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AIBU or is DH? Food hygiene related

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Absofrigginlootly · 17/10/2015 23:29

Please help settle a friendly debate....

ok, I admit I can be a little OTT about food hygiene/infection control etc (being a nurse).... But this evening DH had just started browning some beef for a stew and dropped the plastic spoon he'd just stirred the raw meat with on the floor. He chucked the spoon in the sink and picked up a new one.

"Aren't you going to spray dettol on the floor and wipe where the spoon fell?" I said.

DH said he didn't see the need.Hmm .....
We have a crawling baby!

DH thinks what I said needed doing was OTT...... AIBU??

(Should I LTB?!) Wink Grin

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Absofrigginlootly · 18/10/2015 17:54

Doesn't everyone spray their meat with detol before cooking?!

Steak marinaded in domestos is a particular delicacy.

Tangy.

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bolleauxnouveau · 18/10/2015 17:58

I'd be more concerned about phthalates leaching into the stew from the plastic spoon.

LittleFeileFooFoo · 18/10/2015 21:39

You, what? Do you actually spray anti bac on your meat? Holy cow,that's - that's something that would never Occur to me. Does cooking the meat not kill enough bacteria for you?

I also only use wood or metal utensils, many of which are likely not more than wiped down with a bit of soap and water!

Penfold007 · 18/10/2015 21:54

Coq au Dettol, Boeuf a la Dettol anyone? Grin

RiceBurner · 18/10/2015 22:40

YABU.

We actually can't live without, (friendly), bacteria and, (most of us), are well enough equipped, (with a good immune system), to deal with, (most), unfriendly bacteria.

For the records, I would have, (very briefly), rinsed the spoon and put it back in the stew. I would also have wiped the floor with a, (tiny), bit of kitchen roll, just so that no-one would slip in the liquid/possible grease. I wouldn't have considered an anti-bacterial product. (I only ever use those for cleaning the loo, occasionally.)

IMO, we are all using far too many anti-B products which will ultimately make us more ill as they will destroy as many good bacteria as bad.

Have you heard of fecal transplants? (Because you are a nurse you say.) That's when it is considered beneficial to the patient to be given some, (more varied), bacteria for their gut to work better. (With a donor supplying the faeces sample.) Cos some ppl think a lot of our modern illnesses/afflictions could be, (in part), due to us not having enough fecal bacteria, or not having enough of a variety of them.

How do you think our ancestors survived in the wild when we all lived in caves, didn't really wash and ate semi-raw meat?

OK, I will admit that modern farming is making, (raw), poultry a bit more iffy, but I still take quite a slack attitude to bugs and I am hardly ever ill.

On the, (very few), occasions where my body has said "no, can't stomach this so we will need to abort", I have vomitted. But it usually takes just one big vomit and I'm good to go again, with no lasting after-effects. And I tend to comfort myself, (as I do hate having to vomit), with the idea that I have just given my immune system a bit of a workout. (Which is good for it/what it is there for.)

I gave up worrying about how to protect my own babies from 'germs' when I saw what they did when I wasn't looking. For example, I found my daughter, (aged 1), sucking, (in lolly-pop style), the metal plug which she had just removed from the hotel's bidet. (I had only turned my back briefly and that's what happened.) When I examined it, to my horror I saw that it bore accumulated layers of, (someone else's), hair and unidentified 'bidet drain sludge'. How to deal with that with an anti-septic spray, assuming I had one, which I didn't? (She was fine.)

So kids will do these sort of horrible things ie they will happily lick things which will make your own kitchen floor seem wonderfully hygienic in comparison! And maybe they should/we should not worry? Cos I bet that the babies who never meet any bugs in their early yrs will be the 1st to get D&V as soon as they get to school? (So you are only postponing the inevitable by being over-protective?!)

Absofrigginlootly · 18/10/2015 23:13

penfold those sounds delish!!! Pm me the recipes post haste!!!! Grin

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TracyBarlow · 18/10/2015 23:25

I'm with gatehouse

Never sterilised a thing. Don't own dettol. Would maybe give the floor a quick swipe if there was lots of juice, but it would be with the sponge by the sink because I don't own kitchen roll.

All three of mine have crawled around the kitchen floor as I don't own a baby gate and the alternative is to lock them in the living room with the log burner...

All three are still alive and never, ever get ill. Baby no 3 is 9 months and has never even had a cold.

ouryve · 18/10/2015 23:38

I'll confess that I get through lots of anti-bac wipes, but that's because I have a 9yo still in nappies and an 11 with a poor aim, so the bathroom gets plenty of wipe downs.

I also own a bottle of Dettox. It's that old that it is called Dettox. it only sees the light of day when I've run out of anti-bac wipes. I mstly stick to hot soap water.

ReginaBlitz · 19/10/2015 00:25

Yanbu funny like that. I would have also washed the spoon separately, I never put something that's touched raw meat into the washing up bowl, always straight into the sink.

EternalDalmatian · 19/10/2015 02:06

Would maybe give the floor a quick swipe if there was lots of juice, but it would be with the sponge by the sink because I don't own kitchen roll

Do you mean raw meat juice? If so, sorry, but that's disgusting and dangerous. Not so much to only give the floor a quick swipe, but to use a sponge that will then get re-used for other things/counters etc.

I'm not particularly bothered about dirt/dust and believe it helps to build immunity. But all the immunity in the world won't stop your dc contracting salmonella if you wipe a counter with a raw-meat-juice covered sponge and then prepare food on it. Bleugh.

Ethylred · 19/10/2015 04:22

Dettol? You wimp. I'd keep the baby in a haz-mat suit.

But I'm hardcore.

Toadinthehole · 19/10/2015 06:39

Jeepers. I wish I hadn't read this thread. I feel like a dirty minger now. I've have wiped the floor with a paper towel in case anyone slipped. Actually because I hardly ever have the stuff I'd probably have just given it a quick rub with my foot.

WhoTheFuckIsSimon · 19/10/2015 07:00

I was reading this thinking you were going to say he'd put the spoon back in the pan which to be honest I may well have done. Wouldn't have crossed my mind to worry about the floor from a germs point of view. If there was a sticky mess Id have cleaned it because I don't want a sticky floor. Don't think I own any anti bacterial stuff.

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