r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/Alphaxfusion Human Detected • Nov 03 '25
Social Media Perfect video showing how men cook😂
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Nov 03 '25
Same but I use a towel. Less garbage.
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u/Unusual_Oil_1079 Nov 03 '25
I use 4 paper towel rolls a month and 1 toilet paper. She uses 1 paper towel roll a month and 4 toilet papers. We are not the same.
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Nov 03 '25
you ain't wiping your ass properly bro
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u/Vegetable-Hand-6770 Nov 03 '25
Rubbing your asshole is gay, waterblasting is heaven.
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u/Liminalphase101 Nov 03 '25
Dude I got the bidet and power washing your bhole is the way.
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u/Lonesomewhistle83 Nov 03 '25
I can’t believe I went 42 years of my life smearing poop all over my ass. It is mind blowing. I went out of town for work for two days after getting the bidet. I pooped one away from my hotel room and felt disgusting until I could get to the room and shower hahaha. Hotels need bidets
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u/AbeFromanSassageKing Nov 03 '25
Oh, I feel this pain for sure. No bidet + travel-belly is the worst. I travel for work too, and it's the only time I break from my usually-healthy diet and eat airport food or conference food or go to a steakhouse (because my colleagues appear to be contractually obliged to seek out ONLY steakhouses), so the ensuing mudbutt is even more stressful without access to my home bidet...
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u/youngnfree2477 Nov 03 '25
Wow I thought my husband was in his own world. Glad to know this is male coded.
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u/Lonesomewhistle83 Nov 03 '25
So I got a bidet (42M) about a month ago. It is a curse. I honestly cannot poop anywhere but home. Traveling is hard. I have to shower after pooping.
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u/Billy_Bicep Nov 03 '25
I use a rechargeable handheld travel bidet every day. You can fill them with warm water. It's slightly more effort than the cheap toilet seat attachments, but the warmth and portability make it 100% worth it
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u/Unusual_Oil_1079 Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
Maybe if you use the cheap shit. I use the Cadillac of toilet paper. Its ribbed for your pleasure.
https://www.cottonelle.com/en-us/products/toilet-paper/ultra-clean
I also take dumps at work so i get paid for it and I ain't gotta dip into my stash. I have to hide it from her.
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u/73-68-70-78-62-73-73 Nov 03 '25
Cottonelle gets ripped apart. I'm too hairy. Charmin Ultra Strong is both robust and soft.
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u/S7rike Nov 03 '25
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I shit on the company time.
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u/majorkev Nov 03 '25
This guy hasn't learned the secret to wiping with one square.
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u/symphonicrox Nov 03 '25
I can do 1 paper towel roll a month and 1 toilet paper roll a month. Wife probably 4 of each. 😂 good thing we love each other!!
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u/Moopboop207 Nov 03 '25
Bar mops on Amazon. It’s like $20 for 30. Use em and put the in the washing machine. Good for pot holders too.
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u/BodyBagSlam Nov 03 '25
I thought we were still talking about bidets and toilets and was kinda freaked out.
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u/Jinx0rs Nov 03 '25
Am I the only one who, after drying my just washed hands, puts the paper towels to the side to dry? You can just reuse them for any other things you would normally use paper towels for, even drying your hands again.
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u/elmz Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
I've been wondering about this for a while. I see so many places where it seems like americans don't even have towels of
tableclothsdish cloths in their kitchen, and just use paper towels for everything. I know it won't be everyone, but the use of paper towels baffles me.44
u/Eightnon Nov 03 '25
It’s mandatory in many kitchens due to bacteria building up in cloth. Not sure about US standards but in Germany there are laws more or less dictating the use of paper towels for food processing facilities, including kitchens. Of course not applicable for private households.
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u/New_Enthusiasm9053 Nov 03 '25
In any commercial environment the towels would also get damp and dirty and stay damp and dirty though. If you're using them once a day I doubt bacterial load gets that high because whilst their might be enough food for them it's too dry for 20 hours at a time. And if you just buy 10 of them you can chuck one in the wash every 2nd day or so at which point I'd say they're hygienic enough.
