To ask how many 'stars' you would give your own kitchen?

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Picking up our Chinese takeaway yesterday, I noted the three 'stars' on the door.

Fair to middling score - .

It got me thinking, if I had to score my own kitchen, how many stars would I give it?

Now - I have no knowledge of the criteria, but, even so, I would struggle to give more than 1, I think.

Points against

1. There is soup on the hob I made yesterday, which will stay there until eaten. No room in the fridge. In my defence it is leek & potato

2. Even I wouldn't eat a chocolate biscuit that fell on the floor right now, and I am not too picky.

3. There is washing on the airers

4. The sink used to have a waste disposal unit that worked - it doesn't work now, but can get a bit whiffy.

5. Floor is almost at that 'sticking to the shoes' point
   (anyone remember Wayne & Waynetta?)

There are others.

Now, I am not a complete pig, and there would be serious work done this morning if I was inviting guests for lunch.

Where I could rise to perhaps 2 1/2

Out of 5 stairs I'd give 5*

In my defence, my kitchen has to be immaculate as I can't have foods being cross contaminated due to ds2, so as well as hoover, dust and mop everyday, my kitchen gets antibacterial everyday as well.

1. sink full of dishes
2. crumbs all over the surfaces
3. no flooring down yet, cant decide which one, but there is a nice rug down
4. part of the wall is flaky and that little patch of paint wont adhere. Its fucking annoying

Plusses

1. my bin is empty
2. no food out
3. well stocked
4. it houses my pride and joy, the ikea Rasko trolley in duck egg blue
5. it takes about 5 mins to clean and tidy as it is dinky

2.5 out of 5.

zero - we have a dog.

I'm pretty sure that is not allowed.

Without the dog - maybe 4*. It is clean, no food left out, all use-bys in date... oh, no oops... have an unlocked medicine shelf in same cupboard as food - back down again...

probably be closed down...

Mines not bad at the minute. Crumbs left on the chopping board from Dds late night supper. My oven could probably do with a good clean and my microwave needs replacing. I mopped the floor yesterday and wiped the unit fronts and fridge. I'd say a decent 4/5.

If there were no dogs and cats and children in here it'd get 5. The minute any of them sets foot near it, it would be 2 at the very most.

I'm quite fastidious about the housework and don't go to bed until everywhere's clean. I don't go mad but tend to clean as I go, so nowhere really has chance to build up any real clutter or dirt. It's because I lived in utter chaos as a child so this is my way of ensuring I never have to wake to chaos. I'm sure the DCs will go the opposite way and end up on those Hoarder programmes because they love tat and mess in their rooms.

My kitchen is very clean but I think I'd get zero because our cat wanders in and out through it and sometimes jumps up on the worktop (although she is swiftly removed when that happens).

Which is fair enough. I wouldn't want to eat takeaway from somewhere that had a cat in the kitchen !

I'd probably have to say a 1 or at a push 2. Floor has not been washed for over a month. Benches are washed down with soapy water not disinfectant. Bloody cats keep jumping up, eventhough I shoo them down any time I see them. The inside of my oven hasn't been done in ages. On the plus side we're hardly ever ill

My local Chinese has a 3 star, but it's yummy so I forgive them.

Probably a 0. I'm getting a new kitchen next week so haven't deep cleaned for about a month. It seems a waste of energy as it's all getting ripped out. On the day the new kitchen is fitted it will be 5* then downhill from there.

4.5

Clear work surfaces which I clean with disinfectant or a bleach spray. No items on the floor other than cat biscuit and water (hence marking myself down half a point). Fridge, microwave and oven are cleaned out regularly and I always make sure raw meat is on the bottom shelf of the fridge and all food is covered.

If all the other rooms in my house are a mess at least I know my kitchen is clean!

Pluses:

Surfaces clean, hob clean, sink clean, washing up done.

Negatives:

Floor needs sweeping
Oven disgraceful

3* out of 5.

We would be shut down.

Half a star. It's our first ever housing association house (private renting almost 20yrs) and the last tenant wrecked it. The HA gave us the house with the promise of a new kitchen. So far, that's a fib.
No matter how much I clean it it still looks nasty. I could scrub every inch but it's like sprinkling glitter on a poop. Pointless. So now I've lost all will to make it look nice and it's a dump. It's "clean" (as in hygienic) but doesn't look it. At all.
And washing up is now often done the next day.

Mine is a 5. It would be a 3 star Michelin if they rated kitchens.

Since I got the dishwasher it's been a lot better. Probably usually a 4.

Sorry to be a party pooper, but you guys also need more than one sink (one for dishes, one for food one for hand washing), clear English labels Above/next to all equipment including sinks, food appropriately stored to avoid contamination... there's lots more but I can't remember now (I work in the food industry but mainly front of house rather than kitchen these days) so you're all gonna fail.
Can you hear the joke flying over my head?

In not so seriousness though I'd rate my kitchen 5/5. I'm a bit obsessive with my cleaning (only in the kitchen mind )

If there were no cats, a 4. We cleaned this morning.

ThouShallNotPass mines exactly the same ive been begging for 3 years now...not holding my breath :(

Since that star thing got introduced I can't eat at take aways with less than 5 stars. It feels like you're accepting the risk of food poisoning- so if you get it they would tap the star sign and say "we did warn you"

Mine would only get 3, probably. The cooker is a state.

Fuck. By my logic that means I can't serve myself food.

I would probably give mine 1 star.

The kitchen (dining) table has dried milk from breakfast and lots of crumbs
my oven is filthy in need of a clean
the inside of my fridge is a health hazard, in my defence it's packed with shopping I cba to take out to clean it, and it has to be pulled right out to be cleaned thanks to the location of it in our kitchen.
I haven't dettoled the kitchen sides since Saturday evening, just wiped down with a cloth
the kitchen floor hasn't been cleaned since Saturday either.

on the plus side, we are rarely ever ill

Smile I can't link to the website but google
X establishment name, food hygiene rating.
The score may not necessarily mean anything bad, they could've been marked down on for eg structural damage, or lack of confidence in management, which may be attributed to eg the normal manager being off that day, and the stand in not knowing where some things are kept, I also worked in an establishment where the labels for everything (which sink was for what warning labels ect) were in Turkish. You could've eaten your dinner off the kitchen floor it was so immaculate.
IIRC it does tell you to some degree.
If it was anything bad like an actual hygiene issue (eg raw meat dripping into cooked food) they'd get marked much lower than a 3 or 4. In fact the only "bad" place I ever worked was where our head chef would handle raw meat then present cooked food on a plate without hand washing. That was almost shut down, and given the lowest hygiene score possible.
So always double check why things may be the way they are.
I also think on the flip side that hygiene scores are useless. The worst place I worked at for hygiene standards (which included raw meat handling then cooked food handling, food which then went straight out to customers and a pot wash so filthy it was growing mold) had a 5. Inspections aren't done regularly enough for standards not to slip in the mean time.

In fairness though the aforementioned place of work was almost shut down shortly before I left but was running as above, an utter show of shit, for months prior, with a perfect rating

We've got mice. So about 1.

On a daily basis mine would range from a 3 to a 5. I do clean as I go along when I cook, floor gets mopped every day and work tops disinfected, rubbish emptied everyday etc.
However I do rush out in the mornings and often leave dishes, there is often washing sitting about/drying and if DH is left to his own devices he leaves crumbs everywhere.
My fridge only gets cleaned once a week, same with microwave so I imagine i'd be down to a 1 or 2 there