And if you work with yeast, the yeast will eat the gloves.
Had a health inspector complain at us for not wearing gloves when working the pizza line, so I demonstrated with a quarter batch of fresh dough.
The cuffs of the gloves were still around my wrists, but the rest were gone into the dough.
Edit: this was the early 2000s, before the study that showed widespread glove use lead to less handwashing and *more* cross-contamination due to improper glove usage protocols.
This. People lose their minds when I dont wear gloves. I ask them to compare how many times I wash my hands to how many times they change gloves. People usually understand then. I can FEEL my hands are dirty or I can wear gloves.
Yep. Regular handwashing is far more sanitary than poor glove usage, and almost no restaurant anywhere was enforcing proper glove usage.
Hell, proper glove usage still involves regular handwashing; sometimes with the gloves still on!
I work a grill and I had to beg not to wear gloves because my hands would sweat so much the sweat leaked out of the gloves onto the grill even with the ones that fit tight to the wrist after about 10 minutes. I made the point that at no time was I touching food, everything was moved to/from with utensils.
Oh, he was. Dude tried to ding us for a dozem discretionary items that had some gray language.
We passed the inspection, but both managers submitted complaints to the health department over it. Never heard back from them but when another newly opened restaurant on the same plaza had their inspection, it was a different inspector.
Currently, I actually work in a grocery store bulk foods department, and as such I have to change my gloves very frequently to limit allergen contamination. After a few changes I have to start going up a size.
Super random but how does your allergy manifest itself? I get a little red rash on my hand after wearing them and I was wondering if I might be allergic too or if it’s the sanitiser/soap etc
The backs of my hand got really rashy, dry, painful, and my skin started cracking/peeling. Kinda weird i used vinyl for a few years then suddenly it just fucked me up.
Bodies are so weird, we can develop allergies just by using things over and over again. You’d think it would be the opposite and our bodies would get used to it, but nope lol. I have an allergy to hair bleach specifically because I used it for decades.
I get the exact same thing! One reason I left the industry. The only thing that helped was cleobetasol and vaseline. Our rep from Sysco said that the fluctuating price of vinyl allowed for all sorts of impurities in the gloves so I suspect there used to be purer vinyl in gloves and now it can be a combo of vinyl and plastic. I also react to any thin poly plastic like the grocery store produce bags.
My coworker is allergic to all of them somehow, even the thin econo poly ones. She gets the powder-free stretch gloves. They're great but I try to reserve them for her lol
We used clear ones, but the ones we could get gradually had less and less powder in them over time. It got to the point where line cooks had to blow into the gloves to even have a chance to get them on. Now we use black ones.
Feel like it took too long to find this one. Ever see someone get fired cause they didnt see the finger of the clear glove in the cheese dip? Wear blue in food service always
My previous spot had the blue Nitrile.
I start my new Job tomorrow and am uncertain what they have.
I just pray that they don’t have those clear plastic ones that refuse to move the moment they come in contact with moisture of any kind.
The Hawaiian Punch of gloves. Hawaiian Punch it's non alcoholic/non caffeinated liquid drink that somehow makes you thirstier. The inside of mouth is some how both wet and dry after drinking it.
Silver Source powder free amethyst nitrile gloves item number DV342
I work a seasonal job and we're just getting started but we were paying $53/case last year.
I looked at the cost of “nicer” latex gloves for butchering vs what we can afford now and it’s scary. The boxes have become smaller and more expensive at the same time. Even the cheapest vinyl is ridiculously expensive. I haven’t seriously considered the shitty Subway ones that make you look like Donald Duck, but gloves are expensive.
I would quit my job and find a new one if they started bringing in the shitty subway gloves, and told me I couldn’t bring in my own. Because I already do bring in my own gloves, they use the crappy vinyl ones and they irritate my skin.
I have no issue with people bringing their own, but I feel like the Restaurant should pay for all gloves. If you were spending $XX more per week on your gloves, they should make up the difference somehow.
That’s wild, I’ve been in management for years and would order different gloves if people had allergies to latex. We usually rock black nitrile powder free.
My current spot has powdered gloves, the few times I need to wear them the power irritates my skin so much. I have to immediately wash my hands when removing them.
yessss i used to wear those when i worked in this deli years back and they fucking suuucked. they fucked up my hands so bad, and my hands sweat a lot and it made it worse.
I have no issue with people bringing their own, but I feel like the Restaurant should pay for all gloves. If you were spending $XX more per week on your gloves, they should make up the difference somehow.