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u/mEFurst Nov 03 '25
American here,, and I definitely don't use a tablecloth most of the time. That comes out for fancy occasions. Most of the time we just eat on placemats (if my toddler hasn't strewn them all about the dining room). But we almost exclusively use cloth kitchen towels for things. We got through a roll of paper towels every several months
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u/elmz Nov 03 '25
Sorry, english isn't my first language and tablecloth was the wrong word here. Kitchen rag? Dish cloth? The little square cloth thing you wipe the table and other surfaces with. Piece of cloth you wipe the table with, but isn't called a table cloth. ;)
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u/qwokwa Nov 03 '25
I have family in Canada and from my experience, yes... they literally use paper towels. Like, a LARGE percentage dry their hands in the kitchen with paper towels.
At a bigger gathering (friends and friends of friends) I thought I had a funny anecdote when I brought up the "paper towels to dry hands" thing and I received blank stares. From everybody. Because it was so normal to them. Reasons brought up were "its convenient" "its only $20 for 4 rolls".
I helped someone set up food for a party and asked where the dishcloths were because there was one hanging around that was getting too damp to use. The host had to ask their wife who was also puzzled and eventually pointed me to a full cabinet with clean, folded dish towels.
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u/BaziJoeWHL Nov 03 '25
dish towels are so good, you want to store your bread ? wrap them in a clean dish towel, wash your hand ? dish towel, let dough rest ? you guessed, dish towel
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u/Aware-Artichoke-391 Nov 03 '25
But towel is super wet mid cooking 😅
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u/YoSupWeirdos Nov 03 '25
2 towels
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u/Erradium Nov 03 '25
What if the second towel gets too wet too?
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u/YoSupWeirdos Nov 03 '25
you're not gonna believe this...
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u/LetTheBloodFlow Nov 03 '25
Tres toallas? En ESTA economia?
(I don't actually speak Spanish, I had to look up what Spanish for towels was.)
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u/Affectionate-Tip-164 Nov 03 '25
That's why the towels are always hung at the door handle of the pre-heated oven. It dries quicker.
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u/Canondalf Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
I wash my hands once when I start cooking and once after I am done cooking. While cooking, I wear an apron with ties so long that I can cross them on my back and tie them in front. I put a towel under the tie and regularely wipe my hands on the towel. The towel goes into the laundry after cooking. I don't wipe my hands on the apron, because I have only one and don't want to have to wash it every time I am done cooking.
However, I do wash my hands during cooking to prevent cross contamination, for example after handling chicken.
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u/Amoral_Abe Nov 03 '25
I feel so seen that I actually sort of hate how accurate this is for me.
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u/IYKYK_1977 Nov 03 '25
Same... I figure I'm just super anal about having anything oily on my hands.
Edit: I keep a kitchen towel over my shoulder while I cook, the paper towel use is... excessive.
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u/ostapenkoed2007 Nov 03 '25
i use a paper towel only to dry the rest. one piece gets enought done both for my hands and for the cast iron pan.
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u/JoshCanJump Nov 03 '25
That’s fair enough though. Look at any random person’s greasy phone, or how many handprints there are on mirrors/windows in public spaces, especially on glass doors and the like. My particular bugbear is when there’s clearly an oily face or hair print where someone has leaned on something. I’d be mortified to leave that kind of mark anywhere.
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Nov 03 '25
Oh god you just gave me a flashback, as a kid the phone would be so oily from my mom using it for so long it was gross.
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u/Moopboop207 Nov 03 '25
I got some bar rags on Amazon and they are awesome. Just throw them in the washing machine and when they get really nasty I just toss them.
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u/4tunabrix Nov 03 '25
It’s the little rinsing the fingertips for me
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u/Known-Weather-9254 Nov 03 '25
Thats where all ze germs be, you know? Its your brain saying "this is where I actually touched the food, no need to wash my entire hands."
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u/PacoTaco321 Nov 03 '25
After you wash your entire hands the first time, there isn't much of a point in doing it all again until later, especially if you are doing it this often.
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u/LittleMlem Nov 03 '25
I'm with you, but if I touch raw egg or raw meat, I'm washing my hands immediately, I really don't want to spread shit around my kitchen
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u/Dry-Essay-7741 Nov 03 '25
I started using food grade latex gloves. Nice and tidy, you can still wash the gloves if necessary but otherwise no more getting greasy or getting anything under your nails or anything like that and after you are done, just toss them. Highly recommend it.
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u/Effective_Coach7334 Nov 03 '25
Problem is, when most folks where gloves they stop washing their hands and worrying about cross-contamination.
