[masraum]

Cooking show != cooking at home or even in a restaurant

When I cook, I wash my hands a fair amount depending upon what I'm dealing with. If I end up dealing with raw meat, then I wash my hands after. I don't want to have "raw meat hands" or "raw egg hands" and then handle half of the stuff in the kitchen. I actually have started using nitrile gloves when having to do a lot of manipulation of raw meat (mixing spices into hamburger, etc...) and that's nice. Do all of the stuff, and then trash the gloves and still have clean hands.

If it was a cooking contest, where time is of the essence, and all of the stuff is going to be cleaned and/or replaced after every show, then I probably wouldn't worry about it the same.