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I have had to clean dough, meatball, and all kinds of goop out of my rings so I no longer wear them while cooking. I never take my thumb ring off since its a band it cleans well when I was my fingers.
The newness of your wonderous new wedding rings will never fade by the shine will if you keep spreading butter on it. Go to Macys or Lenox outlet and get yourself a ring holder. I have 2 of them. One crystal and one china.
Can we talk about my natural fingernails which I try so hard to keep nice? Cuticles? The skin on my hands?

I keep a small dish on the windowsill above my sink to put my ring in. Sometimes it will stay there for days at a time- but I always know where it is. My hubby doesn't concern himself with it. Ask your hubby if he'd rather you wear the rings all the time and eventually need to have them repaired or replaced, or would he rather you take good care of them so they lasy the lifetime they were intended to.

As a registered nurse, I can tell you ladies and gentlemen, please take your rings off !! You can cultivate many undesiralble cultures in your stones and settings be it from your cooking or what your bringing in to it!. I always take my rings off when cooking because I too am a hands on type of cook.
Also a word to the wise, when shopping in the grocery stores, pick up a few extra clear plastic produce bags before leaving that department. Place your raw meats into these bags to avoid contaminating the rest of your groceries in your basket. They can still be rung up as the bar codes will register through the clear plastic, but you can avoid blood leaking from your chicken or beef onto your lettuce, toilet paper or breakfast cereal box.
Thanks, from the nurse standing behind you in the check out line, bitting her tongue.

I have to take my rings off if my hands are going to get into dough or, especially, if handling raw meat. It keeps them cleaner and saves me time later anyway. Have you ever seen Paula Deen or Rachael Ray making meatballs with their rings on? Ewwwww!

Regardless of what I'm cooking...

Step 1: Remove Rings and watch.
Step 2: Tie up Hair.
Step 3: Wash hands.
Step 4: Begin cooking.

I always take my rings and watch off and put them inside the same cupboard so I know where they are, and I avoid any "down the drain" episodes. Greyhoundgrrl, you should be happy that your husband still notices these things!

Yes, but.

If I'm doing something particularly goopy or messy or sticky, I wear gloves. Not because of the rings, but because I have a tendency to get rashy spots on my hands. The gloves do three things: they protect my hands from the food, they keep me from washing off the medicated cream, if I've put it on recently, and they protect the food from the cream and whatever scaly rashy stuff might be on my hands.

I'd hate to lose a ring that really meant something to me (plus, I've worked in healthcare, and I know that it's unsanitary to wear rings when you have your hands in food), so I put any rings I've been wearing on short, thin neck chain... then, even if I forget to put it back on my finger, I'm still wearing them, and if I'm asked where my ring is, I can say 'Oh, I'm still wearing it, but around my neck while I'm cooking, so I don't spoil it' :)

My first wedding ring was a plain band and after about three years of marriage, the solitaire diamond that went with it went into a box and was only worn on fancy occasions. So I rarely took the band off as it was very smooth and I never had problems with getting a rash or anything under it.

Fast forward to marriage number 2 - this time I am sporting a fairly large sapphire with diamonds on either side and a diamond wedding band. I've learned to take those suckers off any time I'm getting my hands gucky because stuff just gums up into them like no tomorrow. And recently, I've had trouble with my skin getting irritated under my wedding ring. Thankfully, my husband lives half way across the country and doesn't know if I'm wearing those rings or not. We need a lot more than rings to keep this marriage going - and next week we celebrate our four month anniversary - woo hoo!

Rings go on necklace, watch gets put away, hair goes up. If I put my ring down in a dish or something I'll forget to put it back on later, and I'll feel naked.

My rings come off pretty much as soon as I walk in the door and don't go back on until I leave for work the next day (at least I almost always remember to put them back on) I can't stand how it feels to have my rings on when my hands are wet or if I am working with food . I work in health care and wash my hands a zillion times a day so they spend much of the day in my pants pocket. Not great advertising for the wife of a jeweler but he is very understanding!!