To wonder why you cant wash you hands in the kitchen

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What is the problem with washing hands in the kitchen sink? Dd's friend was here and they were playing out in the sandpit. I called them in to eat so dd washed her hands in the kitchen (where we have proper handwash and handcream). So her friend said she isn't allowed to wash her hands in the kitchen, only the bathroom.....

I asked her why, she doesn't know - its just her mothers rule.

Aibu to not understand this?

I don't understand it either. The closest sink to our garden is in the kitchen and that's where the children and their chums used to have tea. So they washed their hands at the kitchen sink if I remembered to tell them to

I vaguely have this rule simply because if dc wash their hands in the kitchen sink they're underfoot if I'm making supper/lunch. We have a downstairs loo and sink about 3 metres away so they use that one! (It's also lower and easier to use)

I always wash my hands in the bathroom, even if I've been cooking and it means going upstairs instead of just washing them in the sink 2 feet away from me. Now you've made me think about it, I don't know why I do it.

Actually I think it's because there's not a 'proper' towel, drying hands on a tea towel seems a bit horrible.

Not using your kitchen sink to wash your hands is stupid.

Makes absolutely zero sense, that.
Unless you have washing up in the sink, and the plug is in so adding any more water would cause overflow - but who has a sink like that nowawdays?

My parents and grandparents have always washed their hands in the sink. Or under the tap outside if gardening; or in fact in the nearest washing facility depending on where they are/what they're doing.

Nude - do you even go up to the bathroom after chopping onions to wash the onion juice off your hands? Really? Blimey! (if you do)

Actually I think it's because there's not a 'proper' towel, drying hands on a tea towel seems a bit horrible

I always have one towel and one tea towel. When washing your surely have to wash your hands multiple times, after handling raw meat, after rubbing in olive oil etc.

I discourage my family from using the kitchen sink as a handbasin. I don't think it is hygienic

Always have a handtowel in the kitchen as well as a teatowel. I don't dry my hands on the teatowel.

You can't wash your hands in sinks used for preparing food in business premises in order to prevent the microbes from your hands being transferred to the food. They have separate hand-washing sinks in the kitchens which makes perfect sense.

I was told on a basic food hygiene course that it is actually better to wash your hands at the kitchen sink at home before preparing food because, if you use a room with a toilet in, you're drying your hands on a towel which has been covered in a light faecal aerosol (her words, not mine) and those microbes contaminate the food you're preparing.

So, I was my hands in the bathroom or cloakroom after using the toilet and in the kitchen just before preparing food, especially food which will be stored and eaten cold. i.e. not cooked again, like packed lunches.

Nude you wash your hands upstairs even if you've been cutting up raw chicken and stuff?

I use kitchen sink to wash my wash my hands if I'm in the kitchen, the only time I would find it boaky is if someone washed their hands after going to the toilet in kitchen instead of bathroom.

Kids wash their hands in bathroom sink because its only 3 feet away, it's lower and they are not in my way there.

I understand if you have been to the loo, then you would just use that sink of course as you are already there... So I wouldn't use the kitchen sink after being to the loo, but if I always wash my hands in the kitchen before and after preparing food. Bonsoir what part is not hygienic?

It could be the towel issue maybe, I just always assumed everyone had a hand towel and a tea towel at hand in the kitchen....

Yeah, never thought about how ridiculous it is before now.

One child not being allowed to at home does not mean you can't do it.

Maybe their kitchen sink is a bit drippy and so you have to turn the taps extra hard to make it turn off all the way.

You can. It's a stupid rule.

Keep a towel in the kitchen for hand drying.

Goldmandra's right: it's why I have a separate sink in the kitchen for washing hands. The church also have a separate cloakroom sink installed in the corner of the kitchen (that everyone walks past to get to the kitchen sink ).

We use the kitchen sink and a hand towel. If we had a downstairs loo, we would probably use that. DD has to stand on a little footstool either way.

I can't (as in I think I'm OCD about it) wash my hands in the sink in the kitchen.

I will rinse things, so if I've been making pastry I'll rinse flower off but to actually wash my hands before cooking I use the bathroom.

I have no idea why, of where it comes from.

To me it just feels dirty or maybe that's not the right word, as though my hands are not properly clean.

I wash my hands in my kitchen sink but my DCs don't, yet. It's harder to reach and there's always the (strong) possibility that there's some washing up "left to soak" in there, maybe in very hot water, maybe sharp things, so they use the sink in the downstairs loo. Maybe the other Mum isn't a hygiene freak, but a slob like me?

If I dig vegetables out of my garden I'll quite happily wash the dirt off them in the kitchen sink, so if my kids come in, dirty from playing in the same garden then what's the difference? I have a hand towel that hangs on the cupboard below the sink especially for drying hands.

Nude- do you go upstairs every time you wash your hands when you're cooking? If I'm cooking a meal, I probably wash my hands two or three time at least- if I went upstairs every time I'd burn things!

I don't think it's a stupid rule.

Ds1 isn't 'allowed' to wash hands in the kitchen. The reason being he is 5 - he can reach the taps and do it but because it's higher and his arms are stretched out at a bit of an angle, water runs down to his elbows and gets the floor soaking. I have tiles that get very slippery when wet and a 3 year old running around so it just makes more sense not to.