do you let your kids 'lick the bowl'????

[auburnmum]

Have always let my kids (4 and 2) lick the bowl after making cakes, etc. Yeah, I know it has raw eggs in it, but it's just soooo yummy amd never did me any harm. My friend completely flipped out yesterday when her 3 yr old ate some home-made cookie dough round my house when we were making biscuits. Is this reasonable? What do you do???

Cookie dough doesn't even have egg in it! Does your friend's dd have allergies though?

yes

your friend is a numpty

licking the bowl is a huge memory of childhood. there hasn't been salmonella in eggs int eh UK at any discernible level for AGES

yes, absolutely, wouldn't occur to me not to. Cake mixture bowl licked with glee this week.

god people are stupid

God no!

That's MY privilege!

DD is only 8 months, but at the moment she licks the floor, so the bowl will be fair game as far as I'm concerned.

Oh god yes. Yes! YESSS!

(I do really, but in my mind it's MY job.)

No, I make them flush the chain like everyone else

Yes, we always bowl lick, ds sticks his head in the bowl. We do use good local free range eggs tho'.

Umm no, we use the shiny bladed mixer - lick that and you'd have no tongue left.

Rofl, greensleeves

well I try to sneak it myself first, but he always stops me and demands his fair share

I am very embarrassed to say I don't like ds doing it because of the egg

I would never flip or anything though

I tend to turn my back for long periods so he can do it secretly when I am not looking It does slightly bother me, though

Ds refuses to lick the bowl.

He was swapped at birth, I swear.

Your friend is a fraek.

We all fight over the bowl here. my 2 dd's have the whisks from the mixer, and me and ds have the bowl with spoons although will have to give my spoon to dd3 in about 2 years,

Of course, can't believe the things people get het up about.

I prefer to bake when the kids are in bed so I don't have to share the "lickers" (is there a proper word for the beater things on the cake mixer? I've always called them lickers since I was little!!).

ah, whisks!

Only a restricted amount

Because I want some for myself

I ate whiskers as often as I could as a child and am still here to tell the tale.

Maybe that's why I'm a veggie now.

Liking your style frannyandzoey, re turning your back. I am a slummy mummy, I'm too lazy to worry about it

Thanks for your posts guys - the paraniod inner me was beginning to suspect some form of negligent child abuse on my part.

Gibbononaribbon - whiskers ... as in cats????

waswondering - PFB?? (I'm a newby so no clue. Thinking perfect fg b*d?)

Colditz - no known allergies

was wondering - ummm, would that be 'precious first born' just had a flash of inspiration