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torbrex

Judi wrote: »

Anyone heard of the '3 second rule' concerning food thats been dropped on the floor? I'd never heard of it till yesterday. Apparently its safe to eat as long as its not been on the floor longer than 3 seconds.

I'd still rather not take any chances.:(

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Tigsteroonie

I've heard that as a 2-second, 3-second and 5-second rule. Personally, I go by the "Did anybody else see it happen?" rule. If nobody saw it drop, then I can pick it up, inspect, and potentially eat it up to a full minute later.

BWZN93

Fruball wrote: »

My greatest fear is getting sick - my friend is in hospital with pneumonia at the moment... If I had to go into hospital I would seriously have to consider throwing a lit match behind me as I closed the door :eek:

hahah, I used to live in shared accommodation a little while ago and shared a room with one of my best friends who was a massive fan of the floordrobe and crafting and it often looked as though someone had burgled the room. One hungover morning she dragged across her mattress, laid it on my floor facing the tv and got into her new 'bed', then looked at me and said 'can we just burn the other half of the room?'. I nearly wet myself laughing......

This_Year

Judi wrote: »

Anyone heard of the '3 second rule' concerning food thats been dropped on the floor? I'd never heard of it till yesterday. Apparently its safe to eat as long as its not been on the floor longer than 3 seconds.

I'd still rather not take any chances.:(

torbrex wrote: »

Leave this thread immediately and don't come back, you are not one of us

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

I've heard that as a 2-second, 3-second and 5-second rule. Personally, I go by the "Did anybody else see it happen?" rule. If nobody saw it drop, then I can pick it up, inspect, and potentially eat it up to a full minute later.

I don't do the 5 second rule any more...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21945313

Raksha

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

I've heard that as a 2-second, 3-second and 5-second rule. Personally, I go by the "Did anybody else see it happen?" rule. If nobody saw it drop, then I can pick it up, inspect, and potentially eat it up to a full minute later.

Or put it on somebody elses plate...

Did I just say that out loud?

Grumpysally

unfortunately I find that the dogs manage to get there before the 5 seconds elapse, even if they were in another room when it dropped. I draw the line at wrestling from a dogs jaws. ( unless it's something like best steak that they'd snuck whilst I wasn't looking. A few tenderising teeth marks wouldn't be noticed once cooked. =-O )

mcculloch29

Dogs are wonderfully useful pets if you have small, messy people around the house. Or big messy ones.
I had a friend years ago who had a son with eczema, she read the advice about super-clean houses provoking eczema and asthma and relaxed her cleaning regime totally. Her younger two sons had neither condition...

cyclingyorkie

Raksha wrote: »

Or put it on somebody elses plate...

Did I just say that out loud?

You're not the only one who does that.......

lobbyludd

This_Year wrote: »

I don't do the 5 second rule any more...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21945313

I've never gone by the "5 second rule" because i didn't believe it: of course on the floor food will pick up bacteria, but if eaten these are transfered to a stomach that has developed over millenia precisely to deal with food with a bit of envronmental flora on it, and kids put their hands everywhere and then stick them in their mouths. we are naturally covered in "friendly" bacteria all over us at all times.

I don't let them pick up and eat stuff in the street, but the bacteria in my house probably came from us anyway.....

pleasedelete

I had a slob lady moment today. Wandered into my dining room to look for something and found out that the table was still set from new year day! No dirty plates but cutlery, napkins, table mats, salts sugars, dead flowers in a vase. So obviously I haven't been in the room for 4 months!