To not eat food prepped in the sick bowl

[Homeiswherethedogis]

Just walked in on DH mixing the ingredients for our dinner in a bowl... Which has also been used as the kids sick bowl a couple times! Yes it's been cleaned since housing the sick but I still don't really want to eat tonight's meal.

I'm being told that's silly and to get over it.

AIBU?

Yes - eat the meal DH has made
No - that's gross don't eat

Desperately trying not to think what a dick bowl would look like

Something like a penis beaker for a larger endowed gentleman?

@SwingTheMonkey 😂😂

Indeed.

Mine also may be used for holding a tin of paint that is being used.

But not at sane time obviously.

Our sick bowl(s) get bleached, dishwashed hot and then go back in to general circulation!

a lot of our meals will have been prepared in something someone’s vommed in.

My husband just made popcorn in the sick bowl (which was used this morning!). I wouldn't do it until it's been through the dishwasher a couple of times but if he's happy with just the once 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is a dick bowl

YANBU

I think it's utterly disgusting.

yes, technically it must be fine, so many people do it, but personally No Fucking Way!!

I have a small dishwashing bowl, kept in the bathroom (downstairs), I have used it occasionally for soaking things, but even then only 'dirty stuff' (muddy socks etc) I would never soak dishcloths or tea towels etc in it.

I know I'm anal, but I'm good with that.🤷🏻‍♀️

I wouldn't want to eat from anyone else's family sick bowl but i wouldn't care about our own one. That said, it is a separate bowl in our house - salad bowls that get too scratched up to be used get downgraded to sick bowl status and live in a different cupboard.

You need a bucket. We have sick bucket after dh freaked about same issue even though it had been handwashed, bleached then through dishwasher

Not a chance, but it wouldn't be sitting in the kitchen either. Multiple small children. Batch of basins from Amazon. Kept in various points like bathroom, bedroom, bleached and washed but not eaten out of. I wouldn't eat out the washing up bowl either.

Vomit is far less gross than raw meat (I eat meat BTW). If you’re happy the dishwasher cleans raw meat, it should clean vomit.

How difficult can it actually be to keep sick bowls and food prep bowls separate? I'm genuinely astonished that people don't do this? Our sick bowl was a cheap plastic waste paper bin from Sainsburys. It's probably still in use somewhere in the house - as a waste paper bin, not a place to prepare food. Ugh.

No, that's not at all true, don't be so silly. Vomit is full of harmful virus (hence it was expelled from the body). Raw meat gets cooked and is safe to eat when cooked properly. You are talking nonsense.

I'm sorry I had to lol at this 😂
My dear nan was always a great baker when we were growing up, but more so for the golden side of the family because we lived with her.
So of course myself and DB used to be jealous of the difference in treatment, until the day came for our sweet revenge, nan was getting incontinent, and couldn't get downstaira to use the toilet throughout the night, so guess what she used as a toilet? Yep, the magic baking bowl 😂
You can imagine their faces mid chew when we told them they were eating piss filled queen cakes 😂😂😂😂

I'm the same as you and don't consider myself anal at all, just normal.

I think what that poster meant was that you'd happily eat out of a bowl that had marinated raw chicken, and then been washed. Because you'd be satisfied that any bacteria that could cause food poisoning had been washed away and the bowl was clean.
So why is vomit different?

My kids are fairly prolific thrower upers so we have empty chocolate tubs in their bedrooms and both cars ready for unexpected sickness and I don't have to run and grab something. But I can imagine DH just grabbing the nearest receptacle and then reusing it for food!!

@CustardySergeant bravo. Plus it would be rubbish as a sick bowl, far too much seepage

@curlysue1991 you win the thread

My sick bowl lives in the utility room and I also use it to soak shirts in bleach etc. I wouldn’t put food in it, that’s disgusting.

That glass gets binned in my house 🤣 I can never get over that fear a spider has been in it !

Ok so I concede that being bright orange, at the back of the cupboard and being witnessed in it's primary use isn't good enough to avoid this happening. Tomorrow it will have a new home.

It's a bit batshit to use a food prep bowl as a sick bowl, keep it with the other food prep kitchenalia, and then freak out when someone uses it for food prep.

I mean, if it's been scared and bleached and washed up it will be fine, but why not just buy a bucket or washing up bowl for the purpose?

Scalded, I mean, not scared. Though scaring the germs off might work too.