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.

We have to wash packaging otherwise they refuse our bags. We still have seperate recycling for cardboard & for plastics, & our bin men are shit hot at checking.
We also have a limit of 3 black bin bags a fortnight (no wheelie bins) so sadly don't have the option of just chucking meat packaging in the black bags.

You don't hold a chicken under hot soapy water hold it!!

to wash it!!

Surely it would only splash all over the sink if you weren’t careful.... and then only a problem if your kitchen hygiene was under par.

Im imagining people in the supermarket with rubber gloves, tongs and plastic bags at the ready to pick their chicken off the shelf. Lol

Anyway, people please recycle .... has no one watched Wall-E? 😂😂

I've just phoned my council to ask if I need to wash the plastic containers and they laughed and said no.

Can anyone help me understand the recycling process for plastic? Does it stay in this country? I have read that we export plastics to china. Also if the plastic is mixed with paper/labels etc does it still get recycled in the same way as 'clean' plastic?

It certainly used to be the recommendation, duty, (that you don't wash, I mean), I'm slightly confused as well.

How fowl of him. LTB.

two things - first our local authority recycling rules specifically excludes ANY packaging that has been in contact with meat or fish, you can't recycle it, end of. I am aghast that some areas do accept it (or at least dont discourage it).

But is this about more than one chicken OP, is he generally an arse about hygiene?

I put plastic packaging from chicken in a dishwasher. But it does shrink!

I assumed dishwasher got hot enough (I only wash on the ‘proper wash which is 65 degrees) to kill any germs. Or am I spreading chicken germs all over family’s drinking glasses etc?

Am I your DH OP?

I do that, cut chicken first, wipe board (with dishcloth) and then cut veg later on.

I rinse meat packaging in the sink - no jet washing, just a trickle.

Washing up liquid is all antiseptic now anyway isn't it? That's the sink & dishcloth disinfected right there!

I also bite my nails to allow me to ingest the full daily recommended amount of germs.....

So far (in over 25 years of cooking for family/kids) none of us have been ill because of a dodgy meal at home - or anywhere TBH.

It's not that I'm a conscious minger, just that I'll do it & then think "ooh, shouldn't have done that - oh well"......

(I've also cleaned motorcycle parts in the dishwasher......)

I haven't read through the thread but my council asks us to not recycle plastics that held raw meat.

I am so confused. Do the people who properly wash the packaging think it doesn't get washed again and reused for something else? From what I can make out online most plastics get sorted, things that can be washed get washed by a jet spray type thing and then they get melted down ready to use again.

I could be wrong but I doubt the recycling process relies on people completely sterilising their rubbish or (a whole lorry full!?) goes to landfill.

The only plastic I don't chuck in the recycling bin are peanut butter jars as life's too short to clean them out & the dishwasher always eats the labels.

Everything else gets a quick rinse & goes in the bin.

Pretty sure the people on the processing line at the recycling plant have gloves on & don't lick the conveyor belt.....

But is this about more than one chicken OP, is he generally an arse about hygiene?

No. Not at all. He's more ... casual about it than I am - but I am emetophobic and trying not to let it rule my life. I just wanted to know what everyone else thought, to get a variety of opinions.

I’m shocked that some local authorities either don’t take the raw meat packages or don’t ask for a quick rinse. Ours also take raw meat in the food recycling bin.

Yes it goes to China but China doesn’t want it anymore which will cause a huge problem.

Don't let him near a chicken ever again.

That’s disgusting.

I rinse all packaging before recycling - not the film wrapping over the chicken, for example, that goes straight in the black bin. But the plastic tray it sat in, yes. Just save it until the very end of the washing up, rinse in the "waste water" before you chuck it down the sink, then thoroughly clean the sink.

Using a chopping board you've cut raw chicken on to make a sandwich is disgusting.

Do the people who properly wash the packaging think it doesn't get washed again and reused for something else? From what I can make out online most plastics get sorted, things that can be washed get washed by a jet spray type thing and then they get melted down ready to use again.

Much recycling is collected as mixed recycling. If your dirty chicken tray is leaking festering chicken juice all over the other recycling, including paper and cardboard, they will ditch the lot.

@ArcheryAnnie I'm not talking about people who rinse the packaging, I put all raw meat packaging in the black bin but if I were to put it in the green bin I'd rinse too! I'm on about posters who say they put it in the dishwasher.

ArcheryAnnie no it doesn’t. I’ve checked, and double checked. Hence me saying ‘they don’t ask for us to wash it’.

Screenshot of my council's leaflet saying meat plastic food trays not accepted. Fruit or mushroom plastic or cardboard containers are accepted.

This has made me check our council. They also do not take meat trays.

I chuck anything made of plastic in there. Our council employs loads of minimum wagers to sort it all out anyway so I'm helping employment levels.....