AIBU or is DH? Cooking and food hygiene.

Oh groan. Are we back in 50s with wifey in the kitchen with frilly apron full makeup and crimped hair.
First world problem. Can’t think it’s ever crossed my mind about the super hygienic cleaning of a board used for fresh meats.
Our food standards in UK are highest in the world. We’ve not been subject yet to the US sanitised chicken.
I really don’t think there is any contamination on boards used to chop UK produced meat. On grounds of the aesthetics that other products could pick up the taste of what the board was previously used for is different and providing the board is washed hygienically think this is overreaction.
And you can be too clean , the reason why children develop eczema and do not develop antibodies to resist infection.

@cramptramp I contracted campylobacter from a takeaway chicken dish and I’ve been paranoid ever since!

Seperate board and designated clear no clutter workspace for all meat and fish preparation.

I was in a deli the other day and the server went from handling raw sausages to cutting cheese I nearly had a melt down. Told him no way I was buying anything from him!

I couldn’t care less about this. I don’t use separate knives or chopping boards for anything. Never had food poisoning, still alive.

Sorry can I ask what knife you used to cut the chicken? This would be the deal breaker for me. If you used a sharp smooth knife then dh should have used a bread knife...or did you use a serrated meat knife ( I've not seen one in my sons chef knife set so dont know if anyone uses them)

DH is a moron

You're disgusting for not cleaning the meat board immediately

HTH

Wouldn't he have needed a bread knife to cut crusty bread? How can you get bread with a meat knife???

Yes, DH should have spotted the manky board but I also think you were in the wrong for leaving the board to fester instead of chucking it in the sink or dishwasher.

The rule in our house. Cut the chicken on meat board in the meat preparing area of the kitchen. Transfer to a bowl. Board and knife straight in the sink and washed with hot soapy water and then straight into the dishwasher. Meat preparing area cleaned straight away. As soon as meat removed from bowl straight into hot soapy water.

Leaving a board and knife out after preparing meat on it is disgusting and on you!

I'm sorry but your husband is a moron

I do put the meat board straight into the sink once used. Generally wash it up straight away too. Partly because we are a mix of veggies and meat eaters but also I would anyway.

So I think that would have been ideal from OP’s side.

However, I think her husband was unreasonable as it sounds like it had obviously been used for chicken and that’s very unhygienic. I’m also really surprised you weren’t ill!

Chipping board and knife would have been put in the dishwasher not left on the side. Then there's no mistakes

YANBU! This is such a pet peeve of mine and also that’s good kitchen hygiene. Every time I use anything that touches raw meat it goes straight into the dishwasher. It’s an honest mistake from him but the fact that he didn’t think it was a big deal would have made me stressed out!

I always wash the board and knife in hot water and washing up liquid as soon as I’ve cut up chicken. I then use it to cut everything else.

I would say your DH's fault, it sounds obvious the chicken board was 'in play'

Having once suffered campylobacter from a meal out and being severely ill for 2 months YANBU. Poor hygiene surrounding the preparation of chicken is extremely serious.

Omg 🤮 raw meat of any description is gross on bread like that but chicken is actually dangerous! Jes massively wrong!

So to add on - no, a fully functioning adult human being with eyeballs does not need to be psychic to know a board and knife has been used. And there's nothing from OP's posts to suggest he isn't a fully functioning adult human.

Have you never cut chicken @Grammarnut? If you haven't, and it doesn't get cut (by a utensil of your choosing) in your home, then I would get why you might not know.

But if you have ever cut chicken, you will know it does not leave either knife or board looking clean. And arguing that it does, and that finding a bread knife might have made his food cool down too much, is just defending an - at best - thoughtless man. And the reason he shouted, in my humble opinion, is because he knows he's in the wrong.

As an aside - I asked my three children if they'd know if a knife and board had been used to prep chicken, and they were all able to work through logically that if it's on the side and dinner is dished up - it's used. And if it's specifically chicken? They've all prepped chicken before so were aghast a grown adult wouldn't be able to tell using his own two eyeballs.

Not to mention - what sort of chicken prep knife is also a bread cutting knife?!

He made a mistake - we all make them. Wanted to get bread cut quickly because the food is hot. And why should he know a board sitting on the work top is dirty? He is, presumably, not psychic, and also did not see the chicken being cut. OP made an error, the board ought to have been washed as soon as she had finished with it (which is what I do). She ought to apologise. They don't seem to have a very good relationship is all I can say - and though it is possible to get salmonella poisoning from a knife used to cut chicken it is pretty unlikely in these circumstances. I hope OP washed her hands in between cutting up the chicken and (not) washing the board and knife (lazy) and touching anything else!
He ought to apologise for shouting (probably worried about salmonella too, and annoyed not told the board was dirty!).

We use poultry shears which you can take apart to clean. They're wonderful for butchery portioning as well

No one is claiming 'hygiene points' give your head a shake!!

I dont use a chopping board, it means another surface does not need washing up for meats.

Why would the juices get inside the scissor handles? I cut all meat with scissors, I’ve never used a chopping board. I can’t see the point in contaminating extra surfaces when it’s not necessary.

"FFS"? How defensive you are! And how aggressive.

Anyway, above is a perfect example of a poster claiming extra hygiene points for not using a chopping board.

DH didn't apologise, he just shouted at me for being angry with him.

Is he usually an angry wanker? I think you may have bigger problems.

Op is also an idiot. Who leaves a raw chicken chopping board on the side??

I would wash the chicken board and knife straight after using it.
He made a mistake, and hopefully nobody died. Neither was unreasonable but I'd just avoid it by cleaning the board immediately.