To think that, unless you know the kitchen they were made in is very clean, homemade edible gifts go straight in the bin

[Bearbehind]

Especially this year

Given we’re sanitising things we touch and are ultra conscious about the spread of germs etc - AIBU to think that if you get edible gifts from someone’s who’s kitchen you either don’t know or don’t think is very clean - you’d just bin it?

I’m not saying you can catch Covid from the food but it’s the principle of not knowing how hygenic stuff is

I’m not a fan of homemade gifts at the best of times - I think a sort of rule should be that unless your homemade items are good enough to sell for actual money, then please don’t do it

No one is going to admit they binned it but I do hope those who would make homemade edible gifts, especially for teachers, this year think twice

YABU, but I'm sure lots of people will agree with you. MN is crawling with people who are hysterical and paranoid about hygiene. I'll happily eat cookies made by primary school children, never mind competent fairly clean-looking adults. It's probably why I'm not often ill.

I wouldn’t throw a home made food gift, unless I actually knew that the kitchen it came from was unsanitary.

It wouldn't occur to me to even think this. I trust my microbiome to deal with whatever I throw at it. You sound paranoid!

Gifts i dont really have an issue with, what im very wary about it the amount of 'hobby bakers' that are now trying to sell their creations as a side business.

I very much doubt they are getting the correct certifications to do so, and i really dont think its worth the money. People trying to sell a piece of traybake or brownie for £2 is extorsionate, for something that is very average home baking items.

I don’t give things back to the giver. I use them or find someone who will.

I love edible gifts! Probably because I'm a rubbish Baker myself! I am low risk and otherwise fit and well and generally don't have friends who are filthy!
But I appreciate if people are high risk otherwise a very different story.

I'd generally be OK with anything cooked at a high temp, also stomach acid is strong stuff

Nope, wouldn't even cross my mind to bin anything homemade. Couldn't care less about how "hygienic" someone's kitchen is. If they've made something I wanna eat, I'm going to eat it.

I’m not a fan of most homemade gifts and hate chutney, jam etc.

Close friends who I know their kitchens are clean etc I will eat at their houses (obviously pre Covid) but I don’t eat items from others.

I wonder about these hygiene people, I really do. Have they never had an ice-cream from a van or had a one night stand or used a public toilet? We are magnets for germs. Our bodies deal with them.

I think this germ-paranoia is a bit pitiable, tbh. My immune system is pretty bullet-proof, and i love eating, so i am always pleased when people give me homemade treats!

If you cant cope with eating things made by other people, thats your choice, but its not really on to assume that your views are "normal". Decades of school cake sales, church fetes and community street parties would prove you wrong.

I wouldn't want homemade food from a total stranger with no-one I knew to vouch for them, but other than that, if it's someone I know and trust, it's fine. If I knew someone who was very messy and didn't trust to cook things properly, I would avoid it, but fortunately that's not the case.

I wouldn’t eat anything anyone made me anyway, let alone this year. All the people who know me, know what I’m like though.
I can eat at restaurants (hygiene rating checked obviously), but I would never eat at a buffet, especially a home made affair where all the aunts and grannies chipped in.
People have given me homemade gifts and of course I tell them that their cakes or whatever were lovely, but yes, they all go in the bin. Sorry.

Good old MN, privileged first-world women with high neurosis levels.

Errr.... nope, you sound weird, and I don’t know anyone IRL who thinks like this. People used to bring homemade cake/cookies etc into the office before we all started wfh and everyone loved it and ate them with no complaints. We all lived to tell the tale as well!

Not sure if you meant you hate homemade non-food gifts too but that’s pretty miserable. A friend made me a cross stitch for my birthday that says “Live, Laugh, Fuck Off” and I love it more than anything she could’ve got in a shop.

You need to disinfect those gifts. With strong alcohol germs will die, and your paranoia too

So rude and such a waste. Most people don’t live in squalor so no, I don’t bin homemade food at all. If someone offers you it in future then just politely decline it, don’t accept it just to throw it away. Horrible.

Definitely not normal OP. Paranoid, joyless and ungrateful

I love home made gifts and have been busy making.

Has anybody on here ever actually been I'll from someone's homemade brownie/cookie/jam/fudge?

Between us, my family must have eaten 100s of such goodies, but can't think of any harm caused.

Have they never had an ice-cream from a van or had a one night stand or used a public toilet?

Ice cream van - no
One night stand - no
Public toilet - only in absolute emergencies and I make sure I hover. I will hold all day long rather than use the toilets in work (school).

This is truly awful.

Do you have OCD or something though? Then I might have a bit of sympathy for your OTT behaviour.

@outofthemoon

I love home made gifts and have been busy making.

Oh I love those!

@DBML

Omg are you my twin?

I’m the same, I have real food anxiety, always have. Hate people cooking for me; will only go to certain restaurants that I know well, won’t eat at a buffet; can barely eat at friends houses. Had about 40 hours of CBT to cure it... no luck!!

Oh, you aren't a fan of home made stuff?

I really hope you know me because everyone l know is getting a home made gift 🤭 l could make you an especially crap one to piss you off even more