to be annoyed with dh's kitchen hygiene?

[saladdays66]

He will chop chicken on a chopping board, give it a cursory wipe with the kitchen sponge then use it to make sandwiches on.

Yesterday he cooked chicken for tea and he put the chicken packet in the sink with loads of other washing - he was going to wah it and then recycle it. I told him he'd just put loads of chicken germs all over the sink and wtf was he thinking?? He says he does that all the time.

Is it just me, or is that completely incompetent?? And dangerous?? It makes me feel I can't trust him to do anything in the kitchen.

I use the same board, but chop my chicken/meat last.

I also don’t wash recycling stuff up. I shove it straight in the recycling bin.

I think you should work on the assumption that your kitchen sink is very dirty, regardless of what your DH does.

I would never retrieve (and then use) any foods that fall out of the colander while being rinsed, for example.

The cutting board thing is rank and yes the chicken thing is a bit much (new rule! Anything with blood goes straight into the bin!) but I just had to flag up the sink thing. They really are foul, there are articles about how the average toilet has less germs

Chopping board - not on.

Recycling the packet - well, I kind of admire him for wanting to recycle it, and your sink should be a place for dirty stuff that is cleaned regularly but ultimately I think he should have just binned it.

Like Pengggwn I'm not nearly as careful as most Mumsnetters in real life as I think Mumsnet tends to bring out the obsessive.

However, he is taking it too far

YABU. I wash recycle items in the sink before I put them in the recycle bin. Nothing in your sink that boiling water and soap/bleach cant fix.
As for the chopping board, I have different boards for different jobs.
You can take cleanliness a bit too far although loads of people on here will disagree.

I don't think it matters if the wrapping went in the sink to rinse - surely you're going to be washing all the dishes (including the chopping board/knife used to chop raw chicken) properly anyway?

I also use the same chopping board for veg and chicken but I'd chop the meat last. And I would definitely wash it properly before preparing sandwiches on it!

I don't wash recycling meat packets. I don't chop chicken - I cut it with scissors, so it never goes on a board.
Most of the MN'ers seem obsessive about kitchen hygiene. But then I've never had food poisoning and have the stomach of an Ox, so guess it doesn't bother me.

I chop chicken on the chopping board but then wash the board, the knife and my hands with hot water and detergent. Chicken packaging goes unwashed straight in the general waste bin, not the recycling.

I'm pretty laissez-faire about kitchen hygiene but meat especially chicken always gets its own board or is cut last.

I do rinse meat trays before they go in recycling as otherwise they get really smelly

Grim, I have a thing about chicken and this would freak me out.

Not as bad, but I was watching DH cook last night and he scraped the peelings into the food bin, knocking the spoon onto the side of the bin to get the bits off, then stirred the dinner with it!

Btw I don't eat chicken. I don't regard it as healthy food since all the warnings about handling it in the kitchen. We only keep/cook it for the dog

My DH really annoys me in the kitchen not just in the kitchen actually with some pretty revolting habits so I do sympathise. He doesn't seem to see what I see. What is wrong with these men?

YANBU. I use a separate board for meat - or a plate; or scissors.

I've had campylobacter. It isn't funny.

Chicken is perfectly healthy if cooked correctly.

I’m a bit slack with kitchen hygiene but would give a chopping board a thorough wash after cutting chicken on it. I recycle everything I can recycle but rarely wash it before putting it in the recycling bin!

Chicken juice, blood and scraps soaking into bread you are making sandwiches with? Vom!!! I'm not the world's best housewife but that is foul.

YANBU...chicken is teeming.

DH and I assist one another..whoever cut up and opened the chicken, the other one will turn on taps for hand washing so no germs land on tap... and pop liquid soap on the chicken-handlers paws so they don't touch the dispenser.

It's the ONLY way.

I’ve opened the fridge and found the little plastic tray the raw chicken comes in used as a handy reusable container for the leftover cooked chicken.

Still, nobody died.

Have two chopping boards.
It is risky what he is doing and if he worked in catering he would get a warning for that yuk!
I wash out the recycling at the end then wash bowl and sink with disinfectant. Zoflora which I discovered on Mumsnet.

Get him to read online about chicken / kitchen hygiene. My DH wipes the work tops with a dirty dish cloth. I soak them overnight but I don't know what he does with them as they are always grubby looking when he is here.😖

This thread has started me itching again... Glad I'm not the only one with issues around food prep. Although I'd rather not have any, of course

I'm more relaxed about some kitchen hygene stuff but I do use a different board for raw meat and veg/cooked meat. Just chuck the raw meat one straight in the dishwasher otherwise its too easy to accidentally use it.

Not sure I see the issue with the meat packet in the sink? I'd probably have washed it last (or first and changed the water) but no major drama.

Separate chopping boards that get washed in the dishwasher.
The chicken I buy in the supermarket comes in black (non-recyclable) plastic so straight into the bin. However, I don't approve of this so am going to start taking a tupperware container to the butcher and cut out the packaging altogether.

I wash the packaging in the shop no eith the other raw chicken stuff (knife and board). Why not? The sink itself gets regularly cleaned after use.

Wouldn’t use the chicken board for a sandwich though!!! But I do use it for onions and other things that are cooked with the chicken for just as long. But obvs nothing that’s eaten raw or cooked less like bean sprouts.

Urgh. Campbylolacter infection just waiting to happen. I've had it and it is horrendous.

YADNBU I contracted Campylobacter from chicken (and my poor dog got it too ) cue 3 weeks off work , I was so ill .

I bought a cheap yellow plastic ikea chopping board specifically to chop chicken on. My DH took exception to this, and he threw this board and the other plastic chopping board out and bought a fancy wooden chopping board that now all food had to be chopped on, because it “looks better”. Then MIL visits and tells me off for having wooden chopping board - can’t fucking win!

But this is much worse hygenically and I need to get it off my chest... There were 2 dead birds in the garden (possibly due to local cats) but my husband decides now’s the time to clean the bird feeders (which were encrusted with bird-shit). Instead of doing this over the utility room sink, he does this over the kitchen sink (that’s full of dishes in a washing up bowl) and uses the little plastic brush I use to clean plates/saucepans etc, flicking bird shit all over the sink and draining board in the process. Then he goes out feeling proud of himself leaving me a major clean up operation with boiling water and disenfectant.