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?

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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

[brownbetty]

Although, actually:

I have a related food squick which is nearly spinal, which is using personal cutlery which has already been used on a communal condiment. Like buttering one's toast, and then reaching back for more butter with the same knife.

I know it's because my mom's a celiac, and we were trained early on to never ever get crumbs in things, but it's somehow ended up this huge squick of mine that has nothing to do with whether or not there's a celiac at the table.

[ratcreature]

I find that gross when someone has other stuff on the knife and gets it into things, even if it is not much, or not even visible. In particular when it is meat stuffs. Like someone using a knife to on the butter that was also used to spread sausage or cut up fish, or any of the foods I don't eat.

[brownbetty]

Types of food should be kept seperate!

Actually, people who put everything on their plate without attempt to segregate by type are a little gross to me, too. Like, it's okay to put gravy on your mashed potatoes, but if you make no attempt to keep the gravy out of your peas, you are a mildly wrong-type-person.