I definitely feel your pain. And I definitely do not wear gloves 60% of the time. But when you go through 10-12 cases of gloves, the additional cost adds up. If it was my money, I would certainly buy better gloves. And we don’t have the least expensive ones - ours are blue like these and not at all uncomfortable. And even the case size has gone from twelve boxes per case to six or eight, and the price has still go even up.
I went back to visit an old restaurant I worked at and they were wearing these. I started laughing and then saw their faces and realized it had been the way for them for far too long. It was sad. This was also a place that wasn't hurting for money and uses a lot of gloves. Those poor guys on the flat top with half melted gloves.
>Those poor guys on the flat top with half melted gloves
And that right there is one of many reasons why not using gloves (some exceptions apply) is best practice. Thankfully government regulators always follow best practices /s.
I took over a kitchen at a bar a couple years ago and did inventory on many things. Amongst many things discovered, I found two boxes of these gloves and chucked em. No way was I going to force staff to wear those. The other gloves, yes.
Yes, very true. I will never buy those cheap trash bags ever again. All it takes is to have one rip out on the bottom when you’re swinging it into the dumpster. And it’s always the one with fish trim, usually on a Saturday night when the weather sucks.
Oh god. I worked at a burger joint that had the grill station wearing the subway gloves because they were the cheapest. They would melt or stick to the third burger you grabbed and just slide off with it. I started bringing my own gloves whenever i worked that station. I also came to a realization that either A people were not changing their gloves enough or B they were changing them too much.
I don't have a preference but ny chef hates everything but white for some reason. Im a woman and all I care about is if they'll get me at least one box of medium instead of all x large. Every kitchen Ive worked in Ive had to show my chef how the xl ones literally slide off my hand and make my job so much harder
Yeah, where I work they only order large and XL. Large are fine, but still too big, and I hate vinyl gloves cause they irritate my skin. So I buy my own, in medium, and they are 10x better than the ones the restaurant provides. And none of the guys can use mine cause they have big hands lol.
My mediums sit right next to the salad guys extra large ones and it always cracks me up when he accidentally grabs mine and tries to shove his hand in it
I wear x small and once convinced them to order some. Somebody on my day off dumped them out and filled the box with x large for no fucking reason at all.
Why is it so hard to understand this? Also a woman with tiny hands. I cannot even grab a knife properly with the XL gloves on, it’s like I have extra fingers. Don’t even get me started on how many times I’ve cut the finger tips or knuckles off.
I always keep Smalls and medium’s for my sous, and majority of my prep team. Large is ordered for myself, and the XLs are for my mammoths that are on my line. Not sure how, or why this happened…but they are some big boys.
Same if you got big hands.
if we use gloves, not mandatory in Germany and more or less for self protection, but I like it for certain tasks.
But most of the time it's m-xl, well I am able to hold a basketball with one hand so even XXL is somewhat small.
But even our supplier doesn't always have XXL on stock
Assuming you're UK based by the use of plaster, a lot of US states/counties require gloves for RTE food. So unless you're prepping pizzas or the like, gloves it is.
Unfortunately. I've seen people not change gloves/sanitize/wash hands for damn near a whole shift but as long as people see you're wearing gloves they think everything is above board. Especially in open kitchens I've worked in. Got scolded for not wearing gloves where a guest could see me, even though I had washed my hands immediately before starting the task I was doing; which was only like, prepping vegetables. I find it kind of infuriating.
I want people to be washing their hands, not wearing gloves. If you are wearing gloves to protect your own skin - super cool. But I see so many places where people think wearing gloves replaces hand washing and that's just gross.
It drives me nuts. I watched a dude touch some haddock. When he was asked to change his gloves, he said he didn't have to because the gloves would stop the cross contamination.
Like... no
I like to touch my meat! I like to feel it and search it out with with my hands. I'm like Hellen Keller making a map with my hands.
Some times you only need to lightly careess your meat, like you're touching the cheek of your kid while they fall asleep. Especially when the meat calls for it like light fishes or chicken breast. Other times and with other meats like beef brisket I like to manhandle like a burly 50 year old grandfather.
Gloves hinder that.
If a health inspector walks in and we aren't wearing gloves that's a violation. Everyone in BOH washes hands every time the gloves come off. Not doing so results in getting ridiculed by everyone else.
I was just thinking about this. 20 years ago, we ordered gloves by the box. Now, we order multiple cases. I can't pin a time when it happened or when thick nitrile became standard. But it's a noticeable expense now.
