Actually bare hands ok while working in food production if correctly washed with an antimicrobial agent, and assuming one doesn't pick his nose on the job.
I find that picking your nose can be a unconscious thing you do, but the sensation of sticking a glove into your nose quickly makes it very not unconscious very fast
But of course, hopefully the person in question will choose to change the glove.
Otherwise yes, glove wearing dogma is overdone, however still, should probably wear them.
“Are you wearing gloves? That’s disgusting. Use your bare hands, you animal.”
Actually bare hands ok while working in food production if correctly washed with an antimicrobial agent, and assuming one doesn't pick his nose on the job.
Picking noses presumably isn't a unique problem to bare hand prep, unless the ungloved finger is somehow a more tempting scoop?
I find that picking your nose can be a unconscious thing you do, but the sensation of sticking a glove into your nose quickly makes it very not unconscious very fast
But of course, hopefully the person in question will choose to change the glove.
Otherwise yes, glove wearing dogma is overdone, however still, should probably wear them.
Just like high end chefs do. It works fine.
"I only allow robots with stainless steel tools to prepare and serve my food."
“He wants metal; they always do.”
— Segregationist, Isaac Asimov, 1967: <https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v035n04_...>