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Original poster

To serve a cake when I've scraped the mixture off the floor

105 replies

greatpotential · 15/10/2018 14:49

So baby was screaming and I'm pretty tired, and I dropped the tin on the kitchen floor just before it went in the oven. Just spooned it back in and stuck it in the oven... I mopped last night and the cake will bake at 160 c for 50 mins. AIBU to serve to my guests due in 30 mins?

OP posts:
Surfinbird · 15/10/2018 14:52

Nah it’ll be cooked, a little dirt never hurt !

Don’t tell em though

Fatasfook · 15/10/2018 14:52

If you don’t mind them eating bits of floor Ming, hair, dirt etc. Yuck

Aprilislonggone · 15/10/2018 14:52

I am certain when you have a baby the 5 second rule applies to anything.Maybe even a ten second one!!
Just decline a slice yourself!!

WhiteCoyote · 15/10/2018 14:52

Depends, if you have pets that walk across the kitchen floor or anyone has walked across it with outdoor shoes then no.

If it’s just been people walking across it in slippers/socks/clean feet it honestly wouldn’t bother me to be served it.

Storm4star · 15/10/2018 14:52

This is why I never eat the cakes at work that people bake at home Grin

DoYouLikeBasghetti · 15/10/2018 14:52

I would.

makingmammaries · 15/10/2018 14:52

It’s fine. Lucky guests, getting homemade cake.

RiverTam · 15/10/2018 14:53

well, you're floor sounds pretty clean, so I would if I were you in your clean kitchen.

I'm very slovenly so I wouldn't in my kitchen!

M3lon · 15/10/2018 14:53

If floor was clean then yup - go right ahead!

purplegirl13 · 15/10/2018 14:54

I wouldn't serve it, wouldn't have even thought about scooping the mixture up to bake

QueenCity · 15/10/2018 14:54

And this is why I refuse to eat things bought at bake sales or that people have made and brought into the office. OP that's revolting. You can't serve it.

JosellaPlayton · 15/10/2018 14:54

Hmm it sounds utterly disgusting but in reality the oven has probably killed any bugs. I suppose it depends on how clean your kitchen floor is, if you have pets then definitely chuck it before someone pulls a dog hair out of the cake. But personally I wouldn’t serve it because I couldn’t eat it myself knowing it had been on floor...

WeirdAndPissedOff · 15/10/2018 14:55

I always thought the people at work sniffing at home made cake were being snobby/ridiculous.
I may start declining myself now though.

Though I suppose in all fairness, it won't harm anyone.

FrazzyAndFrumpled · 15/10/2018 14:59

That’s nasty, OP. Put it in the bin where it belongs.

ISpeakJive · 15/10/2018 15:00

Well as long as you wouldn’t mind if someone served you some cake and floor!

SoupDragon · 15/10/2018 15:03

I have fairly low standards but that is properly rank.

upsideup · 15/10/2018 15:03

This is why I refuse cake made by other people.

ToadOfSadness · 15/10/2018 15:07

How much do you like your guests?

If they are really special to you then no, if you are suffering their company then yes.

halcyondays · 15/10/2018 15:09

yabvu

MsHopey · 15/10/2018 15:09

I'd say I'm pretty crap with the whole hygiene thing compared to most people.
But no way! Not even in a little bit.

Godimsounimaginative · 15/10/2018 15:09

The oven will kill anything.

I wouldn't have even thought twice about it!

cleopatracomingatya · 15/10/2018 15:10

ew do not do that. rank

SingaSong12 · 15/10/2018 15:13

Yabu - just explain what happened, or even phone ahead and ask them to pick up a cake.

SoupDragon · 15/10/2018 15:22

The oven won't kill the bits of stuff that gather on a floor during a day.

bridgetreilly · 15/10/2018 15:24

I wouldn't, and I am fairly lax about such things.