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by numpad0 251 days ago
Can I say something: could you all please stop inserting contaminated tool back into a jar of food? You use a clean tool to take out the amount you eat, and that's it.

You can put it back if the tool had touched nothing but: air, the food in the jar, and your hand at the operating end. Otherwise, that butter knife stays on your dish for the rest of the meal. The exception would be if you cleaned the tool, like bare minimum by wiping with a brand new piece of tissue paper(but that's kind of wasteful).

Is that an outrageous ask? I know it's probably not a huge deal, like free water and such, and my techniques are that of total amateur being never professionally involved in medical and/or bio science fields, but just, how can you stand possible breadcrumbs IN THE JAR!?

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> but just, how can you stand possible breadcrumbs IN THE JAR!?

Bacteria can do a number on people... Kept telling the wife to not cross contaminate jars, and other products. But you know, she knows better...

Wife was eating some fish in can, puts spoon back (with lovely saliva bacteria), puts in fridge "i wil eat tomorrow", 2 days later she eats the leftover.

She enjoyed a hour+ of "fun" muscles contracting stomach cramps to the point it was almost hospital time. Learned her lesson, well, ... for fish.

Its always like "but i do not like to keep using fresh utensils". I am always: "the dishwasher does not care if it 20 or 40 utensils". Its the same amount of wash and cost. So stop trying to recycle utensils!

My faith in humanity was lost and now I need an emergency memetic eyewash.

Even I as a human dishwasher have no issues doing extra freshly used spoons. but that refrigerated two days old spoon... that is going to have dried stuffs stuck on the surface, and it's going to need to be soaked before washing. And also mildly bio-hazardous? That's horrible. Just why...

If the fish was left in the fridge then it's not what caused the stomach cramps. Food generally keeps for more than two days in the fridge. It's pretty much what fridges are for.