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You find a cat hair while you are making a desert, do you pull it out and continue or start completely over?
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November 17, 2009 02:41 AM
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ha!
I have four cats. If I had to start over every time one of their hairs got into something I'd be starving :)
Mind you, I do really try to be careful and I even tie my hair back when I cook to avoid my own stray hairs!
IF, on the off chance I served someone food I had prepared and there was hair in it - I'd take it away and give them something else but mostly....
what they don't know wont hurt them! shhhh don't tell! I'm sure the cooking will destroy the bugs :D
Care for a sandwich??
I have four cats. If I had to start over every time one of their hairs got into something I'd be starving :)
Mind you, I do really try to be careful and I even tie my hair back when I cook to avoid my own stray hairs!
IF, on the off chance I served someone food I had prepared and there was hair in it - I'd take it away and give them something else but mostly....
what they don't know wont hurt them! shhhh don't tell! I'm sure the cooking will destroy the bugs :D
Care for a sandwich??
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November 17, 2009 02:52 AM
Agreed. I'm a "fifteen second rule" girl, myself. Hand sanitizers be damned, I haven't died yet - why overclean now?
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November 17, 2009 03:21 AM
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In the past I have done both, depending on the type of dish I am making. If I found a hair (usually my own rather than a pet hair) in a food dish that needed to be further cooked or baked, I would usually just pull it off, discard it, and continue cooking the dish. If there were any bacteria present on the hair, the heat would likely have killed it off. Also, it would depend on whether I had enough ingredients left to start the dish over, or whether the ingredients for the dish were hard to come by or more on the expensive side. Also if I had to complete dinner by a certain time (i.e. before my husband and children came home, or before friends came over), I think I would not start over. Hairs in uncooked foods, such as salads, dips, or cold cuts are a little bit more “hair-raising” and I might actually toss out a sandwich if a hair was stuck to its PB&J spread or clumped to a slice of cheese. I guess the thought of microorganisms taking a free ride on a strand of hair is enough to gross anybody out, but I think overall the discarding of meals would really depend more on the cooking process than on the need for freakish sanitary measures.
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November 17, 2009 06:11 AM
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I think some countries over sanitize their food. Sometimes a bit of germs are good to build your tolerance. If you think about it, our pets and our ancestors certainly don't have the cleanest lifestyles.
When I had dogs (never personally owned cat), I always made sure they are always clean when they are allowed indoor so it didn't matter for me. Besides, it is certainly more unhygienic to have your cats or dogs lick your mouth (as some people like to do) than having a bit of hair in the food. As for me, I wash my hair everyday and I always cook after I have my evening shower so I'll just discard and continue.
If you all guys come here (Asia), you'll get food poisoning within days. :) It's true, my Australian friend stayed for 2 weeks at a hospital for food contamination.
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When I had dogs (never personally owned cat), I always made sure they are always clean when they are allowed indoor so it didn't matter for me. Besides, it is certainly more unhygienic to have your cats or dogs lick your mouth (as some people like to do) than having a bit of hair in the food. As for me, I wash my hair everyday and I always cook after I have my evening shower so I'll just discard and continue.
If you all guys come here (Asia), you'll get food poisoning within days. :) It's true, my Australian friend stayed for 2 weeks at a hospital for food contamination.
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November 17, 2009 02:39 PM
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If the desert is to be taken to a church/social event, I want you think to yourself: What would you want someone else to do for you, should you be deathly allergic to cats?
I think for public consumption, you should be very careful with food you are serving because you don't know who you might unintentionally make ill or worse by not telling. I wouldn't probably start over on the dish, but I would be sure to announce to the group who will be eating it, if you are allergic to cats, I have them in my house and the fur sure does fly!!!
On the other hand, if the desert is just for you and family, life is really hard enough, don't start over for them, because they are used to the kitty hairs. :)
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I think for public consumption, you should be very careful with food you are serving because you don't know who you might unintentionally make ill or worse by not telling. I wouldn't probably start over on the dish, but I would be sure to announce to the group who will be eating it, if you are allergic to cats, I have them in my house and the fur sure does fly!!!
On the other hand, if the desert is just for you and family, life is really hard enough, don't start over for them, because they are used to the kitty hairs. :)
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November 17, 2009 03:01 PM
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If it is my own hair, i will probably continue, and the dessert is not for visitors. If it is a cat hair, I will be very worried if I'll let other people eat that dessert knowing a cat hair was inside it even for a while, you don't know what's in the hair. I don't want to compromise other people's health. I don't want other people do that to me. It is better to start over and be safe than sorry.
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November 17, 2009 07:29 PM
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I'd have to start the desert over. But what to do with all of those palm trees and sand dunes?
Seriously, though, I'd just pull it out. I'm probably cooking for myself, and since it's my own cat, I spend enough time with her as it is, and I love her, so why does it matter? And even if it isn't just for me, there are more germs in that dessert just through the preparation process than people want to think about. They only zero in on something like a cat hair because it's a visible reminder. But how do you know that what you're eating right now didn't have five in there somewhere? You don't. You can't. So all this worrying is pointless.
The same goes for the five-second rule -- unless someone has actually stepped on it, spit on it, or if it fell in a big pile of something unpalatable, I say it's fine.
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Seriously, though, I'd just pull it out. I'm probably cooking for myself, and since it's my own cat, I spend enough time with her as it is, and I love her, so why does it matter? And even if it isn't just for me, there are more germs in that dessert just through the preparation process than people want to think about. They only zero in on something like a cat hair because it's a visible reminder. But how do you know that what you're eating right now didn't have five in there somewhere? You don't. You can't. So all this worrying is pointless.
The same goes for the five-second rule -- unless someone has actually stepped on it, spit on it, or if it fell in a big pile of something unpalatable, I say it's fine.
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