To think using the kitchen sink for this is revolting.

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Essential a kitchen sink is a food prep area. It is for washing food, hands and plates. Maybe sluicing off things that are fairly clean (e.g. getting rid of the water from a flower vase) and filing water containers or attaching a hose.

I think the following are revolting -

• washing babies (at some level you are washing off poo and wee)
• washing pets (same as above)
• brushing teeth (spitting in a food prep area)
• emptying mop buckets (pour it down the toilet)
• washing/dying/cutting hair in the kitchen- hair in food prep area
• washing clothes and shoes in a food prep area.

Aibu ?

I have a utility room, big stainless steel sink for dirty jobs. Water from buckets/mop goes down the outside drain.

If I lived in a flat with no outside space whatsoever, I would put the empty cat litter tray in the bath or shower cubicle. Then I would wash it out with bio washing powder dissolved in very hot water. Then I would throw the dirty water down the toilet. Then I would give the bath a very through rinse out. It wouldn't even cross my mind to think of doing it in the kitchen sink and anyone who pretends it is normal to do so is nuts

Exactly. Hardly bloody rocket science is it!

Toomanychildren Thu 23-Aug-18 15:17:22

[ MINE: The cat litter tray should be being washed in the bath (if no utility sink or outside tap), not the kitchen sink. Washing stuff like that in the kitchen sink is asking to get a, possibly life changing, illness]

Only if you're a complete idiot who for some bizarre reason would wipe their food around a dirty sink? Again, its not the people using the sink to clean dirty things that are doing it wrong, that is what it is for. Its the people using the sink for food prep who have it arseways

The sink, the taps, the drainer, the worktop, the cabinets...all the things that get splashed when you’re cleaning your cats litter tray in your KITCHEN sink. It’s incredibly unhygienic to clean a cats litter tray in your kitchen sink. No-one with an ounce of common sense would say otherwise.

motherof4dragons. A house/flat that ONLY has a kitchen sink? No bath, no shower?...really not very likely and a whole load of hygiene issues if it is.

The sink, the taps, the drainer, the worktop, the cabinets...all the things that get splashed when you’re cleaning your cats litter tray in your KITCHEN sink. It’s incredibly unhygienic to clean a cats litter tray in your kitchen sink. No-one with an ounce of common sense would say otherwise

All the same things that get splashed when you are cleaning a chopping board you chopped chicken on, which is worse than a plastic tray that doesn't actually contain poo. You realise you can CLEAN your sink, do you? It's quite easy. Anyone with an ounce of common sense can tell you that.

And seriously, why would you be spalshing your entire kitchen for when washing things? Get some cleaning lessons!

I don't have a utility sink and only have an upstairs toilet.

The only one of those I do is empty mop bucket- but the sink gets bleached every day so I don't see the issue.

I would hate living with someone who was paranoid about germs and viewed people as nothing more than a breeding ground for germs.
The stress of living with a germ freak is probably worse for someone's health than living with a whole host of germs.

After handling raw chicken, I wash my hands at the kitchen sink. Think that's actually got to be worse than a lot of the other uses in the OP!

Food waste and bacteria from food is not as gross to me as bacteria from excrement.

That's to you. Chicken is the most germ ridden thing that I deal with. But tbf I don't have a cat.

The rest of the OP's list I don't see the issue. In fact for me it's the other way round, I wouldn't want to bathe a baby anywhere near where plates with raw chicken had been.

One thing this thread does explain is how some people say they are busy all day everyday.

Who the fuck is that bothered to be bleaching sinks every day and hauling cat litter rays down and outside a flat with kettles to clean them?

Talk about make-work.

I remember an ex boyfriend's dad - I was visiting... Chatting to his mum in the kitchen. His dad came in took his dentures out, washed them, then washed and shaved... Did a full semi stripped wash... Boak...
The unoccupied bathroom was 6m away

His dad came in took his dentures out, washed them, then washed and shaved... Did a full semi stripped wash... Boak

Perhaps his dad came from a generation that grew up with no bathroom and that's how their dad's always washed?
My dad continued to do that even when we moved to a house with a bathroom. Ok, so it's not necessary now but millions of people lived like that without coming to harm so it's ridiculous to be so freaked out about it.
We are lucky we have what we have today but it seems its made so many people far too precious.

After handling raw chicken, I wash my hands at the kitchen sink. Think that's actually got to be worse than a lot of the other uses in the OP!

Where else are you supposed to wash them?

You have to wash things and in most cases the kitchen sink is the only one, because the bathroom only has a small hand basin. Just clean your sink afterwards?

I don’t need to do any of these things as I do have a Mumsnet utility sink. Also no baby to bath. Plus use a steam mop.

But our kitchen sink is a double belfast, the right side is the “messy” side and the left side is the “clean” side where pans dry. I’d have no qualms using the messy side for anything you describe.

But I am quite lax about such things-DH goes a bit bat shit when I let the chickens in the house so I am not the best barometer of cleanliness

All of these things are fine unless you never clean your kitchen sink in which case you are already gross.
None of these things are harmful if you clean your sink and kitchen regularly.

How are any of those things listed worse than scrubbing soil-covered spuds, or washing boards and knives used for raw chicken or pork? Just clean the sink down afterwards, it's steel, it'll be fine.

MN double utility sink.of course, what else?

The interesting thing about these kind of threads is how people have such a wide variety of outlooks but all think their way is obviously right and probably everyone else does it like that an if they don’t they are disgusting, or uptight. I would do most of your list in my kitchen sink and we don’t often get stomach bugs or issues in our house. Eg I have been sick about three in last 15 years. But I do remember an episode of the Royle Family where Anthony comes in with dog poo in his shoe and Barbara washes it in the kitchen sink, where she also has pans waiting to be washed. That crossed a line for me and I had that boak reaction! So the shoe washing is about the only thing on your list I wouldn’t do. Not sure about the litter tray but have cleaned a hamster cage in my kitchen sink. Once I have tipped out the sawdust stuff at the bottom which soaks up the wee it is basically just a plastic tray. Probably cleaner than trays that had raw meat etc. And I would clean the sink afterwards anyway.

Privilege level = off the scale.

Threads like this make me reluctant about ever inviting people to my house.

OP, you need to seriously unclench or consider therapy for your worries.

The OP is clearly bonkers, other than her disapproval of dying in the sink. I'd probably agree with her on that one, the undertakers would have a terrible job manoeuvring the body round the taps.

If you've never washed a baby in a kitchen sink you've sucked at life.