Posted on 01/16/2014 1:31:42 PM PST by nickcarraway
Many consider sushi an art. But a new state law will soon require a glove between these artists and their creations.
"The service is going to be slow because of the glove," said 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 also worries that gloves could lead to fingers getting cut with a slip of the knife. And it's a worry shared across cuisines, like at Pican in downtown Oakland.
"It's difficult because your hands sweat," said Sophina Uong, Pican's executive chef. "You're in a very dangerous environment when you're dealing with high degrees of heat, going in and out of the oven."
Because Pican has a full bar, even their bartenders must wear gloves or use tongs. From squeezing limes to picking up olives, bartenders are prohibited from touching anything with their bare hands.
"You have to be worried about food-borne contaminants, but I'm just not aware of what the law is addressing," said Michael Leblanc, Pican's owner. "Because I'm not aware of this big illness that's going around."
Frequent diners also don't seem to understand what problem the new rule is solving.
"To put a glove on, it doesn't prevent anything," said Dennis Vales, a customer. "You pick up the glove with your hands. You open them and put them on. You've already touched the glove. It's senseless."
I watched a guy in a grocery store deli recently wearing gloves. From what I could tell he was acting like the gloves were there to protect his hands from grime - not to protect the food from germs. I was surprised he didn’t scratch his head and pick his nose with the gloves on... it was almost that bad.
The human immune system needs to engaged every now and again.
Period.
You getting sick allows your immune system to it's 'sharpen it's claws' every now and then on germs.
If it doesn't get any practice, don't expect it to perform in the big game.
This is not saying that food preparers should not be doing the obvious like washing their hands after a bathroom trip, but this is just stupidity taken to a new bureaucratic level.
I'm waiting to see the first stories out of California for all the 'latex allergies' that are going to pop up now that every food preparer is touching everything with gloved hands.....where people start doing the funky chicken on the floors of all these restaurants.....and how did this happen....and we need to have MORE regulations, and it's all 'for the children'!!
How do we keep electing such idiots??!!?!!
LOL! I knew that was your opinion before I replied to you. :D
Heh. Good point. And one very few would think of.
They're stuck on the "icky skin" thing.
The “funky chicken”?
Wow. I haven’t thought of that in years. Time for it to make a comeback. But maybe not on the floors of restaurants.
I can't remember the last time someone made my meal...and collected my money.
FWIW-
Been a while since I've had to purchase a sterile hand covering..
I’ll eat at home.
And that differs HOW from the rest of liberalism?
Plastic's
I’m glad to see this .. because fingernails get contaminated easily .. passing on the contamination to the preparation of food.
And .. as for handling the glove before putting it on .. I would hope the person had thoroughly washed their hands before even considering putting on the gloves.
If you’re washing produce, for example, before putting on gloves .. you may encounter soil that has bacteria in it .. and therefore it is possible that some of that bacteria will stay on your hands .. and then you’re going to prepare food and pass along the bacteria ..??
NO!! You’re going to dispose of the first pair of gloves and put on a clean pair before preparing any food.
Yeah really. I’ve watched them do all sorts of chores with those gloves hands. Keep watching!
That’s my point. It doesn’t.
The same state that mandates protective eye ware in Porn....
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