tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4010332933050943413.post6918437358111159650..comments2024-03-13T00:06:25.143-07:00Comments on In 2 Me See: Family brings out the best in youUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4010332933050943413.post-68604514572319420232008-01-06T22:42:00.000-08:002008-01-06T22:42:00.000-08:00Mandy: I just like hassling my friend. He's got a ...Mandy: I just like hassling my friend. He's got a thing about people who don't wash their hands after using the potty. I think he even watches people at his work and if they don't wash their hands, then he tries to monitor the things that they touch so that he doesn't touch them later on.<BR/>But I am pretty cautious with handling raw meat and cross contamination. I was at the grocery store the other day and I put our little one in a car cart. I got some meat and I was disappointed to realize that it didn't have a bottom section. I always put my meat on the bottom to avoid cross contamination. So I just had to carefully segregate it from the other stuff on the inside of the cart.<BR/><BR/>Polly: Here's a good one for you. I watched Mythbusters a while ago and there was an episode where they were testing to see if more poop particles get on your toothbrush if you store it closer to the toilet. The good news is that it didn't matter if you stored it on top of the toilet, or on the other side of the room. The amount of poop particles that got on your toothbrush was pretty much the same. But the bad news is that they put their control toothbrush totally in another room. And it also had the same amount of poop particles on it. Apparently poop is everywhere in the air and you can't escape it.BigKathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00965296514466216108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4010332933050943413.post-36196402170775532372008-01-05T20:16:00.000-08:002008-01-05T20:16:00.000-08:00Bigkat ... love the story about the friend w/the r...Bigkat ... love the story about the friend w/the raw meat infesting MIL ... I would tie her up if I were a guest at here house (tact, it's not something I'm gifted with) <BR/><BR/>... and what I do to not put the really hot items into the fridge (like in the case of hot chicken soup) I submerge the hot pot into ice water into the sink before distributing it out into glass tupperware.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, I knew about the plates ruining the knifes ... but I have cheap knives!<BR/><BR/>Mandy: I whole heartedly agree - that's why I try to stick w/just one neurosis!! One is enough!Polly Gamwichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09338430066217324064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4010332933050943413.post-20778358030923928142008-01-05T16:35:00.000-08:002008-01-05T16:35:00.000-08:00Ok, Polly, you and Kat are scaring me! For real--...Ok, Polly, you and Kat are scaring me! For real--we live in a crazy, germy world. If I even start thinking about all the ways I touch other people's germs (shopping carts, door handles)..I think I might just have to hole myself up in my bedroom for the rest of my life!Mandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03449047627099384030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4010332933050943413.post-18504147490723021742008-01-05T02:41:00.000-08:002008-01-05T02:41:00.000-08:00You're crazy!I have a couple of good stories for y...You're crazy!<BR/><BR/>I have a couple of good stories for you.<BR/><BR/>1) Mrs. BigKat was exercising at the YMCA a little while ago and was talking to a lady from church. The lady talked about how they used to visit her in-laws who apparently had never heard of germs. Her mother-in-law would cut up raw chicken and then cut up carrot sticks on the same board and offer them to the kids. Drove this lady crazy! She had to covertly sneak around the kitchen and sanitize stuff behind her mother-in-law's back.<BR/><BR/>2) My buddy and I were at an electronics store a while ago. He loves video games and wanted to try this one out. He started playing and I casually said something like 'I wonder how many people used the potty and then didn't wash their hands and then played this game...' I don't think he's played a video game in an electronics store since.<BR/><BR/>But cutting food on plates is really bad for your knives. You can sanitize your cutting boards with a bleach/water solution.<BR/><BR/>And be careful about putting your food into the refrigerator too quickly. If it's too hot, it can raise the temp in the fridge and make other stuff go bad. If you have something like a huge pot of hot chicken stock, you may have to use some other means of getting it down to a cooler temp before putting it in the refrigerator.<BR/><BR/>Alton Brown has some good tips for helping prevent food poisoning. We have his books and they're pretty useful for this as well as general cooking techniques.BigKathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00965296514466216108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4010332933050943413.post-49949314622698201732008-01-04T22:00:00.000-08:002008-01-04T22:00:00.000-08:00Ok Daisy ... but the thing is I get affirmation in...Ok Daisy ... but the thing is I get affirmation in this from my SIL who has a two year old ... she's the one who adds to my freaked-outted-ness ... and she HAS a toddler! I guess I ought to be impressed with her ability to keep this freaky in light of having a toddler around!Polly Gamwichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09338430066217324064noreply@blogger.com