AIBU for wanting handsoap in the kitchen ?

[blueyavocado]

We live with our in laws at the moment and there has never been hand soap in the kitchen. I got some at the weekend as the closest place to wash hands with soap is the bathroom.

Anyway, MIL keeps putting it away from next to the sink. I'm not going to put it out again next to the kitchen sink as it's her house. But I feel like having handsoap when preparing food is important

I use washing up liquid which is always next to the sink, I don’t want another bottle of hand soap cluttering up the worktop

Washing up liquid is just as good, why have 2 products when you can have one that does both jobs

What about when you're baking and covered in dough/flour etc? You'd get it all over the door handles if you had to open cupboards or go into the bathroom

@BlueGrey1

Washing up liquid is just as good, why have 2 products when you can have one that does both jobs

Because some people find it too harsh on their skin

I wouldn’t hold all nurses to a high hygiene standard, some of the ones I used to work with could be really gross on occasion! I don’t understand how you can go through approximately 283833 classes on hand washing and cleanliness inspections and still not know the first thing about cross contamination.

I never had hand soap in the kitchen until I met my husband. I just used washing up liquid. It does the same thing, but is slightly thicker and makes your hands a bit dry.

If it bothers your MIL then just take it out when you cook and put it away again when you're all done.

Could you get it out of the cupboard before you start prepping the food and put it away after? That way everyone is happy?

But yeah, We have hand soap next to the sink for washing hands after prepping meat, I thought everyone did

Where do you wash the chopping board that’s had chicken (or anything else, but chicken seams popular on this thread!) on it?
in the sink where you prepare food? Or take that off to the bathroom too??

why though? Would you get it out and put it back in the cupboard every single time? I wash hands a lot in the kitchen. Loads.

It makes sense to not put mucky hands onto cupboard doors to retrieve soap, then get those germs back on your clean hands when you put it back?

How do they wash their hands before / while cooking?

With washing up liquid similar to many respondents on the thread you didn't read I imagine

@Mothership4two

Thats a valid reason but other than that I wouldn’t bother, too much faff

@Mothership4two "Because some people find it too harsh on their skin"

But presumably the MIL, whose house it is, doesn't?

That wasn't the question I was answering. However, presumably you are wrong as OP has said that MIL uses the soap in the bathroom (or says she does).

Just use fairy liquid instead of soap. Problem solved.

@bonzaitree

Just use fairy liquid instead of soap. Problem solved.

That's been covered several times now for and against

I’m on your side. The alternative is to use washing up liquid which I find is very harsh on the skin.

Because dish soap is terribly drying. My hands are dry enough without stripping then further with fairy

@sashh If I had two sinks in my kitchen I might, but I just don't like the idea of washing my hands where I prep food.
Huh??? So whilst cooking you run back and forth to the bathroom to wash your hands? Surely like most people you wash your hands constantly whilst cooking. After handling meat, onions, etc. before opening drawers after having been touching food. Just constantly. Either all your cupboard and drawer handles are covered in raw food debris or you are gritting back and forth to the bathroom multiple times during cooking to wash your hands 🫤

Handsoap dispenser by all sinks, kitchen, bathrooms, utility.

Wouldn't use washing up liquid as soap as it wrecks my hands which already get splits etc in cold weather.

Me too....

I've just finished a food hygiene course and you would not use any kind of washing up liquid as a substitute for handwash.

Washing up liquid is primarily designed to shift grease off things, plus it's not antibacterial. It's not as good for washing hands as it is plates, cutlery etc.

For those saying they just use washing up liquid - if, for example, you've been handling raw chicken with both hands, then proceed to pick up the washing up liquid to clean your hands, do you then WASH the washing up bottle since it's contaminated with raw chicken? Much easier to use your wrist/back of hand to squeeze a bit of hand soap out.

so all of us, washing up liquid hand washers, are liers 😁

Any credible names beyond "some scientists"? 🙄

I don't use US sources for health advice. No offence.

Tbh this is probably why the PP's food hygiene course told her not to do it; too much scope for recontamination.

I do the same as you though I do try to remember to give the dispenser bit and the tap a clean after all the cooking is done if anything potentially dodgy has been involved.

This thread has been a bit of an eye opener, I've never been a MN hygiene nutter before. I own multiple toilet brushes!