Kitchen Crimes

[SDFgirl]

Do you commit "Kitchen Crimes?" You know...the stuff the experts tell you to NEVER do...?

I know I'm guilty of a few kitchen "no-no's." For instance, I (gasp) thaw meat on the counter! I've done this my whole life and never gotten sick.

Also...(small children, look away)...I eat raw cookie dough! The homemade kind! [Now looking over my shoulder for the "Kitchen Police" to come and take me away!]

 

[poohandwendy]

LOL, I eat the cookie dough too.

 

[SwedishMeatball]

Another cookie dough criminal here. Lock me up and throw away the key.

 

[MzDiz]

I lick knives. Don't tell my kids!

 

[poohandwendy]

That's ok, I have been known to run with scizzors...i won't tell if you don't tell...

 

[SDFgirl]

Oh, I just thought of another horrible thing I do. After I brown my ground beef, sometimes I just rinse the fat down the drain! Eeeeks!!

 

[Laurajean1014]

I confess......I'm a spoon licker

 

[Chattyaholic]

Nope, I'm not big on kitchen crimes. In fact I just now finished mixing up a chocolate cake and put it in the oven. Longingly looked at the beaters and bowl, but did NOT lick them like I used to do as a child. Salmonella poisoning scares me too much to risk it.

I do have a friend who, when she's forming hamburgers or making a meatloaf, will eat a bite of raw hamburger. A bite of raw cookie dough I understand, but I gag at the thought of eating raw hamburger, ugh!!

 

[SDFgirl]

I do have a friend who, when she's forming hamburgers or making a meatloaf, will eat a bite of raw hamburger. A bite of raw cookie dough I understand, but I gag at the thought of eating raw hamburger, ugh!!

Ew. No way. Icky!!

 

[Blueeyes101817]

i eat the raw cookie dough AND lick the batters when im baking a cake...

 

[irisbud]

<-- Eats cookie dough
<-- Licks knives
<-- Puts meat on the counter
<-- Rinses grease down the drain
<-- Once stuck a knife into a plugged in toaster to get out a bagle (hopefully the Tag Fairy will not forever brand me with my moment of supreme idiocy)

Anyone want to come over for dinner?

I think I need to go to Kitchen Prison!

 

[Mysteria]

All of the above except for the raw hamburger. My mother does that though (long story as to how and why she started doing that) and I am trying to break her of it. Hmmm something new that hasn't been said. I use the dishcloth/sponge to wipe the counters when I'm done the dishes. Oh the shame.

Myst

 

[RitaZ.]

I need new glasses, I read your title as Kitchen Chimes. I thought it sounded interesting.

No kitchen crimes for me, I avoid cooking as much as possible. Remember Evil Ways by Santana? In that song he sings something about coming home and his pots being cold. Yeah, that's our house and DH jokes about that.

 

[thewishfire]

Hmmm... I'm with most of you it seems. I lick knives and spoons, eat raw cookie dough, cake mix, etc., put grease down the drain... plus I once lit a pot holder on fire. I don't think me and kitchens get along very well.

 

[Steffi]

I do have a friend who, when she's forming hamburgers or making a meatloaf, will eat a bite of raw hamburger.

My mom always used to do this!

I thaw meat on the counter. I also put grease down the drain. And that's all I'm confessing to.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

plus I once lit a pot holder on fire. I don't think me and kitchens get along very well.

My almost 13yo son did this today... He was warming up some pizza in the toaster oven and must have touched the toaster oven element with the pot holder and without realizing it, put it on the counter. He put the pizza down on the cooktop and then looked over and saw the burning pot holder. Instead of just blowing the flame out or putting it in water (or getting my attention--I was in the kitchen), he flung his arms and yelled, "oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh".I hopped up, blew the flame out, and tossed it into the sink. Of course it gave me chills thinking about what would have happened if I hadn't been here , but it did give us a chance to talk about what to do if it happens again and of course how to avoid it happening.

And as to the question--I do eat cookie dough, but don't allow my kids to. Must be other things, but that's all I can think of.

Oh, I eat food that's expired. Not expired by too much, and I use common sense (and have never gotten food poisoning), but don't throw the food out on the expiration date.

 

[va32h]

We eat cookie dough and lick the batter - it's really performing a service, after all, what kind of chef would serve something they had not tasted?

I do thaw things at room temperature - it takes days to thaw meat out in the fridge. I am just not organized enough to start planning Tuesday for a meal on Friday.

 

[DMickey28]

I do all of the above. I just think it's *wrong* to make a cake and not like the spoon or beaters. I don't thaw meat on the counter very much, I use the microwave!

I will confess to eating raw fresh ground sirloin. It's a cultural thing. Not a lot but I love it. And if I ground it then that's ok.. .or if I watched the butcher ground it.

 

[Syrreal]

Actually, there are restaurants that serve raw seasoned beef. I have had it before..both at home and at the restaurant (one it was listed as very rare sasoned beef and in the other it was just carpaccio)

My food police thing is that I eat raw egg yolks beaten with sugar. I've eaten them since I was a kid (although I can't right now since I'm pg). My DH said that I can't teach our kids to eat that b/c it's gross. My view on it is more for me.

 

[OKWMom]

I will admit to licking the beaters after making a cake and to thawing meat on the counter and even to eating the raw cookie dough. However, if these crimes could send you to prison, my Mom would be on death row. Honestly, my sister and I think she is the reason neither of us ever gets food poisoning. Like a vaccination, she exposed us to all of the food bacteria growing up so now we are immune as adults. Some of her crimes (I would say past crimes, but she is still doing most of them):

Thawing her meat outside on her boxwoods.

Placing left over pizza in the oven all night and serving it to us the next day

Cutting the mold off cheese and bread and still using it

Placing the Thanksgiving and Christmas leftovers outside in the garage because there wasn’t enough room in the fridge and still making us eat it because “it is cold enough outside that the food won’t spoil”

Feeding us leftovers that had been in the fridge longer than a week

Using food from her freezer that is older than my oldest child (11)

I sincerely hope no one can top that. If so, I am terribly sorry for you.