To be angry with MIL over food hygiene?

[Shil0846]

MIL supposed to be helping me prepare family dinner. After putting Ds down for his nap, I discovered her with the raw chicken on my kitchen table (close to place mats and 1 of DS's toys) busy stuffing lemon up it's bottom. So I moved them away and went to the cupboard to get the veg.

When I turned round, I found she'd collected a bottle of oil, a knife from my cutlery drawer, onions and a tub of butter from the fridge - all without washing her hands. To get to the onions she'd have had to move the lettuce and tomato in the salad drawer of my fridge.

Am I over-reacting to think this is really disgusting and dangerous -particularly with a 1 YO in the house? She got very defensive when I asked her to wash her hands and said she's been cooking for over 50 years without any problem. She was also fuming when I insisted on scrubbing down the table where the chicken had been. Am I being too precious about this, or do I need to wash all cutlery/fridge door/bottles etc that may have come into contact?

yanbu! ! awful

YANBU at all! There's a reason chefs have various coloured chopping boards... To stop cross contamination. Anyone with even a basic knowledge of food hygiene and safety knows that. It's your kitchen and your child, you do what you feel is best. Let her cover her own kitchen in raw chickeny drippings ;)

Jeepers! I cannot believe some of the responses on here! YANBU without a doubt - and I can be fairly slatternly and not generally caught up in the germ hysteria, but raw chicken! RAW CHICKEN! I'm totally on your side OP.

YANBU, I'm pretty careful with raw poultry. However, my mum didn't know any of this stuff and happily washed the chicken, stuffed it with little hand washing and raised five healthy kids with constitutions of oxen so what the hell do I know.