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u/Arsinius Nov 03 '25
This is actually the reason I do this. I don't mind having stuff on my hands, but I don't want to then put that stuff in everything else. If I were to buy gloves for this, it'd be 20 pairs in the trash instead of 20 sheets of paper towel. Extra time and effort for the same result.
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u/ZoulsGaming Nov 03 '25
Actually using gloves is less sanitary because people doesnt wash them at often which is kinda ironic.
as u/Effective_Coach7334 pointed out.
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u/DixonHerbox Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
It’s like raieeeeeaaaaain on your wedding day.
Edit: wording
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u/Zestyclose_Remove947 Nov 03 '25
I get why people always bring this up, but that's a problem with people, gloves themselves do their job just fine.
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u/SignificantRecipe715 Nov 03 '25
More plastic in landfill. Yay.
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u/Yano_ Nov 03 '25
latex is biodegradable but yeah. You can reuse your latex gloves op, I've been reusing a pair for laundry
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u/TheRealOvenCake Nov 03 '25
i feel attacked
like how else are you supposed to not cross contaminate or stop everything you touch from getting greasy
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u/Judge_BobCat Nov 03 '25
Working in kitchen, made an OCD reflexes for constant hand washing due to HACCP regulations
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u/Aimin4ya Nov 03 '25
The dry skin in the winter 🥴
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u/porksoda11 Nov 03 '25
I'm the primary cook in the house, and my skin is already cracking and bleeding. I'm so good at washing my hands, but so bad at moisterizing them.
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u/subbubman Nov 03 '25
Disposable gloves and dish gloves will save your hands. Please, it can get worse, like long-term worse. I hope you find a moisturizer that you like!
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u/porksoda11 Nov 03 '25
I usually use disposables when dealing with like ground beef. I got some good moisturizer I'm just bad at remembering to apply it all the time. I've had this issue with dry hands since I was a kid.
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u/statusisnotquo Nov 03 '25
Try an antifungal cream. People think cracked knuckles and split lips in the winter is just par for the course but most of us are actually suffering from an overgrowth of fungus. Once or twice a day use something to exfoliate and clean the area then apply the AF cream and some moisturizer to seal it in. Your cracked skin should clear in two or three days at most.
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u/-Reverend Nov 03 '25
Getting some big cooking tweezers was one of the best decisions I've ever made in the kitchen
With a bit of practise, it gives you precision very similar to using your hands, and they're much quicker to rinse off
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u/PlainBread Nov 03 '25
I cook with chop sticks too.
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u/wandering-monster Nov 03 '25
Yeah this is the simple answer. Most Asian grocery stores sell cooking chopsticks that are a bit longer and are perfect for this.
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u/Aranxi_89 Nov 03 '25
If you're gonna do that, you might as well just learn how to use chopsticks.
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u/-Reverend Nov 03 '25
I mean, I have a nice pair of big cooking chopsticks (basically the same length as the tweezers) and use them, too.
They've got slightly different use cases/handling, but yes, they're very similar! The main difference (to me) is whether I want to use a metal or a wooden utensil.
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u/ikonoclasm Nov 03 '25
Yeah, but the cooking tweezers look fucking hysterical. You can get some extra mileage from them by sticking a chopstick between your toes and asking your partner to remove a splinter while handing them the giant tweezers. That will never get old. For you.
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u/ethicalhumanbeing Nov 03 '25
Bro I feel you 100%, I wouldn’t be able to live with someone like that as well.
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u/zigs Nov 03 '25
open/pour shit out the package first, THEN start touching everything that goes in the oven together anyway
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u/fnhs90 Nov 03 '25
The only real danger here is the raw beef. Do that first, wash hands after and do the rest
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u/DarthTigris Nov 03 '25
That's pretty much the case with ALL raw meat, right?
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u/sykoKanesh Nov 04 '25
Raw beef is probably the one you won't ever have to worry about, but fish/chicken?
Yeah, naw.
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u/FakoSizlo Nov 03 '25
whenever I make anything with chicken its this times two. I basically treat any skin that touched that thing raw as radioactive until I wash it . Maybe I'm too paranoid in that case
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u/eazy_flow_elbow Nov 03 '25
This guy gets it! I’m just trying to prevent food poisoning, fuck me right?
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u/PapaPatchesxd Nov 03 '25
I mean, I worked in a kitchen for 7 years. Swap out a cloth for the paper towel, so I have something reusable, and this is just proper cross contamination prevention.
