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??

@AhBallix

No idea why I needed to say that twice!

Because it was so good. 😁

In Home Economics in the late 60s we learned to make a Victoria sponge using our hands to cream the butter and Sugar, eggs etc

I work in a kitchen. Yes l do it with hands. Washed hands obviously. Or sometimes if l can be bothered gloves. It's fine. As long as he washed his hands.

ROFL
Pastry anyone?

Perfect tool for separating eggs consists of two hands and fingers.
Can't see the problem at all.

I thought with all the hand hygiene discussions we have had lately due to coronavirus it was known that you did not need hot water for washing hands if you use soap.

How do people prepare salads etc without touching the ingredients with their bare hands?

I wouldn't use my hands.

WFT is 1970s cul de sac pasta salad?!

It doesn't sound like he has good hand hygiene so yanbu

i worked in a kitchen and hands were used, bakers would use hands.

Touching salad ingredients with your finger tips is not the same imo as massaging mayo in to pasta and it's accompanying ingredients. 😆

Pastry anyone?

Perfect tool for separating eggs consists of two hands and fingers.
Can't see the problem at all.

Difference is you cook that afterwards

i have come across cheese with bite marks on it, due to lack of knife, from some male or other

I’m a bit perplexed OP.
What about making a crumble or kneading bread?
What about making meatballs ?
Granted they get cooked but when anyone prepares any food, surely they’d wash their hands beforehand?
I think you’re overreacting.

And what about making sandwiches or wraps?

midnightstar you don't cook mayo.

Good is hands on. Clean hands on.

We had chicken thighs this evening with cous cous sale and a coconutty Sainsburys bag.

The cous cous: my hands touched the cucumber as I chopped it, I picked the mint, washed in cold water and chopped, squeezed the lemons with hand and fork, crumbled the feta by hand. I did toss it all together with a spoon and fork.

Still can't see the problem.

Hot water comes via pipes which may be lead.. Our house is about 200 years old so likely such! Hot water should not be used in cooking - plenty of info available online.

Why didn’t he bleach his hands first. Disgusting man.
He should also bleach his hands before he touches you obviously too.

Where did I say you cook mayo?. My point was the opposite. I was responding to the op who compared it to preparing pastry with your hands (which is then cooked)

I use my hands to

Make crumble topping, pastry, scones etc
Marinade chicken/meat
Squish up hard boiled eggs for egg mayo sarnies
Toss up salad
Make icing decorations
Make sarnies and wraps
Roll up sushi
I squeeze lemons through my fingers to catch the pips
Make bread

My hands touch veg and fruit and most of what I am cooking while I chop and peel and prep. I wash my hands before I start and whenever they get dirty and when ever I’ve touched raw meat.

Totally ridiculous reactions to this. It is no different from using your hands to hold salad veg that you're chopping! I mean, I'd use a spoon to avoid getting mayonnaise all over my hands, but hygiene-wise it makes no difference.

And as for a poster being disgusted at her dh breaking up raw mince with his hands - . Do you manage to cut up raw meat or fish without ever touching it with your hands, or put a joint in a roasting tin without touching it, or make meatballs with gloves on?

Hot water comes via pipes which may be lead Well people may know that’s not the case in a new build with a combi

I think it's OK, only as long as his hands were 100% clean beforehand.

Also have you never watched masterchef? They're constantly touching the food to make it look pretty. And chefs aren't some sort of super human, super clean beings. They are people like the rest of us, who wash their hands.

Dh knew our house was ancient and still did it. Yuck.

Are there genuinely idiots that think mild hot water is better then cold water for washing hands

@Flyingagainstreason

A lot of people apparently. Rather concerning.