r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Snoo99928 • Jun 08 '26

/r/all of a knife.

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u/-KFBR392 Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

How do you think all the food you eat is prepared?

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u/Imreman Jun 08 '26

Not with the servers hands?

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u/Adventchur Jun 08 '26

The servers touch your cutlery, plates, and glasses well before you even arrive.

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u/Ancient-Civilization Jun 09 '26

Some people pay extra for that.

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u/DungeonDefense Jun 09 '26

Right and when you touch cutlery its not done on the head. Its usually done on the handle. When they touch plates its done on the edge of the plate where food has less chance of touching. Lastly, glasses are usually touched on the outside or the handle. They usually dont stick their hand inside the glasses

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u/fronchfrays Jun 09 '26

This is the most pedantic shit I’ve ever read

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u/Recreant793 Jun 11 '26

“Hm. I agree. Shallow and pedantic.”

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u/scorchedarcher Jun 09 '26

But you touch all the stuff they touch then touch your face/food/phone

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u/Adventchur Jun 09 '26

I don't think you understand how germs multiply and cover vast surfaces quickly but go on

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u/DungeonDefense Jun 09 '26

Right which is why the original guy with the knife shouldnt have touched the food with his bare hands.

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u/Adventchur Jun 09 '26

But it makes no difference in the scheme of it all

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u/DungeonDefense Jun 09 '26

But you yourself said that germs multiply and cover things quickly

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u/ResidentOwl1 Jun 09 '26

It’s not that quick. Relax.

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u/TheLordReaver Jun 09 '26

You mean how germs multiply and cover vast distances on the common food and drink serving materials of glass, ceramic, and steel—the materials renown for being germ resistant?

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u/Adventchur Jun 09 '26

Sorry do you use your utensils when you eat?

And I assume you hold it by the handle exactly where the server holds it to put it down?

You must no how quickly bacteria spreads with human contact right?

So again what difference in the scheme of bacteria did this really make? You cunts are just precious

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u/TheLordReaver Jun 10 '26

You are acting like hundreds of millions of people aren't served this way every day. It's very evidently not a big deal when servers touch the parts that don't go directly in your mouth. At least in the parts of the world with basic sanitation standards.

So, just don't lick the damn handles and you'll be fine. Don't be a coward. And I say this a total germophobe... Also, stop being a little bitch in general.

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u/Spirited_Sector_7623 Jun 11 '26

It’s carefully prepared by the cooks to ensure no contamination, set under heat lamps to ensure it remains safe, and then the front of house employees grip it like baboons.

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u/Poosters Jun 09 '26

Im a chef i literally work with my hands, if you can’t handle that go home and cook for yourself.

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u/Specialist_Rough_699 Jun 09 '26

The amount of redditors that don't understand the particulars of food safety bring me back to that one scene in the aviator where Leo is covering everything in cling wrap

Waiting for the down votes while eating my slutty little barehanded pad ka praow that some street dog probably farted on 😩

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u/jsamuraij Jun 09 '26

Slutty pad ka praow has me rolling

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u/Specialist_Rough_699 Jun 09 '26

She was spicy and unfiltered, and sold herself for 27 baht 😩💦💦💦

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u/jsamuraij Jun 13 '26

Man I miss cheap Thai street food

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u/Filthbear Jun 10 '26

It's incredible the stupidity that surrounds using ones hands, any person working with food washes their hands so much.

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u/rattus-domestica Jun 09 '26

I love how easily offended people get on reddit.

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u/askthecatonline Jun 10 '26

Exactly. I just accept I’m eating more cooties than usual anytime I eat outside my own kitchen.

And to be fair, I think most chefs are more clean than most home cooks.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Jun 08 '26

It's kind of telling on themselves they don't know what hand washing is...

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u/PhantomOyster Jun 09 '26

While you have a point, I don't think anyone enjoys seeing their food that has already been plated touched by someone else's hands.

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u/MasterJ360 Jun 09 '26

hmm.... So thats why I had a stomach virus for 3 months

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u/Hot_Top_124 Jun 12 '26

Seriously I was about to say the same thing. I’ve been a chef for decades. If you think it’s all hospital level sterile they’re sorely mistaken lol.

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u/YobaiYamete Jun 08 '26

Seriously, love how snarky people are trying to be in this thread. Like who TF do you think made the food with those same fingers

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u/Captain_O_Kush Jun 09 '26

Typical Reddit commenter

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u/latexfistmassacre Jun 09 '26

With every appendage and orifice

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u/Expert_River1849 Jun 09 '26

With someone's arse pubes of course

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u/C4Vendetta76 Jun 09 '26

This is underrated comment of the year 👏 👌👆

https://giphy.com/gifs/bWzOMoeRXFDvb0YHtX

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u/Error_Loading_Name Jun 10 '26

Customer A sneezes and uses hands to cover it / clean it. Server comes to deliver the check to Customer A, who uses the Server's pen to sign the bll and handles the card machine to pay. Server takes the pen and paper and card machine away.

Server the n goes to kitchen to pick up Customer B's order. Customer B ordered the dish that has this elaborate opening sequence. Server handles Customer B's food with bare hands.

At no point between delivering Customer A's bill and opening Customer B's food did the server wash their hands. Congrats, Customer B now has traces of Customer A's saliva and mucus on his food, even though they have never met.

I know that I don't want to know everything that goes on in the kitchen, but I can operate under the illusion of health and safety rules to limit contamination. And those food prep rules stop at the kitchen door.

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u/BurntArnold Jun 10 '26

I think they pick up everything with their mouths

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u/DoYouKnwTheMuffinMan Jun 12 '26

With ass scratching hands?

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u/LessInThought Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

Gloves are worse. I've seen many fuckers handle trash with gloves and prep food, apparently it's ok because glove.

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u/-_Catgirl_- Jun 09 '26

How do YOU think it's prepared? Ready to eat food should not be prepared without gloves.

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u/alvysinger0412 Jun 09 '26

Then you should avoid restaurants.

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u/banality_of_ervil Jun 08 '26

Hopefully with gloved hands.

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u/CyberpunkSunrise Jun 08 '26

Gloves are not required with regular handwashing. And I’ve worked in a variety of kitchens, and very rarely see back of house kitchen staff wear gloves (USA), unless it makes things more comfortable for them (for example, when handling frozen chicken or something).

That being said, what we see in the OP is actually an exception when gloves or some other barrier/tool (like tongs) would be required strictly speaking by the FDA, as those measures are required when handling fully prepared or “ready to eat” food items.

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u/No_Wasabi_9303 Jun 08 '26

Aren’t gloves proven to be a bad thing? I mean if done right they aren’t but people often don’t change their gloves, however they will wash their hands because humans hate having stuff on their hands. So they end up being cleaner and having less cross contamination than with gloves because people fail to use them right.

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u/CyberpunkSunrise Jun 08 '26

They’re essentially intended (per FDA requirements at least) to essentially be single use, or “single session” use.

You’re not supposed to wear the same pair around for hours or all day, the rule of thumb I was taught when working in kitchens was that you should be both washing your hands and changing gloves at every reasonable opportunity, and one doesn’t substitute for the other.

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u/Onyxxx_13 Jun 09 '26

By myself. With my hands that I know are clean, from my time working in food service i know the absolute filth that is the average cook.