Related for Yoma 59:7

<big>גמ׳</big> שאלו את בן זומא טבילה זו למה אמר להם ומה המשנה מקודש לקודש וממקום שענוש כרת למקום שענוש כרת טעון טבילה המשנה מחול לקודש וממקום שאין ענוש כרת למקום שענוש כרת אינו דין שטעון טבילה

but as to eating he may wash his hands outside and re-enter, people know that he is fastidious of taste.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The average man is assumed to be fastidious enough not to eat without his fingers having been washed before, esp. since eating with the fingers (rather than with fork and knife) was the general custom. V.T.A. III, p. 43.');">13 R'Nahman B'Isaac said: I would do the same14 before drinking as people know me to be fastidious.

Tosefta Berakhot

[This] law [has been taught in the laws] of a meal. [A person] who goes out [of the dining room] to relieve himself, [when he goes back to the table] he washes one hand. [A person who goes out of the dining room] to speak to his friend, and makes a [long] interruption [by talking for a long time, when he goes back to the table he] washes both of his hands. Where does he wash them? He comes [back to the table], sits down in his place, and washes [his hands]. And he returns the pitcher [with which he washed his hands to the waiter who shows it] to the [other] guests [who are sitting together with him in the dining room].

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