Would the FDA close down your kitchen?

[patandchickens]

Leftovers make the BEST soup. Yes, obviously if they're off your dinner plate it is a good idea to boil 'em before cooling the soup; and I too would be squeamish about eating strangers' leftovers from a restaurant but honestly I do not think that is well-founded squeamishness as long as things get boiled well; but you cannot beat soup made that way.

Pat

 

[TanksHill]

Oh you people crack me up. What a great way to start the day. I actually had to take a Sanitation and Safety class in college. Mostly seemed like the basics your Momma should have taught you at home.

Some things that come to mind...

The legs on the mold only extend so deep. When you cut the cheeseep) You remove all of the offending bacteria. See Momma was right on that.

The five second rule.... Was disproved on Myth-busters TV show. It took like over a minute for any bacteria to actually end up on the Skittle. Momma was right on that too.

Washing the mop out in the sink... Of course, then you wash the sink.

Bacteria is good for you and helps strength your immune system. Of course!! Momma was right on that.

Uhhh, am I supposed to wash my eggs??

My whole island is butcher block. What? Am I not supposed to use it? Of course meat goes on a plastic board on the other counter. All veggies get cut on the block.

What a great topic. Goes to show all us loony folks are not that far off the mark.

But one thing I have learned from this thread. I don't EVER want a cat again!!!

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[big brown horse]

 

[lorihadams]

I have 2 children and 2 labs in my house right now.......FDA, are you kidding? If you don't like eating a stray dog hair then don't eat at my house, thank you!

We have a compost bowl on the counter, we eat stuff if it falls on the floor (after we rinse the dog hair off, of course), the dogs lick our plates too, we handle lots of raw meat in the kitchen and our kitchen sink ends up being our catch all too.

My mom used to mix up the mop water in the toilet and then mop the floor so she didn't have to use a bucket, after she cleaned the toilet of course.

Great grandma used to take her dentures out at the table and lick them. "Grandma, you got a little somethin' in your teeth, honey"
"Oh" as she takes them out to see what it is and then licks them "thank you, darlin'" and puts them back in.

I'm glad to see that everyone else on here is "normal" too!

 

[noobiechickenlady]

Licking her false teeth!

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

My kitchen prolly wouldn't even pass ya'll's standards, but Becca and her mom have ate here several times and not died yet!

 

[Beekissed]

Licking her false teeth!

My mom did this the other day!

 

[patandchickens]

I was under the impression -- somewhat bolstered by googling up things like this and this -- that wood cutting boards were considered to be as good or better than plastic, in terms of food safety.

Pat

 

[big brown horse]

I was under the impression -- somewhat bolstered by googling up things like this and this -- that wood cutting boards were considered to be as good or better than plastic, in terms of food safety.

Pat

Thanks for that info Pat.

I have a glass cutting board for meats and a nice big assortment of wood cutting boards for everything else. Plastic boards never made sense to me. Yeah I get it, they are probably better for your knife than glass, but where do those tiny fragments of plastic go after they have been scratched out of the surface? THAT scares me more than a germ or a hair or two.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

but where do those tiny fragments of plastic go after they have been scratched out of the surface? THAT scares me more than a germ or a hair or two.

Ahhh . . . very intellegent of you. I hadn't considered it because I just don't like plastic in my kitchen to begin with. I didn't know they made glass cutting boards.