I listen to Melinda Lee, a local food news radio show. She does a kitchen tools segment. Usually it's slicers, cookware and the like. A few weeks ago, she talked for ten minutes about using your hands as a tool. She did mention plastic gloves. I didn't know they were anything but mittens, but if you can find some, great. Things to use your fingers for: cutting butter or other shortening into the dry ingredients of dough, making sure ingredients such as nuts, raisins, are evenly distributed in the mixture you're working with, scraping flour off the bottom and sides of a bowl, dividing dough evenly for biscuits, dumplings, drop cookies and the like. I'd love to hear more ideas from others who use their fingers as a kitchen tool.
Abby -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Drew Hunthausen Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 8:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CnD] Getting Your Hands In The Food I started using those thin food preparation gloves when I mix a lot of dry and wet ingredients together. The reason I started is because I love jalapeño peppers in many of my recipies and when I didn't wear gloves the residue from the peppers would make my hands burn really bad for a long time afterwards. Just a good idea, and you can still feel the food really well . -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ranveig / voice of joy Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 8:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CnD] Getting Your Hands In The Food how about those thin rubber gloves used by nurses and such? they should be thin enough to feel through ;) right? i use hands without gloves, but i am not too comfortable mixing with hands just yet. :) - Ranveig - 2012/1/31, [email protected] <[email protected]>: > Amen to you, Tom. > > I love the analogy regarding use of the rubber gloves. It's not > crude, but > rather, it's true and realistic. > > But regarding using gloves, if you feel to need to use gloves for the reason > Heidi stated, you could use those thin plastic bag sounding ones. > With those gloves, I think you could still feel the texture of the > food you are working with. > > CB: The Old Leather Bat > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Heidi Thomas" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]>; "'Tom Dickhoner'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 7:48 AM > Subject: Re: [CnD] Getting Your Hands In The Food > > >> yes, Tom, I agree with you but there are some who will never find it >> acceptable and can not get themselves to do it. I do not usually use >> gloves, but do when I have a cut or scrape on my hand when cooking >> for others, for obvious reasons It is a good option rather than a >> spoon, because that just does not work effectively! :) Heidi >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom >> Dickhoner >> Sent: 31 January 2012 12:02 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [CnD] Getting Your Hands In The Food >> >> Many blind people have a problem putting their hands in food. Good >> gave us >> hands for a purpose. Getting your hands in the food is the only way >> that you can tell if your ingredients are mixed together properly. I >> have used rubber gloves many times. I don't like them. A dermotolgist >> that I saw said it this way. "This means that if you use the gloves, >> you are blind with your hands." >> This is a little crude, but it makes the point. >> >> To anyone who is afraid to put his or her hands in the food, do it >> and don't feel imbarrassed. As long as you thoroughly wash your hands >> before and after you prepare the food, you will be fine. >> _______________________________________________ >> Cookinginthedark mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Cookinginthedark mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1416 / Virus Database: 2109/4777 - Release Date: 01/30/12 _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
