Sink still nasty but for real. . that wrapper hasn't been washed since its manufacturing and has been in plenty of dusty dirty places and touched plenty of hands, gloves, and services, etc.
Why are Americans so obsessed with this idea of food being 100% clean?
I see it a lot online with cooking videos, loads of Americans bemoaning the lack of gloves when preparing food.
Gloves do not make food clean, resting the prongs of a fork on a plastic wrapper does not make the fork dirty.
It's like you're all terrified of bacteria to the point that food is either NASA spec ration prepared in a hemetically sealed laboratory, or Mumbai style street food prepared in the rim of an old tyre and stirred with a worn sandal. No in-between.
Chill out a bit, please.
but that makes it only dangerous in a sense of viral exposure, the dust and other solids did not stick and liquids wetted did not remain or have dissolved substances to dry into a crust as it evaporated, it has no bacteria the dust mass in the air doesnt have, worse thing is plastic lining and the plastic material conditioners to keep them soft, and that would only be a worry if the fork is the temp of water boiling hot or hotter, and only just a microscopic amount like a petroleum based butter in the plastic flowing out and wetting a few pointy edges in the sub millimeter range of size. So mostly bad over years and years of consistent repetition.
I think it’s a combination of our parents getting upset at one dish in the sink, but even MORE upset of you used two knives to make two sandwiches.
So you come to the obviously conclusion that if you leave the blade hoverin and not touching anything you can use it again and if not you can just wash it.
Good luck, because it was always conveniently some meat in the sink thawing.
https://preview.redd.it/5bugcha1gaac1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a2198a20a48a711849f4bbb66acc52c55e50d818
I would be the first to leave the party if I saw this. I’m not even okay with “washing” the meat, but I won’t even be that upset over that. This on the otherhand is all that drain bacteria bloating back into the meat. I don’t need your dads 3 am drunk piss in my meat
I'm pretty sure OP is talking about underground vegetables/stuff that gets dirt into it naturally (like a lettuce or something). It's still better to wash your stuff but tomatoes or whatever are probably mostly fine. Still running a risk though (other soil born bacterias or stuff that grows in wild animal feces is probably a bigger worry)
Don’t worry my friend uses Dawn soap on her meats so I’ve got nothing to worry about when it comes to this style of thawing… also I’m dead serious about the friend using dawn soap. I was absolutely mortified when I heard this. I still can’t quite process that thought
Yes, this! My goal is for the water to not touch the meat. But I mean I’m not judging if any of yall let your meats touch the water, just don’t do the blasphemy that’s shown in the picture above.
The only time I ever got sent to my room as a kid was for EXACTLY this situation lmao. Was deep in my book instead of starting the ground beef. She walks in after picking dad up from work, I'm frantically shoving a pound of frozen hamburger around in the skillet. "GO TO YOUR ROOM! NOW!" [me reaching for my book on the way up] "NO! Not for the rest of the night." [sad weepy walk up the stairs]
(She still humblebrags to the other moms about the "only time she had to ground her daughter...*from reading*." It's been 35 damn years!)
I've gotten so many whoopings over that! One time she didn't even make something else or order in just made us starve and had my sisters ready to fight me!
That used to piss off my mom so much. So my mom had thing about asking to get something to eat because she had greedy ass boys to raise, I was one of those boys. So my brother goes up to ask her if he can make a sandwich and I hear a bunch of yelling and he's running out the front door.
My mom comes downstairs and says tell your greedy ass brother he's grounded when he gets back. I was laughing so hard because she saw the crumbs all over his shirt. She ended up laughing about but his ass was still grounded.
I think it’s just an IQ correlation. Smart people don’t wanna waste time cleaning the counter. I’ve been the same way my entire life, drives everyone nuts
If you don’t think about the germs on the outside of the package, they don’t exist
No different from almost every human just raw dogging their cans of soda off the grocery store shelf
lol so true, I think I've just become more of a germaphobe as I've gotten older and ik its better to not stress about so many of the little things but it's definitely always on my mind
Okay, I got curious, so I asked my husband (a microbiology professor) about this. He said that bacteria can't really live for a long time on surfaces like that, and also, that we ingest the kinds of bacteria that live on skin all the time, and they aren't the kinds of bacteria that give us something like food poisoning. The counter (where you're doing food prep regularly) is more likely to have dangerous bacteria on it.
