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

i know I laughed

And for the record my DS is not unhygienic.

So eat the food he has bloody well cooked then! What's the problem? Why this thread?

You started a thread about how you didn't want to eat the food your child has cooked at school because you don't think he has washed his hands etc. (I can c&p the post where you itemise all the places he's had his hands and not washed them but I expect you can find it). Then when other posters say it doesn't bother them because they don't think their children are unhygienic you take massive umbrage.

Classic AIBU I guess.

AIBU to think my child is unhygienic?
YABU YANBU YABU YANBU YABU
My child is NOT unhygienic, how DARE you?

I'm not so fussed with cakes. All the germs get killed in the baking.

I'm less sure about reheating or eating cold the hot food like pasta bake. Mainly cause of how destroyed it gets in being transported home.

Funnily enough, my 'D'M throwing away the food that I made in home economics came up in therapy the other day. It was incredibly hurtful at the time.

I find it quite funny op that you say you are not germ phobic, but you are still the queen of antibac. You sound very germ phobic to me!

Flat, the rudest, most argumentative person on this thread is you. Are you really that self absorbed that you cannot see that?

But there are going to be times when at school then kitchen and utensils are not up to scratch clean wise.

See, this is what I don't understand. Why do you assume that the professionals in a school are less conscientious than the people who handle food you eat out, or buy in the supermarket?
If the mixers at school aren't kept clean, what makes you so confident that the mixers in Mr Kiplings factory are? Both places are subject to the same 'no notice' inspection regime.

You have such a poor opinion of the school and their processes - is it only their food safety that worries you or are other aspects of their safeguarding equally lax?

I always enjoy eating them.

lilac it was a budget cooking part of her module that the delight of tuna lasange appeared DD said please just bin it

Well this thread turned weird

I hear you, OP. I try to grit my teeth, say yum and not think of the lengths of hair I've found in home-ec fairy cakes before. I'm surprised I don't have fur balls the number of those I've choked down....

I hear you, OP.

If I could taste DS1's efforts fresh then I would but quite often food studies is 1st period, there's nowhere cool to store the boxes so it's been sweating away in Tupperware for at least 5 hours, being chucked around not particularly carefully in his bag.

I can't bring myself to. He will never know though, and I do taste anything made at home, fresh or stored correctly.

Oh, and I'm immune suppressed so I have to follow quite strict food rules similar to those in pg.

I'm a TA in a High School and I can categorically state that the HomeEc staff are rigid about hygiene during lessons, especially for the 11-14 age group. All hands are washed, cloths are allocated to a specific purpose, boards are colour-coded and crockery/utensils/pots etc are checked by an adult before being put away.

If you don't fancy how the food looks, and I concede it often isn't pretty, or cooked for long enough, then just ask your Dc to show you how they made it and get them to make it again under your supervision.

Not cooked for long enough? really?

That doesn't sound very hygienic in terms of food safety iyswim?

Are the childen told that it shouldn't be eaten then, when it comes home not properly cooked?

(sorry not having a go - just can't understand this)

Flat, I'm speaking kindly here.

You are the one that mentioned not eating food as it may be hygienically prepared abd even mentioned arse scratching. It wasn't an unreasonable jump for others to assume that you're worried about your child's hygiene, really. I think you've been unnecessarily reactive to their comments.

If they've made it then give it a chance! You could put them off cooking forever. If it really looks inedible then maybe try a little bit and then try cooking it at home with them showing you what they did and subtly improve the recipe. I've been a caterer and cake maker for years and I think schools have really strict Food Hygiene rules and a big part of HE is learning about safety in the kitchen so they should practice what they preach.

I have no worries. Schools are really hot on hygiene.

Don't some of you think it's a little inconsistent to trust the school to educate your DC, keep them safe, take them on trips, not to mention just caring for them when you aren't there, but not to trust the school to do basic cooking with hand washing?

*Not cooked for long enough? really?

That doesn't sound very hygienic in terms of food safety iyswim?

Are the childen told that it shouldn't be eaten then, when it comes home not properly cooked?

(sorry not having a go - just can't understand this)*

Yes, not cooked for long enough. Mainly it's pastry items and it's usually because the child took so long to get it all organised that there isn't enough time to leave it in the oven for the whole cooking time. They are always told to put it back in the oven when they get home and finish cooking it. In the case of meat, especially chicken, it's often cooked in the microwave and checked with a thermometer before being included in the meal.

We used to eat what we'd cooked in Home Ec for our family dinner every week. The ingredients would have cost money and my parents weren't in the habit of throwing food away.

I remember being surprised when a schoolmate said that hers always went straight in the bin because they all thought it was disgusting.

I t wouldn't occur to me to throw away food that my dc had made at school
My family used to eat the milk jelly and various other stuff that I cooked. There was a lot of emphasis on hygiene and everything was clean this was in the 80s though

I'm really shocked that some food is sent home half-cooked

We had home economics in the morning, and if we didn't have time to take things out of the oven, the technician would do it and store it correctly for us, and we could collect it after school. Surely that would be more sensible?

Or surely the teacher should be making sure things are being done on time?