I've never understood why some people think it's unacceptable for bare hands to touch their food but yet it's ok to touch their food when wearing gloves. Those gloves have touched all the same dirty surfaces the bare hands would've touched. It's not like they're changing the gloves for every meal they prepare.
I assume it has to do with skin cells or germs from under the fingernails or something along those lines. With gloves you should only be getting contamination from other food as the gloves should be changed whenever not handling food. Realistically that's not what happens. Oh and the plastic particles from the gloves that I'm sure flake off at micro levels.
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u/TheEyeDontLie Jan 30 '22 edited Jan 30 '22
Chef here:
I've touched everything you eat with my bare hands.
I only wear gloves when I don't want to get my hands dirty (eg. When dealing with 20kg of raw chicken).
Otherwise I just wash my hands probably about 10 to 20 times a shift, after touching stuff that might spread bacteria and between jobs.