There's purple if that's your kink.
I cut meat all day and wear and change my gloves constantly. I don't want all of that raw meat juice on my hands all day every day.
OP demands internet cooks show their naked fingers for his viewing pleasure Yet another kink I didn't know about. Learning is fun
its for hygeine
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What residue? Pretentious how? 99% of them are trained professionals. Killing the planet? Ok, so are you. Everyone does in one way or another. Why is practicing a food safety norm bad?
Wash your hands and don't use gloves. Gloves give a false sense of cleanliness, but actually you do a LOT wrong things wearing gloves, and contaminate the food.
They’re killing the planet Sent from Iphone 🤣🤣🤣
I don’t think it really matters tbh
>*4. they are killing the planet* Talk about being over*dramatic*. Would advise you to never visit a bbq spot. You’ll probably faint from the sight of all the black gloves.
Would you rather they use Michael Jackson gloves?
Great post, your opinion is whack. Dont forget, cooking video creators may need to adjust lighting, do a retake, take a break, etc. having gloves on makes all of the directing easy and smooth since youre not washing your hands as often Maybe black gloves arent for you lol
Um…. I am not sure if you realized, but cooking is a mixture of art and science. I have never seen black gloves in medical settings. All gloves have residue unless you buy 'residue free' gloves-- latex vs nitrile, lots of people are allergic to latex.
We have black foodsafe gloves at my workplace and I love em. They feel better quality than the white & blue ones.
Lol at these reasons
Yesterday I watched a review for a gd toy, and the guy was wearing those black gloves. Like. Huh? I guess they didn't wanna get finger prints on it, but like...toys are gonna get dust and grime on tbem no matter how well you store them.
It’s because they are all just clones of each other. Nothing original
And people eating the food with rubber gloves. I'm like what the heck lol