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?

it depends heavily on who made it. Sometimes yes, sometimes hell no. My tummy hurts on days untrustworthy cooks bring homemade goodies in so sadly I can't have any today but they look delicious.

Yes, homemade is so much nicer. We have a few good bakers in our team at work and it's great

we have home made baked goods in the office all the time! Has never crossed my mind not to eat them. But then most people on MN seem to bin their food at midnight on the best before date 🤣

Homemade stuff always goes down well in my experience. I usually can't eat it because I have coeliac disease but someone at my last workplace would always make the cakes gluten free so I could have them too.
Current workplace is heavily shop bought goodies unfortunately, but the lovely people often buy something gluten free for me as well so I'm not left out.

How on earth do you find something like that out? How does it even come up in conversation?

I don't put my toilet brush in the dishwasher and think it's grim, obviously, but I've also never actually had a conversation about toilet brushes. Ever. And barely any about dishwashers.

Don't get me started on the weekly threads panicking about leaving food out overnight and throwing a week's worth of lasagne in the bin. The food waste is more sickening than whatever they think they might get from eating it.

I like to bake and always bring things into work. If I'm baking with my toddler we'll eat it at home or everyone will be given fair warning he was involved. But I'm fastidious about keeping everything clean while baking so his hands would be scrubbed etc anyway.

Some of the best food I have had has been brought into the office

Hygiene standards are mainly good imo. I worked preparing chilled food for major supermarkets and got shouted at for touching my phone screen during work and made to re- glove. They wear gloves aprons hairnets and shoe covers and have to clean hands upon entry to the workspace. The only thing I thought was wrong was that toilets were in the main building, which I didn't think was very hygienic

In my workplace they all eat homemade bakes. We have a charity coffee morning once a year and a few of us bring in treats. I also bring some in on special occasions. My DH's coworkers always ask for him to bring in some of my baking, so I send in a lot of brownies, cinnamon rolls and traybakes.

If people have allergies then they should have common sense not to eat.

Sometimes when having cakes for charity at my work someone makes GF stuff. Unsure if the colleague is GF or has someone in their family is GF

When l was a manager l used to bake for my office about once a month.
There was never anything left at the end of the shift!

I would take one yes, to save for later after my lunch 😉

Where my hubby works several of the women bring in cakes or fudge all homemade and all the guys love it

Homemade every time!

"cat had parked his dingleberry riddled arse moments before, without wiping it down."

@JudgeBread I miss my cat. He would do the hoovering weekly and would never leave the counter before giving it a once over with sanitiser and blue roll.

When any of us make anything in work, they are gone in minutes! We love it when someone goes to the effort of baking.

Homemade is lovely! I have to be cautious because I'm allergic to egg, but if something has a clear list of ingredients I'd happily tuck in.

Home made? sure thing, yum!
Home made and you told me your children helped, i'd politely decline.

I have quite severe OCD, and I cannot eat homemade from anyone. Even people I know.
Even my own mother. I wouldn’t ever touch a buffet and I can’t know who made the food I eat, or see it be made. Example: I could never eat at McDonalds as you often can see the person making your food. I would not eat something a colleague has brought in, although I would pretend to. I have a colleague who often bakes me cakes for special occasions and I just take them away and pass them on to someone who will eat them. It’s a control thing I guess, but I’ve been like it for nearly 40 years, so I don’t think it’ll ever change. I’d just rather a Twix.

I wouldn't, but I know lots of folk would.

MN has really made me aware of a group of uptight weirdos that I never meet in day to day real life.

I used to think it was a gen Z thing as my young adult kids can be like this sometimes and I roll my eyes at them. But this board has made me realise that there are older adults behaving in a ridiculous way as well. Such precious wasteful behaviour.

Goodness knows how these people would cope in a less sanitised existence in a different country, or if we were at war etc. Pathetic. I have never become unwell from eating somebody’s home-made cakes and I am well into my 50s now.

I'd go for homemade..unless someone told me their kids had helped lol. If they're anything like my small child when baking there's a sneeze or 7 🤣

I will say my pearls get clutched very tightly when I see a cat in the kitchen. Unlike dogs they can (and do) climb everywhere.