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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My MIL mixes meatballs, meatloaf, and bread dough with her hands and wears several rings while doing it.  It grosses me out.  I guess the bacteria gets cooked off.  I’ve never been sick.  Also keeps cooked stews and pots of rice on the stove (burner off) all day long. Also gross to me.  She isn’t American though.  I think a lot of her habits that I consider unhygienic are cultural [/quote]

The Germans tend to think store and restaurant bought foods are subpar.
I'll bet your MIL washes her hands often while cooking, and probably washes dishes by hand so her hands and rings are probably clean.
Cooked stews and rice on stove with the lid on is OK. Foods should cool before putting in fridge as it is bad for the appliance.

Before refrigerators and factory food, people made stuff with their hands. And vacuum sealed pickling jars and pots using a ring of water with a lid over it to prevent air passage. Also stored their foods underground where it was cooler in summer. 
Somehow humanity managed to get on without appliances for most of human history.[/quote]

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