Where do you store your eggs? (and other food hygeine questions)

[ChirpyGirl]

After DD1's bout with campolybactor I have been sent some bloody patronising really helpful leaflets on food hygiene but a few things have confused me.

Firstly, I never put my eggs in the fridge, it is not good for them, they absorb odours and also have to be room temperature before being used in loads of stuff, I am aware a lot of people do put them in the fridge (because of those tray things!) but what do you do?

And do you wipe down your child's highchair seat, tray, straps and wash the floor with antibac solution, cos I don't!

I store eggs in fridge.
I wash floor with antibacterial cleaner.
Sorry to be so irritating.

People do store eggs in fridge but there really is no need too.

Just did a food hygiene course and asked the chap that very same question, he pointed out that supermarkets don't keep them in fridge

I keep eggs in the fridge. I don't know why, just coz my parents do.
I wash my floor with bleach. Prob not good for floor but it was filthy when we moved in. I could do it with water, but in habit now.
I clean highchair before and after use with dettol kitchen spray. Mainly just the tray though and that's because I wouldn't eat from yesterdays dirty plate.

I keep my eggs in the fridge, partly because I have bugger all storage and partly because they last past their sell by date then.

I wipe my DS's highchair with antibac about once a week.

We're pretty healthy

I have never stored my eggs in the fridge, and generally speaking just wiped my highchair with hot soapy water.

A large part of me is of the mindset that if they don't come into contact with germs (i.e. using anti bac stuff and bleach constantly) they will not develop antibodies and be more ill later in life.

I think if you are careless wih raw chicken and the like then you might need to be heavy handed with the anti bac, otherwise just hot water and soap and perhaps an anti bac once a week (at most I would say).

Chirpy - just remember that anti bac and bleach kill all the "good" bacteria too.

in a wire basket on the kitchen worktop.

i wipe down DD2's highchair with liquid soap nuts and use some stuff from Lakeland to mop the floor as it's real wood.

I keep eggs in the bread bin. I don't why.

I wash the floor with antibac stuff because my dog likes to go around licking it (just in case I have dropped a crumb of food) and it is covered in slobber.

I use bleach, not to be a clean freak because I'm not, but because I had to at first to get it clean, and the dog loves running mud around!

I store my eggs in the fridge and potatos - usually put eggs in the door still in the box and potatos in the salad part at the bottom.

I worked in a hotel for far to long and got into these habits.

I dont put bananas in the fridge but most else I do when it is hot.

More food poisoning I was told from hand on food then in mouth. This is why we were banned from eating in the hotel kitchen. So can understand why yout lo got it from collecting eggs

Nothing wrong with a bit of mud LBB! Apparently, farmers kids are some of the healthiest around. IMO, with dogs you just have to make sure you "pick up" every single day which should ensure it is just mud!

Ok here goes

I have chooks, my eggs are not in the fridge.

I gave up using anti-bac about 4 years ago, I have 4dcs the younger two have never seen/smelt/tasted etc anti bac

Our kitchen floor is washed circa 12 times a year

My oldest dc has allergies, I admit she was a pfb and I worried and fussed and used anti-bac

My youngest dc is 'free-range' (like the chooks), she is robustly healthy.

I do think that there is a connection.

I am happy with the way we live, I would never tell anyone to copy our lifestyle, it works for us

I do wash her highchair! Just usually I wash it in a clean bowl of washing up water before I do teh washing up, and the floor does get cleaned, but with all-purpose stuff, specifically not anti-bac.
winestein that is my mindset too, plus if she is going to crawl round picking everything up and shoving it in ehr mouth how is a spotlessly clean higchair going to help!

Those bloody leaflets though were so

'You must anti bac or you will paaaaaaaaay'

ahem

Eggs on the kitchen worktop.

Dd's chair and the table get wiped with a wet cloth, sometimes with washing up liquid on it.

Floor gets cleaned with a Scooba robot using flash professional, and dd often eats bits of foods that have been dropped on it.

I grew up free range with geese, sheep, dogs, cats etc in a smallholding (with restaurant...which is why I never put my eggs in the fridge, chef would hunt me down...) and am fairly healthy, albeit overweight!

DH and I have never had food poisoingin, fomr my food or takeouts, as we rarely have takeouts, and yet the woman from envrionmental health was soooooo patronising on teh phone as well
'You do make sure you wash your hands before eating don't you'
'You must ensure your child doesn't touch eggs again, and if she does, you must wipe her hands with an anti bac wipe straight afterwards'
(will I fuck)

I also have hens, my eggs are on the window sill, 4 layed today, two left.

Supermarkets don't keep eggs in the fridge... so if you know your eggs are fresh and you are not keeping them for weeks on end, I wouldn't keep them in the fridge.

Let your common sense prevail Chirpy . IMO leaflets are usually aimed low so there is a safety net for those that wipe the highchair with a week old chicken breast (joking aside, it would ensure that if someone just wiped up where a chicken breast was if they then used anti bac ont he highchair before using the same cloth it would be belt and braces)

You know this

Yay Butterfly

My eggs are in the fridge (nowhere else to put them!)

I tend to be careful with things like raw chicken etc and so then I am not heavy handed with antibac stuff. Only once every 2/3 weeks on surfaces. I vacuum the kitchen floor as it is quicker and easier, wash it every 6 weeks ish.

AND...my mum thinks I am OCD about germs

I always keep eggs in the fridge because I think they are like meat or dairy, ie highly perishable. I also don't use huge quantities and want them to last as long as possible!

If I'm organised enough I get them out say 1 hour before using them to let them come to room temperature. But sometimes I forget and they always taste OK.

I change dishcloths and tea towels and baby face-wiping cloths daily and wash in the machine. I think a lot of germs are spread through dishcloths. I wipe the highchair and kitchen surfaces with hot soapy water after every meal. I spray the highchair once a week with antibacterial spray, I think that's enough and it's mainly as an extra safeguard. Too many antibacterials can be harmful.

I sweep the floor after every meal but only vacuum about twice a week (we have carpet in the kitchen), the wipe-cleanable sort.

I think common sense is the key, you don't need to be obsessive about hygiene because babies are always crawling around and putting things in their mouths!

my dh says environmental health love to blame things on eggs and chickens "they learn it at school campylobactor is an organism that lives in animals guts, it could've come from a chicken but my dh reckons it could have come from many other sources too... he also thinks once you get it, it seems to confer some level of resistance, people who work in chicken factories get it in their first week and don't get it again.

I am generally a bit of a hygiene slattern but do keep eggs in the fridge, mainly because my mum always did and I haven't given it much thought. Having read this thread I am thinking of moving them out to be part of the cool 'let them eat dirt' crowd!

Chirpy

If you ever need reassurance that someone else is a worse slattern than you, hunt me down

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, fortunately I am an atheist

My children did not get the vomiting bug over the winter, in fact have never been laid low with any of these germs which appear to be rampant in schools. (and we don't HE)

I had salmonella 15 years ago and live in hope I might contract it again - would help with my weight loss campaign .

Umm, my children wash their hands after their meal and not before

dh also says when an egg is put in the fridge it shrinks as it gets colder which tends to suck anything on the surface into the egg, especially if the egg is wet or moist, eggs should be kept at a constant temperature( if it heats up then cools down it gets condensation) so keep in a cool, dry place