Would you eat something homemade in the office?

[Noschky]

husband has a small business. During the festive period I tend to drop off sweet treats as a way of showing appreciation. I have always bought these treats in the past from bakeries/ supermarkets etc. This year I’m on maternity leave and thought it might be name to bake something myself. I’m a decent baker.

im just concerned that some people can be a bit funny about homemade goods due to hygiene concerns. I am a type A clean freak.

but should I just not bother or will something homemade be seen as a nice gesture?

Yep, love a homemade cake or biscuit and will always have one (or more) happily!

in my office we shun shop bought goodies as full of UPFs but we are snobs 😀

I would, especially if it was mince pies because shop-bought ones are horrible.

Yes please to home made! Someone would have to have a really shockingly poor level of hygiene (such that I might expect they'd pick their nose while preparing food and not bother washing their hands) before I would prefer shop bought which is full of additives, preservatives and shortcuts to make it more profitable for the manufacturer.

If you can make the treats with wholemeal flour, or replace some of the sugar with pureed mejool dates, you'll even convince those who are trying to eat healthily that your treats are ok to enjoy!

No, especially if there are children involved. Nothing worse than being told after eating something how much Tabitha enjoyed helping. Habitat being the one with permanent snot trails and bum fingers.

Yes I would happily eat homemade and buy from Blake sales too. I probably wouldn’t trust the ingredient lists if I had allergies but I don’t so I’m fine with the tiny risk. Never had food poisoning from a fairy cake.

I just don't get the indignation or the assumption that every home apart from theirs is a cess pit!

Let's hope they avoid any situation where a human hand may have come anywhere near food 😂😂

Much prefer homemade. I don't really want to eat shop bought cakes etc.

It depends on who made it. There are colleagues who's hygiene standards I trust and others who I do not.

In fact the only time I can trace an illness back to food hygiene was from a professionally catered event where a bunch of us came down sick 48 hours later. They did an investigation and found one of the staff had come to work with Norovirus. DD2 escaped just because she wasn’t on solids yet! But almost the entire group of about 100 people who went ended up sick. There was a HSE investigation.

It's not clear what yabu and yanbu is in this case. I would absolutely eat something homemade in the office though and will bake a few times a year for my team.

Homemade cakes and biscuit are almost always better. I'd be thrilled.

Let the pearl clutchers and obsessives buy their own if they are that fussy.

Yes in a heartbeat. Probably wouldn't bother with processed supermarket "treats" but anything homemade or from a bakery, I'm there.

Vast majority of people are like this. I've never encountered the phobia of homemade food because what if their kitchens have germs in outside of MN. When DP takes his baked goods into his work they disappear in seconds and whenever I meet his colleagues the first thing they say to me is how delicious they are and I should encourage him to bring more in (ha, not a chance if I can keep them in the house for myself).

I make it very clear that my kitchen is a wreck, and I have a SEN child and dogs, but colleagues always clamour at me to bake for them so I don’t think on the whole people are too fussy as long as it’s good cake!

I would only eat treats that have been home made. I wouldn't eat shop bought if you brought them in.

I would happily eat a homemade cake..

Almost everyone will eat and enjoy and appreciate the home made treats. A few will be health nuts / germophobes / whatever and not touch them, but will probably still appreciate the gesture. Don’t overthink it.

Also a big assumption that shop bought are super hygienic, from the factories, to the bakers, to the shop assistants, to the sometimes possibility of random customers handling before they don't buy. Homemade is probably equally or more hygienic and has real ingredients.

I used to, until I went to my friends and watched her baking some homemade "goodies" for her colleagues - on the same counter her overweight cat had parked his dingleberry riddled arse moments before, without wiping it down. The same cat also dipped his paw into the cake batter and she just laughed and carried on. She also licked and reused the spoon multiple times. When I pulled her up on all these things she scoffed and said it's normal.

So now, not so much with the homemade stuff, because I have no idea the state of other people's kitchens (and I'm not even a loony germophobe, honest! Just seeing that crusty cat butt sat on a counter and her rolling biscuit dough out on it moments later gave me the permanent ick)

Only if you’re very good at making them. I stopped eating home made at work after a couple of times when the cakes were awful. One was made from god knows what (baker was vegan, but I’ve had very decent vegan cakes before). It was a spit out and throw away experience I never want to repeat 🤢

I make brownies at home and take them to work (colleagues beg me to make a batch)

One snotty cow refused to eat them on the basis she'd not seen my kitchen so didnt know how clean it was (other colleagues who had been round mine put her straight that my kitchen is spotless)

They go down a treat-i can bring a tin in at 2pm and they are all gone by half 3

It doesn't seem to other anyone-they are too busy getting one before they go!

If it was not for this board, I would not realise that people were weirdly fussy about home-made goods. I would be very grateful and prefer that over shop bought stuff.

Please can I ask for your brownie recipe? It’s the one thing I’ve never really been able to nail.

Of course!
Anyone fussy enough to reject whatever you’ve made can go without.

Ive been to and organised cake sales in the office and the homemade cakes always contacted then the shop bought cakes.