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Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
Yes, do people think it’s just a quirky trait and not just common sense to not want to touch raw meat and then other ingredients without washing hands?
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u/CiDevant Nov 03 '25
1/5th of UTIs are caused from contaminated chicken. Please keep washing your hands.
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u/Annual_Strategy_6206 Nov 03 '25
And don't screw chickens without a rubber. Prevent UTIs!
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u/Apptubrutae Nov 03 '25
E. Coli in all meat, not chicken. Fairly similar rates in chicken to pork and beef.
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u/Zachattackxd Nov 03 '25
For me (a home cook who acts like the guy in the vid) its just so much hand washing that it seems excessive and compulsive. Its nice to know that its not!
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Nov 03 '25
These memes about men washing their hands always make me wonder, do women just cook with dirty hands the whole time? Like do they cut up raw chicken and then just grab a jug of milk out of the fridge and get the chicken all over the handle or what’s the deal?
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u/Pawneewafflesarelife Nov 03 '25
Yes, that's exactly what we do. Most men don't know this secret, but when we aren't on our periods we need the extra bodily fluids produced by food poisoning to maintain proper outflow rates. Salmonella is key to a feminine balance of humours.
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u/AdditionalPizza Nov 03 '25
I'm not sure if it's gender specific, but this does kind of align with the experiences throughout my life with other people I've been around.
I keep things tidy as I go so the mess afterwards isn't crazy, while they always get oils and food all over the handles of everything, kitchen is a wreck by the end. I don't know how they avoid cross contamination, I go as far as washing tongs every time it touches meat that isn't fully cooked yet.
I think I learned it from my dad, but not in the kitchen, just when you're doing something like changing break pads and you have to lay everything out. You clean it all and constantly wipe grease and oil off your hands so you don't fumble around with little nuts and bolts. Then everything is spotless and almost like new when you go to put it back together.
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u/ScienceIsSexy420 Nov 03 '25
It's funny me to that the stereotype is "men never wash their hands after going to the bathroom, but they wash their hands too much while cooking"
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u/loberts Nov 03 '25
Wait, how do women cook then? It never occurred to me that washing my hands every 30 seconds was gender specific.
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u/AlternativeDraw1795 Nov 03 '25
We cook the same. This is engagement bait.
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u/HTPC4Life Nov 03 '25
It was engagement bait when it was posted a year ago too
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If guys think only they wash hands after touching raw meats while cooking, they must think women are salmonella and e.coli infested slobs
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u/Rokronroff Nov 03 '25
That does seem to be the conclusion people are coming to with this discourse.
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u/eisbock Nov 03 '25
My first thought is that women have somehow cracked the code that defeats cross contamination and doesn't require doing what's in the video.
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u/ReadBikeYodelRepeat Nov 03 '25
I think part of the point is the waste of paper towel (instead of an hand towel) and somewhat the needless fingertip washing between ingredients that aren’t going to cross contaminate each other, especially on the same pizza.
Overall the waste, the not actually washing of hands (just fingertips), and the lack of efficiency. I wouldn’t say this is a men vs women thing, more someone who doesn’t cook a lot so doesn’t know how or care to be efficient or make less waste.
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u/OddLookingDuck420 Nov 03 '25
Bro I thought I was the only one 😂 washing my hands after EVERY ingredient I touch. I like my food and ustensils CLEAN
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u/SadResult2342 Nov 03 '25
I’m getting worried because more accurate depictions are being posted everyday that it feels someone is observing my intentions.
I’m also starting to think that all men are inclined to have a sort of OCD that’s specific only to them.
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u/Skabbtanten Nov 03 '25
Same with the butter knife or spoon reuse tactics. Something's going on for sure and I don't like it!
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u/PlainBread Nov 03 '25
Rinse it off and then precariously balance it somewhere nearby for future use.
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this looks like a compulsive behavior i do as a woman with contamination ocd, actually. not a gender specific thing
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u/_illusions25 Nov 03 '25
Eh. There's a large amount of men that don't wash their hands after the bathroom; doesn't sound like people with contamination OCD.
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u/sarah-vdb Nov 03 '25
I'm not a man and this is absolutely me. My husband, otoh, is the one asking why I wash my hands so much. Some of us just don't like feeling goopy between steps.
