Rubber Gloves

[ethandron]

Having sliced two fingers open on a newly sharpened knife, I've had to resort to buying a pair of rubber gloves to do the dishes.
Anyone use them, where to you store and dry them? Mine are currently hanging round the kitchen, is there some secret way of doing it??

[donny48]

With gloves on dry your "hands" with a towel.

[mallyh]

I have a box of thin latex gloves and just dispose after use, from chemist shops

[Tilly2]

I wipe my hands on the towel, take the gloves off and put them in the cupboard.

[ethandron]

Maybe because I've got so many plasters on my fingers I find it difficult to dry them properly while I've got them on. When I've bought rubber gloves in the past, and shoved them in a cupboard, they've perished and stuck together.

[Jackdaw33]

If only Mrs O. were still with us. She would know.

[Prudie]

yes the marigold type I tended to throw in the under sink cupboard, forgot about them and they perished. I also now use a box of latex gloves, much easier to retain full use of fingers and chuck them away rather than store.

[pastafreak]

I don't want to lecture...but here goes ;-)...
NEVER put knives in the sink ( as you seem to have done). That's how accidents happen,as you now know. It's not allowed where I work...I always need to keep an eye on new helpers.
Hope your fingers are OK.

[EcclesCake]

Please don't tell me you put knives in the sink and then you have the unexpected 'delight' of DIY amputation?!?!

Knives NEVER go in the sink to get covered with suds and dishes to lurk and attack you.

I do have rubber gloves but rarely use them, when I do i drape them over the tap to dry off and then bung them under the sink. When I next want to use them they have perished so either my technique is wrong, I don't use them often enough or I buy crappy gloves.

[pastafreak]

TBH...rubber gloves will not provide protection against a sharp knife blade.

[woofgang]

I don’t think the OP is wanting protection from cuts but to keep the dressings dry....and no mention that the knives were in the sink either.

[vulcan42]

A friend of mine stores her gloves like this, with a small drip tray in the cupboard.
http://theborrowedabode.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Kitchen-Sink-Dish-Gloves.jpg

[pastafreak]

You may be right woof...but the advice stands for anyone reading this.

[emmie]

mine are stuck on top of the washed up dishes, there they stay all yellow and forlorn until their next outing...

[ethandron]

Of course I wasn't stupid enough to put the extremely sharp knife in a bowl of sudsy water then gently slide my hands in.
Of course I didn't...actually that's just what I did, and I really do know better, doh! :(
So there's no secret rubber glove society with secret rubber glove handling techniques?
Indeed Jackdaw, if only the delightful and very entertaining Mrs.O was still with us, she would indeed know, being so experienced in such matters. She was so funny wasn't she, no one else comes close..
Thank you for all your replies. I have a tin of corned beef to wrestle into submission later, perhaps a chain mail gauntlet would come in handy.

[pastafreak]

A mallet might be useful for the corned beef tin....and goggles
:-)

[Mamyalynne]

Lakeland do sell a glove stand but at the price it is am sure you could cobble something together yourself.

[EcclesCake]

Twit.

[donny48]

I don't think Mamyas is a twit. xx

[tiggerblue10]

I drape them over the edge of the sink so they drip into the sink.

I use gloves all the time due to dermatitis.

[woofgang]

I have got these
Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation

When I do use rubber gloves I peel them off so they end up inside out to let the insides dry. I find they make my hands perspire.