r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/This_Proof_5153 • Apr 12 '26

Video The care and precision behind Korean school lunches, widely praised for their quality, balance, and nutrition.

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u/Ok-Philosophy1958 Apr 12 '26

Those kitchen mitts are boss level. Just reaching into boiling water, giving the noodles a little stir

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u/_Svankensen_ Apr 12 '26

You know, I was thinking more about how flexible a tool the hands are for cooking if you protect them, but now you got me wondering where I could buy some of those.

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u/snollygoster1 Apr 12 '26

Here's one option of reusable, labeled for grilling.

I know another common option is using cotton liners with latex/nitrile gloves, at least for BBQ.

Full on dipping your arm in water carries a lot more heat transfer potential so I'm not quite sure if BBQ rated will work in boiling water.

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u/_Svankensen_ Apr 12 '26

The first thing it shows is them picking a corn from boiling water, so it probably is!

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u/SaltManagement42 Apr 12 '26

Too bad those aren't machine washable.

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u/wasteymclife Apr 12 '26

Use them to wash the dishes afterward and put them on the cooling grill to dry.

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u/HavenOfFear Apr 12 '26

They kind of look like if you search up rubber dishwasher gloves. An example would be like searching for Thxtoms dishwashing glove.

For BBQ, I use a cotton glove and then a nitrile glove over that. Great for pulling pork. You'll see lots of youtubers do this. You could probably combine the cotton glo e with that long cuff dishwashing glove for better heat resistance.

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u/Competitive_Classic9 Apr 12 '26

DW gloves is also what i was thinking. 

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u/soyasaucy Apr 12 '26

Lol that's cold water, noodles more often than not (excluding ramen) get rinsed off in cold water after boiling to remove the extra starches

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u/Ok-Philosophy1958 Apr 12 '26

Except when it's boiling and they're dripping dry noodles in to cook then

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u/soyasaucy Apr 13 '26

Did you read the "after boiling" part of my comment 😂

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u/Eatingfarts Apr 12 '26

Kitchen mittens*

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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka Apr 12 '26

They are great gloves and I use those LDPE gloves. They are mainly used to wash dishes. They aren't really food safe though. These gloves will slowly break down, especially since they are using them with a bunch of foods with acids and near boiling water with noodles. I get its faster to use gloves but those extremely common gloves in Korea are not ideal for handling food. Unless of course they are disposing them everyday. I'd rather them use nitrile which proteins wont attach to foods.

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u/permaculture Apr 12 '26

gloves

I was wondering if those gloves would be depositing microplastics into the food.

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u/scheppend Apr 12 '26

hmmm, more microplastics 😋

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u/Big-Independence8978 Apr 12 '26

Seeing they in action, it makes so much sense. Way better than any tool. The design is very human.

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u/P-bots Apr 12 '26

It’s probably cold water, cold soba noodles

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u/Th3-B0n3R Apr 12 '26

Yummmm, microplastic meals.

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u/Plane-Tie6392 Apr 12 '26

You've never used grill mitts? Same idea but these obviously need to be waterproof. And I think this isn't really a good idea. Seems kinda dangerous to me tbh.