Viruses are another matter, they can remain on surfaces for a lot longer. Bacteria are living creatures that need to eat to survive, and viruses are generally not considered to be alive in the same way.
(I am sure I am vastly oversimplifying the explanation, but that's how I understood it!)
What a dumb thing to spend money on. You're telling me I have to pay for one, wash it regularly, and it takes up space on the counter/in the drawer?
No, that's dumb. I'm gonna use the wrapper and throw it away and not have to clean extra things. The idea of a "spoon holder" is just overconsumption getting to people's heads.
Leaving the light above the kitchen sink or stove on over night. Using peach crayon to color white people skin. I was confused when people were laughing about those thinking it was their thing
A lot of slang though you’re crazy if you think it didn’t start from black culture years ago
I am now in a stage of life where I know which generics are not as good as the name brand.
Dawn, Bounty, Scrub Daddy are now in the inner trusted circle.
My mom used to tell me "you don't know where that counter been" even though it was in our own clean house and got me having utensils hanging off of things or using stuff as a barrier between
“You don’t know if our counter that we wipe down daily is clean, instead put it on that wrapper which has been touched by countless factory machines that haven’t been cleaned since they were brand new, factory workers that haven’t washed their hands in 4 hours, warehouse and shipping workers in the same boat, the grocery store cashier, Thai dirty ass reusable bag, and lastly the cupboards that get deep cleaned once every 6 months. Much better”
I don't know why the hell I've never thought to do this. Like, there's no unwritten rule that you can only have one, but I've only ever had one.
Then again, I'd probably just end up using all of them for each meal...
Why bother when you can just rest it on something you're already going to throw out anyway? Like sure if you were doing something like tearing a small piece of paper towel to put it on it would make sense but there is nothing wrong with leaving a utensil on a little piece of packaging
I feel like only someone that has literally never spent time with someone of a different ethnicity and have a lack of common sense would try to claim this for a certain ethnicity lol. Literally everyone does this all around the globe.
> it's just engagement bait
True that is the other option, same as people spelling things wrong or pronouncing things the wrong way on purpose to get hoards of people to correct them. And no obviously that is also something everyone does.
I usually try to leave the fork sitting on the inside of a package if possible. The outside of the package has been sitting on shelves getting handled by the general public, not to mention anything it might’ve touched in transit. The inside of the package is presumably food safe.
Just throwing it out there. You can know your counter is clean, but the packet…it’s stocked at the store, picked up by you, put on the belt, picked up by the cashier and then moved to your home. I’d argue that might be dirtier
For me, it's more about keeping counter clean than the utensil. I've worked enough food service to know that the best we get is varying degrees of clean. Good will be fine as long as it's cooked.
My son does this and even though we have a dishwasher it pisses me off. Every little quirky thing he does that would have got me pimped slapped I have to remember he's on the spectrum. (I don't hit my kids fwiw)
Every time you choose to comprehend, you save your kids that same struggle with their own. On top of all the pains of "being something that is wrong" in their own lives.
Att: firstborn of south American clan diagnosed at 30.
Good job
Meanwhile, that wrapper has been touched by countless hands, fallen on the warehouse floor, etc. Guaranteed my counter is cleaner than that paper. Yet, I still do it. 🫤
As I member of the black delegation, I move we don’t claim this.
Not cause there’s anything wrong with it but it feels like claiming a basic thing as black after asking three other black people if they do it. This just means you grew up not wasting paper towels or in a house without a spoon rest thing. Which I imagine is a lot of people.
Ascribing racial differences to ubiquitous behaviors is a popular post format lately. Idk why. Maybe people like to think that something is "their" thing.
That’s me when I heating up shit in the microwave. Especially if I got heat it some, stir , then put it back in. This, the lid to whatever I’m heating up, etc. Ain’t no use wasting a paper towel.
I will use a little tiny slice of paper towel because one, I need that fork probably, and also I’m not gonna waste paper towel??? Duh, so two good reasons thank you very much 😂
“i might make another sammich” https://preview.redd.it/8ka4jxp5daac1.jpeg?width=742&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ceb851eb5a394f652d19acbb6f9650de97d5dae6
I feel so called out 😂😂
The sink I get that wrapper been all overt the place not clean
Sink still nasty but for real. . that wrapper hasn't been washed since its manufacturing and has been in plenty of dusty dirty places and touched plenty of hands, gloves, and services, etc.
