Do you use rubber gloves when cooking?

Nope, I’m comfortable with my own microbiotics.

No, but when I’m mixing up Irish soda bread, I will put my hands in plastic baggies and mix the dough with my hands in the baggies, not because of any fear of germs but because it’s way easier to clean up when I don’t have dough all over my hands. As far as anything else goes, I’m pretty brave about germs and I tend not to be squeamish about germs and bacteria and stuff like that.

Only if I’m cooking hazardous waste… but usually I don’t find that out until after it’s served.

No, but I use oven mitts when carrying hot items.

I don’t.
Gotta admit I don’t cook that often, but when I do I don’t.

That depends on what’s cooking, and if I’m alone.

No. But I do wash them before I start cooking.

Only when chopping chilis. The burn is real.

Never. I do wear vinyl gloves when I make meatloaf or meatballs. I started doing it about ten year ago. It’s awesome.

I don’t remember ever doing that, no.

No, only when cleaning certain areas inside or outside of the house. When prepping food, my hands are constantly washed before, during, and after food prep.

No, but I do use them when pre-washing the dishes, before putting them in the machine.

I do most of the time – particularly when I cook chicken, hamburgers, or make sushi.

Gloves make the whole process of making sushi easier. The rice doesn’t stick and I can spread it onto the nori a minute or two after taking it out of the cooker without burning my fingers.

I also wear gloves when mixing chemicals and setting mousetraps around the barn.

No, but follow sanitary clean before and after or when mixing different ingredients etc

You can’t make sushi @LuckyGuy. You’re not Japanese.

All the time. It’s not about me getting germs onto the food. I cannot stand to touch many many foods, particularly raw meats, chicken, egg and fish. I wore a pair to remove the skin on Italian sausage links about an hour ago. I do not eat and I do not serve sausage with that nasty film on the outside.

I don’t. I spent a year working in a deli and it was sad to see how many gloves we went through in a day. All those gloves going straight to the garbage.

My mom was raised on a farm in the 30s and 40s. She was pretty sensitive and there were many things about farm life that were difficult to deal with. Cutting up chickens was one of them.
When I was 13 she taught me how to cut up whole chickens. I found it fascinating. Finding the joints where the knife can cut through smoothly. Cool!!
But they were store bought chickens. I didn’t have to see their heads chopped off and their feathers plucked.

I did. ^ I was like four, maybe three. I watched the body bounce far down the tracks to the east field, accompanied by an awful buzzing sound. Burning the pin feathers stinks.
I announced that I would never see the head chopping again.
I didn’t.

Take a gander at this!

No. I think just washing my hands often would be more sanitary.

@Dutchess_III Anybody that knows anything about chickens, and was raised around them, knows it’s easier to yank a chicken’s head off with centrifugal force, flinging the chicken away from oneself, than it is to try to hold the bird down and lop off it’s head.

I don’t know what my Mom’s experiences were so I don’t know how to respond to that @kritiper. I just know she’d be horrified either way. I would be too.

You have to know how to hold it.
You hold one had across it’s back, pinning the wings with your grip. The other hand holds the feet firmly against the belly, knees bent. You place it on the stump backside down, slide your hand from under it, keeping it pinned firmly with the other hand. Grab the hatchet. Just before you swing, you lean forward a bit and let go a slow, frothy glob of spit to land right above its head. You only get it distracted part of a second, so the swing has to be swift. You have to really mean it, so the hatchet goes all the way through.
Yup, gross. That is why I only watched the one time I was told to.

You grab the chicken by it’s head, rotate your arm like a baseball pitcher fixing to pitch and the body separates from the head. Simple, easy.

Why not just bite it off?

I prefer my poultry to be slaughtered humanely.

God. Can’t we give it a go to sleep shot?

@Dutchess_III
You mean like they do to cows?

Another thought…My nails are kept short and are natural; no polish appliqués, etc.