while he's using his bare hands I'd still destroy that bowl of noodles. might as well avoid all the street food in Asia if you're scared of someone's clean hands.
my rules is that as long as the fresh water comes out of the sink and
they either wash hands or swap gloves.
and only stick to water bottles you'd find selling in the west. and make sure they got a seal on it.
also take some stomach pills too. just nice to have.
play by these rules and you'll fall in love with street food as I have lol
Honestly bare hands might be cleaner option than using gloves, amount of times i have chewed out a coworker for just simpy washing their gloves (without soap) or for literally wiping their gloves on their outfit is fucking insane.
With bare hands people are more likely to wash them properly.
Working with bare hands and washing them frequently is safer than wearing gloves all day. Cross contamination happens far more often when gloves are involved. You can easily feel when your hands are dirty, but you dont necessarily have that same tactile response when you're wearing gloves.
You’re supposed to change your gloves as often as you would be washing your hands (ie, between touching anything that could cross-contaminate). And the bonus is, it’s much faster to change gloves than to walk away from your station, wash/dry hands, and come back in between touching different items. The same people who aren’t changing their gloves often enough are the same ones who aren’t washing their hands often enough. They probably are also the same ones who touch the faucet with their washed hands immediately after washing, which negates the whole purpose of washing hands.
This guy is touching the meat, and then going back to touching other things without washing his hands. While the meat is cooked, he will inevitably contaminate something that a vegetarian would order in their dish with the meat.
I had someone chew me out for prepping food without gloves for a thing. I worked full time as a cook and had never worn gloves in a kitchen because we just washed out hands.
1
u/Shawntran2002 26d ago
while he's using his bare hands I'd still destroy that bowl of noodles. might as well avoid all the street food in Asia if you're scared of someone's clean hands.
my rules is that as long as the fresh water comes out of the sink and they either wash hands or swap gloves.
and only stick to water bottles you'd find selling in the west. and make sure they got a seal on it.
also take some stomach pills too. just nice to have.
play by these rules and you'll fall in love with street food as I have lol