Hoovering up food

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Settle this for me please, who is unreasonable me or DH, I've just witnessed him hoovering up from the kitchen counter loads of breadcrumbs along with some other dry food debris. I think this is disgusting, crumbs on the carpet which can't be swept fair enough, but from the kitchen counter and a fair amount imo is just bloody lazy. He thinks it's perfectly acceptable and makes more sense. He reckons any food item as long as it's not meat is fine for the hoover.

And I know, what a riveting Saturday night but we are actually clearing up to leave holiday.

When I think of all the places the hoover’s been, I wouldn’t fancy it on the worktop

Ah see, I’m extremely sad, I bleach all my hoover attachments periodically (even been known to pull the beater brush bar out and dump that in too)

@e1y1 I do too! And I only use the pointy one for bunkers (worktops) and tables. I’ve still got the one for my old one which I use for everything else.

I once hoovered up a (dead) mouse that had been in the kitchen cupboard. Heard it give a sickening "whump" sound as it went up the tube and a popping sound as it landed in the bag.

A few crumbs would seem to be no issue at all.

Dairy Queen

I do this with my old vacuum but do worry a bit about food mush breeding bacteria in the tube and then being blown back out in the air.
But dd3 makes such a huge mess when having her lunch. When this vacuum dies I’ll buy a handheld one just for food

@thedairyqueen

I'm just relieved that this isn't another 'greedy husband' thread.

I have a Dustbuster too, very handy.

I'll vacuum DRY food from the worktop, as well as from the floor, spider webs, 3 small screws that appeared about 4 months ago and he doesn't remember where they come from, but wet food, no. That goes in a kitchen roll sheet in the bin.

Of course, as soon as I've vacuumed the 3 small screws he appears asking for them as he's suddenly needed them.

"KinkyAfro
and the toaster"

Oh that's a good idea.

Sorry OP.

I wouldnt put the hoover on a worktop no! But I would hoover up crumbs off the floor... unless its big bits of food then i think its fine. Im sure some tiny bits of wet food get in the hoover too but its a hoover with a bag that gets emptied regularly so I dont think thats disgusting.
I wouldnt put my hoover on surfaces other than the floor or the ceiling (to get cobwebs) because i admit i do not regularly clean my hoover so that would be a bit grim.

If you clean your hoover after every use then I guess it might be okay?

@SoddingUnicorns, you must be me, I have a spare brush too for the bathroom that I use to hoover up dust and hair from around the toilet bowl before mopping (not envy)

I'd use the handheld vac for this, but I wouldn't use our main hoover - attachments are too grubby!
What's wrong with sweeping it onto a plate or into your hand with a damp cloth?
I have noticed that DH has an aversion to using a good old cloth and water or duster for anything - I think he thinks if he uses a 'power tool' that is somehow more 'manly' . He vacuums the TV & screen with the attachment brush and it drives me mad because it leaves tiny scratches on the plastic. When I suggested a duster and spray he looked horrified! He will also only clean windows with his stupid electric window cleaner which leaves strange streaks.

I would (& have) used my dustbuster to Hoover up crumbs on the worktop....

But nothing is as bad as when DS, after a drunken night out Hoovered up his own vomit 😖😷😤

TBH I tend to sweep things onto the floor and then hoover - same end result.

I have been known occasionally to put the hoover onto the surface but it's normally easier to sweep them down first.

Yes @wonderwine it's this, he does the screen and tv stand too, so annoying!

@myguidejools 🤢🤢

Bit shocked people use a hoover on kitchen surface when it has been used on the floor.....think of all the things it has come into contact with on the floor!

You wipe down the kitchen surface after - you wouldn't just brush (hoover same thing) all of the crumbs off and call it clean.

Oh, I've remembered DH's other dubious power tool - the 'patio vacuum cleaner' with a bag that goes over his shoulder and makes loads of noise! What, exactly, is wrong with a broom to sweep up a few leaves??

DH used to hoover up the food debris where the toddler had been eating. It didn’t empty properly out of the Dyson and the whole thing got full of mould. DH had to dismantle the whole thing to clean it, hasn’t done it since...

No.

The hoover has been over dusty carpets and the underside is not hygienic. I would never use it on a kitchen surface. So rank.

Op you're right.

Hoovering up dry crumbs is fine, but I would nt use my hoover on the work surfaces because it's definitely not clean enough. I would use a handheld one though!

What, exactly, is wrong with a broom to sweep up a few leaves??

Because a broom isn’t MANLY. Real men need big noisy power tools like leaf blowers to get the job done.

How do you bleach hoover attachments? I have never done this, and wouldn’t know how.

So he's putting the whole actual vacuum cleaner on the workshop and sucking up cooked food including egg?

No probs with crumbs, flour, sugar grains etc. As long as it's dry I wouldn't think twice about it. I thought that's what vacuum cleaners were for. No meat or anything moist though.

I wouldn't because I think the Hoover has hovered up mud, spiders and allsorts I wouldn't want that on a place where I prepare food.