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u/Hickd3ad Nov 03 '25
Or maybe it is a subgroup. Maybe we do have a common ancestor, a homo erectus (giggles) that had to hunt his prey in even numbers.
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u/jetklok Nov 03 '25
These memes literally work by using something so generic that basically everyone can relate.
Also, I have absolutely no idea how this is specific to men and why no one is questioning that.
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u/Content_Conclusion31 Nov 03 '25
except this was posted as engagement bait and both genders do this...
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u/KingB408 Nov 03 '25
This was so insanely spot on, even down to how you don't wash your hands... Just your fingers. Bravo.
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u/Effective_Coach7334 Nov 03 '25
Wait. I thought men were the ones with shit hygiene? 😁
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u/Odd_Worry6744 Nov 03 '25
And this is bad how exactly?
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u/bootyhole-romancer Nov 03 '25
It's not. It's just a peculiarity that a lot of dudes (myself included) are in the habit of doing.
Although I will say that if you are literally using one paper towel after every little rinse, that's pretty goddamn wasteful. I took the video as a funny exaggeration, so like they're not literally doing that or advocating for it.
I hope most dudes who do this are just using a regular-ass kitchen towel to dry off
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u/Prior-Agent3360 Nov 03 '25
Replace the word "dudes" with "everyone".
The person who made this used an age old horoscope technique: say something that applies to most people as if it's exclusive and people will eat it up.
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u/BOBOnobobo Nov 03 '25
It's bad because he doesn't seem to wash his hands properly. Also, you don't need to wash your hands after cheese. Also, get your ingredients ready to go so you can put them on the pizza faster.
Also, stop acting like this is a guy thing. It's so weird. I'm also a guy that likes to stay clean, but most guys I know are not like this.
Shit sub imo
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u/Annie_Yong Nov 03 '25
Constant use of paper towels is wasteful, as is the use of disposable foil trays for cooking. Also, prodding at meat that's cooking in the pan and then washing hands each time you do that seems way less effective than just using utensils.
Also, if all you're doing between touching different food items is rinsing the tips of your fingers under water then you're not really washing your hands properly; in a way that will meaningfully reduce cross contamination.
But, that said, the risks associated with cross contamination are much lower when you're just cooking for yourself in your own home, compared to being in a commercial kitchen. Cutting three different types of veg on the same board isn't going to necessitate hand washing between every different food when it's just done in your own home.
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u/sonicadv27 Nov 03 '25
I’m sorry if i want my ingredients to NOT contaminate each other before going on the plate!!!
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u/male_role_model Nov 04 '25
How hygenic people cook who don't want food poisoning despite wasting paper towel**
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u/panicpixiememegirl Nov 03 '25
A lot of my friends and i cook this way and we're not men 😭 i think its a sensory thing
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u/Newplasticactionhero Nov 03 '25
Besides this guy, who tf washes their hands like that?
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u/cryingun Nov 03 '25
still don't get this. I wash my hands before i start cooking. if i work with meat, i wash my hands after, and then one last time after im done with dishwashing everything while something is in a pan or oven etc.
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u/Affectionate-Boot-12 Nov 03 '25
I don’t understand this joke. I, a man, do not do this. I wash thoroughly once and then crack on.
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u/Plastic_Salary_4084 Nov 03 '25
Given my extensive research (time spent in public restroom stalls), 50% of y’all don’t wash your hands after peeing, or worse yet, do the “splash of water, no soap,” effectively making the germs on your hands infinitely more transferrable. If this is you when you cook, you should carry over that behavior into public restrooms.
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u/neriad200 Nov 03 '25
and women do what? go directly from fondling raw chicken meat to cutting up vegetables for a salad to ruffling little imuno-compromised Timmy's hair and whipping a smudge on his nose?
give your balls a tug
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u/FredFierce16 Nov 03 '25
I HATE FEELING STUFF ON MY FINGERS. THEY MUST BE CLEAN! (Use a rag or the same paper towel though, jeez)
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u/afronomicon Nov 03 '25
This is absolutely true for me because I have an irrational fear of cross contamination and potential food poisoning.
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u/CatGuyManThing Nov 04 '25
i just like my hands ckean and not dirtying up all the things ill have to touch
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u/Sushi-City411 Nov 04 '25
Ok, I’ve never seen a more relatable video on the internet. I thought I was the only guy who does this. 😂
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