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Nonsense. There is no bacteria on the gloves. They come out of the package and are in the trash in 5 minutes.
And in those 5 minutes get the same amount of bacteria as on your hands!
And what about the cooks that use the same gloves for one day? Anyway... I think cooking with gloves it's crazy! Now people are afraid to use their own hands because of bacterias ) ...that's hilarious! When I was a kid I never washed my hands and I was eating apples without washing them (just picked up from the tree) and I never got sick or had any problem.
^That's my point...some of us eat with our hands, and we do just fine. I don't think we dip them in a bacterial pool or an antibacterial solution first, we just eat with fairly clean hands.
About the gloves. When I worked for Subway, we used gloves. Initially, our hands were clean, but when you have a rush, you don't take the time to wash between handling money and donning the next pair of gloves! So you are handling presumably clean gloves with dirty hands. Not to mention the fact that those gloves are exposed to any bacteria floating around in the air already.
And in those 5 minutes get the same amount of bacteria as on your hands!
And what about the cooks that use the same gloves for one day? Anyway... I think cooking with gloves it's crazy! Now people are afraid to use their own hands because of bacterias ) ...that's hilarious! When I was a kid I never washed my hands and I was eating apples without washing them (just picked up from the tree) and I never got sick or had any problem.
I use vinyl gloves to handle poultry and raw meat in the kitchen not for "cooking."
I also use them to clean up cat vomit and to clean the cat box. I use them to handle the pool chemicals and to check the oil in my cars. I wear them when I am bandaging other people's children and when I pick up the trash strangers have left on the sidewalk around my office. I use them when sorting the dirty laundry of house guests. I immediately discard them in the trash by pulling them inside out.
Anyone who does not wear gloves for those tasks is entitled to their choices and my skepticism about their hygiene.
Wilson, you misapplied the intent of that section of her post. When you are certified in food safety, you learn of all these and actually, quite a few other food borne illnesses you left out, one of them being listeria, but which are all quite common. She was speaking to germaphobia, not directly to food contamination.
An important thing we learn in food safety courses is also proper food storage. You can have cross contamination occur in the fridge by not knowing and understanding which foods present which danger; and improperly storing them near one another.
Not sure any of this is what the OP had in mind with the original query, but it's been a great topic.
Edit: OH, I didn't read the entire thread before posting this... I hadn't seen Texas and others had replied to you. Sorry for piling on. It wasn't my intent.
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Originally Posted by wilson1010
Boy are you confused! The germs that help us maintain antibodies to infection are "human" germs. It is good to have regular contact with human microbes. Shaking hands, kissing the grandchildren, etc., all good. The organisms that we are concerned with in food safety have absolutely nothing to do with that.
How do you ensure, as we've asked a number of times, that the gloves themselves have no contamination? From something as simple as exposure to the air?
Hands, of course!
I was in the restaurant biz, and have my food safety cert from the state of Florida, so I know what I'm doing.
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) ...that's hilarious! When I was a kid I never washed my hands and I was eating apples without washing them (just picked up from the tree) and I never got sick or had any problem.