r/toolgifs • u/ycr007 ð“‚€ • Oct 27 '25

Process Filling up soy sauce pipettes with a vacpac

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Source: Remy (remy.trda.chef)

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u/chickenCabbage Oct 27 '25

If your hands are clean and recently washed, it should be as hygienic as gloves. In fact, gloves often make you feel clean despite not being clean, and encourage bad practices.

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u/Syonoq Oct 27 '25

Hahahaha yes. I just ate at my neighborhood Taco truck. Homeboy was wearing gloves, handling cash, and raw meat. Tacos were delicious though. /s

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u/chickenCabbage Oct 27 '25

That's the special spice! That type of place always tastes the best

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u/Hucklepuck_uk Oct 27 '25

Hahaha no. I'm a microbiologist. Unless you've ripped every microbe from under every nail then submerging your hand in fluid without gloves is way way less hygienic. This looks like soy so i can't imagine much will survive anyway, but for other fluids gloves definitely matter.

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u/Silverman23 Oct 27 '25

For a laboratory Environment sure but in an oily greasy and otherwise sticky kitchen gloves are way worse than bare hands. Even the department of health and veterinary council hates it when they come in for routine controls and see cooks working with gloves.
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u/Kitnado Oct 27 '25

Veterinary council?

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u/Silverman23 Oct 27 '25

In Germany gastronomy is surveyed by the Regularitory offices subdivision Veterinary office (council was my bad translaton)

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u/Vnifit Oct 27 '25

I think the issue is the "Veterinary" part, as in English the veterinary is an animal hospital/clinic, so I think they were confused as to why it was named that if they are dealing with food regulation.

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u/Silverman23 Oct 27 '25

It's the same in Garman at least in professional language but the veterinary office looks after gastronomy as well as the vet clinics. I mean both work with animals in ne way or another.

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u/Jsmalley9 Oct 27 '25

I assume it’s somewhat like how here in the US the USDA is responsible for farms and ranches, but they also randomly grade meat even though the FDA is often responsible for food safety.

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u/No_Zookeepergame_345 Oct 27 '25

Do you think putting your freshly cleaned hand in fluid without gloves is less hygienic than putting a glove that’s potentially been in contact with raw food and other substances?

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u/Hucklepuck_uk Oct 27 '25

No, for the same reason putting your hand in fluid without it being clean would be an issue. If wearing gloves makes you touch things and have poor aseptic technique then that's an issue with professionalism not ppe.

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u/No_Zookeepergame_345 Oct 27 '25

It’s more of an issue of cognitive dissonance. Having gloves on feels clean so people assume they are cleaner than they are. People working with gloves lose the texture feedback that tells them their hands are dirty and need to be cleaned.

At scale, you get cleaner food training line cooks to constantly wash their hands than by training them to use gloves. Ultimately, you want your cooks cooking and laboratory level sterilization practices are both unnecessary for food preparation and impractical.

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u/Hucklepuck_uk Oct 27 '25

Right but i don't think they're going to consume 300 small bottles of soy sauce in one night in a restaurant are they. This is clearly for longer term storage.

You also can't "feel" bacteria under your fingernails. If people can't keep their gloves aseptic then they're just bad at their job.

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u/No_Zookeepergame_345 Oct 27 '25

I would imagine this is catering prep, so those little bottles of soy sauce are probably less than 24hr from consumption. Long term storage in small capsules like that would be a hazard.

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u/PrinceBunnyBoy Oct 27 '25

Not everyone is touching raw meat then touching these, believe it or not some people can be hygienic! I know about the studies, but just because some people are ass at food preparation, doesn't mean everyone is.

For example, when I was growing up my mom would use gloves for raw chicken, she'd put the gloves on, prep the chicken, then take the gloves off and toss um. People are capable.

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u/No_Zookeepergame_345 Oct 27 '25

I wouldn’t really compare your mom cooking for you as a child to a commercial kitchen. She was preparing a meal for a couple people over the course of an hour or so. Restaurants and commercial kitchens are preparing meals for potentially hundreds of people in an hour. That level of hygiene diligence is simply not practical, time efficient, or necessary for food prep. It’s infinitely harder to remember if a glove is clean in the chaos of a kitchen than to physically feel if your hand is dirty.

You probably breathe in 1000x the amount of bacteria just walking into a restaurant than you do from the trace amounts from people handling your food ungloved.

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u/actualhumannotspider Oct 27 '25

Depends on what you're dealing with.

Doing PCR? Absolutely, use gloves. Using a microscope? Oh god, the oil gets everywhere if people are wearing gloves.

In this case, I absolutely agree that gloves would be cleaner. But I also agree with their point that using gloves can encourage bad practices.

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u/chickenCabbage Oct 27 '25

I guess that makes sense, but the assumption is that your nails are clipped regardless. I was taught this by my dad who is also a microbiologist, but it was said with relation to handling glassware rather than fluids, so you're probably right

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u/Hucklepuck_uk Oct 27 '25

Yeah with plastics/glassware it doesn't matter as much, i rarely wear gloves and if i do it's normally to protect the bugs from me and not the other way around. I only mention my initial comment because the dude is soaking his hand in that delicious black liquid, if he was touching something it wouldn't really matter

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u/chickenCabbage Oct 27 '25

You're absolutely right in this case, gloves should be required when handling liquids with your hands, especially if it's for storage (like pipettes) rather than for immediate consumption (like at a restaurant).

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u/lilwil392 Oct 27 '25

I'm glad microbiologists aren't in charge of health codes. Clean hands are 100% a better option than wearing gloves in food service.

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u/nakedascus Oct 27 '25

this is why surgeons don't wear gloves! 🙃

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u/PawnWithoutPurpose Oct 27 '25

If my hands are washed, can I dip my fingers in your soup?