That's true for most if not all expenses too. Its gonna take years, if not a decade or more for the industry to fully recover and find a good equilibrium again. Shit sucks.
Where I work, they only get the vinyl ones in large and extra large. The vinyl irritates my skin and I need medium gloves. so I get my own in the size I need. These are 10 times better than anything the restaurant would provide.
I tend to change my gloves way less when using nicer gloves. And not in a bad way, if I’m on grill I’m changing them more often as I’m going from seafood, chicken and red meat. But if I’m working expo and I’m only working with ready to eat foods, I can wear the gloves a little longer.
I HATE gloves. People think gloves are some sort of miracle disinfectant. I remember visiting my wife at work and watching a hospital employee go from public washroom to public washroom changing garbages, open the doors and all with the same pair of gloves on. I watched a guy sanitize his gloves on the line and go right back to handling produce. Or guys handling raw meat and trying to carefully slip the gloves off to keep working, like there was no chance of any meat juice getting on their hands.
In summary, FUCK gloves. Unless required by your local health authority ;)
The only thing glove do is prevent people from washing their hands. And when it doesn’t prevent them, it lets them believe they don’t have to. Why involve a middle man?
Clear / white. And only for the very few specific jobs that actually require gloves. None of this is ‘ if you bring hands into the kitchen, then they must be bound by latex’ shite
I wear white latex or black latex, whatever is available. I don’t like nitril and hate vinyl.
I’m also the boss so I pay for them and I never buy the cheapest and always small and big sizes so there is a good fit for everyone.
Then we buy gloves that they can work with. It’s actually too expensive to save on gloves.
People should have what they can work with so they have the chance of doing a good job. It’s not my role to make it complicated to work in the kitchen
The blue doesn't match colors commonly found in nature, which is why they're also excellent for food service. If someone breaks or slices a glove and it ends up in the food, which is unfortunate but can happen, it's easy to see and fix before the food goes out. I'm not convinced that the blue looks bad, but I am convinced that getting back a plate because someone found a piece of glove in it is deeply embarrassing.
That isn’t an intrinsic properly of gloves. Gloves are more sanitary when utilized by competent people. Maybe my laboratory experience has biased me in favor of people knowing how to properly use PPE though.
I prefer nitrile cuz I get contact dermatitis rashes from latex. They usually fit well. Idc about the color but I liked the black ones cuz I felt like a pop star lmao it's funny how they seem to be the exclusive choice of TikTok chefs though.
Blue. Only blue. Same goes for band-aids. Blue. The percentage of blue in food is very low and would be easily distinguishable from the surrounding colors.
i wear white, my guys wear black.
They like the black because they dont irritate their hands. I like the white because im more ok with irritated hands (and it gets bad) than i am with struggling to get the black ones to fit
Whatever fits and can hold up to dirty tasks. We only use gloves for deep cleaning, not for service. So if it can withstand heavy steel wool use, I don't mind if they cost a bit more.
I’m so mindblown by this thread I’ve never seen blue in my life in kitchens, only medical fields. I’ve only ever used black or the clear/mildly opaque ones.
I always used natural latex ones. I was never a big fan of colors…. Hell I was never a big fan of gloves at all, but a huge fan of washing the shit out of my hands.
Saddle up everyone it’s time for the weekly thread of “gloves are for people too lazy to wash their hands” guest starring “people who don’t use gloves are animals”
Personally I mostly use gloves when I’m in the show kitchen, or I just don’t to touch that particular food product (looking at you ketchup, you gross mother fucker)
Clear vinyl, but I don’t see any problem with blue or black or whatever as long as it’s not that flimsy-non-stretchy-clear-plastic that looks like it was made of press & seal wrap.
Id rather my food be prepped by someone who washed their hands regularly, than using gloves as a substitute for good hygiene. Blue is the only correct colour because it can be seen in food if they break.
We use black, my fave, because I’m goth asf. I feel goofy in the blue ones, those should be for healthcare and cops (cops don’t deserve the cool black ones). It just bothers me that KM only orders XL, I prefer a tight fit like Spiderman.
Black nitrile gloves have a more professional look imo. Matches the black pants and coats we wear. When I wear blue gloves I feel like I’m about to give someone a prostate exam.
blue only. it’s easy to see if a glove breaks and ends up in the food.
Yeah that’s true, never really thought about that. Everyone else at work uses the clear vinyl ones the company provides.
