5 pairs every time you prep a meal with meat? That is a lot of plastic waste.

I don't like handling raw meat either. We don't eat too much meat and that is one reason why. If I have to do it, I set up a system where I won't have to touch anything with meat hands. I do the cutting, then get the meat cooking, then put everything contaminated in the sink and start washing everything down with hot water and soap.

Where do you find gloves that fit on bear hands?

Agree with everyone else except OP: no gloves at home

What about using your BARE hands?

Anonymous wrote:That's a LOT of microplastics in all our bodies, OP. Eventually all plastics degrade into microplastics that kill marine life and impact humans and others via hormonal and inflammation pathways.

Perhaps you should work on greater tolerance of textures instead.

Me again. If you really have a phobia, at least consider buying a pair that you can wash and dry (as if you were washing your hands). The very thin vinyl disposable gloves won't last long with that usage, but perhaps try kitchen gloves.

OP even in a food service environment, we only wear gloves when handling ready to eat food. So if you’re wearing gloves when handling ingredients that will be cooked (or washing produce that won’t be cooked, idk exactly why that’s an exception), you’re only wearing gloves for yourself. It’s not safety.

I do keep gloves handy at home and I’ll use them for certain things that are really messy just because it’s easier. But that’s once in a blue moon.

I feel like OP was one of the aholes leaving gloves in parking lots in the early days of Covid.

You can’t even touch produce? Why? I think you should work on that; those gloves are very wasteful and bad for the environment, and not necessary. At the very least, just wash them like you would your hands and stop going through more than one pair.

Dude, think about the environment please!

I probably wash my hands five times (or more) every time I cook dinner. There is no health reason to wear gloves over washing your hands, and the gloves really are a waste.

Could you cut back by only wearing gloves when you are actually handling the raw meat? I know that can make people squeamish.

No, I never thought of using gloves at home. I wash my hands when I start and after touching raw meat. Other than that I don't worry about it.

That's a LOT of microplastics in all our bodies, OP. Eventually all plastics degrade into microplastics that kill marine life and impact humans and others via hormonal and inflammation pathways.

Perhaps you should work on greater tolerance of textures instead.

No i just wash my hands at each stage instead of using gloves

You should just stick to takeout.

Yes I wash my hands, but I cannot stand to touch raw meat or most produce with my bear hands. To avoid cross contamination, I will put in a new set. Then if handling cooked food say to slice meat, another set. Probably everytime I cook, I go through five pairs.