Genuinely unsure if IABU

[devildeepbluesea]

My lovely neighbour (rented property) told me on moving in that she works nights as a HCP. This is borne out, as far as it goes - she’s clearly out overnight but only for 1-2 nights per week.

In the meantime I’m pretty sure she’s running a commercial kitchen from her home, and making her living mostly from this.

Are there any circumstances where this is ok? I don’t want to knacker her income stream but equally I’m a bit worried about vermin (lots of evidence of food prep outside in the garden).

😘thank you

Thanks. I do.

BUT WHAT WAS SHE DOING IN THE GARDEN?! I am begging you OP 😂

(I am perhaps cynical but wondering if you exaggerated that bit since lots have asked and you have evaded the question?)

If it's barbecue/cooking over an open fire she's going to struggle to move that indoors however nicely you ask @devildeepbluesea

And die of carbon monoxide poisoning while she’s at it.

Well I can’t be completely sure because we have 9ft high fences, but I think she’s done stuff with fish, meat and veg. I’ve no real idea what exactly. I’ll let you know tomorrow if food is left out and fear not, if there are vermin I will alert the council!!

Oooh quite the unconscious bias there no?

Does she cook outside? If so what on?

9ft high fences? Are you in prison?

Things with fish meat and veg...

Things.

Right, so then you can report it? You sounded unclear and wanting to discuss it on MN 🙂

I’m not clear. If the fences are 9ft - and you’re not really sure what type of foodstuff she has been preparing - how do you know food scraps are being left lying around?

How dare she cook in her own garden.

Does she cook outside? If so what on?

I used to live in Wolverhampton. My next door neighbours cooked cauldrons of food outside on their drive over gas burners.

Right under my bathroom window.

It really doesn't. There's more 'vermin' out there than most people can imagine until they get a cat, or two, or more than most people can imagine but long story and said killer creatures bring said vermin in your home faster than any 'attraction by cooking 'ethnic' food' ever will.

But I'd also say the OP BU because I don't understand the people who don't like to smell food, what's that all about.

Don't you dare bring logic to this thread! 😆

Do you live next to witches? Cool.

So… you’re not even sure what she’s doing with the fish, meat or possibly veg? But she’s doing it in the garden? Are you ascertaining that from smell? How do you know there are scraps being left? Why are you being so evasive? 😂

I do wonder what MN replies would be in this case 😄

I think we could all guess

Maybe shes batch cooking, feeding colleagues, siblings, friends. Perhaps she just loves cooking. If she works unsocial hours, shes bound to be cooking at odd times. Not everyone lives the 9-5 norm

🤣🤣

A commercial kitchen built into an extension probably has all the right planning permission, environmental health certification etc. Someone operating from a domestic kitchen, probably not.

^I take it everyone on this thread would be happy to eat food prepared in someone's back garden? Yes?

Of course your bloody wouldn't^

It appears that I am the only person on MN who has ever been to a BBQ. This place is nuts. I've broken pretty much every food hygiene rule that exists. Multiple time, ongoing. For decades, repeatedly. Barbecues, council star ratings, refrigeration rules, use by dates, the lot. Yet it is well over 30 years since I've had food poisoning, despite breaking all the rules that MN tells me that I will get food poising due to, yet the only time I did was from a prawn sandwich in the work canteen, that would have followed all the rules in the first week of a new job.

You sound nice.

Stuff off re what your neighbour does.

Your story changes every time you tell it btw.

This is aibu. Most say you are.

Perhaps she has a sense of smell? And vermin carry it into her garden?