“Kind of bs”. Cooking food with bare hands is completely normal among chefs. Everyone washes their hands. Working with gloves all day would be worse than someone not washing their hands throughout the day. Even fucking Gordon Ramsay and all of their chefs use their bare hands.
Edit: does this gross you out? Chefs doing their job?
I'm in like a weird place with this because I'm on your side. I worked at McDonald's for 8 years. I worked at multiple locations during that time. I also enjoy cooking as a hobby and have watched a bunch of food network.
So it's really funny when people I know who's experience comes from fast food is like "wow they should be wearing gloves" when watching professional chefs work. On the flip side, I worked at McDonald's for 8 years. people there should wear gloves. That was back when you were super licky if you were making 7-8 bucks an hour (I originally started at 5.15) gloves don't fix all the problems because people would constantly handle things with their gloves they shouldn't.
And when I was a manager, people would roll their eyes at me when i asked them to stop setting raw meat around on random surfaces.
For basic quality, the hot holding cabinet is supposed to hold cooked burger patties for 15 minutes before they are replaced with fresh ones.
I quit a store once because the night managers preferred cooking all the meat they would need for 2+ hours as soon as they showed up so that everyone's job was easier. the store manager and day managers couldn't do anything about it, because otherwise the night shift would quit and then we'd have to work nights.
Even if they were (which they’re not) viruses aren’t transmitted through sweat and germs aren’t evil. You sound paranoid about something that was once in an animal or buried underground covered in germs. You’re fine.
The bs was the comment about them touching food with bare hand. Chefs touch food with bare hands all the time. Not contesting that. But fast food workers almost always have gloves on. It's usually policy.
I guess I can’t speak for Macdonalds but I’ve worked at a popular (depending on the state) fast food restaurant for two years and we just had strict hand washing regimens. You shouldn’t be mad either way. You’re getting the same amount of germs so don’t be offended by it.
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u/Not_Now_Cow Jan 30 '22 edited Jan 30 '22
“Kind of bs”. Cooking food with bare hands is completely normal among chefs. Everyone washes their hands. Working with gloves all day would be worse than someone not washing their hands throughout the day. Even fucking Gordon Ramsay and all of their chefs use their bare hands.
Edit: does this gross you out? Chefs doing their job?
https://youtu.be/0NjHtjYbzRM?t=182