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.

Blugh Richmond sausages, no better than supermarket savers ones. Sausages have to be good quality or I won't eat them.

Depends on entirely how long the meat has been left out?

@pinkyredrose

My husband tossed it over the fence to dispose of the evidence I am afraid. My mother is a difficult woman and if she had found it in the bin, all hell would have broken loose. Fear not, judging by my mother's cooking, the pizza will have biodegraded within a few hundred years from now.

Oh and the field is right on the other side of the fence at the end of the back garden. It was desperate times (2 day old curled up anchovies and tinned tuna being the tip of the iceberg).

@whatwouldkeithRichardsdo2. Omg I'm not surprised u chucked it!

Step- fathers bbq was flaming too much so I mentioned spraying water on the flames to kill them off.

He returned from the kitchen with a pint of water....
Then he proceeded to take a huge swig of said water and before I could shriek a no at him, he spat the water all over the burning sausages!!!!!

We had family visiting from overseas and my uncle who witnessed this act went on a sweary tirade about hygiene (in his own language)!

The flames did die down though....

AND it was a homemade bbq made from a filing cabinet drawer!!!!!!

My OH and I did not have the sausages.

“My husband tossed it over the fence to dispose of the evidence I am afraid. “

I used to do this with the un- refrigerated, semi -cooked, multiply re-heated offerings my MIL used to save for my toddler. Avoided a huff, the stray dogs got fed, kids got fresh food, Win, Win, Win!

Grumpy, that’d HILARIOUS. Filing cabinet and all, probably creating toxic burnt paint fumes.

To be fair the bbq heat probably zapped his spit germs, but it doesn’t exactly whet the appetite, does it?

He can be in the film, alongside Julie Walters playing my Mum’s friend.

It will have to have a warning. “This film contains serious pathogens from the start “.

Can I just interject and say Richmond are not fucking Irish sausages! We want no part of that monstrosity of a pork product. Galtee and Denny all the way!

As you were...

Richmond sausages have the minimum amount of pork required to call them a pork sausage.....mmm delish!

My mil is same. Thinks it’s ok to leave chilled pork, prawns and cooked rice beside a boiling hot radiator for several hours having already been ‘out on the side’ for another three and then eating them 🤮

None for me thanks!

Gross. I would’ve been the same, given them a huge berth and tried to save everyone else from food poisoning by putting them in the fridge.

I’m really super anal when it comes to bbqs, I find it very hard to accept invites to them...because ideally I’d want to bring my own meat and cook it myself
I’m really defensive of my bbq, no one is allowed near it or to interfere with the cooking, I’ve never given anyone food poisoning and can’t stand cremated food either!

My sister made my chuckle one year though, she is a vegetarian (cooked her quorn burgers on seperate hot plate on bbq) and she wouldn’t have them off the bbq till they were pretty much burnt... I had to laugh given how meticulous I am about hygiene and cooking it properly but hello, qourns not even meat!!

Richmond also, are vile, makes me shudder to think what the other 60% of Richmond sausages are if only 40% is pork!! Bleugh

Bleugh from me, too. At a recent BBQ, I even calculated the order in which to use a knife on cooked meat - first the lamb then the burgers - as we had an Indian guest and I thought it would be monstrously rude to contaminate her lamb! (The meats were in different parts of the barbecue, so no contamination there, either).

If your bought it and it was in the fridge in the supermarket then it goes in the fridge at home!
If ya bought it off a shelf the store in a cupboard/pantry!
Not hard to figure out is it?!

Grumpyrealist77 I don't know what to say. Your story had delighted and horrified me equally.
I have never given Richmond sausages a thought but had a look at the label online. Yuck!
I do like Lidl gluten free ones on the bbq - the fat doesn't catch as much. DH thinks there a bit dense in texture.

Roast beef was the only left overs and it was kept in the panty for a few days until eaten.

I think I'd prefer the worktop, tbh!