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.

As somebody who has had severe food poisoning three times because of food cooked by other people I can categorically say that hell would freeze over before I would chop ANYTHING let alone salad with a knife contaminated by raw poultry. That is an absolutely mad thing to do - for the sake of switching to a clean knife you could end up throwing your guts up and with horrific stomach pains for weeks - and your family too!

I am with team DH too. You should either have washed the knife well or used another (clean) one.

i'm with your DH too because when it comes to supermarket chicken there is a problem with contaminated packaging, so even if your knife only touched the plastic, there's a small risk
www.newfoodmagazine.com/news/90509/campylobacter-levels-in-british-chicken-the-results-are-in/

Thank God for Mumsnet. Yes, this was a reverse as someone spotted. DH is VILE.

Sorry OP but what is a reverse?

Are you saying you are the H and this was about your wife or are you being sarcastic?

Have you wasted lots of posters time by posting something untrue?

When in caves everyone was pretty much dead by age 30

If you made it to 20 your life expectancy wasn't that bad, the low life expectancy at birth was 'cos of infant and child mortality, and 30 was the expectancy at birth.

Reliable numbers are of course extremely difficult to come by though.

How silly.

If this was your husband doing it why didn't you just say so?

Do you honestly think gender would make a difference to the replies?

I can't stand posters reversing roles.

it's pathetic.

Chances are the DH would assume that MN would always take the side of the woman.
I understand why you reversed it OP.

Nope you need to wash the knife as well as your hands OP - YABU

Ha! I totally do not believe this is a reverse. Why would you make it a reverse when you knew the result?
You need to wash things and not blame your husband.

Agree with @endofthelinefinally. Reverse understandable in this case, otherwise DH could have argued women siding with women. This way, he has to accept the views are objective. OP - hopefully this stops him now!!!

Nooo! Your husband is correct, why would you think that’s ok? Hope you don’t get salmonella food poisoning.

Totally justified reverse OP - are you showing him the thread? Please get him to read up on food hygiene - he could literally kill you or himself. These things are no joke.

What is the fucking POINT of a reverse? Totally stupid. It's an anonymous forum, nobody knows either of you.
I'll bet you didn't get the response you were expecting... 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Yes I am definitely showing him.

I decided to do a reverse because so often on MN people assume that men are crap in the kitchen, generally have poor hygiene and are incapable of anything domestic. Plus DH thinks MN is a vipers’ nest so wouldn’t have taken it seriously.

In this case I can see the value of a reverse, as the poster wishes to enlighten her DH.

It is harder, even via keyboard, to criticise someone directly rather than talk about a poster's DH.

It removes any man/woman bias that the DH may use to negate the thread.

And actually it hasn't done any harm, has it? A poster asked for an opinion on hygiene and got it.

Your DH is vile. Raw chicken is the worse one out of the lot.
Maybe it was a ploy so you’d take over?

@Thisismytimetoshine

What is the fucking POINT of a reverse? Totally stupid. It's an anonymous forum, nobody knows either of you. I'll bet you didn't get the response you were expecting... 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Think she did! That was the whole point of the reverse!

Yep is ridiculous to think raw chicken blood on your salad is a good thing! 😝 Hope you binned it op.

I’ve never done it with chicken, but I have done this with beef.

But saying that, the veg that I chopped after stabbing the beef, was then cooked so wouldn’t have had the same effect.

Just saying... 72'000 years ago the human race went down to around 40 breeding pairs...

So wash your knives

As someone who has had campylobacter food poisoning from improperly cooked or cross contaminated chicken (it was from Nandos) I can confirm that you can get extremely ill, and it can be fatal in elderly, children or immunocompromiased people. I know a family who were hospitalised from campylobacter poisoning.

I would always use separate utensils for raw meat.

I remember years ago the British Medical Association warning that we should treat all commercially produced raw chicken as if it contains food-poisoning bacteria. Not saying don't eat it, but take precautions when cooking, especially not letting it touch anything else.

I don't know if things have improved since then, but I wouldn't have thought so, given how cheaply chicken is produced.

So yes, I think DH was right.

Cross contamination is a thing

Its not what you should do

But when I'm just cooking for me and my partner I do this kind of stuff all the time and so far haven't become unwell.

I follow the rules when cooking or handling food for others, I just can't be arsed when it comes to me