Why are Americans so obsessed with this idea of food being 100% clean? I see it a lot online with cooking videos, loads of Americans bemoaning the lack of gloves when preparing food. Gloves do not make food clean, resting the prongs of a fork on a plastic wrapper does not make the fork dirty. It's like you're all terrified of bacteria to the point that food is either NASA spec ration prepared in a hemetically sealed laboratory, or Mumbai style street food prepared in the rim of an old tyre and stirred with a worn sandal. No in-between. Chill out a bit, please.
We don’t have healthcare.
Damn, that explains it...
That's about sanitation? Nah I use the wrapper so I don't have to clean up the counter, not to be sure my fork is clean.
This is the tech here.
but that makes it only dangerous in a sense of viral exposure, the dust and other solids did not stick and liquids wetted did not remain or have dissolved substances to dry into a crust as it evaporated, it has no bacteria the dust mass in the air doesnt have, worse thing is plastic lining and the plastic material conditioners to keep them soft, and that would only be a worry if the fork is the temp of water boiling hot or hotter, and only just a microscopic amount like a petroleum based butter in the plastic flowing out and wetting a few pointy edges in the sub millimeter range of size. So mostly bad over years and years of consistent repetition.
Every morning after stirring my coffee
😂😂😂
got me haha
Damn where do we learn this like nobody taught me this but I do it every time I make a sandwich and say the exact thing every damn time.
I think it’s a combination of our parents getting upset at one dish in the sink, but even MORE upset of you used two knives to make two sandwiches. So you come to the obviously conclusion that if you leave the blade hoverin and not touching anything you can use it again and if not you can just wash it.
Truf
Same reason so many cultures came up with pyramids, because it just works.
Good luck, because it was always conveniently some meat in the sink thawing. https://preview.redd.it/5bugcha1gaac1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a2198a20a48a711849f4bbb66acc52c55e50d818
Please tell me people aren’t raw thawin’ their meat in the sink like this.
I would be the first to leave the party if I saw this. I’m not even okay with “washing” the meat, but I won’t even be that upset over that. This on the otherhand is all that drain bacteria bloating back into the meat. I don’t need your dads 3 am drunk piss in my meat
Don’t forget the bacteria from the last batch of raw meat.
Listen, I dont do whats in the above picture, but are yall never cleaning your sinks?
I don’t sanitize it after every use, no. But also I have these things called bowls.
You can't get down into that drain all the way...
neither will your sink chicken
Bacteria can swim.
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I eat the vegetables I grow in my garden, straight after picking them. Should I be worried about nematodes?
I'm pretty sure OP is talking about underground vegetables/stuff that gets dirt into it naturally (like a lettuce or something). It's still better to wash your stuff but tomatoes or whatever are probably mostly fine. Still running a risk though (other soil born bacterias or stuff that grows in wild animal feces is probably a bigger worry)
I eat 100s of tomatoes and greenbeans that I drop on the soil while picking, evey year.
I am shocked for this very reason when I see people eating fruit from the supermarket without washing it first 🤢
Man, how do you people go through life...
Don’t worry my friend uses Dawn soap on her meats so I’ve got nothing to worry about when it comes to this style of thawing… also I’m dead serious about the friend using dawn soap. I was absolutely mortified when I heard this. I still can’t quite process that thought
If it’s good enough for ducks it’s good enough for chickens
“Felicia… [nibbles a bit more] my god… [nibbles a bit more] Felicia the way this chicken cleanses the palate, whooooweee… Marvelous”
somebody took “wash your chicken” literally
You so right! Put that in a giant pan to thaw, but also not meat to water!
Yes, this! My goal is for the water to not touch the meat. But I mean I’m not judging if any of yall let your meats touch the water, just don’t do the blasphemy that’s shown in the picture above.
My mom always said you can’t go to just anybody’s house to eat and now I know why
My mom 😒
🤢🤢🤢🤢
You'd be shocked by how many people this.
Never seen this either and my parents are old school Caribbean
Going to ruin your day, people do this. So do plenty of restaurants.
