Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
My mother made porkchops tonight, I wasn't awake when she was cooking them and they ARE completely done and cooked all the way through (I can tell because it's hard and parts of the meat are nearly impossible to eat xD) But the thing is... I saw the spatula that she must have used on the pork chops, and the spatula was sitting against the paper that the raw porkchops had been on... So I was thinking she must have touched the pork chops with the infected germ-y spatula.. It was the VERY edge (on the curve) of the spatula that was even touching the paper. But I'm so worried, I wanted to have a good evening with a good meal and now I'm scared that I'm going to die.
Pork chops actually are safer than they used to be and some people serve a pork roast that's still pink and it's okay to eat as long as the internal temperature gets hot enough.
With the spatula it was likely immersed enough in the heat of the pan that you're okay. If she had the raw meat on a plate and then put the cooked meat on it, you could have an issue.
Additionally, when I cook, I keep the spatula on the pan while cooking, but after I'm done I may set it where the raw meat was so your mom may not have even had it there while she was cooking.
You also wouldn't die even if you ate a raw porkchop (not that I'd recommend it!).