What’s the point of food-safe gloves? You’re still touching everything. I don’t get it
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Gloves are a physical barrier between a stranger’s skin and the food you consume.
Properly wearing gloves starts with thoroughly washing and drying your hands. Then, you put on a clean pair of single use gloves.
In theory, the gloves are worn when handling “ready to eat foods,” meaning they aren’t going to be cooked before being served. Clean gloves touching food is “safe” compared to washed skin, which can harbor bacteria and viruses even after being washed.
Gloves are good for a limited time. Usually, they are required to be changed every hour, or whenever they are used to touch raw foods or come into contact with an unsanitized item.
There are literally hundreds of reasons that you need to change gloves, but each time a new pair is put on, you need to wash and dry your hands first.
It is time consuming, expensive, and really impractical during busy times in a restaurant. However, it provides an important safeguard when serving food to the public.
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