Kitchen Crimes

[crazee4mickey]

Me being in a kitchen and attempting anything resembling cooking is the BIGGEST crime.........

 

[Tiggeroo]

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.

Are you my sister. Seriously, my mother did all these things. I thaw meat on the counter but try not to let it be too long. I make cookie, cake and brownie batter just because I want batter. I don't like the stuff cooked. My grandmother used to eat seasoned raw beef all the time. She weighed 85lbs on a good day and was always getting in trouble with her dr for anemia. He was probably thrilled she did this. While she was alive I did this all the time and loved it. At some point I just got grossed out about it and stopped.
My kids get the lessons in health class and would get very upset about the thawing of meat on the counter. I can't imagine ever getting a turkey to thaw completely in the fridge.

 

[Tiggeroo]

Oh i've murdered pot-roast, ruined the reputation of shoe-fly pie to dh forever, and even mortally scalded boiling water.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

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".

Has he been playing too much SIMS again?

And now I must confess to my own kitchen crimes:

<---has lit a toaster on fire with a Pop Tart
<---accidentally blew a couple of eggs up in the microwave
<---licks the spoon AND eats raw cookie dough
<---Never used the 'Sanitize' button on her dishwasher EVER
<---once made a 'gravy' out of fat drained from ground beef, flour, water, salt and pepper. God that was gross. Ugh.

TOV

 

[MamaLema]

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!!

Be prepared to be grossed out...my grandparents ate raw ground beef on a regular basis. Accoring to them, in my native country when they were growing up, they were poor and had no electricity. Couldn't cook over a fire due to not wanting to reveal their wherabouts during the war. People in their area used to eat raw meat so they could at least get some nutrition from their food...and yes they did it all their lives and never got sick!!!

 

[ducklite]

Cookie dough eating, spoon licking, grease down the draining, thawing on the counter criminal here.

I'll usualy thaw the meat a bit on the counter--enough to take that hard freeze off the outside but it's still really cold--then put it in the fridge to finish.

I am kind of a freak about fire and sticking things into the toaster and such though, so that doesn't happen. In fact none of my appliances are even plugged in when not in use except the under the cabinet can opener.

I have a stupid question though--other than it not being good for the plumbing, why can't you pour grease down the drain?

Anne

 

[isyne4u]

Me being in a kitchen and attempting anything resembling cooking is the BIGGEST crime.........

Sis is that you???? I think we must be related!!!!! I burn toast on a regular basis!!

tara

 

[jennyl772003]

My whole family eats cannibal sandwiches. That is raw ground beef on rye bread. Topped with black pepper and red onion.

We thaw on the counter. I lick the beaters and taste the batter. If something just expired, we will probably still eat it.

My mom cut the mold off of cheese and bread and fed it to us. Left over pizza was always stored on the counter and eaten the next day. As long as it didn't smell, look, or taste funny, we ate (gently) expired food. Putting left overs into the unheated entry way or outside was just as good as the refrigerator. (I live in WI, so it pretty much is!)

 

[MzDiz]

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.

We stick food outside too, but it's Michigan, there's no hope for a thaw until April. We also don't refrigerate pizza and eat it the next morning. Putting it in the fridge makes it funky. I cut the moldy parts off cheese too (only if it's a little corner though) My mother is the worst though. I threw out a bottle of Karo syrup that was dated 1978 from her cupboard. I'm surprised we're all not dead.

 

[Sherrypooh]

My name is sherry and well when I make pancakes, my 16 yo only likes them cooked on the outside... and barely any color. Yes people they are gooey and squishy on the inside. Only way he will eat them... Lock me up and throw away the key for this kid....

 

[Poohnatic]

My mom would eat beef tartare (that's the raw stuff, folks) every time she made a meatloaf or meatballs. Which, in my house growing up, was about once a week. Fortunately, because she worked nights, when she'd do this I wouldn't witness it-I was grossed out when I did!

A kitchen crime I had to endure was my brother (who'd taken over nightly cooking duties) made a meatloaf with just bread cubes and meat. No moisture. Man, it was a ROCK. It was rather crunchy. At dinner, dad turned to me and told me that from then on, I was making dinner! I was 12!

If you want a faster way to thaw that meat, put it on an metal cookie sheet when you thaw it on the counter-it is much quicker.

I cooked an oven mitt (an expensive one, too) when I took something hot out of the oven and placed it on the stove-not realizing that I hadn't turned off the burner after taking a pan off.

Suzanne

 

[arminnie]

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.

My 85 year old father (who is in great shape and is at the mall right now chasing women) is the KING of expired foods. He even goes to this salvage place - that I refer to as the "used" food store. He once bought a case of 19 cent expired mayonnaise.