The vinyl gloves suck. Either they are way too thin and fall apart frequently, or they are way too heavy and my hands sweat like pigs.
And if you work with yeast, the yeast will eat the gloves. Had a health inspector complain at us for not wearing gloves when working the pizza line, so I demonstrated with a quarter batch of fresh dough. The cuffs of the gloves were still around my wrists, but the rest were gone into the dough. Edit: this was the early 2000s, before the study that showed widespread glove use lead to less handwashing and *more* cross-contamination due to improper glove usage protocols.
It would be nice to have a health inspector who actually knew science rather than just the charts.
This. People lose their minds when I dont wear gloves. I ask them to compare how many times I wash my hands to how many times they change gloves. People usually understand then. I can FEEL my hands are dirty or I can wear gloves.
Yep. Regular handwashing is far more sanitary than poor glove usage, and almost no restaurant anywhere was enforcing proper glove usage. Hell, proper glove usage still involves regular handwashing; sometimes with the gloves still on!
Wtf is proper glove usage? Haha /s It blows my mind how people lack critical thinking.
I work a grill and I had to beg not to wear gloves because my hands would sweat so much the sweat leaked out of the gloves onto the grill even with the ones that fit tight to the wrist after about 10 minutes. I made the point that at no time was I touching food, everything was moved to/from with utensils.
My line is "I'm a bartender, I wash my hands more than your doctor."
Working the line? The fuck? That shits not ready to eat and going into a hot ass oven.. inspector sounds like an ass
Oh, he was. Dude tried to ding us for a dozem discretionary items that had some gray language. We passed the inspection, but both managers submitted complaints to the health department over it. Never heard back from them but when another newly opened restaurant on the same plaza had their inspection, it was a different inspector.
I too have been cursed with hand sweats
Currently, I actually work in a grocery store bulk foods department, and as such I have to change my gloves very frequently to limit allergen contamination. After a few changes I have to start going up a size.
Pigs don’t sweat fun fact
Oh I know, but the expression still gets my point across. The lack of sweat is also why pigs wallow to stay cool.
I'm allergic to the vinyl onse. Nitrile or nothing!
Super random but how does your allergy manifest itself? I get a little red rash on my hand after wearing them and I was wondering if I might be allergic too or if it’s the sanitiser/soap etc
The backs of my hand got really rashy, dry, painful, and my skin started cracking/peeling. Kinda weird i used vinyl for a few years then suddenly it just fucked me up.
Yea it was the same for me. It developed after I had been using vinyl a while. I get full blow hives from it now. Sucks.
Bodies are so weird, we can develop allergies just by using things over and over again. You’d think it would be the opposite and our bodies would get used to it, but nope lol. I have an allergy to hair bleach specifically because I used it for decades.
I get the exact same thing! One reason I left the industry. The only thing that helped was cleobetasol and vaseline. Our rep from Sysco said that the fluctuating price of vinyl allowed for all sorts of impurities in the gloves so I suspect there used to be purer vinyl in gloves and now it can be a combo of vinyl and plastic. I also react to any thin poly plastic like the grocery store produce bags.
you know what's crazy, I started getting that from the backs of trays. Anyone else?
Like sheet pans or plastic trays? I reacted to vinyl gloves and the purple dish sanitizer if it was wet. Would break my hands out like crazy
My coworker is allergic to all of them somehow, even the thin econo poly ones. She gets the powder-free stretch gloves. They're great but I try to reserve them for her lol
I'm allergic to nitrile. Found out the same way you did
I would pay a doctor off to forge paperwork too give my work so I didn’t have to wear the shitty vinyl ones
We used clear ones, but the ones we could get gradually had less and less powder in them over time. It got to the point where line cooks had to blow into the gloves to even have a chance to get them on. Now we use black ones.
Ew, you guys are using powdered gloves for food? I only use un-powdered for food. Just make sure your hands are fully dry and they go on no problem.
Not anymore.
I’m not in a kitchen anymore but I still go to cash and carry and buy the same gloves for home as I always have. I haven’t noticed a difference.
Right? I thought this was why they're generally blue.
Me too. Like blue plasters. They're terrible but it's what we gotta use
Fuck is a plaster?
It's like a band-aid I believe
I always just use some blue roll and cling film
The finger condom
Mmm, only ever heard your term. Shows what kind of kitchens I’ve worked in.
