or is this fucking gross?

[sadpapercourtesan]

Using kitchen scissors to separate a string of raw sausages, then using the scissors (without washing them) to open a packet of frozen fruit, to be eaten raw with yoghurt.

YABU - no biggie

YANBU - that's fuckin' rank

If the scissors didn’t touch the fruit it’s no biggie

@thenightsky

I immediately thought of the Jilly Cooper character (can't remember which) who cut her fringe with the unwashed bacon scissors

Aargh, wasn’t that James the presenters wife in Rivals? The author? Damn I can’t remember her name either... Lizzie Verecker?? dredging depths of memory here, please excuse spelling

And OP I’ve done similar. Not suffered from it yet!

@thenightsky

I immediately thought of the Jilly Cooper character (can't remember which) who cut her fringe with the unwashed bacon scissors

Lizzie Vereker in Rivals She had to cut her fringe before a ball, grabbed the kitchen scissors and then realised too late that the au pair had used them to cut the rind off the bacon earlier that day and hadn't washed them (I can't believe I remember that so clearly)

@sadeyedladyofthelowlandsea thanks!
I love early Jilly RCB novels, must be time for a reread!

Should have wiped the scissors on the tea towel in between tbh.

@OnceUponAMidnightBeery I always reread the early Rutshire novels in winter because they're just so comforting!

Gross. The fruit will touch the part of the packet that the scissors touched so of course there will be cross contamination.

I do not have the highest of standards by a long shot but that's a BIG NO from me.

@WithinAForestDark 😂😂😂

[quote sadeyedladyofthelowlandsea]@OnceUponAMidnightBeery I always reread the early Rutshire novels in winter because they're just so comforting! [/quote]
They really are, glad I’m not the only one

Think Rivals and Score are my favourites

Sorry for the derail OP, think we have cast iron stomachs in this house... although I do wash the scissors before trimming my hair

“I'd struggle to give a shit about this.“

If you got nasty food poisoning I doubt you’d struggle to shit for the next while....

That's really disgusting why would you not just wash them.

It's not gross, but not a good idea, but I dare say it's been done in lots of kitchens everywhere, nobody ever knows, unless you tell them about it.

When you work in catering you life is ruled by this shit and you can be shut down, not worth the hassle!

At work, no. But do what you want in your own kitchen.

YANBU - I have three pairs of kitchen scissors so they can go in the dishwasher after touching raw meat.

This thread makes it clear why food prepared in other people's kitchens so often gives me the shits.

Not gross but def cross contamination

My mum once told me that she used to eat raw sausage meat as a child

Is there a somewhere in between option? It's not outrageous but it's not fine either. It's pretty gross but I'd struggle to get het up about it!