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.

I'm with your DH. Either you should have used a different knife or washed thr knife.

But I'm maybe calling reverse, because surely everyone knows this and they just want to prove a point to their DP 🤷‍♀️

I never wash the chicken.
The packaging is placed carefully in a bowl of hot water and detergent. No splashing.
Surfaces cleaned with antibac.
I am immunosuppressed and have to be very careful.

I always have a bowl of hot soapy water in the sink while I prepare food. If you do this you can wash up and wash your hands as you go along. Yabu and should have washed the knife

Bleugh.
This is why I dread the BBQ season, because of habits like this.

@zingally :
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

The human race, survived, yes, but individuals had a pretty low chance of surviving. When in caves everyone was pretty much dead by age 30, later infant and maternal mortality was sky high, throughout the middle ages and Tudor times and beyond people regularly died from hygiene related illnesses such as cholera, typhoid and dysentry. Look at deaths from puerperal fever on maternity wards until Ignaz Semmelweiss discovered that hand washing was important!

Plus we did not raise chicken in intensive and battery conditions where disease is rife.

Your point really is not valid.

Lots of people do follow these lazy practices, and it's fine. But when it does hit unlucky and transmit salmonella, campylobacter or EColi the results are extremely painful, long lasting, and dangerous to anyone vulnerable.

I'm with your DH in this one. Salad veg are uncooked so it's not worth it. The risk is minimal though as the bacteria on the chicken would have very little time to multiply if you kept the salad refrigerated or ate immediately. I still wouldn't like it though.

I always use different utensils for any raw meat, from those utensils I use with other ingredients.
So I'm team husband here, I wouldn't have used the same knife for the raw chicken and for the salad.

I'm team husband.

Raw chicken is the one thing I am very careful with.

No, I would not have used that knife on the salad.

I don't use a chopping board, but chop/slice raw chicken in the packet it came in, chuck in the pan, put the packet straight in the regular bin as I don't want to wash it and put the scissors or knife in the washing up bowl. Then wash my hands.

I've taught this to my kids as well. Bugs from raw meat are to be respected.

I think this is the first food hygiene thread where I've been of the opinion that actually no I wouldn't do that!

I'm quite relaxed about stuff like this, but I wouldn't use a knife potentially contaminated with raw chicken on salad veg. That's my biggest no-no!

@notso

I think this is the first food hygiene thread where I've been of the opinion that actually no I wouldn't do that!

Me too!

Lazy and negligent.

Where do you think the food poisoning cases that do occur come from?

How long does it take to wash the knife alongside your hands?

I’m with your DH.

Just wondering if this is a reverse? Sort of thing I’d be tempted to do if I caught a DP doing this and wanted to prove a point....

I also wondered if it was a reverse...

so now I'm wondering: did you at least was the lettuce? (I'm assuming lettuce because OP wrote salad) or any of the other veg?

@TheOrigBrave

Raw chicken is the one thing I am very careful with.

No, I would not have used that knife on the salad.

I don't use a chopping board, but chop/slice raw chicken in the packet it came in, chuck in the pan, put the packet straight in the regular bin as I don't want to wash it and put the scissors or knife in the washing up bowl. Then wash my hands.

I've taught this to my kids as well. Bugs from raw meat are to be respected.

Me too! Usually people think I'm nuts

Yeah you're wrong

Op has not returned.
On the toilet, OP?

Op has not returned.
On the toilet, OP?

That's disgusting OP. And I have vair vair low standards in general 😁

Your DH is right in my view. I'd have used a different knife for the chicken and put it straight in the dishwasher afterwards. I'd also ensure that raw chicken got no where near salad.

Yep. I chop it in the packet too. It's grim stuff!

I forgot about a packet of chicken in the fridge - was 2 days out of date and when I opened it, there were big which circles all over the breasts, absolutely stank!! I always make salad first and put in the fridge before I go anywhere near chicken on the surfaces

White circles, not which