To think using the kitchen sink for this is revolting.

[BertieBott]

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 ?

Nothing to do with my thinking it’s unhygienic by the way, I just don’t see the need.

These sound privileged and indulgent comments to someone with a utility room. I defy you to have the same valuues I feel u lived in a two up two down.

Rushing your teeth in the kitchen? Eh?

Brushing...

Look at that list in the OP and think about the lives some actual human beings live...what their homes are like, how they get water, where and how they prepare food and wash their children...and ask yourself if this bollocks about brushing your teeth or cutting your hair at the kitchen sink matters.

“Having an opinion on this, let alone a strong one indicates too much time and privilege on your hands.“

See also - asking why people don’t use their utility rooms. Tone deaf and over privileged.

Surely every new build has a utility room, nowadays.

Pint - preposterous really. How out of touch can you be?
Very apparently.

Salmonella sauce (a.k.a. chicken juice) goes in the sink during food prep and cleaning. Frankly, there's not much I fear more than that nasty stuff.

For that reason, I clean my sink thoroughly, but I would still never put food in my sink. I'm sure vegetables that are destined for cooking could safely go directly into the sink beforehand, but the idea bothers me, so I use a colander instead.

I wouldn't do any of those, but it's the other way round.

Doing things that you do in the bathroom (washing and brushing your teeth) in the kitchen seems - odd to me. And the sink feels a bit, well disgusting to me - I certainly don't prepare food in it. For me, it's the place where you wash dishes, and where the dirty water goes.

I'm not appalled by people who do otherwise, though. Just a question of personal categorisation (I've never, ever peed or brushed my teeth in the shower, either. Or in the sea).

I don't have a utility room so I empty my mop bucket down the kitchen sink. I am not risking taking it upstairs to empty it down the loo. Knowing my luck I would trip over a dog and spill it all down the stairs.

I also empty vase water down the sink and clean off muddy shoes in it. Today I washed the birds' water bowl in it and a plant pot.

For the people asking about tooth brushing in the kitchen. Do you really lack the wit to imagine why this is sometimes done? Clue: big families, one bathroom.

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No utility room or even a second loo here. So the kitchen sink gets used for pretty much everything - except anything that involves being in direct contact with food (wash salad, veg etc under the tap or in a salad spinner/bowl), and anything that involves eating generally (use a washing up bowl for, um, washing up - but not for anything else). I personally think it's absolutely filthy to wash salad/veg in the actual kitchen sink, but each to their own.

My DGP's brushed their teeth at the kitchen sink every day for over 70 years, living well into the their 90's, as they didn't have a bathroom in their cottage.

RoseWhite, 18th century houses certainly don't have utility rooms (or second loos, come to that) as standard. If you have several family members and only one loo, it is also not unheard of for wee to go down the kitchen sink via a bucket.

Pint - you’re forgetting about the sinks in the en suites that everyone also has. There’s no excuse...it’s just disgusting.

One thing I never do in my kitchen sink is prep food in it! Why would you....it's a sink. Would you really put food in it same place you wash your dishes? All the rest seem fine to me

I guess i shouldn’t be surprised by this thread. I’ve seen some bonkers posts on MN by people scared of germs. One that sticks out was a poster whose neighbour got her washing off the line before it rained, and the poster washed the laundry again since it had been (gasp) touched by someone else. Another person said they had a special cupboard for clothes they had worn once so they didn’t touch and sully the level 1 clean clothes that were unworn.

Privilege level = off the scale.

No Original I’m saying this thread is incredibly stupid.

Sorry, I agree with pictish. Having running water and sanitation is a privilege. Unless you are running a cafe, just clean your sink after using it for a dirty task. Like many homes we only have one sink in this house and (shock) one loo as well, even workmen use it.

I brush my teeth in the kitchen rather than the bathroom for one reason. Poo particles.
I am a total contradiction as I am very laissez faire about hygiene, food dates etc but I just can't keep my toothbrush in the bathroom.

I agree with all except emptying mop buckets.

Oh yes @pictish I forgot about my en suite. There’s also the butler’s sink. Shame on me.