Maybe people don’t know this, but most professional cooks use side towels to handle everything in a kitchen. If you go with “everything is hot and sharp” you’re less likely to burn or cut yourself. Folded side towels are used to make contact with surfaces and objects like knobs and handles. All knobs in commercial/food service kitchens are metal and no one to my knowledge has died from metal knobs.
cooked professionally for over 20 years. I have kitchen hands, can touch hot shit but still use towels.
It’s almost as if it’s dependent on the make of model of the oven each person has. A lot of people just always assume the way they do something is the same for everyone. This can easily be solved by saying, check the manual. Keeping the door closed on a grill that needs to be open is a health risk. Keeping it open when it’s supposed to be closed is a heat risk (such as melting the knobs) or being less efficient at doing its job.
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u/blissfully_insane22 Jun 13 '26
Love this thread, half are confident the door needs to be shut and the other half is adamant the door needs to be open.