random curiosity

[ratcreature]

I am curious: When you are cooking, and tasting things, how careful are you not to get any of your saliva into the food? I.e. do you always meticulously use two spoons, or are there circumstances when you don't bother and put the same spoon you had in your mouth in contact with the food again?

Poll #2231 slobber poll

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How do you taste food when cooking?

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I always use two spoons, anything else would be unhygienic/disgusting/getting into bad habits...
1 (1.9%)

I only use two spoons when I cook for others, I don't bother when I'm cooking just for myself, and I'm the only one eating the food anyway.
14 (26.9%)

It depends on some other circumstances (like cooking for family vs. guests, whether I'm sick and potentially infectious,...)
20 (38.5%)

I never bother using extra spoons, such a tiny amount of saliva transfer has never harmed anyone.
17 (32.7%)

Comments

[draigwen]

We have more of a problem with my own hair than rat hair. Even though our rats pass through the kitchen (to get to the bathroom which we find a great place to get them used to us away from the cage) their hair doesn't seem to get onto things. Occasionally I get little white hairs on my clothes, but that's only very occasional.

Fortunately my hair has only ever ended up in my boyfriend's food and no-one else's! But again, that's probably more to do with the fact that I try to steer clear of cooking for anyone but the two of us.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, human hair can be a problem too, but mine is currently long, so I can tie it back and I notice any stray hair threatening to get into stuff more easily than the short rat hair. Just last week I found a rat hair in the apple pie I had baked...

[brownbetty]

Yeah, this. My hair gets everywhere, and although there's more dog hair by volume, my hair is longer, and much more likely to be noticed, or choked on, so it's way grosser.

[draigwen]

I probably shouldn't admit to this but when I left my old flat several years ago they asked if we'd been keeping a dog. We were pretty bad at vacuuming and my hair was long at the time and got very matted in the rug in the hallway - and they thought it was dog hair. It was very embarrassing!

Anyway... that's enough about hair... :)

[brownbetty]

I would have said “Yes! Yes I did!” rather than admit to excessive shediness (which I also suffer from.)

I've been wondering about your icon, until I thought to mouseover for alt-text. I thought it was perhaps Hebrew in a very stylized font. /oblivious.