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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.

Yeah, I wouldn't care if someone cooks with bare hands, assuming they actually wash their hands properly. I'm only unhappy when I see them taking their nasty smartphone out of their pocket and doing something with that, then continuing to cook without washing their hands (or without putting on new gloves). Gross!

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_...>