Someone used my cleaver to scrape scum/mildew from my bathtub, is that disgusting?

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Hello, this is a super random question.

But I came home to find someone using my cleaver to scrape the soap scum and mildew from my bathtub. I told them that was disgusting and I use it everyday.

They said they could just bleach it, wash it off, and it'd be good as new. Using an example like "butchers use knives everyday on raw meat and just washes it off and reuses it", and I responded "Yeah, but they don't use them to clean their bathroom."

I mean, am I being crazy, or were their actions disgusting? No chef uses their kitchen knives to clean their bathroom, right?
 
Great first post. Welcome to Bladeforums.

Yes, the whole story is both crazy and disgusting.
 
1) Welcome.
2) Was this just some random person who walked in off the street and cleaned your bathroom?
3) Honestly, the most disgusting sounding thing is your scummy, moldy bathtub. Bleach that and your knife. Blech.
 
Yeah that's uncool, but he's right you know. Bleach it and it will be clean as can be, all things forgiven.
 
Welcome and, no, you're far from crazy! That's beyond disgusting and I hope whomever did that is going to at least replace the cleaver.
 
Thank you JC, those are my initials!

That's a gross thing to do, right? Like, I'm not overreacting? All they had to do was go purchase a $5-10 putty knife.

You wouldn't want to know that a chef at a restaurant was using knives that he uses to clean the bathroom. Or use a fork that fell in a toilet, or was used to unplug a drain.

It just seems it's like using your clothes to clean up a spill and saying "Well, they can be thrown in the wash right?"
 
I think the appropriate thing to do is make a meal for the person who did the deed. Wash the cleaver, of course, but serve a fresh vegetable salad, full of diced veggies and protein, with it being your prep tool. It would be interesting to know what the person would do when faced with the choice. Unless you don't tell him/her first.
 
marcinek

LOL! No not a random person off the street. A relative.

It's a new place (to me) and the tub was already like that, I had been cleaning it myself and was going to purchase a putty knife for the cleaning.
 
Agreed but forgive the guy already, tell him to treat your stuff like you would treat it, and move forward. Don't room with him again either lol.
 
Bleach and steam the knife if you're worried about it. It's not going to harm you if you just clean it.

btw, whoever cleaned the tub probably thought it was disgusting too. :)

Clean-Shower or Tilex only costs a buck-fiddy or so at the grocery store...might save you a cleaver in the future.
 
Ok - makes more sense now. BitingSarcasm is onto the right answer. Tell your relative to clean it up and you'll make him or her a dinner with it.

Though if it is a good quality kitchen cleaver, you'll probably need to spend some time on the sharpening bench getting the edge back into shape.
 
Hello walleyeguy!

Oh yes, they are already forgiven. I'm not walking around the house mad. They just still believe I overreacted, and that's annoying because they still consider what they did okay, and something similar could happen again.

Like I said earlier, it'd be like if I just started cleaning up spills with their clothes and saying "just throw them in the wash!"
 
I would be absolutely furious. Yeah, definitely a little bleach and elbow grease and sharpening and it'll be fine, but I would have a very hard time keeping my cool if someone did that to one of my kitchen knives. If, however, they did it with my fiancée's Walmart kitchen knife I would grin and toss it in the trash, so I guess I can kind of understand it if they don't know there's better stuff out there.
 
Clean the knife up and it should be fine. To me what's disgusting is that your tub was moldy..... I mean, don't you ever clean it? Pick up a plastic putty knife and keep it in the bathroom for scraping. I can't help but think the knife may have scratched the tub. If it is fiberglass..... it will just get worse the next time.
 
22-rimfire,

Yeah it was disgusting, but it was like that when I moved in. I had been slowly cleaning it but it was gross since it wasn't my mess, so I had been showering at my girlfriend's house because I hated the idea of breathing in the hot mold when I showered.

It's just an old dingy place, which is only temporary. Trust me, I like to keep my stuff clean, my GF has OCD which has rubbed off on me, which is why I was upset about the knife in the first place. Like, you are going to use MY knife to clean up YOUR nasty tub mess?!
 
Time to just do it and get 'er done. I would have thought the landlord would have cleaned the place up before you moved in. I clean crap like this all the time.... sometimes find toilets completely filled up with you know what..... lots of water and eventually some careful cleaning paying attention to bacteria concerns.
 
1. Keep and clean cleaver.
2. Kick your room mates ass.

I had a room mate like that and after two whoopings he saw things my way. Yes it took two.
 
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