Mixed Kitchen (Oxymoron, I Know!)

[MsMarginalized]

I know, in a *perfect* world, I would be able to have a gluten-free kitchen for my 19 y/old son (& me). But I'm married & our daughter and her s/o also live with us...so we have the oxymoron of a mixed kitchen.

 

My Celiac isn't so bad.  My son....he gets sick looking at their loaf of bread (or at least it SEEMS that way!)

 

I've separated everything I can think of. Their toaster & ours. Their pots/pans & ours. Their dishes & ours. Their cooking utensils & ours. Their eating utensils (for glutened food, it's plastic ware that gets thrown out) and ours.

 

I've wondered for a long time (& asked wherever/whenever I can) does it matter if something glutened gets into the dishwasher with the gluten-free stuff? What if the dishwasher does a load of glutened stuff & then gluten-free stuff?

 

Handwashing we do in separate basins at separate times & THAT is when all glutened stuff gets washed right now.

 

So, the dishwasher....does it matter?

[kareng]

I have a "mixed" household.  We do all the dishes together in the dishwasher.  I wouldn't want a pan with a whole bottom of a gluteny burned pizza crust going through  but ....I wouldn't really want a burned stuck-on gluten-free one going in either.  

 

 

We use the same plates, glasses & silverware.  Use the same glass or ceramic pans/bowls.  Mostly at my house, the gluten is bread, crackers, cereal & frozen pizza when a kid is home.  We all eat gluten-free noodles.  They have their own baking sheet for the pizza that we hand wash, but I have always done that.  They have thier own toaster. PB, etc

[GF Lover]

Same here.  Take the appropriate precautions but you don't have to segregate plates, flatware, glasses...etc.