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Would you be grossed out by homemade baked good in care package?

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BusyTraybake · 07/03/2025 15:35

I am helping my sister put together care packages for her wedding. She is paying for the wedding party to stay in a posh hotel for a few nights. We are going to leave little care packages on the bed. I have an exceptional brownie recipe and was going to leave a trio of favours in the box. But sister’s SIL says she would never eat a homemade treat due to hygiene reasons.

obviously I will be clinically clean and wil even wear a hair net as I couldn’t think of anything worse than someone finding a hair.

Who is being weird?

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IndiraCake · 07/03/2025 16:14

I would love this, although I'm another one confused by 'care package'- thought it was going to be packs for the elderly or something. But sounds lovely.

NImumconfused · 07/03/2025 16:14

I'd eat it, I'd never given a second thought to buying stuff from the PTA bake sale or the Presbyterian coffee morning before I came in Mumsnet!

Drfosters · 07/03/2025 16:13

As someone has already pointed out, don’t people eat from bake sales? I have lost track of all the cakes I’ve eaten at the school gates. Not been sick yet! I’d happily eat a nice homemake favour!

Pickingmyselfup · 07/03/2025 16:13

I would definitely eat them but I'm not fussy about germs. Of course some people's hygiene could be disgusting but tbh if I started down that rabbit hole I would never leave the house.

BogRollBOGOF · 07/03/2025 16:13

I'd much rather eat home baked goods than over-processed soya and palm oil greasiness.

purser25 · 07/03/2025 16:12

I would eat it. I do bake and I enjoy buying home baked goods. I always think if they are cooked it gets rid of the germs.

Davi8 · 07/03/2025 16:12

Just came back from town where there’s a lovely stall selling fresh pizza with a food hygiene rating of 5. We often buy there. Anyway, I saw a woman with a pair of gloves and hairnet on - great - LICK her fingers of the gloves and continued whatever she was doing - which wasn’t washing her hands.

So I wouldn’t eat it either sorry.

Mogzillas · 07/03/2025 16:11

I wouldn't eat them either.

My sister used to do traybakes and school cakes and sells them. I moved her microwave once and it was full of mouse poo behind it.

Redrosesposies · 07/03/2025 16:11

I'd eat it. I love going to village fetes where they have a cake stall.
I'd rather have a bag of mini eggs though😊

WestwardHo1 · 07/03/2025 16:10

I'd eat it!

I wouldn't call it a "care package" though.

Garlicgarlicgarlic · 07/03/2025 16:10

BusyTraybake · 07/03/2025 15:43

Do people not go to bake sales?

Edited

Nope.
I wouldn't eat anything made in someone else's house.

Have you ever seen threads on here where people announce they don't wash their hands after peeing (because 'sterile' 😄) or after changing a kids shitty nappy?
and for all the other reasons posters have already written.

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 07/03/2025 16:09

I will eat anything someone else has made. LOVE a bit of cake! I have not died yet of Other People Germs.

Movinghouseatlast · 07/03/2025 16:09

I can't understand people not eating home made things, it's bizarre to me. Home made is always nicer than shop bought.

SackChute · 07/03/2025 16:09

I regularly take cakes in to work and they are enthusiastically enjoyed. I never touch any stuff anyone else bakes though, so I wouldn’t eat cakes left in a hotel room.

I’d be surprised if the hotel actually let anyone else access hotel rooms before the guest’s check in though tbh. It’s generally policy to not allow it.

HangryHandful · 07/03/2025 16:09

I’d absolutely eat them.

im also…. Really keen for your exceptional brownie recipe if you’re willing to share @BusyTraybake …?

Mogzillas · 07/03/2025 16:09

What is a wedding care package?

Aren't care packages for poorly people?

PrimitivePerson · 07/03/2025 16:08

Honestly, 99% of the stuff people panic about on here has never crossed my mind even once. I've never been ill through eating baked goods.

MrsSunshine2b · 07/03/2025 16:08

She does know that all treats are made somewhere by a human?

And that the kind of processes and ingredients going into factory made treats are going to be considerably less wholesome than home baking?

I'm aware that this category of obsessive germaphobes exists but I do not think they are a majority. I have always done a lot of baking and I have never had anyone be reluctant to eat anything I made because it came out of my kitchen- in fact home baked goods have always been snapped up much faster than anything I've pre-bought for parties; sometimes I haven't even had the opportunity to taste it myself.

TheNinkyNonkyIsATardis · 07/03/2025 16:08

I made handmade chocolates for a friend's wedding favours. For all those unfavoured by guests, there were other people willing to guzzle them down.

Not aware that I poisoned anyone.

tallhotpinkflamingo · 07/03/2025 16:06

Mumsnet is the worst place to ask about things like this, if you ask on Reddit they'll all say they'd eat it without thinking twice.

I had some weird looking pastry once and Mumsnet said to bin it and Reddit said to eat it so I ate it and it was fine.

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 07/03/2025 16:06

BusyTraybake · 07/03/2025 15:43

Do people not go to bake sales?

Edited

No I do not! utterly rank.

2Rebecca · 07/03/2025 16:06

It sounds an unnecessary fangle for people who will have eaten and drank loads before anyway. Save your baking for people you know and who appreciate it. You can try too hard with these events.

poetryandwine · 07/03/2025 16:05

I am fairly fastidious, but if the brownie were individually wrapped it would delight me!

As PP say, I suspect those who turn up their noses - just as well they don’t know more.

Sunat45degrees · 07/03/2025 16:05

Today has been a day of realising, from MN, that there are a lot of very strange people in the world.

I would absolutely eat home made goods. And I'm shocked people would be nervous. I mean, it might be awful, but you can have a nibble and decide if you like it.

What exactly do peple think is the difference betwen a chocolate brownie made in my kitchen and one made in the kitchen at a restaurant?! (besides, obviously, the skill of the cooks involved).

KittenPause · 07/03/2025 16:04

A care package is for sick or elderly people surely ?!? Confused

You need to package your brownie in hygienic wrapping like your would get from a bakery or shop