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, yabu.

Kitchen sinks can be cleaned OP.

HTH

It's a sink. It doesn't have a memory and if you can't clean it after you've used it then get a better sink surely?

belle
All the other jobs mentioned on here wouldn’t matter at all.
Washing a cat litter tray is absolutely disgusting. No matter how you think you’ve cleaned it.
You actually wash something that contains salmonella and remaining particles of cat shit,to an area that you’ll prepare food in later?

I can’t imagine why you think that’s ok?
Your bath would be a a better bet even!
Are you one of those people who put the cat tray in your kitchen too?

@BertieBott Wed You don’t prepare food directly on the sink, but rinsing off carrots where 2 minutes ago your muddy trainers were seems wrong.

Wow are you not ready to hear about how vegetables grow.

^Washing a cat litter tray is absolutely disgusting. No matter how you think you’ve cleaned it.
You actually wash something that contains salmonella and remaining particles of cat shit,to an area that you’ll prepare food in later?^

It's cat poo. It's not nuclear waste. Get a GRIP.

Wow are you not ready to hear about how vegetables grow.

I don't do any of those things in my kitchen sink, we have an outside tap, for wellies etc and use the outside drain for mop buckets. I don't cut my hair at home, and most people have at least one bathroom so not sure why you would need to wash a baby or brush your teeth there? I only have a cat, but a dog wouldn't fit in the sink anyway! Parents' dog goes to the groomers, if just dirty after a walk he will get hosed off in the garden. There's no way a Labrador would fit in a kitchen sink 😂

@Kool4katz
It's cat poo. It's not nuclear waste. Get a GRIP.
My work colleague lost the sight in one eye because of toxoplasmosis, I clean mine outside. It's especially risky to pregnant women, young children and the elderly

Get over yourself. It's a sink. It has copious amounts of running water to hand. For cleaning things. Wash whatever item. Clean sink.

Ah. Not the litter tray.

I don’t keep pets because they are unhygienic but I have my butler wash the gardener in the north wing utility sink.

I going to start keeping a spreadsheet of things that MN says I must do, so that I can keep track of this.

• Burn the tea towels every day, just to be safe.
• Change the bathroom towels every day.
• Build a utility room so that I have a second sink for anything non-food related.
• Not have any twiggy, pebbly shit.

Have I missed owt?

James you've been told before. The gardener needs to be hosed down outside.

I wash my staff in the ornamental fountain. Doesn't everyone?

Buckets of water get chucked down the outside drain.
Shoes animals and very mucky children get hosed down outside.
Baby and teeth washing is directly in the sink.
Washing up and peeling veg gets done in a basin or bowl.
Sink gets bleached everyday.
Litter tray is an absolute no, cat faeces can cause life changing diseases.

Cat shit is so extraordinarily dangerous to human health!
I can’t believe you could have not realised that kool / and then to mock those that are educated makes you look pretty daft!

@ShotsFired, stop washing staff in fountain! Surely, a quick rinse with the garden hose is all they require..

I used to wash ds in the kitchen sink as well as the guinea pigs, although not at the same time.

I have also rinsed my snake off under the warm tap when his shed became tatty and needed to be helped off. I just gave the area a good clean afterwards.

Ooh it’s like slum bingo that I didn’t even know about!

I’ve bathed dd in the sink loads, feel inordinately rebellious now 😂

FFS! Cat shit is no more dangerous than dog poo or chicken poo because I'm not planning to eat it or rub it on my skin.
I've had animals for years inc. feral cats, so I'm really not going to get stupidly paranoid about it, despite the numpties on here.
You just use HOT WATER and SOAP to WASH things. Any sink will do.
If pregnant or especially anxious, wear rubber gloves if you're worried.
It's just basic sensible hygiene.

This is more about people's individual disgust responses than actual risk to health.

Surely things like chopping boards that have been used to cut up raw chicken are much more of a risk than most of the OP's list and yet people wouldn't think twice about dumping a chopping board in the sink.

If I washed the cat in the sink the next problem would be copious amounts of blood in it

Meh, if you use the sink to wash up raw chicken knives and chopping boards, I can;t get upset about stuff on your list.

Just make sure the sink is cleaned afterwards.

The only one of those I would do is empty a mop bucket - don't have a downstairs look or utility room and I'm not taking it upstairs. So long as the sink is cleaned each time, I don't think it really matters what you do in it though.