To hate it when people dip their used cutlery into communal dishes

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I really hate it when someone uses the fork or spoon they have been eating with and dips it into a dish of vegetables or casserole in the middle of the table to take another helping, instead of using the serving spoon supplied.

AIBU to find this off putting and to have thrown out dishes of leftovers where a guest has done this?

Doesn't bother me either.

I hate it cos it's manky but also can cross contaminate food for people with allergies. So if there's communal salads for example and someone's eating their nutty salad and uses that spoon in the non nutty salad etc.

Yuck. Jeez. Who does that?!

Totally vile and uncouth. I never serve or eat dips, unless I know I'm the first one in, so to speak.
I remember a Hyacinth Bucket type on Come Dine With Me, full of her airs and graces, who double-dipped, triggering shocked comments from other guests, then swigged from the gravy jug, saying 'what's all the fuss about?'

Might have been the custard jug - was the end of the meal!

YANBU. I hate this too. BIL and his wife do it (she is from Spain and if we mention it they say its "just the Spanish way"). At Christmas they came over and gave us all a stomach bug, after digging their forks into the roast parsnips and sprouts :(

In some parts of the world they just have a communal dish at meal, no individual portions.

It doesn't bother me, unless they had something like Ebola. If you think about all the horrible stuff we come in to contact with over the course of a normal day, a bit of saliva is the least of our worries.

YANBU. It's grim.

I know someone who is otherwise lovely, but will bite half a Pringle then dip back into the communal pot. It's horrid.

Doesn't bother me at all, always use the same spoon for tasting and stirring as well( unless a germophobe is watching ie mil)
I also ate some jelly babies I found on the ground on a long fell race, still alive!

I hate it. I don't think I am going to catch anything from someone double dipping but I don't catch anything from people who eat with their mouths open either and I think it is equally unacceptable.

Using the same spoon for tasting and stirring is creeping into food shows (actually tasting the food drives me demented on food shows - did Delia ever do that? Why do we have to watch people screwing up their faces and going om om om - yuck). It is disgusting in the same way that sneezing on food is disgusting. I doubt it spreads much disease but that isn't the point.

I'm not a germphobe at all,it just annoys me.If my kids or do do it,no biggie.Its just ugh.

I wouldn't do it myself, just out of manners, but to be honest I don't think I'd notice if anyone else did it. So I suppose I'm not hugely bothered.

YANBU. It is very poor form. As an aside i can't bear watching cooking shows when they taste the food then continue to use the utensils.

Ha ha hadn't rtft. I am not alone.

It is gross and it's not about the germs - its about it being minging. Same as tasting food and then using the same spoon when cooking and same as not washing hands after changing nappies or going to the loo. ALL GROSS AND MINGING even if you don't catch anything from it.

Doesn't bother me. We double dip all the time at home and friends all do when they visit. We eat communally a lot at home and with guests. My 4 year old coughed in my face in bed this morning, I'm sure I received more germs then, than sharing houmous. Actually one of my children vommitted in my face once as a baby! Far more disgusting

I get more germs on the bus from strangers than eating a meal with friends

People need to be careful because of all the recent cholera and typhoid epidemics in the UK.

So dangerous if someone puts a fork that has been near their mouth into a vegetable that they then eat that is near some other vegetables that other people eat.

The dangers can't be overstated.

Bathtime thank you for timely warning, I actually think a bigger problem facing the human race is no one ever getting close to another human being because of fear germs/ disgust mere concept of other peoples body fluids and the end of sexual reproduction

The worst are the double breathers - inhaling from the communal air, and then exhaling back into it.

Have they never heard of airborne infections?

Very form.

To the folk who can't taste a cooking dish and put the spoon back in...how does that work? Do you taste, discard spoon, add salt, taste with new spoon, discard new spoon, add twist of lemon, taste with new new spoon, discard new new spoon...etc?

I'm now very worried that the people I cook for on a regular basis must think I'm a dangerous sloven. but not that worried

I remember being on kitchen duty at guide camp, many years ago, and the leader kept tasting the porridge and then stirring it with the same spoon.

None of us would eat it afterwards!

I don't understand why people won't eat food tasted From a cooking pot, it's boiling hot! Any germs will be killed off by heat before you eat it anyway.

It's not about germs. I just don't want to eat food that's been in contact with a spoon that's just been in someone else's mouth. It's just cringey.

Why though? It's a negligible amount, it's not like people are actually spitting in food

Would you want to use someone else's toothbrush Artandco?