My husband Eric is a wonderful bbq chef! He has won several cook-off trophies and has a wonderful local following of people constantly begging for him to cook for him. In fact, around here he is often referred to as “Eric the Meat” or simply “Meat.” Strange, but true.
Anyway, he has tried all sorts of ways to pull pork without burning his fingers. Forks are awkward. Rubber gloves by themselves don’t insulate well. The specialty ones they sell are expensive and bulky.
One day a couple of years ago, we were hit by inspiration, and pulling pork has been much easier ever since. The best part is that this is a very inexpensive solution and that now is the time of year to stock up on pork pulling gloves!
Are you ready?
Here you go.
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| Magic Gloves
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Eric prefers the black “manly” ones, but I think it’s fun to hide the black ones and buy pink polka dot ones myself!
(He refused to pose with those) |
Yep. The stretch gloves you find in the ladies accessories department of Wal-Mart for about $.99 a pair! These provide a layer of insulation for you hands. Next, add a pair of “exam gloves” and you are ready to pull some pork!
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| Exam gloves go over the stretch gloves for a nice clean glove. |
We have tried this before with the less expensive clear plastic “food service” gloves, but we found that as soon as they got pork juice on them, the plastic glove slipped right off your hand. They were very hard to work with. They do make the exam gloves in different sizes. It is a good rule to buy your gloves a size larger than you normally would wear to allow room for the inner glove. If your exam glove is too small it puts your fingers to sleep, so we normally just buy “large” gloves.
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| Pulling pork. Are you hungry yet? |
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| What about now? |
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| Great, now I’m hungry. |
Honey! Will you cook me some BBQ??? Please?
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