Glove On Or Off ?

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  1. Amulet

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    When making the roti dough, should one use a glove or not ?
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    source:www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2GaDM0baG0

    Here is a woman, on youtube, showing how to make the dough. She took some wholewheat atta in the stainless steel bowl, added a liberal amount of olive oil on top of it. And then went on to explain how the oil helps in keeping the left-over roti's soft and nice, whereas without the oil, the roti would become stiff and difficult to eat. This experience for the leftovers would also be true with day-old baguettes turning into hard stumps of wood. Anyhow... I had digressed.

    Sticking a latex gloved hand into oil(y flour) may damage the glove and leave impurities in the resulting roti dough. Unless the glove is specially stabilized, latex glove and the usual cooking oils do not mix. The oil will disintegrate the latex.

    I wash my hands thoroughly (sometimes using scotch-brite), dry them on clean kitchen towel, and then use one hand to mix & masticate the roti dough. Never a glove is laid on the dough.

    What is your opinion ? Should one use a disposable glove when it is going to be in food-contact ? Do you use one ?
     
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    I only use gloves when I am chopping chilies because I don’t want to transfer any of that heat to my baby. Or on the very rare occasions that I’ve painted my fingernails. I don’t see the need for any other kitchen task, as long as basic standards of hygiene are maintained.
     
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    When I was a child I had decided that if at all I need to wash dishes I’m going to use gloves to protect my already dry hands.
    But now I have never tried using a glove for washing. Ofcourse I use it only while applying henna to hair.

    Coming to the video, it’s a great timing thanks for sharing! I am not happy with my rotis and so is my DH :laughing:
    I am not that ideal bahu who knows to make soft and round rotis ;)
    The lady seems to be a pro in making rotis. Got to try this method soon.
     
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    Making the roti automatically turn itself under the rolling pin is so magical.
    In youtube cookery teachers, the toughest task would be to keep talking while the hands are busy under the camera. Amazing talent !!
    I also noticed that the cook (her name is Riahana) took off her gloves after kneading the dough, and while rolling the rotis, she wasn't using any. Perhaps she didn't want to have the gloves give up (they were transparent already due to oil seeping in... and getting weak because of that) while being videotaped.
     
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    Which ever is cleaner!

    Cleanly washed pair for every meal and the gloves should not touch anything other than food.

    I suspect myself to be a borderline ocd but who would not notice a youtube video where the women is touching everything around AND the food with same gloves!

    If hands are kept clean, they are always better without gloves on them thou.

    I think this is why MJ wore a single glove.. could not decide which was better- glove or no glove.
     
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    She is probably wearing gloves to prevent wet dough getting stuck in those rings.
     
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    Since she is a youtuber it could be pressure from comments! I have seen a lot of people will comment on videos and content creators not using gloves and bash them in comments saying its so unhygienic. Even Indian street food videos which we all know are not of best hygienic standards but we all love will have some snowflakes commenting about how the person is not wearing gloves. I used to watch BharatzKitchen channel and saw the exact same thing happening one video people commented him using his bare hands poor fellow started using gloves and then finally he went back to his bare hands but making a statement in each video that he has washed his hands clean :thumbup:
    It is very difficult not to be influenced by these commentators.
     
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    I almost always use disposable gloves when cooking, started doing so around 12-15 years ago. Thanks to that, the front of my fingers and palm is as soft as my daughter's, while the back of the hand is beginning to look like my mother's. :blush: Never used gloves for kneading flour though. Or rather I rarely make rotis, pooris any more.

    I've tried different types and keep coming back to the Nitrile exam gloves from Costco. A casual search shows these are OK to use with food. I put these on when I am going to be cooking for 2-3 hours. In between, I wash my hands if needed with the gloves on - my little bit to help with the guilt of using disposable gloves.

    I've also tried using the thinner ones meant for food use (latex free, powder free, non-sterile) and found these are not strong enough:
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    And this is how they knead the flour with the feet for Udon noodles in Japan:
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    @Rihana.... you have 3 generations in your hand !!

    Putting the glove on the roti dough, like the japanese, rather than your hands is a clever trick. My breadmaker (I use it only to knead the dough and make the bread in a conventional oven) comes into service in winters for kneading dough, because the electrostatics makes the flour get up off the bowl and into my hair if I do it the traditional way.
     
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    Aaargh! You took away my silicone kitchen gadgets, you took away my tea bags, you've turned me into a coffee-bean-roasting-grinding-brewing fiend. And now you're after my gloves?! :(

    Mine are FDA 21 CFR Part 177.2600 compliant. Can I keep them? I only use them when we're entertaining.

    You use Scotch-Brite to scrub your hands? Why?

    This is also how they knead flour for pani-puri. Minus the socks and Ziploc bag.
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