DH and food hygiene

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Making lunch and chopping salad. Needed to open a packet of chicken thighs so I stabbed through the plastic film as there was no tab. Put chicken in roasting pan, washed hands. Went back to making salad. DH outraged and convinced I’ll kill us all because I used the salad knife to open the chicken packet. I think he’s overreacting.

If you are 100% certain the knife only touched the film and didn’t come into any contact with the chicken or any stray chicken juice it will be safe enough but I think I would have given it a quick rinse - just to be in the safe side.

I agree with your DH also, sorry

I am a bit OCD, so would have used a different knife for opening the chicken, then washed the knife and my hands before going back to the salad.

Clearly you don't quite get the idea of cross contamination, OP. There's a reason you keep separate utensils and chopping boards for raw meat. Isn't this basic pre-GCSE knowledge?

Campylobacter kills OP.
www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2014/11/27/Chicken-tests-show-big-rise-in-campylobacter-contamination

Eww gross. Definitely wash the knife or use a different one. Nothing worse than raw chicken juice

OP, if it makes you feel any better, I wouldn't have washed the knife either!

Been cooking independently for best part of 20 years now - still alive!

People all "you'll be lucky if you don't all come down with salmonella"! We used to live in caves ffs. And no-one knew what food hygiene even was, until, what? 100 years ago? Funnily enough, the human race survived!

sorry, OP, but that is indeed sloppy and your husband is right.

and you open packs with scissors, not kitchen knives unless you want to wreck the latter.

@Drivingdownthe101

I’m very lax about food hygiene usually, but I wouldn’t do this. Raw chicken juice on a knife that you chop salad with?

I'm one step above Typhoid Mary and even I would have washed the knife

Raw chicken juices on salad is a huge food poisoning risk, if you don't know this you shouldn't be let loose in a kitchen.

I'm one step above Typhoid Mary and even I would have washed the knife

Agree with your husband.

I'm pretty relaxed about food hygiene, compared to some, but I would definitely have washed the knife, sorry!

I was really ill for weeks after getting Campylobacter from undercooked chicken (on holiday, not my own cooking!). And I wasn't 100% for months. I never want to experience anything like that ever again, so I'm very careful with chicken.

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Basic food hygiene to use a different knife.

You definitely should know to wash the knife!

I am a bit OCD. No. You either have OCD or you don't. You can't be "a bit OCD". Would you say "I'm a bit schizophrenic" or "a bit anorexic"? Stop making light of a serious MH condition.

People all "you'll be lucky if you don't all come down with salmonella"! We used to live in caves ffs. And no-one knew what food hygiene even was, until, what? 100 years ago? Funnily enough, the human race survived!
More people died of preventable diseases and killed themselves unwittingly. I don't think we can take what cavemen did as an example of how to live our lives. They didn't understand that raw chicken can kill you. We do. Wash your knives.

If you had time to wash your hands then you had time to wash your knife. Yes its a bit grim to keep using the same knife on the salad

I would have washed the knife. I don’t if I’m planning to cook the veg or if it’s red meat, but for chicken I do.

Raw chicken is one of the worst things for food poisoning. Campylobacter is no joke if you get it. Agree with your DH on this one.

I would have washed the knife or used a different one. It’s raw chicken, that can make you really ill.

I'd have washed the knife.

I'm with you husband. I wouldn't eat it.

I’m with your husband. If you then chopped veg for cooking it’d be fine, but on raw salad you are risking infecting everyone with Salmonella or Campylobacter.

OP when you've finished shitting through that needle can you come and update?

I use separate chopping boards and usually cut all the veg or salad first on one board before doing the raw meat on another. Then I’m happy to use the same knife. I would have washed the knife in your case.