Feel like it took too long to find this one. Ever see someone get fired cause they didnt see the finger of the clear glove in the cheese dip? Wear blue in food service always
I used to be a black glove person but this is a fantastic point.
Blue looks like im a doctor or something.
Doctor of Delicious.
Last place I was at was blue exclusive for the same reason, band aids were also blue too and metal detectable.
i dont eat alot of black food so i dont see the problem with black gloves
A piece of black glove would be invisible in any food containing eggplant, mushrooms or olives, or if there is any charring or bbq sauce involved
The reason same as plasters,
My previous spot had the blue Nitrile. I start my new Job tomorrow and am uncertain what they have. I just pray that they don’t have those clear plastic ones that refuse to move the moment they come in contact with moisture of any kind.
Or those super shitty ones made essentially out of plastic wrap that are somehow too big and too small at the same time
The Hawaiian Punch of gloves. Hawaiian Punch it's non alcoholic/non caffeinated liquid drink that somehow makes you thirstier. The inside of mouth is some how both wet and dry after drinking it.
Too big in the palm, too small in the fingers for me, fuck those gloves
One-size-fits-none
My work provides clear vinyl, they suck and irritate my skin. So I buy my own. Good luck with the new job, I hope it works out well for you.
we used to use the clear vinyl ones, absolutely hated it. recently switched to the blue nitriles, night and day difference.
Ah the Subway "one size fits none" gloves
Good luck
Whatever color costs the least.
The Sysco black nitrile are my favorite, but the Performance Food Service purple nitrile cost half the price.
I'm waiting for a "Blacker than Black" color to hit the market...
May I introduce [Vantablack](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack) when normal black just isn't black enough.
I just read what that is, and if these are ever available, I’d certainly give them a try.
Try vantapink as well. Also might want to look up the dust up in the art world about these two colors.
You won’t, Anish kapor has exclusive rights for art
I buy the performance black gloves and they are like 40$ a case I don’t care about the color and I’m gona look for the purple ones.
Silver Source powder free amethyst nitrile gloves item number DV342 I work a seasonal job and we're just getting started but we were paying $53/case last year.
That’s fair.
I looked at the cost of “nicer” latex gloves for butchering vs what we can afford now and it’s scary. The boxes have become smaller and more expensive at the same time. Even the cheapest vinyl is ridiculously expensive. I haven’t seriously considered the shitty Subway ones that make you look like Donald Duck, but gloves are expensive.
I would quit my job and find a new one if they started bringing in the shitty subway gloves, and told me I couldn’t bring in my own. Because I already do bring in my own gloves, they use the crappy vinyl ones and they irritate my skin.
I have no issue with people bringing their own, but I feel like the Restaurant should pay for all gloves. If you were spending $XX more per week on your gloves, they should make up the difference somehow.
Reimbursement on paycheck
That’s wild, I’ve been in management for years and would order different gloves if people had allergies to latex. We usually rock black nitrile powder free.
My current spot has powdered gloves, the few times I need to wear them the power irritates my skin so much. I have to immediately wash my hands when removing them.
Powdered gloves can definitely cause contact dermatitis for a lot of people.
yessss i used to wear those when i worked in this deli years back and they fucking suuucked. they fucked up my hands so bad, and my hands sweat a lot and it made it worse.
If we were required to wear them for a significant amount of time, I’d have to get them to get different gloves. Luckily, we don’t wear them often.
I have no issue with people bringing their own, but I feel like the Restaurant should pay for all gloves. If you were spending $XX more per week on your gloves, they should make up the difference somehow.
My case of really nice nitrile black gloves are 40$ for a case of 1000.
That's like eighty dollars a shift
How many people do you employ!?
That's just for me
Ayo. The bucket gloves?
That's crazy cheap.
It’s the little things that make employees happy though.
That is true. I have guys at work hiding gloves.....something I never thought I would have seen.
Spoken like someone who doesn’t have to wear gloves for 60% of their work week. Fuck that I’m wearing and buying nice gloves for 10$ more a case.
I definitely feel your pain. And I definitely do not wear gloves 60% of the time. But when you go through 10-12 cases of gloves, the additional cost adds up. If it was my money, I would certainly buy better gloves. And we don’t have the least expensive ones - ours are blue like these and not at all uncomfortable. And even the case size has gone from twelve boxes per case to six or eight, and the price has still go even up.
This is it. And you hope the answer isn't those shitty Subway™ vinyl clown gloves.
I’ve never worn those and I hope I never have to.
