To ask what you do when preparing raw meat

[Rosesandthistles]

I have OCD with a contamination/germ obsession as part of my condition and have lots of excessive/irrational fears around germs and illness. One of the (many) ways that this affects me is that I cannot bare to prepare or even have other people prepare raw meat in the kitchen.

I am working through therapy on facing this fear and wondered how cautious everyone else is when preparing raw meat- do you:

• Wipe the sides down after for example sticking chicken fillets in the oven or do you just bung them in and ignore any spills?
• Avoid touching the oven/other ingredients with raw meat still on your hands or would you just go around touching the other ingredients and the oven without thinking about it?
• Put any chopping boards/knives that you've used on raw meat straight into the dishwasher or do you leave them lying around or wash them up by hand?
• Wash your hands for 20 seconds after handling meat? or just a quick rinse? And would you wipe the taps afterwards or try to avoid touching the tap with stuff on your fingers or just not think about it?

Also, have you ever had food poisoning after eating food that you've prepared?

I have OCD and although contamination isn't a strong theme of mine it is there in the background.
I prepare raw chicken like this:

I have one pair of scissors I use if I'm cutting it up, I'll cut it straight from the packet into the pan. Once I'm finished cutting it up I will wash my hands normally with antibacterial soap. I then wipe down the taps if I've touched them and wipe up any spills.
If I'm not cutting it up then I do the same but with the knife or whatever I've used to prepare it. Anything that has touched the raw chicken gets put straight into the dishwasher.

It took me a few steps to get to this point, I did an exposure hierarchy for contamination but it was a couple of years ago now.

Wooden chopping boards are more hygienic (wood is naturally antiseptic and doesn't get the germ-habouring cut marks that plastic gets) and wood should only be hand washed.