What they don’t know won’t hurt them….

Of course in some countries mealworms are eaten by humans as a good source of protein...

?? Oh no! Cats on the worktops????? That scone would have been despatched to the bin! On the matter of the mealworms........I'd have given the tin a good scrub out and scalded it with boiling water. After all, dead mealworms don't lick their arses do they?

I could’ve have used that tin. Even if it had been hospital standard sterilised.

Out out out. mealworm tin and the cat as far as I'm concerned!

The other day I was cleaning all my crystal glasses (they were my late Mums),I have a set of 6 Babycham glasses my friend gave me which remind me of my Christmas childhood. I noticed that there was only 5. I looked everywhere for the sixth one, no joy. I asked my DH if he knew anything about it and he confessed he had broke it and didnt think I would notice.GRR!!!! Im so pixxed off with him. I now have to see if I can find one on e- bay but it has to be the same as the little Bambi are different it depends on the year they were made. I think he thought what you dont know wont hurt! as if!!!!

I hope all those who are shuddering at the thought of some of these stories never see what goes on behind the scenes in some commercial kitchens, or you'd never eat out again!

Blondiescot I have seen and I haven’t eaten out for a long time.

If I was working in a commercial kitchen with unsanitary practices I would look for another job, and report them, frankly.

My son had a holiday job in a busy, very 'posh' restaurant kitchen. If anyone sent their food back, the chef would kick it around the floor before putting it right. Therefore, I never complain!

DDS1 trained as a chef and worked in several professional kitchens until he changed professions. He keeps his own kitchen immaculately clean and tidy and has never had any qualms about eating out.

I was doing lunch for BandSiL. Dessert was to be a creamy egg custard. I'd cooked it to perfection and was leaving it to cool, prior to serving.

When I came back to it there were lots of striated lines across the top where the cat had licked it. A generous layer of demerara sugar and a grilling later and we had a delicious creme brulee - well, my guests and hubby did anyway. Strangely I wasn't hungry anymore.
Same cat - same worktop but this time a tray that I'd cooked bacon in the oven on. The smell from that was clearly too much to bear.
Our cats know they're not allowed on the tops, which is why Boss cat jumps down immediately he hears us coming

My DH likes fishing and buys maggots (in their own plastic box with air holes in the top) and insists on keeping them in the fridge so they stay wiggly. He assures me that maggot - and mealworm - farms are kept very clean and hygienically run so the maggots - and meal worms - don't carry disease or anything nasty. I try to believe him.

loopylindy

I was doing lunch for BandSiL. Dessert was to be a creamy egg custard. I'd cooked it to perfection and was leaving it to cool, prior to serving.

When I came back to it there were lots of striated lines across the top where the cat had licked it. A generous layer of demerara sugar and a grilling later and we had a delicious creme brulee - well, my guests and hubby did anyway. Strangely I wasn't hungry anymore.
Same cat - same worktop but this time a tray that I'd cooked bacon in the oven on. The smell from that was clearly too much to bear.
Our cats know they're not allowed on the tops, which is why Boss cat jumps down immediately he hears us coming

???. That is just so wrong loopylindy. You should be ashamed.

Esspee

loopylindy

I was doing lunch for BandSiL. Dessert was to be a creamy egg custard. I'd cooked it to perfection and was leaving it to cool, prior to serving.

When I came back to it there were lots of striated lines across the top where the cat had licked it. A generous layer of demerara sugar and a grilling later and we had a delicious creme brulee - well, my guests and hubby did anyway. Strangely I wasn't hungry anymore.
Same cat - same worktop but this time a tray that I'd cooked bacon in the oven on. The smell from that was clearly too much to bear.
Our cats know they're not allowed on the tops, which is why Boss cat jumps down immediately he hears us coming

???. That is just so wrong loopylindy. You should be ashamed.

Agree. It shows no respect for the guests. If it's not good enough for me to eat, it's not good enough to serve up to someone else.

loopylindy, I dare say I’d have done the same!

Ages ago now, but I once spent ages making a salmon mousse starter, when 2 couples were coming for dinner. Having decorated it beautifully with slices of lemon and cucumber I put it on the table and called them all to come and eat.

Of course it was a few minutes before they did, finishing G&Ts and going for a wee, etc. - and meanwhile our long-gone Ddog had managed to get up far enough to take a delicate but very obvious slurp out of the side.

Luckily our guests were dog lovers/very non-fussy or both, and just found it hilarious, so after I’d sliced that section off, we had it anyway. It would have broken my heart to bin the whole thing, after all that faff.

Witzend... the difference here is you chopped it off. If the rest was genuinely untouched I'd probably have done the same.

Witzend, you cut it off and the guests were aware. No problem there at all.

Our cat did something similar - we had guests coming and we had defrosted a huge leg of lamb on top of the freezer so that it was 'out of the way' of the dog - forgot about the ruddy cat and came to cook it with some suspicious bite marks out of it! We gave it a good wash, cut the raggy bits off and cooked it anyway so it would have been fine!

Some funny tales .....

That reminds me of my DBs cat. When we were small (8 kids in my family) my mum used to get the biggest turkey in the shop for Christmas. Years later DB my had just moved into his new house with his 1st wife and he had brought a big Christmas Turkey and was showing off jokingly about it. He took the tea towel of it and the cat had eaten a leg and some breast meat from his raw turkey you should have seen his poor face. Luckily we wernt having Christmas dinner there.

Certainly wouldn't have worried about the meal worm tin. It only needed a good wash.

Years ago I was entering a quiche in the village show. I left it in the kitchen to cool and came back to find the cat had eaten a hole in the middle of it. Shops were shut (It was that long ago!) what to do? I mixed up some cheese and egg with a few herbs, poured it into the hole and popped it under the grill for a few minutes. I won first prize with a comment from the judge about the lovely flavour (Hope none of it was cat spit! ) Took it home, we ate it and nobody died.

I am a 'good wash and it will be fine' supporter. Not so sure about the scones though.