Cut Resistant Gloves?

[Jimmy Higgins]

So I want to be a mandolin. Wait... maybe that was a mandoline. That might explain why the shop keeper was confused, though I have no idea how he knew I was spelling it wrong when I was saying it right. ???

Regardless, mandolines are known for being sharp... because they slice things. So when I went online to trying and look up cut resistant gloves, I very quickly found almost no decent information on actual products. The best I found was one site that explains the difference between different types of gloves. What bothered me was when I went to Amazon, I saw a lot of gloves that looked quite similar. Granted, they are gloves, but usually when I see things that look too similar, they are knockoffs. And one thing I don't want to get is a knockoff cut resistant glove. You go down the reviews, and there are people showing gloves with cuts, punctures, lacerations (well that was a thumb actually).

You check some websites or articles, and they are clearly advertisements!

So, anyone have a recommendation on an effective on?

 

[Treedbear]

So I want to be a mandolin. Wait... maybe that was a mandoline. That might explain why the shop keeper was confused, though I have no idea how he knew I was spelling it wrong when I was saying it right. ???

Regardless, mandolines are known for being sharp... because they slice things. So when I went online to trying and look up cut resistant gloves, I very quickly found almost no decent information on actual products. The best I found was one site that explains the difference between different types of gloves. What bothered me was when I went to Amazon, I saw a lot of gloves that looked quite similar. Granted, they are gloves, but usually when I see things that look too similar, they are knockoffs. And one thing I don't want to get is a knockoff cut resistant glove. You go down the reviews, and there are people showing gloves with cuts, punctures, lacerations (well that was a thumb actually).

You check some websites or articles, and they are clearly advertisements!

So, anyone have a recommendation on an effective on?

These have thousands of 5 star ratings on Amazon. Also cheap.
The Test Kitchen Swears By These Cut-Resistant Gloves

What I always wondered is how you keep a mandoline super sharp. Running a cut-resistant glove into it constantly probably dulls the edge pretty quick.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

So I want to be a mandolin. Wait... maybe that was a mandoline. That might explain why the shop keeper was confused, though I have no idea how he knew I was spelling it wrong when I was saying it right. ???

Regardless, mandolines are known for being sharp... because they slice things. So when I went online to trying and look up cut resistant gloves, I very quickly found almost no decent information on actual products. The best I found was one site that explains the difference between different types of gloves. What bothered me was when I went to Amazon, I saw a lot of gloves that looked quite similar. Granted, they are gloves, but usually when I see things that look too similar, they are knockoffs. And one thing I don't want to get is a knockoff cut resistant glove. You go down the reviews, and there are people showing gloves with cuts, punctures, lacerations (well that was a thumb actually).

You check some websites or articles, and they are clearly advertisements!

So, anyone have a recommendation on an effective on?

These have thousands of 5 star ratings on Amazon. Also cheap.
The Test Kitchen Swears By These Cut-Resistant Gloves

I saw that one, but didn't like how the article read like an ad.

What I always wondered is how you keep a mandoline super sharp. Running a cut-resistant glove into it constantly probably dulls the edge pretty quick.

You aren't supposed to repeatedly run the glove through the blade.

 

[bilby]

Chain mail gloves are the gold standard. Professional butchers use them. They can be very expensive, but they certainly work - if the stuff can prevent a Norman cavalryman from chopping you in half, it's likely to be very effective against slicing your pinky finger on a vegetable cutting blade.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Chain mail gloves are the gold standard. Professional butchers use them. They can be very expensive, but they certainly work - if the stuff can prevent a Norman cavalryman from chopping you in half, it's likely to be very effective against slicing your pinky finger on a vegetable cutting blade.

I was looking at reviews of one glove, typically the bad reviews because the people who severe limbs don't leave the good reviews, and a guy says it isn't for wood working. Another said it wasn't for butcher work. Jebus! These are for the kitchen!

The chain mail one did interest me. They are cut and penetration proof.

 

[bilby]

Chain mail gloves are the gold standard. Professional butchers use them. They can be very expensive, but they certainly work - if the stuff can prevent a Norman cavalryman from chopping you in half, it's likely to be very effective against slicing your pinky finger on a vegetable cutting blade.

I was looking at reviews of one glove, typically the bad reviews because the people who severe limbs don't leave the good reviews, and a guy says it isn't for wood working. Another said it wasn't for butcher work. Jebus! These are for the kitchen!

The chain mail one did interest me. They are cut and penetration proof.

I am not sure why you think that protection against a sharp steel blade needs to be different in a kitchen than it is in a butcher's shop (or, indeed, a woodworker's shop).

Fine chain mail is the way to go. Hardened steel is the right material to protect against hardened steel.

 

[Treedbear]

I saw that one, but didn't like how the article read like an ad.

That's why you check the Amazon reviews.

What I always wondered is how you keep a mandoline super sharp. Running a cut-resistant glove into it constantly probably dulls the edge pretty quick.

You aren't supposed to repeatedly run the glove through the blade.

Just sayin'. What ya gonna do when the blade gets dull? Best kitchen tool I have is a Chef's Choice electric knife sharpener. But I can't find any info on how to use it for sharpening mandolin blades.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Chain mail gloves are the gold standard. Professional butchers use them. They can be very expensive, but they certainly work - if the stuff can prevent a Norman cavalryman from chopping you in half, it's likely to be very effective against slicing your pinky finger on a vegetable cutting blade.

I was looking at reviews of one glove, typically the bad reviews because the people who severe limbs don't leave the good reviews, and a guy says it isn't for wood working. Another said it wasn't for butcher work. Jebus! These are for the kitchen!

The chain mail one did interest me. They are cut and penetration proof.

I am not sure why you think that protection against a sharp steel blade needs to be different in a kitchen than it is in a butcher's shop (or, indeed, a woodworker's shop).

Other than larger, more blunt, more forceful chopping implements? Chain mail is likely a way to go.

 

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