To use a washed-up raw meat knife

i think you should throw away the washing up bowl too if the knife has been in there 😂

Maddest thread of the day 😂

All our knives are interchangeable. Never had food poisioning. It’s never even occurred to me people have separate knives.

I boil some hot water in a kettle and pour it over anything I used for raw meat.
If you just use soapy sponge then that sponge will become a perfect breeding ground for bacteria from the meat. So it will be the sponge which will be dirty and then you will use it to wash something else.

While parasites in the meat are rare these days they can also be extremely dangerous and people can have them for a long time before they develop any serious symptoms.

I think it's the case of awareness to be honest. The more awareness you have the more careful you become. If you don't know what can happen you just don't think about it.

It's fine.
I've done a food handling cert.

Store uncooked or thawing chicken low down on fridge shelf. It won't drip on other food.
Use separate raw meat chopping board and knife.
Wash knife before using again for any purpose.
Wash chopping board before using again for raw meat..

Store cooked chicken, covered, higher up in fridge.

If having this separation is apparently so important to DD, surely you would have to have agreed which are the raw meat knives & which are not? Otherwise how would either of you know what the other has used each knife for previously. Sounds bonkers to me though, as previous posters have said never seen this even in professional kitchens.

We have a butchers block we chop everything on, we’re still alive lol never had food poisoning or anything else from it…….

In a commercial kitchen they use separate boards and utensils for cooked food and raw meat.
But in the home, it's not necessary as long as you wash it properly in hot soapy water.
Most people use the same knives for both, I know I do. And I have a food hygeine certificate. I know, get me! It's my highest level of qualification so I'm pretty sad really.

We pour boiling water over plates, knives and chopping boards that have had raw meat on them and then just wash them with everything else. Certainly don’t have specific knives(although probably wouldn’t use a bread knife for anything other than bread)

I understand that it's probably not an actual hygiene concern. But I do have separate stuff for raw meat. Like, I would never cut veg (especially salad veg) on the "meat" chopping board. If you've grown up that way, then it does feel like "contamination" even if it's not really.

And it turns out I trust the dishwasher more than I trust my own hand-washing skills (and sorry, but I really wouldn't trust my husband's washing-up skills. I would put the tea towel straight in the wash afterwards, because he often uses "drying up" as an opportunity to wipe away anything that survived the washing process 🤣🤣)

Well surely the bread is cut where the meat was cut? So you’d have to throw that out too lol seems a bit ocd to me……..

that’s not a cultural thing, at least not in Beijing, amongst anyone I knew. Is he particular/have strange rules about other things too?

There you go then. You know why he thinks as he does. So what's the deal here. Did he flip his lid? Or was it just a oh how do we navigate this difference in our upbringing type of conversation?

Eh, I've got Chinese friends (one of whom owns a restaurant), so I asked...

The response was resoundingly: "thats not a culture thing thats a 'Your DP's parents thing!"...

None had ever heard of it.

I’m Chinese.

I have never heard of that rule before.

He’s ridiculous

I think his excuse is BS. To give him the benefit of the doubt, he grew up in a weird house.

I have like 3 sharp knives that cut everything.

I have advocated in the past that all the food we eat should be shrink wrapped individually immediately before we place it in our mouth to avoid any cross-contamination.

However I sometimes wake up at night coughing up bits of cling-film and think thst there may be a fundamental flaw in my idea.

On the plus side I have lost a lot of weight.

What is the purpose of washing up?

I'm confused.

Get a grip.

It was washed up, fine, not like you went from chicken to bread roll immediately! Xx

Thinking further, I have a halal frying pan and baking tray that have never had non halal food cooked on them.

But we all use the same crockery and cutlery!

This can’t have the first time this was an issue? Why let it get this far?

Do he throw cooking dishes and trays away after raw meat has been put on them?

Nah. Rubbish.

He wanted a bread roll thrown away because 'common sense'. Not because 'culture'.

He either has incipient OCD/other mental health issue or he is just terminally ignorant and uninformed.

I also come from a culture/background where meat utensils and other foodstuffs utensils are kept entirely separate. Not uncommonly in entirely separate kitchens, even.

I am perfectly able to understand the difference between that and the health risk from a washed knife.

Quite. My Chinese friends use the same fucking massive for everything.

I mean I assume he cooks meat and veg in the same pan. How is it different?

Chopping boards I'm a little more careful. But knives get completely clean.