Chefs Don't Agree With New California Law Requiring Gloves During Food Preparation

NBC Bay Area ^ | Thursday, Jan 16, 2014 | Chase Cain

[Argus]

Leave it to CA liberals to ban plastic bags and mandate plastic gloves.

[lurk]

This is a pernicious law, written by people not informed or familier in the industry. I suppose that that is almost always true, isn’t it?

[nesnah]

I wonder if they will require gloves at gay bath houses.

[FES0844]

They take your dirty money with the same hands that fixed your food.

[ken in texas]

I wonder if they will require gloves at gay bath houses.

Gloves? Yes. Condoms? No.

[BlueMondaySkipper]

I stayed at a resort over New Years. They apparently have a policy that the bartenders wear gloves. On the surface this seems OK, until you realize that they never take them off. Give the bartender some cash and they touch it with the gloves and then touch glassware, fruit garnishes, etc. Drop something on the floor? Pick it up with gloved hands and then contaminate everything else.

It's not like the gloves are magically germ free. Once contaminated everything they tough is contaminated. It realville, it's probably WORSE than bare hands because when your hands get dirty you might consider washing them but no one washes the gloves and this guy at least didn't change them at all.

[NEMDF]

Then, once they have gloves on, they are probably less likely to wash or rinse their hands between steps in food preparation, since their hands won’t feel dirty or sticky. This would seem to make them more likely to cross-contaminate food items or utensils than with no gloves.

[Resolute Conservative]

and pick up items of the floor, inadvertently scratch an itch, touch knobs on freezer doors etc that others have...

[sueQ]

In Virginia, you are required to scrub your hands before you apply plastic gloves, then again after you remove them. I don’t know what the laws are elsewhere. I’m surprised it took so long for this law to make it to California.

[RoosterRedux]

Gary Wong, a sushi chef. "When you're making sushi, you have to use the bare hand to feel the texture and the fish."

Wong is wight.

[Nifster]

We’ll played

[sueQ]

Excellent point!

[GreenHornet]

I wonder what Jon Taffer would say about that.

[Beagle8U]

Stupid law. You can’t cook with gloves on!

The kids at burger-doodle wearing gloves aren’t ‘cooking’, they just assemble things.

[Proud2BeRight]

The bartender probably wears them to keep all the dirt off his hands. LOL

[S.O.S121.500]

‘Had Enough Yet

[ncpatriot]

Exactly right

[TigersEye]

and pick up items of the floor, inadvertently scratch an itch, touch knobs on freezer doors etc that others have...

How does wearing gloves change that?

[Ditter]

At Whole Foods I watched a butcher, who had a glove on only one hand, pick his nose with his gloved hand.