So the scenario:

You have a clean baking pan that was sitting on your stove overnight. You go to put the pan away and discover a spider in it. The spider is collected in a paper towel, the pan wiped with the paper towel.

edit: To be clear, there were no arachnid "guts" in the pan, it had just walked around in it, hoping to escape before the wrath, I'm sure.

My hubby and I won't be voting as it would cancel each other out...

female - and yes.

I probably wouldn't rewash it, to be honest. I might wipe it with some of that Clorox anywhere spray - I love that stuff!

I would've washed it, if I was going to use it right away.
You cant cook with something you just cloroxed! isnt it poisonous?? LOL

Female - And I'd rewash it. But that's because spiders give me the heeby jeebies. x.x

female- I would probably wipe it with a paper towel and then rinse it. Not sure I'd use soap. Just water.

Haven't you seen the commercials??

Yes I would. I would atleast rinse it out

Looks like I'm the only one. Cerise - which of you didn't think it needed to be washed?

Don't we eat like tons of spiders in our lifetimes?

I've heard that too.



BTW Jenn, I like your quote in your signature. I may have to steal that one day.

I'd probably wipe it with a damp paper towel, but not wash it again properly. (Aah, spiders no doubt walk all over that stuff when we're not looking anyway!)

And I'm female.

are you kidding? Put that thing on a skewer, hmmmm tasty, good protein. ;-)

uuuh... no??
I dunno.. I just hate the smell of clorox...
So I wouldnt use it anyways...LOL
And even if in the commercial they say you can, I doubt I would.
In this day and age of organic products... dont think so...

Oh well. Doesn't smell like clorox, and it makes my life easier!

Organic schmorganic

I know... I dont buy the whole organic thing... but...
really... it is kinda detergentsy... I dunno...
I would wash it anyways... just thinking about eating spider footprints makes me wanna 'ugh'... lol

I wouldnt wash it. I was always taught spiders are a sign of a clean house.

heh I'm going to use that. People who haven't been here might believe it. I'm sooo not a housekeeper.

To answer the earlier question, I re-washed it. I'm a heebie jeebie spider type. I know it was pretty silly. Hubby just goes along with it.

As for bugs etc., I stopped eating Chips Ahoys cookies for months at age 8 when my Dad informed me there were bug pieces that could have been ground up in the flour. Apparently at 8, I thought that it was *only* Chips Ahoy so the other cookies were 'safe'.

I'm off to work! Y'all have fun!

Same here. No telling what walks across pans and tableware when you aren't looking. I sure wouldn't wash things I use on a daily basis before using them again. I do however wash larger pots or special dishes that have been sitting in a cupboard for awhile.

Yeah, neither would I. I might give it a quick rinse though.

Female-Rinse and dry pan. No soap.

Common sense would say to take the 20 seconds needed to wash out any unseen animal biology, bacteria etc.

I wouldn't do anything with it, I'd ask Ed to sort it out! And I would never be able to look in a pan again, just in case there was a spider in it. This thread has given me goosebumps...

male...and no..hell, i would never have washed it in the 1st place and if i saw a spider in it, i figure at least he got a few of the roaches that are usual there....

now, sanita is a clean addict and would scrub it and make me spray the houses for spiders..

I'm female and wouldn't do a damn thing to the pan. It's a spider for chrissakes. It isn't like a dog has taken a crap in it. And spider crap? Sure we have eaten loads of it in our time. It REALLY isn't going to do us any harm.

Obsessive sterilising of house hold objects is what's making humans less resilient to bacteria.

There was an investigation a few years back in the UK regarding leukemia rates in young children. The rates for well off parents with sterilised homes was almost double than those whose children grew up in dirtier homes. There is a direct risk between excessive cleaning (to the point of anti bac on everything, not just general tidyness) and childhood leukemias.

Excessive cleaning with antibacterial agents reduces the effectiveness of our immune systems. Think about that when you feel the need to wash a pan just because a spider was in it.....

I'd wash it

wash it and would usually wipe off pans that had been in cabinet setting before using again anyway but who knows maybe spider had walked across the plates while we slept! Its kinda like the restaurant thing who knows what goes on behind the scenes

I'm more particular about my kitchen and food preparation than I am with anything else in the house. So a) I wouldn't have left the pan out and if I had, I would have washed it after removing the spider. I'm not bothered by insects, rodents, or reptiles... I prefer not to have them in my house, though.

What you don't know doesn't hurt you, though, right??

Jen

No way I'd wash it.

What makes you think spiders don't go into kitchen cabinets?

I'd definitely wash it. It's purely psychological - no real or objective basis.

Male and yes I'd wash it.

I learned you should always wash a pan before you use it. That way it's the cleanest right before you put food in it.
Besides, I never learned any rule that you should always wash a pan after a spider craps in it.

Don't wash it now, wash it later.

I'd look around to see if I could find any of his buddies to fry up with a little olive oil, yummy crunchy!!

Female and yes I would wash it.

You mean "why wash it now when Rey can wash it later"?

Female - I would wash it down with water.

I'd wash it. I don't like the thought of anything crawling around in my pots and pans.

I'm female and first of all I'd take the spider in my hands and let it outside or on a plant. No way would I bother to wash it. Geez, there are more bacteria on your hands than a flippin spider. I agree with Mags -- the obsession with cleaning products is what's making us less immune. I'm clean, my house is clean, but I like to keep my immune system healthy too.

I would normally wash it anyway. Now I would use a flamethrower for sterilization, following this story:

Woman bitten by spider loses 10 lbs. of skin
Doctor predicts it may take six months for full recovery from small nip

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16160932/wid/11915773?GT1=8816

Either Pras or myself would rewash the pan with LOC!

It looks like all the women voted to rewash it and all the men voted no

Is that the quote now?

EWWWWWWWWWWWWW.....I'd wash the pan

How do you figure that? There's no correlation between the two polls whatsoever.

Since he does all the cooking, and therefore all the pre-cooking clean-up....yep!

I've got things aaaaallll worked out...

I would soooooooooo wash the pan. Like a zillion times.

Put it away without doing anything, wash it before I used it again.

Female and I would definitely rewash it. I strongly dislike spiders.

Female...I'd rewash. Spiders have eight legs and who knows where those feet have been !!

What about all the dust mites? How do all you cleaners deal with knowing those babies are crawling around your pans!?!

Just wanted to add that I'm right with Mags & Lou Lou on the obsession with cleaning products & antibacterial stuff in particular... right up there with overprescription of antibiotics (and more to the point, people who go whining to their doctor demanding antibiotics every other week because they have a slight sniffle) among my major bugbears! We'd have much better immune systems (and, without being a scientist, I honestly believe there would be less of a problem with super-resistant bacteria like MRSA) if we'd just put up with a bit of 'dirt' now and again! I swear the sickliest people I know are the most cleaning-obsessed, and the parents who have to douse everything in disinfectant constantly to 'protect' their kids are going to end up with sicklier kids still.

At least, that's my entirely non-scientifically-based couple of cents' worth!

Id rewash even if there was no spider in it