Cooking related obsessions

SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I get everything out and ready before I start cooking. Sounds sensible, but I live with someone who will walk in part way through and start putting things back into the cupboards and washing things that are "dirty". It is in quotes because I honestly am more than happy to use the same knife (unwashed between vegetables) to cut all of the veg up for that meal. I don't care that I put it down and picked something else up, I am still USING it and it really does NOT need to be washed between the carrots and the celery!
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Yeah, that would drive me batty. But there's the opposite end of that spectrum where after a meal is consumed, my OH does not lift a finger to help me with the dishes, pots and pans. In fact, a few times I ate earlier than he did and left the food out for him and went to bed, and woke up a few hours later to get water and found all of the food still sitting out so had to groggily deal with that. Or worse, wake up in the morning to throw food out.
 
Barriehie said:
Any kind of timing rule if it hits the floor???
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Yes.
Zero.
Anything that falls on the floor stays there; it's never, ever, ever reused to cook with.
Edited to add: Mr Porky is usually around, so the 3 second rule never applies.
 
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As for taking everything out before starting to cook; that's just logical mise en place. You get everything (and I mean, everything) prepared before you start to cook. Then you know you can just cook, not worry about what's missing.
If you've got time, whilst cooking, to put things away, or maybe wash up, then fine. Simple example: a basic tomato pasta sauce (for me) involves frying some garlic in olive oil, then adding a tin of tomatoes, a few herbs, perhaps (basil and oregano) and then, leave it to cook for a while. As it's cooking, I've got time on my hands, so I can quite happily put things away and/or wash up a couple of items.
Cooking a salmon steak, however, requires 100% concentration, because it's only going to take 5 minutes or so. A few extra minutes in the pan, and you've got dry fish.
 
karadekoolaid said:
NOT a good idea, imho.
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I don't have pets and we are a "no shoes in the house" household. My floors are pretty clean, but I wouldn't pick something up and eat it without washing it.

I worked as a merchandiser in grocery stores where we would go in and rearrange shelves in the various departments. Some of the grocery store back room merchandise is not stored so well that anyone should be eating produce that's not thoroughly washed, even the bagged lettuce or clamshell fruits and vegetables. And let's not talk about the lack of hygiene of some store associates. And what about the field h hands who picked the produce? Or those little kids with their parent shopping who pick their noses, put their fingers in their mouths, and then touch everything? My floors are nothing to worry about in comparison.
 
karadekoolaid said:
NOT a good idea, imho.
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the way I see it, is that I can either eat it as it is, or it is going to get cooked anyway, so I don't worry about it if it is just for us. If I am cooking for guests, that's different but we are used to living rurally and drinking untreated water, so something that has landed on the floor and is going to then get cooked, I honestly don't see an issue with (for people who are used to being exposed to germs).

But I am well aware that my husband and I are much more accustomed to germs and untreated water than city folk, which includes all of our families.
and even if I did wash it off, I am washing it off in untreated water anyhow.
 
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