Are they pretty? No. Are they comfortable? Not really. But
are they your best friend in the kitchen? Sometimes.
When the messages start rolling in around dinnertime about
how your best friend cut a jalapeño and now their hand is on fire – it’s time
to bring in the disposable gloves!
Disposable gloves are one of the least attractive things you
can wear in a kitchen—or anywhere, for that matter. But it takes just one
incident with a jalapeño to proclaim allegiance to the things.
And they're not just a barrier between you and those chillies.
Keep a 100-count box in a kitchen drawer for...
1. Meatballs and meatloaves you're going to mix by hand (It
keeps the bacteria from burrowing under your fingernails.)
2. Rubbing a raw chicken inside and out with butter and
spices.
3. Deveining shrimp? It's so much less disgusting when you
do it with gloves.
4. Slicing hot meat, turning out hot muffins or baked goods,
or handling hot veggies without burning your fingers.
5. Garlic and shallots and onions—these foods do not leave
their scent on your fingers when you handle them with gloves.
6. With gloves on, food like beetroot, butternut squash, turmeric
and cherries will keep their colour to themselves.
7. It's probably more of a girl thing, but by wearing gloves
you can protect your nice manicure.
Everybody, manicured or not, has use for disposable gloves
in the kitchen. Yes, you'll look like the lunch lady when you're cleaning those
chillies. But better to look like her than to deal with dirty, burning or
smelly hands, right?
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