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

@Bearbehind

Covid will have to be a dim and distant memory before any responsible employer allows the sharing of food in an office - it’s simply not worth the risk as it stands

You really are a know-it-all... and wrong! We had communal cakes 2 weeks ago for Halloween in our office. Someone's birthday over the weekend, and guess what? Home made cakes in the kitchen. Delicious.

I am one who happily eats all the office cake. I don’t think a home kitchen is any dirtier than a commercial kitchen. I haven’t worked at a food factory before but knows many who has. Including DH. None has anything good to say about that. I live by the principle I am healthy and can take a bit of germs.

I think this is a time we will look back on and view people‘s food behaviors generally (eating disorders aside) as spoilt and bratty. With Brexit and then climate change, food costs are going to spiral, choice will become more limited.

Being vegan I have an excellent reason to decline homemade food without causing offence.

But after seeing contestants on the Great British Bake off with their hair all in the food and running their hand through and wiping their hands on their clothes I think wow and this is people who know they are being watched. Imagine what people in their own homes might do.

50% of men and 25% of women don't wash their hands after using the toilet. 🤢🤮Then there is pet hair. A lot of cats are allowed on kitchen surfaces🤢🤮 And smokers and kids helping having wiped snot on their hands. 🤢🤮 Nope, nope.

I don't blame anyone for binning homemade food and I suspect a majority do including school staff.

Smokers and kids with snotty hands I mean separately not the kids with snot are smokers. 😂

I work in school. I’m afraid I haven’t eaten anything made by pupils. I see them pick all orifices throughout the day!

I was a teacher and did cooking with my class. I ate every scrap of their food with no ill effects. We practised good hygiene.

Having worked in commercial kitchens, abattoirs and supermarkets, it is useless worrying about domestic kitchens!

It's the opposite way round for me. I'd eat anything made by friends unless I knew for certain they didn't practise good hygiene. No present has ever made me ill yet.