Not to have known that you should wash disposable roasting trays before use?

[WaltzingToWalsingham]

I know, I know...I shouldn't be using disposable items at all. But DD had a Food Science practical today, and the item she was making was too large for her usual container. I didn't want my usual non-disposable roasting tray to be lost at school, so I gave her a disposable one to use, straight out of the pack (that I bought to make a lasagne for my neighbour when she was unwell, so she wouldn't need to wash and return the container to me).

Imagine my surprise when I was idly reading the packaging just now, and saw that I should have washed it before use! Surely the point of disposable anything, is that you don't have to wash it! It even says "no washing up" on the front of the pack!

Does everybody else know to wash disposable items before use? Will DD's food (and my neighbour's lasagne) be contaminated because I didn't wash the roasting tray first?

Didn't know either. Use every week and never did me any harm

I always give them a rinse before cooking in them to get rid of shop dust.

@SchrodingersImmigrant

I always give them a rinse before cooking in them to get rid of shop dust.

This! And God knows whose touched it previously 🤮

It will be fine.

I guess the manufacturer says it to protect themselves.

I think most china and glass items as well as saucepans say that too.

It wouldn’t occur to me to wash it. By the time it’s been heated to 200 degrees in the oven for several hours, I can’t imagine any shop bacteria are going to have survived. I imagine it’s just one of those precautionary things they state to cover their asses.

But they were wrapped in plastic film, so they shouldn't have had shop dust on, or germy hands 🤔

Factory dust then.

@WaltzingToWalsingham

But they were wrapped in plastic film, so they shouldn't have had shop dust on, or germy hands 🤔

Oh i don't get wrapped ones. I get the gigantic ones before Christmas

"By the time it’s been heated to 200 degrees in the oven for several hours, I can’t imagine any shop bacteria are going to have survived."

After several hours, neither will the lasagne

@sunsetsand

"By the time it’s been heated to 200 degrees in the oven for several hours, I can’t imagine any shop bacteria are going to have survived."

After several hours, neither will the lasagne

😂

Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't realise! In future, I'll rinse them before use. Thank you, everybody.

@sunsetsand

"By the time it’s been heated to 200 degrees in the oven for several hours, I can’t imagine any shop bacteria are going to have survived."

After several hours, neither will the lasagne

Touché I never cook, I’m just guessing at the cooking time!