Dig licking plates before going into dishwasher - ick or not

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Have have hosted a lovely Easter BH Monday for all 7 GC, 3 step children, partners & children. We had an Easter egg hunt in garden, had breakfast in local farm shop & walked my lovely little dog around, petted animals etc.

For context I need to say that DSS & DIL are both British, but live in USA.

After a roast dinner I put the plates & general pots & pans down for the dog to lick. My DIL lost the plot saying that was so unhygienic I assured her that they would be going into the dishwasher on a high temperature - about 90c so would be sterilised. I always let the dog pre-wash my plates as consider it's going into the dishwasher at high temp to be sterilised so no problem.

DIL saying she will never let her children eat at my house again & gone-taken her DH & DC off in an huff.

DH has had a text from his son apologising but saying what can he do as has to support his wife. I totally get that. But....

My question is - is it OK to let dog lick out the plates etc when they are going into dishwasher at a high temp? WWUD?

Too late, I've already done it!!

But surely if she washes her hands it fine and she’s clean and the dogs pre cleaned the plate that’s now in the dishwasher. Don’t need to bin it.

I certainly wouldn't do this in front of guests. Isn't it obvious that some people will be fine with this and some people not? Why even trigger the conversation?

She lives in Beverly Hills - has a maid who does it, also a nannie - how the other half live eh?🙄

I would be calling for a social worker and psychiatrist to have a chat with you.

That wouldn't bother me. All my cleaning cloths go in a 90'c wash, all the ones that have been round the loo, all the ones from the kitchen, all the floor mops, and anything else that's "mucky" beyond normal laundry - they all get piled into the same wash which I do at 90'c on a long cotton cycle. Then they are tumble dried.

My dog does this. Don’t see the issue if it’s going on a hot cycle. But we know guests don’t like so when others around we scrape the left over meat or fish into his bowl, and chuck anything else.

Absolutely disgusting

We have a wee jug for collecting samples, it gets washed and is kept separately from the kitchen. Maybe will start putting it in the dishwasher and then serve some guests out of it….

Fair point 😅. But would you eat off the plate once it had been cleaned?

You’ll be appalled at what humans do then and you’re sharing their cutlery.

Of course.

Presumably, after each time he’s done all that, you suggest he washes it first?

😀

If I did, then I would need that chat too!

Just as much as you wouldn't wash your used toilet brush in the dishwasher ..both dog saliva and brush likely harbour faecal particles. I don't swear normally but this post has pushed me to those limits! Are you not the slightest bit embarrassed?!

Why is everyone using the 90* setting on their dishwasher most of them default to eco don't they?
I only use the 90 setting for crusty pans if I've made a roast etc

According to a DSis who’s lived in the US for 40 years, hanging washing out on a line is seen by your average Yank as a sign of either poverty or madness.

Why do people think dogs are dirtier or more dangerous than other random humans?

I think twice about cutlery and glasses etc... in restaurants, its often very badly hand washed (you can often still see dirt or bits or missed food or even lipstick) in some places and its been in/on countless strangers mouths (that have human communicable diseases) but a pet dog, on something in a house thats then been thoroughly washed at a high temperature I honestly couldn't be bothered about at all.

It's far less of a risk and I say that as someone with a very week immune system who gets ill very easily and has spent my life in and out of hospitals.

Grim as a grim thing. I wouldn't want to eat in your house, either.

This thread and a substantial amount of replies are why I don’t join in on shared lunches at work

No not any germs, not all bacteria at all. Several types of bacteria won't be killed at 90 degrees and some of those that won't be killed are particularly relevant if a dog has been sniffing around shit.

I'm in the UK. My dishwasher defaults to whatever program the dial is set to. However, the highest temperature is 70'C.

Digression,but why are you routinely collecting urine samples? Is there a urology department do in your kitchen

But she is fine with the dog licking her children's faces, and they are not being washed at high temperatures, or for over an hour, or even at all before fingers go to eyes and mouths.
If she's ok with that, how can she have a problem with the plates? It's completely illogical.

Ovulation tests!

Yup.

Grimmer than a grim thing, on a grim day.

In Grimsby.