If you boil your mooncup to sterilise it...

[Pendulum]

did you allocate a "dedicated pan" for its exclusive use as recommended? I cn't bring myelf to spend on a new pan but equally feel a bit squeamish about using one I also use for food, even after washing it thoroughly.

alternatively, how else can you get it really sterile? I usually use boiling waer and a bit of milton but don't think that's good enough.

fine duckyfuzz, then your friends will happily chow down own their carrots in the full knowledge of what your pan is used for and you'll all have a lovely evening

Sal probably thinks I remove the soiled mooncup and fling it straight into my Le Creuset pan complete with contents.

Black pudding anyone?

I do have sympathy for sal's view. I would not use a "normal" pan without asking/ telling DH if he was OK with it. Not sure what he would say. And god knows there's little enough romance in our lives at the moment with two kids under 5 without having that kind of chat.

Think I will buy a small cheap pan

and yes my reservation persists even though of course it would be throughly cleaned before the actual boiling.

but what about what WAS on it and where its been?

why not save money on wooden spoons and use sterilised dildos to stir your soup then? same thing!

honestly there is no need - I dont believe that you cannot afford a cheap saucepan - could even get one free from a friend who has too many

I dont boil mine, i put it in some water with a tiny bit of milton sterilising fluid, i have a special little plastic pot with a lid, it goes in there for a few hours before i use it

or soak used condoms in milton before using them as ice-bags

Might sound OTT to some but I cannot be the only one who sees it as the same thing and would be very disturbed to hear that it was used for food which I was then served

I used to boil it in an ordinary pan, but didn't like the limescale. So I Miltoned it, but didn't like the idea of putting bleach inside me. Then I started using the disposable micrwave sterilising bags. I only sterilise once a month, between cycles, so a pack of three 20-use bags should last me 6-7 years.

Anyway, unless you have thrush or an infection, it doesn' need to be sterile - just clean. AFter all, you don't sterilise everything that goes in your vagina, do you

1.Oh dear, my fanjo is squeaky clean thanks very much!

2.at dildo image. Perhaps a bit chubby for stirring with.

3.Don't want another saucepan.

Your right, it sounds OTT.

The used condom analogy is no the same as sterilising a mooncup in a plastic tub that only gets used for that purpose

I boil it in a normal pan. And am vegetarian. Not that I see the relevance. The pan is sterilised and then I wash it too. But I think I shall try the microwave method next time. In a cup. A normal cup. So, vegetarians may not wish to drink tea in my house

Sal methinks you are one of these people who didn't pay attention in science at school. because a relatively large volume of boiling eater will wash away the tiny volume of blood that mayor may not be on your mooncup.

Follow that by washing up liquid on the pan, I wonder where the hell these blood molecules are gonna hide!!!!

if for some inexplicable reason i was forced to - i would have no issue with stirring soup with a dildo (a clean one i might add) the condom ice cube scenario is repulsive and adds to my suspicions that you have some sort of ocd related psychosis

eater!!! 'water' of course

"Your right, it sounds OTT.

The used condom analogy is no the same as sterilising a mooncup in a plastic tub that only gets used for that purpose "

when did I ever object to containers that only get used for that purpose?

let me ask you guys, if you went round a friends house who didnt wanna fork out on a second soup bowl had completely sterilised their dog's bowl and served you soup in it -
would it not still make you bawk even if technically it was completely clean - not even a little?

Pendulum it's your call really isn't it? If you have reservations, buy a new pan or do the Milton/ microwave bag thing. I can actually see why you would. I just don't think it's that disgusting.

microwave idea is good. I never use anything to wash mine, just boil it. should i be using milton?

Great idea PrettyCandles, I have a load of those bags left over from the bottles era.

BTW I didn't really want to say but I have had a recurring thrush problem- that's why I want it to be sterile.

And honestly I wouldn't care about the dog's bowl!

I hope you never are forced to stir soup with a (sterilised) dildo, thegoat, but I'll be happy to drink it if you ever are.

plantsitter I didn't say I think it's disgusting at all- I was just interested to know whether people followed the instructions to use an "allocated" pan, because I suspected (rightly) that they didn't.

And because I guessed that MNetters would come up with some ideas I hadn't thought of- which they have (using microwave and sterilising bags)

'Tis all.

aha! I always wondered who those patronising adverts were aimed at..you know the ones... 'there's germs everywhere, on your door handles, scarey, scarey..buy our germ killing products now in case you die of bubonic plague in your own house!' sheeeesh.

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goodness this is getting a little personal.

Pendulum, use the bags - good idea.

I hasten to add that I had to handle a dead dog this evening!

I washed my hands thoroughly (but didn't boil them!) and then prepared the dinner.

Sorry, Pendulum, I can see you didn't. Think I got a bit carried away with the principle. Glad you got some good practical ideas from other people on the thread.