Gah! Chicken juice!

[Beirut]

So my sweetie was cooking up dinner tonight1, which she does very, very well, and when she's finished, I see her put a big dish on top of all the other dishes in the sink. (I do the dishes by the way. And I do them very, very well.)

"Was that the dish you were marinating the chicken in?!?"

"Yes."

"You just dumped it on top of all the other dishes and now the raw chicken juice/marinade is leaking all over the other dishes."

"Relax."

"Are you mad woman! Raw chicken juice is death , now it's all over all the dishes. You're supposed to put that dish somewhere separate so I sterilize it. Now I have to sterilize every bloody dish. For ****** sake!"

"Relax."

: Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

Now I really do have to soak everything in super hot, soapy water and ultra clean everything so nobody bazooka barfs for the entire following day from salmonela poisoning.

And that's my story.

Bloody women!

The question is.... revenge? Yes or no.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

That's pretty silly...the first rule of cooking hygiene is to not put raw meat or juices derrived from said raw meat on top so it doesn't drip. And I'm not a good cook.

For revenge, you could not clean one of the dishes and then give it to her to eat off next time you have dinner. Seems fair.

[Ronin]

man.....you really take your dish cleaning seriously.....

is this your full-time activity? :D

[Beirut]

Ma man, I wash the dishes like the Marine Corps hits the beaches.

My dishes are C-L-E-A-N!

[Somebody Else]

I don't wash dishes at home, we have someone to do that sort of thing. Cooking on the other hand, what's wrong with a bit of raw meat? Build up the immune system I always say.

[Papewaio]

I live in Taiwan... I wash my coffee cup and cereal... all cooking is done in local eateries and I must say my immunities are getting stronger...

[Oaty]

Its completely safe. When I was 7 I used to take raw chicken and eat it. I just did'nt know better then. And look I'm completely normal
That's why I like the dishwasher it cleans everthing with steaming hot water

[Hetman_Koronny]

Funny. My sweetie, though being very officious when comes ot hygiene and cleaning, has also proven herself pretty much careless when raw meat was considered. Dunno, women thing

[frogbeastegg]

In my house trying to kill everyone by spreading raw meat juice is a man thing. Got to love having an upset stomach nearly every time my dad goes near raw meat...

I cook quite a bit and I'm always careful about food hygene. :sighs: I'm also very neat and hate clutter; sometimes I wonder if I'm like some characters in RTW and turning out the opposite of my parents jut to make them tear their hair out.

[English assassin]

Call me downtrodden, but if that was me I'd wash the dishes and keep quiet. Save your ammo for when it really counts. Now if the food was rubbish, on the other hand, thats worth a fight

[King Edward]

I live in Taiwan... I wash my coffee cup and cereal... all cooking is done in local eateries and I must say my immunities are getting stronger...

If Taiwan is anything like Chinese eateries you should be able to eat almost anything if you live there !!! My Girlfriend lived in Ji'nan in China for a year and I went to see her for 5 weeks and was a not to well chap on several occasions!

Have been back to china for another 5 weeks since then and also had one of to umm.... incidents.

Squat toliets + Dodgy tummy + Sandals = nasty mess

[Duke John]

Squat toliets + Dodgy tummy + Sandals = nasty mess

you don't happen to have picture taken by a sadistic girlfriend?

[King Edward]

you don't happen to have picture taken by a sadistic girlfriend?

Thankfully not!!!

The good thing about public loo's in china is that do dont have to feel bad about stinking the place out cos generally you can smell them from 50yds down the road!!

[Papewaio]

When I was working in Sumatra the miners had a saying:

"It is a brave or foolish man who farts in Indonesia."

Applicable here for the first few months...

[Somebody Else]

The good thing about public loo's in china is that do dont have to feel bad about stinking the place out cos generally you can smell them from 50yds down the road!!

The good thing is, when you've been here as long as I have, the sense of smell starts to go. Now i can get within 20 yards before I notice.

[A.Saturnus]

Relax


Besides, when I wash dishes I always wash everything in hot, soapy water.

[BDC]

Relax


Besides, when I wash dishes I always wash everything in hot, soapy water.

Get a dishwasher. ;)

[Procrustes]

When my stepdaughter was a teenager she used to make the family dinner now and then. It was always, well, interesting - took her a couple of tries to get the hang of some things but it was always fun and she turned into a great cook. One night she made a tandoori chicken using a tandoori paste mix she found in some international food store. We all sat down and I characteristically started shoveling it down while everyone else was still talking (and watching me out of the corner of one eye). It wasn't that hot temperature wise - actually, it was just warm - but I figured it must have gotten cold sitting on the table or something and besides I was brought up never to criticize the chef. I'm just about done with my first helping when she starts talking about the funny directions on the label... and I suddenly realize that she had never before seen a recipe that used centigrade rather than fahrenheit. Instead of cooking the chicken she'd just incubated it for a while!

I made a joke and it turned out OK. I'd never had chicken sashimi before, but I didn't get sick. My mom used to say "stomach acid will kill anything." Not 100% true, but true enough to be comforting.

[Beirut]

Procrustes,

That's priceless.

Actually, my woman's friend went out to dinner with her family, they all ate chicken and everyone was fine. Except the baby, who barfed the entire following day. The doctor said everyelse got away with the bad chicken, probably, because they were all drinking Coke, except the baby. The doctor said the Coke probably killed off the bacteria. True story.

Dishwasher? We don't need no stinking dishwasher!

I am...

The Dishwasher.

[Hetman_Koronny]

The doctor said the Coke probably killed off the bacteria. True story.

Yeah, that can be true. *turns into recalling mode*

Back in old days, when Poland was still a communist country, there weren't restaurants here, nor McDonalds of course. You could eat either at home or your workplace. In cities there were a few places called...hmmm... the dictionary says: self-service restaurant serving cheap meals

Anyway, you could get a small selection of meals there, mostly tripe, some soup, that popular polish sausage-mushrooms dish (bigos), some pork maybe, etc.
The level of hygiene there...well, actually there wasn't anything like that. Just imagine eating of the same bowls and using the same cutlery that was fastened with a chain to a table be which you could sit an have your meal. The food was prepared in disastrous conditions.

Despite of a potential disease, severe poisoning or ever worse, people would eat there if they had to. Such places were actually pretty popular at train/bus stations. And yes, there was a sure way to avoid any complications at all. There wasn't Coke here at that time but... A small glass of vodka would always do - no bacteria would ever survive

[Somebody Else]

Hurray for vodka!

Cure, and cause, of all of life's ills...

(sorry Homer... stole your line)

[Procrustes]

The vodka/coke thing reminds me of an epi report I read a few years ago about an outbreak of food poisoning after a clam bake. Turns out that people who were drinking beer with their clams were a lot less likely to have gotten sick than those that weren’t. So…. Drink up!

Here’s a little bit of Roman trivia for you. Did you know that the Roman legions drank vinegar instead of water? One of the first things they did when they moved to a new location was build a vinegar still. They felt that vinegar made them hale and hearty. True, actually – it wasn’t full of all the nasty bugs that “fresh” water was likely to have. It shows up in a bible story, too - the Roman soldier who held a vinegar-soaked sponge up to Jesus on the cross was trying to be kind to a dying man.