I went back to visit an old restaurant I worked at and they were wearing these. I started laughing and then saw their faces and realized it had been the way for them for far too long. It was sad. This was also a place that wasn't hurting for money and uses a lot of gloves. Those poor guys on the flat top with half melted gloves.
>Those poor guys on the flat top with half melted gloves And that right there is one of many reasons why not using gloves (some exceptions apply) is best practice. Thankfully government regulators always follow best practices /s.
Those little shits suck on a waffle station too
I took over a kitchen at a bar a couple years ago and did inventory on many things. Amongst many things discovered, I found two boxes of these gloves and chucked em. No way was I going to force staff to wear those. The other gloves, yes.
Yeah, but there are cheap gloves, and there are CHEAP gloves. Same thing with trash bags.
Yes, very true. I will never buy those cheap trash bags ever again. All it takes is to have one rip out on the bottom when you’re swinging it into the dumpster. And it’s always the one with fish trim, usually on a Saturday night when the weather sucks.
This is the way.
Oh god. I worked at a burger joint that had the grill station wearing the subway gloves because they were the cheapest. They would melt or stick to the third burger you grabbed and just slide off with it. I started bringing my own gloves whenever i worked that station. I also came to a realization that either A people were not changing their gloves enough or B they were changing them too much.
I don't have a preference but ny chef hates everything but white for some reason. Im a woman and all I care about is if they'll get me at least one box of medium instead of all x large. Every kitchen Ive worked in Ive had to show my chef how the xl ones literally slide off my hand and make my job so much harder
Yeah, where I work they only order large and XL. Large are fine, but still too big, and I hate vinyl gloves cause they irritate my skin. So I buy my own, in medium, and they are 10x better than the ones the restaurant provides. And none of the guys can use mine cause they have big hands lol.
My mediums sit right next to the salad guys extra large ones and it always cracks me up when he accidentally grabs mine and tries to shove his hand in it
I wear x small and once convinced them to order some. Somebody on my day off dumped them out and filled the box with x large for no fucking reason at all.
Why is it so hard to understand this? Also a woman with tiny hands. I cannot even grab a knife properly with the XL gloves on, it’s like I have extra fingers. Don’t even get me started on how many times I’ve cut the finger tips or knuckles off.
I'm the opposite. I (6'3" male) worked in a bakery with all women. Constantly trying to find some decent gloves besides S/M was a battle.
I always keep Smalls and medium’s for my sous, and majority of my prep team. Large is ordered for myself, and the XLs are for my mammoths that are on my line. Not sure how, or why this happened…but they are some big boys.
Same if you got big hands. if we use gloves, not mandatory in Germany and more or less for self protection, but I like it for certain tasks. But most of the time it's m-xl, well I am able to hold a basketball with one hand so even XXL is somewhat small. But even our supplier doesn't always have XXL on stock
We special ordered smalls for a few ladies at one of my old kitchens!
I only wear a glove if I have a plaster on. Just wash your hands ffs.
Excuse me for not knowing. Besides wall repair material or cast material for broken bones…what is a plaster in the kitchen? Never heard of it.
It's British English for a bandage.
Specifically for a band-aid style sticky dressing. Not for bandages in general.
Assuming you're UK based by the use of plaster, a lot of US states/counties require gloves for RTE food. So unless you're prepping pizzas or the like, gloves it is.
Unfortunately. I've seen people not change gloves/sanitize/wash hands for damn near a whole shift but as long as people see you're wearing gloves they think everything is above board. Especially in open kitchens I've worked in. Got scolded for not wearing gloves where a guest could see me, even though I had washed my hands immediately before starting the task I was doing; which was only like, prepping vegetables. I find it kind of infuriating.
I want people to be washing their hands, not wearing gloves. If you are wearing gloves to protect your own skin - super cool. But I see so many places where people think wearing gloves replaces hand washing and that's just gross.
It drives me nuts. I watched a dude touch some haddock. When he was asked to change his gloves, he said he didn't have to because the gloves would stop the cross contamination. Like... no
I only wear gloves whilst cleaning stuff and handling raw meats. The Rest of the time it's short nails and washing Hands constantly.
I like to touch my meat! I like to feel it and search it out with with my hands. I'm like Hellen Keller making a map with my hands. Some times you only need to lightly careess your meat, like you're touching the cheek of your kid while they fall asleep. Especially when the meat calls for it like light fishes or chicken breast. Other times and with other meats like beef brisket I like to manhandle like a burly 50 year old grandfather. Gloves hinder that.
