Think I'm going to be sick!

[FlatOnTheHill]

I know its very sweet when kids come home from school with a tupper wear box containing a pizza, cakes, or biscuits that they have made in cooking lesson.
But AIBU in looking at the contents and feeling totally sick?
The thought of dirty hands, maybe dirty school work top and utensils and the tupperwear box sitting around all day in the school bag with the contents getting warm and sweaty. Omg its just rank.
Does anyone else pretend to eat their share of the contents but guiltily chuck them in the bin

Salad stuff and berries in salted water

I remember all the equipment at school with old egg stuck,to it and greasy.

Wasn't at all like that at my school and we were made to clean everything before and after using it.

Ha ha baddogooder that was not a stealth boast; it was a pure boast, and rightly so! I live in hope that my dd will take over the family cooking from me, I am totally rubbish. Hated HE in school, used to cry before cookery class. The teacher was terrifying!

This brought back memories
DS is a pretty good cook but you could build walls with his cakes! The last one he brought home was a specially decorated Halloween cake and we dutifully cut a slice with a chainsaw and forced it down with plenty of water!
I couldn't have been more pleased when he dropped Home Ec...
You're being a bit U really to not even give it a go - try a bit, praise it to the skies, pretend you're full now but will have some later and hide it until you can dispose of it.

This has reminded me of when my brother made a blancmange at school, but forgot to add the sugar, so carefully carried home a bowl of bright pink liquid which we all had to eat after dinner! Gross.

I definitely wouldn't eat the creations some of the kids make at the primary school I work at, but maybe its different with your own.

My favourite place in my last school was the Food Tech department and I often had their leftovers.

But my daughter did GCSE and for two years we threw away every item she brought home because of the saucepans and equipment she spoke about. Such a waste of effort and money!

How old are the DC that have cooked?

Ours spent at least half an hour per class washing their hands and cleaning their work station, and then tidying up after themselves. Endless complaints, it meant it needed a 2 hr lesson instead of 1 hr because most of it was spent on hygiene.

Secondary is totally different to primary. Primary cooking is rank.

It's not so much the germs that bother me. I know at my kids school they only cook in groups of about 4-5 so I'm sure the teacher is on it, makes them all wash their hands etc.

But the recipes are always so vile! Everything I've ever tasted of theirs has been rank, some looks too rank to even touch and after all these experiences I've discovered it's much easier to pretend or 'forget' and bin it than it is to have it in your mouth in front of them and try to pretend it's nice

My ds says they spend longer cleaning the kitchens than actually cooking in his Home Ec lessons. He'd be very hurt if I didn't try the food he's cooked.

The food isn't sitting around in his school bag all day. It's taken to the Home Ec room first thing and anything that needs refrigeration is put in the fridge. Once cooked, everyone's food is left to cool and collected at the end of the day to be carried home in their own 'clean' tupperware etc.

Oh - and they are really on top of hand-washing and basic hygiene too.

Considering we have two large, hairy dogs at home, I suspect his school cookery is probably more hygienic than anything that comes out of our kitchen!

If you reheat it thoroughly you'll kill most things. Otherwise I don't think I'd be too keen either. Definitely not if there's any lukewarm meat on the top, sure way of getting food poisoning.

My husband was a primary school teacher. We stopped eating things made by school kids after he got thread worms (and yes, he made them all wash their hands). Never let them know though. Neither did we let them know I threw out all the pasta jewelry they made for me- nice pc of me wearing or holding whatever they made.

Terribleknitter
that is exactely what I do!
I say, leave it on the side, it looks lovely but I will eat it later

Peppapig - your story is sad. My DD made sweet potato and chilli soup in Year 8 and carefully brought it home ( walking 1.7 miles ). She didn't eat it because she didn't like it but we all did. It was lovely and spicy.

She still regularly makes a school recipe for tea for the whole family, which is a dish with potatoes, peppers, chorizo and sundried tomato paste. DS regularly makes rock buns from a school recipe too.

We still laugh about the time she came out of primary school with a complicated sandwich she had made. She had poked a flag into it that she had made using a cocktail stick and piece of paper. It read " Mouth-Warting Sandwich ". ( Her spelling mistake then, not mine now ). She was very proud of it. Imagine the horror, OP, of the cocktail stick in the half-wilted sandwich. I ate my half immediately and DH had his when he got in. It looked interesting because it had beetroot as part of the filling which had leached into the bread, and was delicious.

I think YABU not to eat the school cookery. Some germs are good for us, encouraging a healthy gut flora to improve health. I will observe use-by dates on meat or fish, but not on dairy. I eat yoghurts as much as 2 weeks out of date if the lid is flat. I'm still here to tell the tale. I appreciate that is different to germs from school but I can't be doing with the anti-germs obsessiveness.

Yes YABU
If you honestly think that none of the food you've ever eaten has been handled with unwashed hands, partly unclean utensils etc, you're a bit of an innocent. Anyone who's ever worked in a professional kitchen or cookery school - tea towels anyone?? Used for everything. Definitely not spotless.

YAbVU, good hygiene is always drummed into tge children. I am sure they store the food safely and give it to the children when they go home.

My DD and her class all passed their L1 Food Safety Certificate before being allowed to prepare food in Yr7 - If the mixer is dirty and encrusted with old food, it is a very poor indictment of the school your DCs go to, OP.
School Food Tech classrooms are subject to Env Health inspection so maybe you should make a call to your local Council?

Why this insistence that secondary school kids are all nose-pickers who don't wash their hands? DD and her friends are all very clean and hygienic. Any food they cooked was kept in the fridge in the Home Ec room until the end of the day, so nothing was warm and rank.

I work in a primary school and have done cooking with Y6. We made Tudor biscuits, hands were thoroughly cleaned, all utensils had been through the dishwasher, ingredients had been kept in hygienic conditions beforehand, biscuits were wrapped in clingfilm after cooking, everything was supervised.

Maybe, OP, it's just you that has an unhygienic teen...

So it's just me that'll admit to putting bogies in mince pies for the headmistress back in 1987?

Lilac
Do me a favour. Just because we clashed on a previous thread don't come on here with snide little remarks that I have an unhygienic teen.
In other words stay off my thread if you do not have anything nice to say.

Lilac
Do me a favour. Just because we clashed on a previous thread don't come on here with snide little remarks that I have an unhygienic teen.
In other words stay off my thread if you do not have anything nice to say.

Pardon me?

Don't be silly. I made a daft remark and you've got weird about it. I've only just noticed it's you when you've commented to me!

I don't know your teen anymore than you know mine but it's ok for you to make remarks about all the unwashed hands and picking noses?

Okaaay then...

Are you on crack?

What's your problem?