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AIBU or is DH? Cooking and food hygiene.

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Chickenandbread · 08/08/2025 20:41

I cooked dinner this evening. One of the ingredients was chicken. I diced it on a separate chopping board with a separate knife. Veg and other dry ingredients that needed chopping were done on a different board with a different knife. In my view this is normal and basic food hygiene.

Sat down to eat in the dining room. I hadn't cleared everything up from the kitchen counter yet. DH wanted some crusty bread to go with his meal so he went into the kitchen to cut some and brought me a slice too.

After we'd finished eating I went back into the kitchen and saw he'd used the dirty chicken board and knife to slice the bread. I was angry with him for using an obviously dirty board and knife. He was angry with me for being angry with him.

AIBU or is DH?

OP posts:
MigGril · 08/08/2025 20:48

Yes he's rubbish to have used a dirty board and knife. But I never leave the raw meat board dirty and always clean it while I'm still cooking and put knife in dishwasher or sink. I couldn't have cared less if DH used the dirty veg knife.

But you are partially responsible for leaving the dirty meat board uncleaned.

Frostynoman · 08/08/2025 20:48

You should have put that board straight into the sink. He absolutely shouldn’t have used it - did he know it was the raw chicken board? If so that’s terrible

Namechangeforthis88 · 08/08/2025 20:44

It is shocking food hygiene from him. We have an unwritten rule that anything that has been used for raw meat goes in the sink, but we often check before using a used knife or chopping board what it has been used for.

Iloveeverycat · 08/08/2025 20:44

Does he know which one was used for what if so he is an idiot and reckless. We have a set plate for cooking raw meat it goes straight in the dish washer with the knife as soon as the meat is in the pan. I couldn't leave it on the side.

MsNevermore · 08/08/2025 20:43

Your DH.

That could have made you both severely unwell.

RosesAndHellebores · 08/08/2025 20:43

Does he know? Mine wouldn't have when we first got together.

I'd have put the dirty board in the sink.