Pasta salad - using hands to mix?!??

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DH was making a mayo pasta salad today as friends over for a BBQ. He'd put all the ingredients in a big bowl, I walked in on him using his hands to mix it all together. AIBU to have called him out on how disgusting and inappropriate this is? No idea where he's got the idea that hands are better than spoons. Am now getting the silent treatment - genuinely now questioning if I am in the wrong here and this is normal behaviour??

Reminds me of the time my ex told me there was no knives washed up so he decided to bite the cheese off for our dinner, and told me after I had eaten it

I think this is a ridiculously lazy thing to do - quite amusingly so - but I don't see how you could object from a hygiene point of view if this is someone that you kissed/shagged/shared glasses and utensils with?

Presumably he’d washed his hands? Personally I’d find getting mayo all over my hands gross but I pregnant are plenty of foods without gloves or a spoon so it’s no weirder.

Prepare, not pregnant!

Its fine if you have clean hands, lots of food prep involves using your hands.

Once caught dh washing cooked rice under the hot tap.
Bought a rice maker.

Am having family over tomorrow for lunch in the garden.

Just prepped meatballs and used my very clean hands to mix them all up before making them up. There is no other way really.

Salad is in a bag (apologies to the purists), the chicken is marinading in the fridge, but just put the chook pieces in a zip bag and poured marinade in. Safe enough I hope!

Steamed baby potatoes, and (the horror), microwave rice.

Soft rolls for the yummy sausages too. I have to confess I have picked a few out!

As long as your hands are clean I don't see the problem myself.

Food prep that can’t be done WITHOUT using your hands only is completely different to this. Have never needed to toss salad leaves using anything other than tongs. Chopping up carrot sticks for tour own kid is very different to manhandling a pile of cold pasta for invited guests when a couple of spoons would do the same job and much more hygienically. It’s just grim

My favourite restaurant has a wee area for guests to come in and watch the chefs work, oh, and the chef has a Michelin star!

Workers , cooks etc, do this all the time in takeaway kitchens, all hidden from view, and they don't all wear those plasticky gloves either.

Ugh no, yes chefs and anyone prepping food use their hands, but usually in things that get cooked after or don't need such mixing. Mayo pasta - yuk!

Do all these people worried about food prep with hands wear a mask when going indoors anywhere?

If not, that's flippin grim.

But chefs work in sterile environments

😂😂😂😂 Some people are really naive about commercial kitchens

If he washed his hands, I don't see anything bad on it.

I often use my hands when it is quicker and easier. I wash my hands well with antibac soap.

I do love it when people assume restaurant kitchens are different. I have worked in a few and I doubt most of you would eat out ever again.

I’d find that so grim. Did you eat it?.

Surely he's chopped all the ingredients that's going into the pasta salad anyway? So he's already touched those which will then touch everything else. I wouldn't use my hands as they'd get too dirty, but it really wouldn't be disgusting or inappropriate as far as I'm concerned.

Weird thing to mix with your hands but meh...it’s common to get your hands in about food when you’re cooking so I wouldn’t worry about it. I use my (clean) hands to toss salad and what have you...can’t see this is practically different. You get a better coating and a more thorough mix by hand sometimes.

So long as the hands are clean, whats the problem?

People find it gross because they don’t like the idea of mayo on their hands.
Fine

But there is no health reasons for it being gross, unless he’s not washed his hands

How are restaurant kitchens sterile?
they're not operating theatres

I find this a bit unpleasant but when I think about it logically it's absolutely no different to chopping up tomatoes or scallions for a salad. Just because it's not possible to do those things without touching them doesn't mean that it's any more hygienic or unhygienic when an alternative is available.

@PumpkinP

Reminds me of the time my ex told me there was no knives washed up so he decided to bite the cheese off for our dinner, and told me after I had eaten it not envy

Did he have very straight teeth? Or did you think he had done some fancy crimped edging with the cheese knife?

I can see why he is an ex .

Ewww. Mix using wooden spoons or similar.

Not acceptable unless the he’s the only person eating it

Terribly unfair for the guests who are none the wiser, if I knew I wouldn’t eat it

@bridgetreilly

So long as the hands are clean, whats the problem?

But are men's hands clean. Apparently not since most don't wash their hands after having a wee. Or a poo.

Ewww sounds gross, but more for him getting mayo all over his hands than anything!

Maybe he’s been watching Paul Hollywood - he uses his hands to mix buttercream etc