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 ?

Yes, I know saliva is also on spoons, but the act of spitting in a place you prepare food is horrid

Why?

and why are you preparing food in your sink anyway?

I don't have a utility room sink.

What a snobby nasty post.

A sink's a sink's a sink. Anything that I'd do in one sink I'd do in any sink (in my house), as I clean my sinks thoroughly after using them for anything 'dirty'.

I do clean my muddy walking boots in the utility room sink, but that's because it's just more sensible than bringing muddy boots further inside the house than necessary.

I wouldn't brush my teeth in the kitchen sink but my husband has been known to wash some tools off, paintbrushes etc in it and I have soaked stained washing or shoes in it. So long as it is cleaned afterwards with bleach etc. Besides which what food do you prepare in a sink? If I am washing vegetables/fruits etc I would rinse those under a running cold water tap (clean water) not stick them in a sink. Plates etc go in a dishwasher.

Washing babies, mops, teeth, pets is surely what a kitchen sink is actually for.

Bit of bleach and a swish around and job done.

A lot of fuss about absolutely nothing.

I wash everything under running water. I wouldn't have anything sat in water touching the sides of a sink.

I get large pan wash in running water. Same with washing hands under running water straight down plug hole.

My sink, my rules.
Don't think too much about what you might be actually washing off those carrots into that sink though...

Good God this thread is batshit.

I do pretty much everything that is mentioned here in my kitchen sink. The only thing I don't do is use bleach, because we are on a septic tank.

You do realise that you can clean your sink, don't you? So that the - gasp - muddy trainers 'fallout' can be fully cleansed before you rinse your carrots off in there.

Mind you I grew up on a farm, so perhaps my germ tolerance is higher than the average MNer...

The dirtiest thing I do in my kitchen sink is wash fresh from the garden veg. It’s far dirtier than any baby of mine or my teeth/mouth or hair.

Belle
You wash out your litter tray in your kitchen sink?
That is crazy!

I don't have a utility room sink
What a snobby nasty post

It wasn't remotely snobby or nasty.
Your post, however, was nasty

rinsing off carrots where 2 minutes ago your muddy trainers were seems wrong.
😂😂😂😂 you do realise carrots grow in mud don’t you??

I used to have a mobile hairdresser come to my house. I washed my hair at the kitchen sink(bathroom one was too small and awkward) She also cut my hair in the kitchen. Did not see anything at all wrong with this. A quick hoover after and all was fine

Surely it doesn't really matter as long as it's cleaned afterwards? I do some of those things listed but I always give the whole area a scrub with disinfectant afterwards. I don't have a utility room, or an outside tap, so I have no choice really.

I belong to a generation where many a child was bathed in the kitchen sink. No central heating so the kitchen was probably warmer than the bathroom during the winter. We all survived.

My grandparents kitchen was the heart of their home. They had a big Belfast sink and everything happened at that sink. Children and animals were bathed, washing was done before it was put through the mangle, pheasants were plucked and rabbits skinned, veg from the garden had the dirt washed off, flowers were cut and the earwigs shaken out and the washing up was done. No-one ever came to any harm, in fact we were a very hearty and healthy family. People are just too precious these days.

And yes, yabu. It’s a fucking sink. Get a grip

pictish I agree with you completely. And I also wish I was as articulate as you.
Usually I can just about manage a kind of profane, semi-coherent rant.....

Don’t know why but the idea of my gorgeous baby in a horrible kitchen sink where all food and food waste is at times (potato skins etc) is the only reason I wouldn’t wash him in there!

Well obviously you clean it first and I don't think anyone's ever been ill because a bit of potato skin residue may have touched their skin.

You wash out your litter tray in your kitchen sink?
That is crazy!

Yup. Why's that crazy?
Obviously, the area gets thoroughly cleaned afterwards (and beforehand!) Why's that worse than doing it where I brush my teeth, or wash my face?

Brushing teeth at the kitchen sink - normal!
(for those that can't understand, 3 teenagers, 2 bathrooms, all have to be out the door, I have to give one of them a lift, therefore I have toothbrushes available in all bathrooms and one in the kitchen!)
I wouldn't do it by choice, but it's ok and not unhygienic.

I’m with you pictish. It never ceases to amaze me how rediculous posts like this are. So much time and effort wasted on people being completely daft about ‘hygene’ It’s verging on hysterical and such behaviours actually cause more harm than good. A healthy dose of germs and dirt is fine and in fact, necessar, to built up a healthy immune system.