Would you..?

Question

cook your meal with the same tools (fork, knive, spoon, frying-pan, kettle, sauce-pan, measuring dish) or eat it from plate or glass, which have been used for cooking and eating meat, if you were a vegan? What if you were a vegetarian?

(Naturally the tools would have been dished, but for example for some frying-pans you can use no detergent...)

Answer 1

you wouldn't put yourself in that position, bottom line is you don't want any part in eating animals, so if it came down to it as long as I wasn't willingly eating any part of an animal it's fine. people get too hung up on the details and miss the point.

Answer 2

I'm a vegetarian rather than a vegan (a hypocrite then, most vegans would say) so I wouldn't mind 'contamination' on my dishes. When I cook for more people than myself, I would first use a frying pan for my veggie, and after that toss in a few meat balls or the like. Most carnivores don't mind contamination with vegetarian food as they cannot taste it anyway, but the other way around meat does protrude vegetables and cheese. Of course I would wash the pan out in between the cookings, but that's as far as it would go. If I would however cook for a vegan friend, I would try to be a bit stricter and seperate his/her dinenr from the other things completely - even the veggie dishes. That is because most vegans I know have a physical intolerance to milk, eggs or wheat. If they'd be cocky about it though, sneering at the vegetarians and meat eaters that I consider friends as well - he or she could expect to have his dinner across the pavement outside.

Answer 3

No never, unless the said items have been given a thorough washing beforehand of course. In my home, I am the only vegetarian, so there are usually two different meals cooked, which means the spoons have to be separated. If I discover someone has accidentally used the rice spoon in the meat dish, then I just get a clean spoon out. If you are a true veggie/vegan, then there is no way you'd even consider using the same spoon or pan that has been touched by meat or it's juices!

Answer 4

I wouldn't use any cook tools that you can use detergent with! But hypothetically if I did I would use baking soda to substitute for a cleaner.. cause it's unhealthy to cook in uncleaned pans or with uncleaned tools. My cleaned utensils sit in a container of baking soda & water and I just rinse them off when I need to use them! I get many of my pots & pans from 2nd hand stores.. most likely some meat eater has used them! So I must cleaned them really good. I know some Thrift stores do clean donations but probably not really good.
By the way I am a Vegetarian almost A vegan!

Answer 5

Well, even though vegans eat plants as someone called "living creatures too," What a basic vegatarian or vegan does not eat is anything with a face. While vegans don't eat any sort of animal product, vegatarians dont eat meat. Sometimes you just cant help the fact of meat touching untensils you use

Answer 6

We cook both vegetarian (for me) and non-veg (for my boyfriend) in our kitchen. I take care to avoid cross-contamination, but we only have one set of pots and pans. Naturally everything is thoroughly washed in between usings so I don't see an issue. We DO have two barbecues (mine's just a little tabletop one) because when we grill it tends to be at the same time with no opportunity for a thorough cleaning in between.

Answer 7

I am a vegetarian and my husband is a meat eater. We use the same cutlery and crockery, pots and pans but have separate wooden utensils as they are porous, also we have separate tin openers as they are difficult to clean. My husband is really good to me and hardly eats meat at home, but for the times when he just can't resist he has a separate drawer in the fridge and freezer!!

Answer 8

Totally seperate roasting and frying pans. Seperate wooden spoons. Serving and eating utensils, plates, glasses, and glazed pottery, or glass (e.g. casserole) dishes, can be used for either, providing washed in a dishwasher.

Answer 9

In an ideal world you would have seperate frying pans. But some vegetarians aren't as strict as others so its worth checking.

Answer 10

i only share utensils after they have gone through the dishwasher which uses HOT water to sanitize. I dont stir some meat-thingy food with a spoon, then immediately use that same spoon to serve my vegetarian food.

Answer 11

NO.
During auspicious days / months in the Hindu calender (Thai ,Raam Naumi , Puratassie), ALL food is prepared with a full set of utensils designated for pure vegetarian. No compromise.