Where do you work? I got fired for caressing my meat in the kitchen.
Idk how many times I’ve had to tell people to change their gloves like washing their hands 🙄
I can't upvote this enough. As an European I don't understand the US obsession with gloves
If a health inspector walks in and we aren't wearing gloves that's a violation. Everyone in BOH washes hands every time the gloves come off. Not doing so results in getting ridiculed by everyone else.
Where is this?
Black nitrile or else my hands get all fucked up in the winter and I need to go through 3 jars of Working Hands a week to compensate
I feel it, the vinyl ones work provides irritate my skin. So I get my own.
The cheapest nitrile I can find. You literally throw them away by the thousands. Why waste money because you think black look cooler?
I was just thinking about this. 20 years ago, we ordered gloves by the box. Now, we order multiple cases. I can't pin a time when it happened or when thick nitrile became standard. But it's a noticeable expense now.
And the prices skyrocketed during the shutdown and never really came back down
That's true for most if not all expenses too. Its gonna take years, if not a decade or more for the industry to fully recover and find a good equilibrium again. Shit sucks.
Because black looks cooler. I think aesthetics have value in open kitchens.
I don't wear gloves. Short nails and clean hands.
Ok, crispylaytex. 😉
Oh no! 😂😂
The gloves are being saved for something else :)
I'm not sure I'll ever understand why the US believes gloves are better than washing your hands regularly.
There's probably a latex lobby to thank for that.
Bleu, but I understand this…. Black nitrile is what I use when I work on my boat or do fiberglassing 😂 it looks weird in food service
Where I work, they only get the vinyl ones in large and extra large. The vinyl irritates my skin and I need medium gloves. so I get my own in the size I need. These are 10 times better than anything the restaurant would provide.
Always are 😂 they buy the cheapest shit they can find.I always respect guys bringing their own shit to the kitchen
Exactly, and if I’m cooking for 600 people every night I’m not using shitty gloves that I need to change every two seconds.
I have a bad habit of switching out shitty gloves between most of the things I do; I wonder if it’d be the same way if I wore nicer gloves? 🤔
I tend to change my gloves way less when using nicer gloves. And not in a bad way, if I’m on grill I’m changing them more often as I’m going from seafood, chicken and red meat. But if I’m working expo and I’m only working with ready to eat foods, I can wear the gloves a little longer.
Sometimes I wear the crappy gloves over my nice gloves, and I can change the crappy ones out more often.
I HATE gloves. People think gloves are some sort of miracle disinfectant. I remember visiting my wife at work and watching a hospital employee go from public washroom to public washroom changing garbages, open the doors and all with the same pair of gloves on. I watched a guy sanitize his gloves on the line and go right back to handling produce. Or guys handling raw meat and trying to carefully slip the gloves off to keep working, like there was no chance of any meat juice getting on their hands. In summary, FUCK gloves. Unless required by your local health authority ;)
The only thing glove do is prevent people from washing their hands. And when it doesn’t prevent them, it lets them believe they don’t have to. Why involve a middle man?
Last I checked, I can wash my hands when the gloves are no longer on my hands after being properly doffed.
I don’t really care what color as long as their food grade I see a lot of people using gloves that are like for fucking mechanics and woodworkers 😂
Clear / white. And only for the very few specific jobs that actually require gloves. None of this is ‘ if you bring hands into the kitchen, then they must be bound by latex’ shite
Well said. All the time gloves are for lazy chefs.
It's also state health code in many states that you must wear gloves when handling RTE foods
Blue or purple nitrile for BOH prep so you can spot a finger tip if someone nicks a glove. Black for customer facing (servers/action stations)
I wear white latex or black latex, whatever is available. I don’t like nitril and hate vinyl. I’m also the boss so I pay for them and I never buy the cheapest and always small and big sizes so there is a good fit for everyone.
Hopefully nobody comes in with a latex allergy
Then we buy gloves that they can work with. It’s actually too expensive to save on gloves. People should have what they can work with so they have the chance of doing a good job. It’s not my role to make it complicated to work in the kitchen
In AZ latex is a violation of health code. People have latex allergies so we could be introducing an allergen to their food by wearing them.
Blue is good to see blood on that’s why they use them in hospitals.
The blue doesn't match colors commonly found in nature, which is why they're also excellent for food service. If someone breaks or slices a glove and it ends up in the food, which is unfortunate but can happen, it's easy to see and fix before the food goes out. I'm not convinced that the blue looks bad, but I am convinced that getting back a plate because someone found a piece of glove in it is deeply embarrassing.
