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Does Anyone Here Still Cook/bake Non-gf

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stuff for others? Or is that just insane?

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ianm Apprentice
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I make gluten foods for my son but gluten-free only for me. Haven't had any problems with cross contamination.

frenchiemama Collaborator
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Do you use non-gluten-free flour? I was a little worried about it "settling" around the kitchen.

Carriefaith Enthusiast
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I do, although not very often... While you're cooking you just have to be very careful to not touch your face and to wash your hands often.

ianm Apprentice
ianm
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Anything that involves gluten flour gets used in one area only and cleaned good after. Wash my hands after using it too. So far so good.

frenchiemama Collaborator
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Thanks for the tips everyone. I don't want my poor husband to suffer *too* much. If left to his own devices the poor guy would be living on subway and canned tuna (he's not terribly keen on eating gluten-free foods). ;)

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I bake ALL the time... my husband and sons and daughter would be SO upset if I didn't!! I made 300 mini french silk pies on Friday for my sons graduation ~ you just have to not breathe in the flour and make sure you wash up well!! I have never had a problem with it. :) Of course, when I bake gluten-free things for me... everyone knows that it is "hands off!!!!" Ha!

Happy baking!!! :)

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I eliminated ALL non-gluten-free flours from my kitchen but we buy gluten items for the rest of the family (of 5) occasionally (such as bread, box mac & cheese, frozen pizza - homemade we use my crust, etc.) and I clean, clean, clean, and lecture the kids and husband if I see them just dusting their hands off - spreading those crumbs all over...they need to wash all those gluten crumbs down the drain!!!

angel-jd1 Community Regular
angel-jd1
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Wheat flours stay in the air for such a long time. It would be very hard to cook gluteny foods without some sort of contamination in your house.

Just the whirr of the mixer can send flour into the air. :blink:

Also just being around them, they can be breathed in. Your nostrils lead to your throat and down your throat goes the flour that was in the air. :(

There are too many risks for me to cook with flour and such in my house!! I would rather find an alternative that is gluten free than risk being sick.

-Jessica :rolleyes:

Guest gfinnebraska
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I guess if you were really anxious about it, you could go to your local hardware store and get a face mask ~ like you would wear when sanding sheetrock mud, etc. THEN you wouldn't breathe any flour in. :) I just know that my family would feel TOTALLY punished if I didn't bake for them. I am known throughout the town for my cookies & pies! My two sons put in their requests, and I can't imagine not making them... when they are gone, there are few areas where they still need their Mom!! :D

ianm Apprentice
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Can't say I ever had a problem breathing flour. I don't do much baking with it and am very careful with it so it may never have been enough to set me off. If you are super sensitive a good particle mask would be a good idea.

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