To get irate at mil's bbq hygiene?

[FleurDelacoeur]

BBQ planned for later today. Prawns and chicken sitting out on the worktop as there's no room for them in the fridge.

Fridge full of new potatoes and corn on the cob.

Chicken and prawns now in fridge and veg on worktop. MIL not impressed. It's going to be a king afternoon.

If it’s your bbq it’s your rules.

Just make sure all well cooked and hope the rain holds off for you.

Well to be fair it's her bbq at her house. But still, anyone knows that you refrigerate chicken. No one ever got food poisoning from eating corn on the cob.

The veg could be left out on the worktop - it doesn't need to be kept in the fridge. chicken and prawns, presumably raw? should be refrigerated. Basic food hygiene, I'd have thought.

If it is just a few hours in reality it won't make any difference but I would generally refrigerate meat before veg.

Why would you prioritise sweet corn over meat in the fridge?

It won’t make a difference for a few hours.

Potatoes in the fridge? WTF???

Your mil is an arsehole.

A few hours can make a big difference, especially on a warm day. Prawns and chicken should be refrigerated until they are ready to cook (or within half an hour or so). I wouldn't touch them now - let others enjoy them if they want to, but I wouldn't take the chance.

Queen.. that’s a bit of an overreaction seeing that nothing happened yet.

Op.., she might just b fused about the fact ur teaching her what to do at her own bbq when she wanted to feel appreciated.

Just like how we don’t like them interfering in our homes, try not to interfere either... u could’ve suggested it politely. Or told ur husband to insist. I’m sure everyone thinks it’s odd to put potato in fridge instead of raw chicken ..

But perhaps knowing that she raised ur husband and he didn’t dye of food poisoning, perhaps this was a temporary arrangement or she had a plan.. or mayb was distracted. U pointing it out politely in a question manner humbly is fine, u taking initiative to fid things isn’t - unless chicken was outside for like 3 hrs so on in a hot weather.

Anyway, I think ur approach was unreasonable. Sounds like battle of power..

PP if this was the op complaining that her mil did that in OPs house, u would’ve all said the mil was being intrusive. So stick to ur principles.

So YABU.

A few hours in the warm can definitely affect prawns. My Mum’s friend poisoned practically every guest at her Dd’s Wedding by leaving the prawn vol au vents in the marquee: ‘they’re in the shade’

If I was in ur position I would’ve just said :

“Mil, can I take out things from fridge to put the meat? “.. am sure she wouldn’t say no .. I’m sure she is just bothered by ur approach. Be fair

Not unreasonable. No way would I be eating chicken or prawns that weren't refrigerated beforehand. Other people can play the odds that they won't get food poisoning, I'd like it guaranteed.

Scrub shit 😳😳😳

She's not an arsehole. She just doesn't understand food hygiene but doesn't take kindly to being told.

She refrigerates everything from chocolate biscuits to fruit.

A few hours in this heat would make a hell of a difference
I think I'd abstain from the BBQ and nip to McDonalds later...

Omg I think she needs a little education. Hope you are all hail and hearty this time tomorrow!

Had a massive falling out with inlaws over bbq hygiene so I feel your pain.... Mine bought a shed load of bbq food before we went out for the day, then left it in the car in 28 degree heat ALL DAY! They couldn’t understand why I didn’t want to eat it and stopped at the supermarket in the way home to buy separate food for us on the way home from the theme park at 6pm!!! And he wonders why he has the shits all the time!!! Caused carnage!

People do disgusting things at barbecues: use tongs on raw chicken and then put cooked sausages in buns with them, or raw sausages and then salad, put the cooked burgers in the plate still covered in raw meat juice from before they were cooked. Up the carcinogens by putting food on tne grill when a top up ‘instant lighting’ charcoal is still smoking paraffin fumes and covering the food in soot.

The Toxins of Summer!

Potatoes should never be kept in the fridge. She definitely needs to educate herself on basic food hygiene. You did the right thing Op.

When is the bbq?

The veg, corn on the cob would be out, and the fish and meat in the fridge.

People do disgusting things at barbecues: use tongs on raw chicken and then put cooked sausages in buns with them, or raw sausages and then salad, put the cooked burgers in the plate still covered in raw meat juice from before they were cooked. Up the carcinogens by putting food on tne grill when a top up ‘instant lighting’ charcoal is still smoking paraffin fumes and covering the food in soot

But BBQs are tasty though

(I agree about the tongs and the plates though)

Yes I got to say I am very fussy about who is doing the bbq and how! I prefer cooking in the bloody oven properly and then eating outside.

It’s amazing how some people don’t seem to know basic hygiene.

Mind you my lovely mil allowed her dh and my dh to store maggots on her fridge to keep them cool for fishing. They were in a closed container but omg!!

Dh thought he could do it in our fridge when we moved in together. He was sadly mistaken yeuk!

OOh god I am positively anal at BBQ, separate tongs and trays for raw and cooked food, anti bacterial wipes at the ready. Separate tongs for salads.