Would you be grossed out by homemade baked good in care package?

[BusyTraybake]

I am helping my sister put together care packages for her wedding. She is paying for the wedding party to stay in a posh hotel for a few nights. We are going to leave little care packages on the bed. I have an exceptional brownie recipe and was going to leave a trio of favours in the box. But sister’s SIL says she would never eat a homemade treat due to hygiene reasons.

obviously I will be clinically clean and wil even wear a hair net as I couldn’t think of anything worse than someone finding a hair.

Who is being weird?

This.

I have never thought twice about buying homemade bakes from charity fayres, school PTA stalls, etc. I'm pretty sure most people would enjoy the brownies without a second thought! It's really kind of you to be so thoughtful 😊

Why would a guest in a nice hotel need a care package?

Wrap them nicely, buy stickers from Etsy or print off with ingredients. People will assume they’re artisan. Loads of small businesses cook from home and only ever get visited once (or not at all!) with warning from environmental health. The naysayers are being precious. And they don’t have to eat them. Lots of things won’t be to everyone’s taste but you don’t not do it?

I wouldn’t but I have allergies so have to be very careful and I wouldn’t trust a domestic kitchen. Whenever I’ve seen things like this at wedding they tend to get left or binned, which is a shame if you’ve gone to all that effort.

I think it's fine. Most people will eat them or give them to someone that will. MNers are weird!!

I’d eat them! I think it’s a lovely gesture.

How strange that people won't eat homemade goods
.Does.that include not buying scones and cakes.in tea rooms that are described home made, what about the wedding cake? That probably won't be made in a huge commercial kitchen. Also what makes them think that food made in a commercial kitchen is more hygienic?

I always thought "care packages" were something you had arranged for you when older and in need of help. You live and learn. 😂

Don’t bother. Give your lovely cakes to people who might appreciate them - elderly neighbours perhaps 🤔

I would eat it. Would make my day. I'd gratefully receive any left behind by those who feel that all others' kitchens are disgusting as well.

A care package is for sick or elderly people surely ?!?

You need to package your brownie in hygienic wrapping like your would get from a bakery or shop

Today has been a day of realising, from MN, that there are a lot of very strange people in the world.

I would absolutely eat home made goods. And I'm shocked people would be nervous. I mean, it might be awful, but you can have a nibble and decide if you like it.

What exactly do peple think is the difference betwen a chocolate brownie made in my kitchen and one made in the kitchen at a restaurant?! (besides, obviously, the skill of the cooks involved).

I am fairly fastidious, but if the brownie were individually wrapped it would delight me!

As PP say, I suspect those who turn up their noses - just as well they don’t know more.

It sounds an unnecessary fangle for people who will have eaten and drank loads before anyway. Save your baking for people you know and who appreciate it. You can try too hard with these events.

No I do not! utterly rank.

Mumsnet is the worst place to ask about things like this, if you ask on Reddit they'll all say they'd eat it without thinking twice.

I had some weird looking pastry once and Mumsnet said to bin it and Reddit said to eat it so I ate it and it was fine.

I made handmade chocolates for a friend's wedding favours. For all those unfavoured by guests, there were other people willing to guzzle them down.

Not aware that I poisoned anyone.

She does know that all treats are made somewhere by a human?

And that the kind of processes and ingredients going into factory made treats are going to be considerably less wholesome than home baking?

I'm aware that this category of obsessive germaphobes exists but I do not think they are a majority. I have always done a lot of baking and I have never had anyone be reluctant to eat anything I made because it came out of my kitchen- in fact home baked goods have always been snapped up much faster than anything I've pre-bought for parties; sometimes I haven't even had the opportunity to taste it myself.

Honestly, 99% of the stuff people panic about on here has never crossed my mind even once. I've never been ill through eating baked goods.

What is a wedding care package?

Aren't care packages for poorly people?

I’d absolutely eat them.

im also…. Really keen for your exceptional brownie recipe if you’re willing to share @BusyTraybake …?

I regularly take cakes in to work and they are enthusiastically enjoyed. I never touch any stuff anyone else bakes though, so I wouldn’t eat cakes left in a hotel room.

I’d be surprised if the hotel actually let anyone else access hotel rooms before the guest’s check in though tbh. It’s generally policy to not allow it.

I will eat anything someone else has made. LOVE a bit of cake! I have not died yet of Other People Germs.

I can't understand people not eating home made things, it's bizarre to me. Home made is always nicer than shop bought.

Nope.
I wouldn't eat anything made in someone else's house.

Have you ever seen threads on here where people announce they don't wash their hands after peeing (because 'sterile' 😄) or after changing a kids shitty nappy?
and for all the other reasons posters have already written.