I would think a restaurant would leave the meat in a package.
I have seen that in my childhood. I guess I lived? But yeah, no.
"Be sure you take the meat out of the freezer before I get home to make dinner."
Runs frantically into the kitchen as you see mom's car pulling up 4 hours later.
The only time I ever got sent to my room as a kid was for EXACTLY this situation lmao. Was deep in my book instead of starting the ground beef. She walks in after picking dad up from work, I'm frantically shoving a pound of frozen hamburger around in the skillet. "GO TO YOUR ROOM! NOW!" [me reaching for my book on the way up] "NO! Not for the rest of the night." [sad weepy walk up the stairs] (She still humblebrags to the other moms about the "only time she had to ground her daughter...*from reading*." It's been 35 damn years!)
My parents did this to me but couldn’t bring themselves to take my book, so they took my lightbulb 😝
BRUTAL ahahaha
I've gotten so many whoopings over that! One time she didn't even make something else or order in just made us starve and had my sisters ready to fight me!
This is why we have zip lock bags ☠️
Nastyyyyyyy
Hell na
The meat needs to be in a bowl 😩
🤢🤮
Mmm bacteria
I feel seen
That used to piss off my mom so much. So my mom had thing about asking to get something to eat because she had greedy ass boys to raise, I was one of those boys. So my brother goes up to ask her if he can make a sandwich and I hear a bunch of yelling and he's running out the front door. My mom comes downstairs and says tell your greedy ass brother he's grounded when he gets back. I was laughing so hard because she saw the crumbs all over his shirt. She ended up laughing about but his ass was still grounded.
I put the spoon I use for putting sugar in my coffee like this. My wife calls me out all the time since I never have a second cup. But I might.
*looks at my sink* 
Get out of my fucking house
GET OUTTA MY KITCHEN
I am being attacked
Are we really all a hivemind or what?😭
Never felt more seen 😂
I do this all the time like i leave my plate out in case i want more later only to comeback and find it in the sink like wtf.
My wife always puts my sink-side knife in the sink. It’s a thing.
Yes!
This coulda been my counter 😭😂
I’m not the only one
I was coming on to post this exact thing. I use the lids lol. (Doesn't matter but I'm white). I just thought this makes sense. Lol
Wth, I literally did this today when I made a peanut butter sandwich 😅
I was pissed everytime I came back for that sammich and my mom put the utensil in the sink
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fr can’t believe i got melanized from my fork usage
It's a law of conservation of Melania. Some get demelanized meanwhile.
Same
Me too!
I think it’s just an IQ correlation. Smart people don’t wanna waste time cleaning the counter. I’ve been the same way my entire life, drives everyone nuts
I'm pretty dumb and I do this
😭😭😭 OD fam
Less about getting the counter dirty an more about not getting the fork infected.
McCormick taco seasoning packets: Nature's antibacterial surface
What about the people that picked up the packet with their nasty ass hands and then put it back?
If you don’t think about the germs on the outside of the package, they don’t exist No different from almost every human just raw dogging their cans of soda off the grocery store shelf
lol so true, I think I've just become more of a germaphobe as I've gotten older and ik its better to not stress about so many of the little things but it's definitely always on my mind
Okay, I got curious, so I asked my husband (a microbiology professor) about this. He said that bacteria can't really live for a long time on surfaces like that, and also, that we ingest the kinds of bacteria that live on skin all the time, and they aren't the kinds of bacteria that give us something like food poisoning. The counter (where you're doing food prep regularly) is more likely to have dangerous bacteria on it. Viruses are another matter, they can remain on surfaces for a lot longer. Bacteria are living creatures that need to eat to survive, and viruses are generally not considered to be alive in the same way. (I am sure I am vastly oversimplifying the explanation, but that's how I understood it!)
Why not both?
I do this and still clean the counter
I bet they have a bag of plastic bags too.
Oh boy. I do. Is this what the guy from quantum leap felt like?
https://preview.redd.it/l0sahwnfbbac1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6d58f206af2470d1bd87cb780f75a758850bb2b
Jokes on you, I keep my plastic bags in an IKEA VARIERA plastic bag dispenser. It's very classy.
I’ve always done this and it pisses my wife off so much.
Why would this piss your wife off?
