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 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? - yes, yes you are.

Some terrible habits on here.

I never handle raw chicken, or indeed any raw meat. I use plastic gloves which are disposed of after use along with the packaging from the meat, into the black bin.
I have a very low carbon footprint and recycle everything else, but I will not wash raw meat packaging in my sink. Most of the supermarket trays are not recyclable anyway.

I can't get my head round cutting meat with scissors.
I'm surprised some people treat chicken like nuclear waste but still eat it

The hygiene issues are all around the handling of raw chicken. Once it's been blasted at eleventy million degrees, the dangers abate. They don't disappear completely of course.
Cutting chicken (or pizza!) with scissors is just easier, no chopping skills required!

Lots of recycling ends up as road fill, when building roads they put loads of rubble down before tarmac and surface.

Wood has a natural disinfectant, so hygienic for boards, loo seats etc, still needs washing tho.

Scissors are a lot harder than a knife to wash properly (unless you've got those fancy ones where the two cutting blades can be unclipped for washing.) so really not particularly hygienic either

I wash scissors in soapy water and then douse in boiling water to be certain.

Not hard at all.

I admit I'm a bit phobic about raw chicken,to the extent that I wear disposable vynyl gloves on the rare occasions I prepare it,as I never feel like my hands are properly clean after washing them! I always wash the chopping board and knife in very hot soapy water after. When my DM was alive,I noticed that she was a bit lax about hygiene with raw chicken and I would go round after her with antibac spray to make sure none of us became ill. I have had salmonella poisoning once in my life,about 20 years ago,and believe me,I would not wish it on anyone. I was really ill for a week and it took me about another month to start to feel normal again.

Raw chicken is like nuclear waste, I have scisors to cut meat beacuse a broken left wrist (am of course left handed) means I cant cut up meat with a knife. Then they go in the dishwasher

Am I wierd?! I cut chicken in the pan.. never on a board..
I lift it in to the pan from the packet with a fork and then cut it up in there.. ta dah!!

@StaplesCorner but what about other stuff that's had the raw chicken on it? Like chopping board for instance? No good in the dishwasher?

Jack yeah I'm sure it is really, I was only pulling your leg a bit ;) - playing on your chicken based insecurities ...

@StaplesCorner oh hahaha I thought I was going to have to rejig my cleaning procedures !