What’s the point of food-safe gloves? You’re still touching everything. I don’t get it
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Former restaurant cook and long-time home cook, for whatever my experience is worth.
I don’t cook in restaurant anymore, but back when I did we were actually discouraged from using gloves (there are always exceptions, like if you cut yourself you should probably cover that). The reason has been stated elsewhere in the thread: false sense of security. People don’t change their gloves as often as they wash their hands.
At home, I still like to have food safe gloves available but the reasons have reversed. In food service, it’s to keep you out of the food. But at home, it’s more that I’m trying to keep the food off of me! Making burgers? Gloves keep the meat from getting jammed up under my fingernails. Tossing potatoes in oil? Gloves keep me getting greasy. I do experience dermatitis on my fingers, so by using the gloves for messy cooking I can reduce my skin’s exposure to things that irritate it too.
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