Here's Why These $9 Gloves Are a Meal-Prep Game Changer
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What We Tested This Week: Dowellife Cut-Resistant Gloves
Who This Is Perfect for: People who aspire to wield sharp kitchen utensils without fear.
I know that nursing cuts, scrapes, and burns are par for the course for anyone who spends serious time slicing and dicing at their kitchen countertop. And though I don't necessarily consider myself to be a clumsy person, my knife skills are probably not what they should be. I'll spare you the gory details, but this year has been a rough one as far as kitchen-related crises are concerned — I'm definitely not trying to test how much more abuse my right thumb can take.
To take matters into my own hands (pun intended), I looked into Amazon Prime-ing myself some chain-mail gloves for enhanced digit protection, before realizing that without a dishwasher, they would be near impossible to clean. Luckily, the oh, so handy "You May Also Like" algorithm pointed me right to the highly rated Dowellife Cut-Resistant Gloves, and it's true: I really do like them.
The Dowellife Cut-Resistant Gloves are made of high-density polyethylene (HDPE), which is the same type of plastic-derived material used in outdoor furniture, sails, rock climbing equipment, and awnings, and it also happens to be FDA-compliant (i.e., food-safe). These gloves are roughly $9 a pair and can be used to assist in anything from carving up a Thanksgiving turkey, to finely julienning a produce haul, to shucking oysters. Reviews for these gloves even tout their usefulness outside of the kitchen for quilting, fishing, and other hobbies that can be rough on the hands.
While I don't wear these gloves every time I cook (and I usually just wear one of them on my dominant hand), I always, definitely, and without fail don them when I break out the mandoline slicer. The benefit of using a mandoline is having the ability to slice a lot of produce quickly and uniformly ... which unfortunately increases the likelihood of kitchen accidents. The editors at Bon Appetit and Epicurious have also found this to be the case, leading to their own ringing endorsements of cut-resistant gloves.
I would like to point out here that cut-resistant does not mean cut-proof. Definitely do not try to cut or puncture these gloves while wearing them, as they are not indestructible! Though these rugged gloves have certainly spared me a few finger wounds, I still use extra caution during all of my meal prep in the kitchen.
Once I'm done with using these gloves, I'll take them off and wash them with hot water and dish soap and hang them by their handy loop to dry off in my dish rack, or I'll throw them right in the wash. I only use my gloves to slice raw veggies, but if you plan on using them to cut raw meat, hand-wash them thoroughly and then launder them ASAP.
If you're extremely careful and cool-headed in the kitchen, you may not need the Dowellife Cut-Resistant Gloves. But if a few too many close calls have made you want to take protective measures before wielding sharp objects, then perhaps you actually should. At less than $10, they're the cheapest insurance that I've been able to find.
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