Dropping food on the floor

[Ymir's blood]

If you are cooking spaghetti (or anything else that gets boiled or thoroughly cooked) what do you do?

[Legs]

We have the 5 seconds rule.... if you grab it fast - it's fair game

Sometimes I extend this rule to 10-15 seconds if chocolate is involved

[livius drusus]

It depends on how cooked it is. If it's already floppy I'd toss it out. If it's still erect then it's back to the loch with you, Nessie.

[Skep]

It depends. If I dropped a $10 steak on the floor, I'd take it away from the dog, rinse it off, and cook it. Otherwise, anything that hits the floor is Buddy's. It's kind of an unwritten agreement between man and his best friend. :)

[Ymir's blood]

It depends on how cooked it is. If it's already floppy I'd toss it out. If it's still erect then it's back to the loch with you, Nessie.
I should have written the question better. It only referred to dry uncooked noodles.

:SM: <- not at all like this wet noodle.

[livius drusus]

Oooh... Well then shit yeah I cook that right up and don't give it a second thought. Unless it breaks. I don't do broken long pasta.

[viscousmemories]

I voted for 1, but only because 1-3 wasn't an option.

[Dingfod]

I should have written the question better. It only referred to dry uncooked noodles.Indeed, if I had only known I would've voted differently. Dry pasta is going into the pot if nobody saw me pick it up off the floor.

[pescifish]

For dry pasta, I'd definitely vote for all of the first three.

If, however, the reason I dropped the pasta on the floor was because I saw a skull in the cook pot and boiling water had splashed on me, I'd definitely select the last one.

If it were a wet noodle, either of two dogs would have it before I had a chance to decide anything else. After that I would ask them to bring the cat in for questioning; she would most likely be the perpetrator of whatever homicide brought a skull into the kitchen.

[Ymir's blood]

Be careful, pescifish. The skull might have come from the last critter who poked its nose into the cat's business.

[Ymir's blood]

I voted for 1, but only because 1-3 wasn't an option.
Can you edit the poll to make it so? Maybe it should be reset anyway.

[Beth]

It depends. If I dropped a $10 steak on the floor, I'd take it away from the dog, rinse it off, and cook it. Otherwise, anything that hits the floor is Buddy's. It's kind of an unwritten agreement between man and his best friend. :)Well... I dood this once...it was on my honeymoon. We were at the beach and I wanted to grill at the beach. We went and bought this $24 steak , a huge, thick thang of some premium grade, and well, I dropped it in the sand as I was flipping it. I started crying and tripping out because I couldn't believe what I had just done, but I quickley dried my eyes, and I gave those around me quite a sight, there was this girl in a peach bikini washing a steak and trying to scrub the sand out of it under a spicket. I would wave to my hubby, tell him to stay in the water and fish longer...no please, don't come back yet. I scrubbed the steak and hoped that it would taste ok. I then cooked the steak and gave all but a tiny piece to hubby. He ate nearly every grainy piece of it and told me it was delicious. I had some of it after eating the rest of my food and to my horror, it was sandy. I started crying. My husband ate a steak that had beach sand on it rather than hurt my feelings and saying it was awful.

[Beth]

I voted throw it out.

[seebs]

I'll go one further. If a cooked noodle drops on the floor, I'll eat it. One noodle's worth of contaminants won't kill me, and I don't get sick as often as I used to.