There's nothing wrong with wearing an apron in the loo

[Dilbertian]

If I need to go to the loo while I'm cooking, I leave my apron on. Dh thinks this is rank. He thinks I should take it off first.

Dh doesn't wear an apron while cooking, so if he went to the loo while he was cooking, then he, too, would be wearing the same things in the loo and in the kitchen. He says it's "different ".

Who is BU?

I’d take the apron off. I also wash my hands in the bathroom after using the loo and then again when I return to the kitchen before baking. To make sure I’m clean. I’m sure it’s H&S rules too?

In theory they say every time you flush a loo it throws up invisible plumes of bacteria and fecal matter etc. into the air

So if said plumes go onto your apron and you return to the kitchen to bake and wipe your floury hands on it then you transfer the bacteria from the apron to your hands without realising. And then continue baking. With fecally hands. Bouff.

If your apron is wipeable you could wipe it and then wash your hands. In theory. But I think it’s safer to remove apron in kitchen prior to going to the loo. Yuk.

You could wipe it on return to the kitchen after washing your hands in the bathroom I mean, and wash them again prior to baking. Sounds like a faff though!!

YABU.

All aprons are made of special fabric that attracts germs. no they aren't

The germs cling to the apron and then leap straight into your food once you return to the kitchen. no they don't

If you just wear your ordinary clothes whilst using the toilet, the fabrics emit a forcefield which repels every germ known to man no they don't

If I need the toilet whilst I am cooking, I shed all my clothes in the special decontamination tent just outside the bathroom I don't actually have one of these and re-dress in fresh clothes before returning to the kitchen.

The discarded clothes cannot be taken to the washing machine (in the kitchen) because that would defeat the object it wouldn't

They would obviously contaminate anything else they were washed with so I have no alternative but to burn them and buy new ones multiple times a day this isn't actually true

Really don't see how this is different to other clothes
What do people do if they need the loo while cooking and aren't wearing an apron? Change afterwards? Shower? Burn everything just in case?

Jesus

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What @likethatbutcat said

I'm with you OP, but don't forget this is MN, I could have predicted the answers. There are a lot of posters that thing normal everyday things are gross.

likethatbutcat

What none of the Ewww-gross-YABU posters have as said is what they do if they need to go to the loo while cooking and are not wearing an apron.

I wear an apron for 8 hours a day, always take it off to use the loo, empty bins, go outside...but obviously it's a professional environment, I probably would too at home but more out of habit although don't tend to wear an apron at home

I take it off every time. Maybe because my first job was in a kitchen and that's what we were told to do during food safety training. I guess it's just the idea of it sitting on your lap while you're doing whatever you're doing in there. With a dress or skirt you can hitch it up from the back but as an apron doesn't have a back it just sits limply on your lap. I also think that you're more inclined to wipe your hands on an apron than your own clothes during cooking so yes, I do think there is slightly more yuk about wearing an apron to the loo.

I would take it off, and by MN standards I am not especially cleaning/hygiene obsessed.

Aprons need to come off to use the lavatory. The idea is they improve food hygiene by stopping contact between food and clothing. Aprons should only be put on with clean hands.
You wouldn’t use the same coloured cloth to clean a kitchen and a bathroom, would you?

I wear an apron to protect my clothes from the food not to protect the food from germs from my clothes!

Don't get the issue with wearing to go to the loo at all. I can see how psychologically it seems wrong but as you said, not different from wearing clothes!

@Strawberrycreamsundae

I agree with your husband, I take my apron off if I need to go to the loo. It’s unhygienic and transfers potentially harmful bacteria from the loo to food 🥴🤢

So what do you do if you need the loo and you are cooking but aren't wearing an apron, take all your clothes off? How is it any different, it's just another layer of clothing to protect your clothing underneath, I don't dip my apron in my cooking...

I'm with your DH. It's gross.

Working in the food industry where I work it's a disciplinary if you don't take your apron off before entering the toilets

Just gross!!!!!

I would personally take it off. And I do think it's different actually. If I pull jeans down to do to loo then there are no clothes around my genitals when going toilet. If i have an apron on and do that, the apron is.

So what do you do if you need the loo and you are cooking but aren't wearing an apron, take all your clothes off? How is it any different, it's just another layer of clothing to protect your clothing underneath, I don't dip my apron in my cooking...

Maybe it's because people are more likely to wipe their hands on an apron but wouldn't on clothes?

In a commercial kitchen it would be unacceptable but in a home kitchen I totally agree that it’s no different to people who don’t wear aprons going to the toilet and then back to the kitchen ( that’s me ) . Why would an apron pick up loads of bugs that your T-shirt / jeans would not , it makes absolutely no sense at all .

Grim. Take it off.

I also think that you're more inclined to wipe your hands on an apron than your own clothes during cooking

My apron is plastic-covered. I cannot wipe my hands on it.

Still no-one has explained what they do when they need to the loo mid-cooking and are not wearing an apron.

But it might flap and touch the toilet

I just think it's one of those things that sounds gross but isn't if you stop to think about it. All our clothes are picking up germs/dirt all the time we're wearing them so, meh, it's fine.

I agree with you OP that there is no difference between wearing the apron and own clothes. If you take the apron off that is potentially even more hygienic than someone who wears their own clothes as it would be a totally clean layer over the top, but how often do they tell you to completely change clothes after using the bathroom before cooking.

Take the apron off. It flaps about more than ordinary clothes.