If you boil your mooncup to sterilise it...

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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.

"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!!!!"

OFGS I know its "sterile" - I never suggested that one might catch a disease from it. I do have a biology degree - its not about germs. Its about the fact that ITS BEEN IN YOUR VAGINA!!!

similarly, I dont wanna see your sex toys decorating the dinner table, however clean they are. that kinda thing should be kept separate from food.

sal, you're the one who mentioned sex toys

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girlandboy I hope that wasn't your family pet?

honestly, anyone who knew me in RL (and has been to my house)would ROFL at the idea of me being the target audience for an antibacterial propaganda campaign.

"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"

that (presumably) could not be helped - unlike not using a separate container for intimate stuff and food - why do that when there really is no need?

and I'm guessing you didnt leave it on the (later sterilised) food chopping board till you were ready to deal with it

Sal, seriously, picture what your hubby's 'love making instrument' is made for outside the bedroom, and that's not been boiled...In fact, don't picture it, that's gross and that's the point. Just don't think about what the pan WAS used for and you can use it again. Its just all in the mind.

No, it got run over!

None of the men around would pick it up and return it to its' owner. So I did.

But I did wash my hands afterwards - honest.

plantsitter

"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." lil did anyone object to people not using separate containers for hygiene/germs reasons?

"Its about the fact that ITS BEEN IN YOUR VAGINA!!!"

FFS

I bet your fingers have been too. And presumably you use them to prepare food.

and lil It doesnt bother me that his bits arent sterile, however if he stirred our guests tea with it I would STRONGLY object (even if he had miltoned it first)

Now that conjures up a rare picture.

Must go now and get myself some wine, served in a recently boiled.................wine glass of course!

I'm sipping wine out of my recently miltoned mooncup

blimey. all sorts of things have been in vaginas, do we have to produce a list when we have people over for dinner?

wasn't there a thread a while back about someone who was partial to kichen implements in the bedroom? do you think they had special ones just for bedroom use, or brought them straight downstairs to stir the spag bol with afterwards?

you don't dish up a dinner party and say 'you all might like to note that DS threw up in the washing up bowl yesterday, which we then washed but was then used for washing up again. Also DP gave me a quickie on the kitchen worktop this morning (I wish ) and I did wipe it down but you might not want to touch anything that's been on it'

people don't need to know what you do with your pots and pans, tis completely irrelevant.

"wasn't there a thread a while back about someone who was partial to kichen implements in the bedroom? do you think they had special ones just for bedroom use, or brought them straight downstairs to stir the spag bol with afterwards?"

we have one that we "adopted" for that purpose and it has since lived in our bedside drawer - havent even thought about bringing it back to the kitchen - like to have it handy

lol WFHIS

I don't use the washing up bowl as the sick bowl either. I have nothing as well developed as a principle in this area but both things just feel instinctively off-key to me.

????Sal give us a clue..?

Am PMSL at this thread. Sal would have fainted clean away when my SIL announced that the scissors MIL had just used to trim the bacon were thier 'pube scissors' She can't to this day understand why they shouldn't have been in the kitchen drawer (or that she could have just not mentioned thier alternative use!)

if your friends are uptight about normal bodily functions and a bit scientifically confused, i expect they'd fall off their chairs in horror.

if they're well-balanced types who understand that boiling water will sterilise just about anything off a pan - particularly the tiny invisible vestiges of blood that we're talking about here, which the guys at CSI would have trouble picking up - i expect they'd go - oh really? and carry on eating.

if they're like my friends, i expect they'd ask for that pan specially any time they came round.

Its a hand whisk isn't it?

Oh dear, confession time here! I did once use a mixing bowl for dd to be sick in! It was the nearest thing to hand. It was either that or she would pebble-dash the kitchen.

Have made lots and lots and lots and lots of cakes in it since.

ooh, pinkspottywellies, it must be something about bacon scissors - years ago a bf and i went to his student friend's house for brunch and he couldn't find the scissors til one of the housemates came out of his bedroom with them, explaining that he'd used them to trim his 'anal beard.'

if they'd boiled them i'd have been fine, but in the circs i said i loved fat on my bacon...

"????Sal give us a clue..?"

Oh nothing that odd - just a wooden spatula that got used as a make-shift paddle ever since DH picked it up in the heat of the moment

at the pube scissors LOL

I dont use bleach much, dont own milton or detol, happily hang onto hand rails on buses/trains without frantically applying anti-bac gel, think fem-fresh products are an odd american habit BUT

my pube scissors live in the bathroom, have other ones for food

household objects that become sex toys then live in the "sex drawer" and dont generally keep their day jobs

and if I got a moon-cup I'd buy a separate cheap little pan for it

am I really that odd and OCDish?

I am completely puzzled as to what the big hairy deal is! You use an item, you wash it, it is clean, and you then use it again - it doesn't have to be for the same purpose.

I would no more tell my guests that their meal had been cooked in the same saucepan as I had used to sterilise my Mooncup, as I would tell them that it was the same saucepan as I had used to cook dinner last night. Totally irrelevant.

Have you never put your Mooncup in the dishwasher? Or would that 'taint' the whole machine? ()