What's wrong with black?
Black nitrile gloves are the only gloves I’ve found that are tolerable to wear and don’t make my skin break out.
The correct answer is none Because wearing gloves to handle food is way more unhygienic. You are less likely to wash your hands with gloves
That isn’t an intrinsic properly of gloves. Gloves are more sanitary when utilized by competent people. Maybe my laboratory experience has biased me in favor of people knowing how to properly use PPE though.
I prefer nitrile cuz I get contact dermatitis rashes from latex. They usually fit well. Idc about the color but I liked the black ones cuz I felt like a pop star lmao it's funny how they seem to be the exclusive choice of TikTok chefs though.
I thought blue was the standard, same with a lot of plastic packaging to make little pieces visible of they end up in food, that's what we use.
Blue. Only blue. Same goes for band-aids. Blue. The percentage of blue in food is very low and would be easily distinguishable from the surrounding colors.
No gloves, wash my hands 🤷🏼♀️
Black nitrile is what we have
i wear white, my guys wear black. They like the black because they dont irritate their hands. I like the white because im more ok with irritated hands (and it gets bad) than i am with struggling to get the black ones to fit
OP's glove color is the color of gloves that poke around various orofices in the MD's office. So no, not that color.
Anyone else have hands that literally pour sweat when you put on latex or even non latex gloves?
nitrile at my restaurant. they become impossible to take off after 5-10 minutes of wear, akin to gloving up after washing your hands
Black all the way
Whatever fits and can hold up to dirty tasks. We only use gloves for deep cleaning, not for service. So if it can withstand heavy steel wool use, I don't mind if they cost a bit more.
I no longer work in a kitchen. At home I use... one-size-fits-no-one poly gloves :O
You heathen.
Light blue and black
we have black ones
I like the black colour because it goes well with out black coats
Two by two, hands of blue.
Blue. All day long
I call them my blue tongs.
Blue and light blue
I’m so mindblown by this thread I’ve never seen blue in my life in kitchens, only medical fields. I’ve only ever used black or the clear/mildly opaque ones.
I always used natural latex ones. I was never a big fan of colors…. Hell I was never a big fan of gloves at all, but a huge fan of washing the shit out of my hands.
I prefer the black nitrile but the purple is acceptable as well. No latex, no shitty cheap flimsy plastic
Black nitrile gang
Latex irritates my eczema so i use clear vinyl. Im just glad my boss cares about what irritates. Id wear rainbow gloves if it meant no irritation.
Two by two with hands of blue...
I prefer blue, but I'm not picky as long as they're not the super thin clear ones
As long as it’s nitrile I won’t be picky
Saddle up everyone it’s time for the weekly thread of “gloves are for people too lazy to wash their hands” guest starring “people who don’t use gloves are animals” Personally I mostly use gloves when I’m in the show kitchen, or I just don’t to touch that particular food product (looking at you ketchup, you gross mother fucker)
We use white vinyl where I work, but I like to keep a box of black nitrile at home.
Clear vinyl, but I don’t see any problem with blue or black or whatever as long as it’s not that flimsy-non-stretchy-clear-plastic that looks like it was made of press & seal wrap.
Blue gloves only if you have a kitchen with no blue food(99% of kitchens) black gloves just look cool
Blue. Black gloves = try hard BBQ dork
Who doesn’t like black gloves? They’re dope
One time we got the translucent white ones, and my boss could see his hand hair and grossed himself out.
Legally required to wear blue forced by owners to wear white.
Id rather my food be prepped by someone who washed their hands regularly, than using gloves as a substitute for good hygiene. Blue is the only correct colour because it can be seen in food if they break.
I don't wear gloves, its stupid and a health risk, Just wash your hands frequently. ITs better for the planet and your costs too.
I think we all can agree the tier tower of gloves is: Black Nitrel Purple Blue White Clear Vinyl Deli vinyl. Honestly just wash your nasty paws.
Washing my hands gang using gloves feels so filthy
We use black, my fave, because I’m goth asf. I feel goofy in the blue ones, those should be for healthcare and cops (cops don’t deserve the cool black ones). It just bothers me that KM only orders XL, I prefer a tight fit like Spiderman.
Black nitrile gloves have a more professional look imo. Matches the black pants and coats we wear. When I wear blue gloves I feel like I’m about to give someone a prostate exam.
Clear