He must have his own penicillin factory going inside his body. The couple of times that he has had surgery (knee replacement and abdominal aneurysm) he heals very quickly.

I personally avoid his food like the plague (which it must be related to biologically), but it doesn't seem to have done him any harm.

 

[Tiggeroo]

I think we will end up regretting our over-sterilization of our kids' world. We've learned that too much cleanliness and lack of exposure to animals, etc has increased asthma. I think we will find that we avoid getting alot of natural bacteria, etc into our systems by avoiding all things with any risk will end up making us much more susceptible to things. In another generation or two there may be whole food groups people need to avoid do to this. I think we should be careful but stop obsessing so much. Watch food channel. Most chefs including Alton Brown can give a very good explanation of the true risk of egg products. He even did a whole show on it. If you are not in a high risk group you should just relax a bit.

 

[Lachesis00]

Sorry but this cracked me up

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

 

[puffkin]

I think we will end up regretting our over-sterilization of our kids' world. We've learned that too much cleanliness and lack of exposure to animals, etc has increased asthma. I think we will find that we avoid getting alot of natural bacteria, etc into our systems by avoiding all things with any risk will end up making us much more susceptible to things. In another generation or two there may be whole food groups people need to avoid do to this. I think we should be careful but stop obsessing so much. Watch food channel. Most chefs including Alton Brown can give a very good explanation of the true risk of egg products. He even did a whole show on it. If you are not in a high risk group you should just relax a bit.

I agree

 

[Chicago526]

I think we will end up regretting our over-sterilization of our kids' world. We've learned that too much cleanliness and lack of exposure to animals, etc has increased asthma. I think we will find that we avoid getting alot of natural bacteria, etc into our systems by avoiding all things with any risk will end up making us much more susceptible to things. In another generation or two there may be whole food groups people need to avoid do to this. I think we should be careful but stop obsessing so much. Watch food channel. Most chefs including Alton Brown can give a very good explanation of the true risk of egg products. He even did a whole show on it. If you are not in a high risk group you should just relax a bit.

I agree. I only use the anti bacterial cleaner in the kitchen (too much raw meat, especially chicken, flying around). Everywhere else in the house is normal non-anti bacterial cleaner. The more germs, the better our immune systems are, and in the end we get less sick.

 

[Syrreal]

I think we will end up regretting our over-sterilization of our kids' world. We've learned that too much cleanliness and lack of exposure to animals, etc has increased asthma. I think we will find that we avoid getting alot of natural bacteria, etc into our systems by avoiding all things with any risk will end up making us much more susceptible to things. In another generation or two there may be whole food groups people need to avoid do to this. I think we should be careful but stop obsessing so much.

There are actually many studies already on this. They are finding that kids are getting sicker more easily than before and allergies are just skyrocketing. There have even been cases where parents have super sterilized their homes and (in a sense) bubbled their kids, so that when the kids would even get a cold or flu the kids would die from it b/c their immune systems had never been exposed.
Seriously, how many people did you know growing up that were allergic to peanuts? It wasn't that long ago that I was in elementary school and they served pb&j as the alternative choice for whatever they were serving. I grew up playing outside in the dirt all day, drinking kind of "pasteurized" milk (we lived on a farm and all my mom would do was boil the milk once before we drank it- it was straight from the cow). I hardly ever get sick and my only real allergies are to penicillin and bug venom.
The only reason I'm not eating my raw egg and sugar right now is b/c I'm pregnant so it kind of puts me at a risk group...well my baby. Otherwise, there is a good chance I would have had that for breakfast.

 

[janey99]

I will eat raw cookie dough and cake batter at any stage of production.

I also taste every batch of meatloaf I make before it's cooked. Otherwise, how would you know if it's properly seasoned?! (for those keeping score, that includes raw ground beef, raw ground veal, raw ground pork AND raw eggs!)

Lock me up and throw away the key!

 

[disdanny]

Extra pity for us old fools (48) who can remember when prepackaged food was sold without an expiration date plastered all over it. We actually kept and used prepackaged foods until they were gone!! Can you even imagine that??
Nowadays even bottled water has an expiration date.

Now run along all you young'ns and fetch me my cane and glass of unexpired ice water...

 

[NikiM20]

I have 7 dogs and I foster animals so they are in and out all the time. Our DD is never sick, has no allergies, etc. Now my sisters DS is the sickest child I have ever met and she is the Queen of Clean....she has JUST started letting her oldest come to my house I am never sick and my DH is never sick so all those germs must be doing us some good. I leave out cooked food in the oven , thaw meat in the sink, and just so I dont have to make cookie dough to eat it , I buy the tubs at Sams So all my dear friends on this Dis , if you would like your child exposed to many , many germs send them on over