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?

This thread is hilarious and gets more and more ridiculous.

I wash my dog's bowls in the dishwasher or in the sink. Yes the same sink I wash mine and my DH's dishes in. I don't have a utility room and even if I did I would not be washing the dog bowls there.

God no…not Kim and Aggie. Imagine all the dog sh*t particles they’d find in the dishwasher filter…unless it’s sterilised between dishwasher cycles 🤣🤣

Yes but how many people follow proper controlled protocols ? And how many people buy a dishwasher on the basis of what temp it runs at ? It didn't even figure in my purchase of it.

I found it interesting on google that there are different standards for dishwashers (sad I know).

So you have residential, which requires one temperature, commercial, that requires another higher standard and I believe (not sure) there are hospital which requires even higher.

I understand why commercial and hospital might be higher, in hospitals for example the risk of giving someone contaminated food might kill them is higher.

But the very fact there are different standards implies there are different levels of cleanliness, with residential right at the bottom of the pile as you would probably expect and hospital right at the top.

The fact that residential is not hospital is telling you it is a lower standard. And introducing unnecessary and nasty bacteria from dogs into that lower standard doesn't seem like a sensible thing to do to me.

Not many guests hang around our bedroom waiting to eat off the cat-licked marmitey plate.
However I find cat food revolting, I can’t bear having to wash her plates so she is always fed from paper ones.

Then its User Error.

OP's entire dog ownership is User Error 😅

We don’t need Kim and Aggie to do any swabs, @Tessiebear2023! It’s just a bit of drama for TV 🙄 Swab the rubber seal of the cleanest dishwasher, you will still grow a bunch of bacteria. I doubt the doggy dish lickers’ dishwashers will have any more nasties than any other dishwashers, even Kim or Aggie’s own dishwasher. I believe the most common pathogen in dishwashers comes from rice. Try washing your hands thoroughly and swabbing them to see what will grow 🤢

I think that's pretty disgusting.

I'm pretty sure if I swab my hands even before I've washed them you won't find any dog shit.

That would rather depend on whether you own a dog or not, @Tessiebear2023. I doubt you will find much faecal matter in a dog’s mouth or dishwasher either. It’s pretty much guaranteed there will be some on your shoes though and there will definitely be human faecal matter on your clothes (from the washing machine), especially your underwear (from you).

It’s not the faecal matter that will harm you anyway, it’s the bacteria in it (or parasites). You might not have bacteria from dog shit on your hands but there is a good chance you have bacteria from your own shit (or somebody else’s) 🤢

If you ever have guests do you let them know that your pet licks your plates if not why not?

As an aside can't you make your own tea and coffee?

This!

At risk of sounding like I'm taking this all too seriously, I don't have a dog but I do have a rabbit, so it'll mainly be rabbit shit.

This right here is one of the many reasons I will never eat at other people’s houses. Absolutely vile.

My mum used to do that and I thought it was gross. Now I do it as it gets the plates extra clean before they go in! (And I wouldn't give 2 shits what anyone else thought about it either)

Sorry that’s rancid, dishwasher or not. Do what you like when people aren’t there, but that’s not nice when you have company. They don’t need to see that.

Are the dogs hungry - do they need to eat all this people food too?

DIL has overreacted, but what does living in America have to do with anything? I wouldn’t have stormed out but I wouldn’t eat at your house again. Definitely ick.

i could make my own tea and coffee but I happen to have a very nice DH who is quite happy to pander to my morning routine of tea, coffee, pikelet, cat.

He is currently busy in the kitchen preparing our supper.

There are so many tales of woe on here about unhelpful husbands, what a pity that a decent one gets sneered at.

I let my dog do this after we've eaten a roast. I probably wouldn't do it in front of guests.

Our dog and cat bowls go in the dishwasher with everything else.

Vomitous

I do this for some plates but definitely not if we have guests - especially any that are in laws 🤣 my view like yours is dishwasher sterilises but I can understand some people saying yuk!

Silly drama? 2/3 of posters agree that it is rank.

Those who let their pets eat from anything other than pet bowls need to tell their guests.

In fact as some on here have such poor hygiene standards it'll be something we'll all be asking next time we are eating at other pet owner's homes 'your dog doesn't share your crockery does it?' 😬🤮.

I have 3 dogs. This is grim. Do not enforce your dirty standards on other people. You might have the immune system and stomach for it, but others might not. God...what a thing to be forced on someone.

There are some bacterias a dishwasher cannot kill. Dog's mouths are teaming with thousands of bacteria! Just...eww..

DiL sounds like she wants to pick a fight with you, is there history between you and SS/DiL?

It wouldn't bother me at all, it's being washed in hot water. What if one of your dinner guests had rotten teeth, would you not put all their utensils into the dishwasher? A dog might be cleaner than some of your guests!

How is that comparable?