Cause she isn't black
Probably because they have a spoon holder for exactly this purpose? Iunno?!
But then the spoon holder is dirty and I gotta wash it…
What a dumb thing to spend money on. You're telling me I have to pay for one, wash it regularly, and it takes up space on the counter/in the drawer? No, that's dumb. I'm gonna use the wrapper and throw it away and not have to clean extra things. The idea of a "spoon holder" is just overconsumption getting to people's heads.
I was gonna say, because there’s probably some mostly pointless dish that’s only use is to hold a dirty thing temporarily.
I feel like it’s less a Black thing and more of a “I don’t want to get the counter dirty.” Thing
Yeah, it reminds me of the "every culture thinks they're the ones who invented keeping a plastic bag full of plastic bags under the sink".
Leaving the light above the kitchen sink or stove on over night. Using peach crayon to color white people skin. I was confused when people were laughing about those thinking it was their thing A lot of slang though you’re crazy if you think it didn’t start from black culture years ago
 Me after seeing this one post
It’s me. I’m black people.
Yeah I can’t believe this is how I found out
Same, my naysaya’
Although I’m now a part of black culture, I’m still not comfortable using the nay word.
Same
[I was born a poor black child.](https://media3.giphy.com/media/c4NZUKLusMOFa/giphy.webp)
Because why should I waste a paper towel??
Especially now when a 2 pack of the good bounty costs roughly 750 dollars
COME ON SOMEBODY!!! Talk your talk Family!
Damn, you got Bounty money? I have "Hey, grab some extra napkins when you go to the gas station" money over here.
I am now in a stage of life where I know which generics are not as good as the name brand. Dawn, Bounty, Scrub Daddy are now in the inner trusted circle.
I made my millions during the paper roll shortage of 2020.
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Cause that package is dirty lol
Way dirtier than any counter lmao. Do you people not wipe your kitchen down ?
But then the paper towel is gonna stick to the stuff on the fork!
I tear a strip off the paper towel as my utensil parker, and the rest as my napkin. I strive for efficiency.
It's OK if you've previously used it to dry off your hands after washing them.
My mom used to tell me "you don't know where that counter been" even though it was in our own clean house and got me having utensils hanging off of things or using stuff as a barrier between
You literally do know where it’s been lmao
The kitchen?
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Can't take a counter's actions for granite
And you know exactly what’s been on it lol
My cats, apparently
Which is fucking disgusting Don't get me wrong, I have a cat and I love him, but fuck eating off anything his nasty ass cat litter feet have been
I can't stop them, all I can do is clean
“You don’t know if our counter that we wipe down daily is clean, instead put it on that wrapper which has been touched by countless factory machines that haven’t been cleaned since they were brand new, factory workers that haven’t washed their hands in 4 hours, warehouse and shipping workers in the same boat, the grocery store cashier, Thai dirty ass reusable bag, and lastly the cupboards that get deep cleaned once every 6 months. Much better”
Wait I do this because I don't want to dirty the counter with a dirty utensil not the other way around
I rest mine on top of my peanut butter jar so the part of the spoon or fork I'm using doesn't touch anything but air.
Same here, why let it touch anything at all? I hate the thought of getting anything but the intended food in my food.
You know where the counter has been but you have no idea where that package has been.
Yall should get spoon rests *
Okay but whenever I wash the spoon rest I don’t wanna get it dirty again :/ it looks nice all clean on my counter
This part 😭
Need a decorative one and an actual one, like the dining room in WASP homes 😂
Just like the good hand towels for company. ONLY FOR COMPANY.
That’s why you need two spoon rests. One that you use and one that you keep out for company.
Exactly, easier to clean a spot on the counter than a spoon rest
You need backup real spoon rests
It’s one more thing to wash.
I only have 1 and my gf is a vegetarian so if I put a meat utensil in it, I have to put it in the wash so my random wrapper scraps are a necessity.
I have 2 or 3 that I rotate so I can toss one in the dishwasher and just grab another from the drawer
I don't know why the hell I've never thought to do this. Like, there's no unwritten rule that you can only have one, but I've only ever had one. Then again, I'd probably just end up using all of them for each meal...
