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

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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?

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

Don’t tell em though

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

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!!

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.

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

I would.

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

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!

If floor was clean then yup - go right ahead!

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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

I have fairly low standards but that is properly rank.

This is why I refuse cake made by other people.

How much do you like your guests?

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

yabvu

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.

The oven will kill anything.

I wouldn't have even thought twice about it!

ew do not do that. rank

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

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

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