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Are black nitrile gloves any good for handling fish? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/cooking@lemmy.world
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I was wondering if I should get gloves to a) prevent my hands from stinking after handling fish, b) avoid hurting myself when descaling or cutting fish.

I see influencer chefs wear black nitrile gloves, and I was wondering if they're any good for this use case . Like, aesthetic aside, is this any useful or does this tear easily like latex gloves?

Googling seems to yield mixed results.

Thank you all in advanced

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[–] 2 points 1 week ago*

Black are usually thicker, so they last longer.

Medical is blue so that a single drop of blood is highly visible, and to be changed often to prevent contamination.

Black was used for the opposite reason, easy to hide stains and thicker so that they can be worn longer or even taken off and put back on.

Because black was thicker it was more expensive....

So people started selling thin black ones, and now color doesn't matter. You need to pay attention to thickness, and it really doesn't matter.

If you're worried about cuts get safety gloves and put them on over the nitrate gloves. You don't need one on your knife hand.

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