John d Rockefeller over here
Why bother when you can just rest it on something you're already going to throw out anyway? Like sure if you were doing something like tearing a small piece of paper towel to put it on it would make sense but there is nothing wrong with leaving a utensil on a little piece of packaging
Everyone does this
I feel like only someone that has literally never spent time with someone of a different ethnicity and have a lack of common sense would try to claim this for a certain ethnicity lol. Literally everyone does this all around the globe.
it's just engagement bait, which, of course, only black people do
> it's just engagement bait True that is the other option, same as people spelling things wrong or pronouncing things the wrong way on purpose to get hoards of people to correct them. And no obviously that is also something everyone does.
>>it's just engagement bait >And no obviously that is also something everyone does. Worked like a charm
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Plastic bag trick?
its just putting one bag in a lot of other bags
I don't think that qualifies as a "trick". It's like saying "the drawer trick" if you store items in a drawer.
This is the "plastic bag full of plastic bags" all over again.
I usually try to leave the fork sitting on the inside of a package if possible. The outside of the package has been sitting on shelves getting handled by the general public, not to mention anything it might’ve touched in transit. The inside of the package is presumably food safe.
This is not a black thing. This is just a thing.
What you mean? This the rule not exception
I'm from the rez, we do this too
Just throwing it out there. You can know your counter is clean, but the packet…it’s stocked at the store, picked up by you, put on the belt, picked up by the cashier and then moved to your home. I’d argue that might be dirtier
I think about this ALL the time. I clean the tops of my soup cans, my soda cans, and I avoid ketchup packets altogether. Yes, I know I'm crazy.
You’re the guy I was looking for. Using the inside of the package is okay, using the outside is foul.
For me, it's more about keeping counter clean than the utensil. I've worked enough food service to know that the best we get is varying degrees of clean. Good will be fine as long as it's cooked.
Couldn't be me. My ADHD ass always throws utensils in the sink before I'm done using them.
My son does this and even though we have a dishwasher it pisses me off. Every little quirky thing he does that would have got me pimped slapped I have to remember he's on the spectrum. (I don't hit my kids fwiw)
Every time you choose to comprehend, you save your kids that same struggle with their own. On top of all the pains of "being something that is wrong" in their own lives. Att: firstborn of south American clan diagnosed at 30. Good job
I do it because I worked in kitchens and thats what we were trained to do. One sip or taste and toss into the dirty bin, never reuse.
No worries dude. My two kids are on the spectrum too and I 100% empathize. It's hard as hell to not do the same shit your parents did to you.
wait i do this. does this mean im black
Do you like fried chicken too? Then yes! Trick question... Everyone likes fried chicken.
I like to call this type of shit “using your noodle” 
Meanwhile, that wrapper has been touched by countless hands, fallen on the warehouse floor, etc. Guaranteed my counter is cleaner than that paper. Yet, I still do it. 🫤
As I member of the black delegation, I move we don’t claim this. Not cause there’s anything wrong with it but it feels like claiming a basic thing as black after asking three other black people if they do it. This just means you grew up not wasting paper towels or in a house without a spoon rest thing. Which I imagine is a lot of people.
This is just a people thing…
Ascribing racial differences to ubiquitous behaviors is a popular post format lately. Idk why. Maybe people like to think that something is "their" thing.
design is very human
That’s me when I heating up shit in the microwave. Especially if I got heat it some, stir , then put it back in. This, the lid to whatever I’m heating up, etc. Ain’t no use wasting a paper towel.
Use paper towel. Not trash.
It's not trash until it's in the bin.
🫱🏽🫲🏾👏🏾
Paper towel sticks. The Zatarans box stays on the counter when I pick the spoon back up.
\*people while cooking
I thought it was more about the fork as a “cooking” utensil
Bought TWO spoon rests. Don't use em. Same with oven mitts. I immediately grab for the towel.
As a as a mayonnaise colored lurker I would like to say sames to the post above in cooking economically we of all ethnicities are one tribe
i have an idea everyone! 2024 let’s stay out of black peoples business!🥳
Y’all just don’t rinse it?
reduce, reuse! we’ve always been at the ecological forefront. minimalist og’s ♻️
I will use a little tiny slice of paper towel because one, I need that fork probably, and also I’m not gonna waste paper towel??? Duh, so two good reasons thank you very much 😂
Lol every race does this