Mouse Dropping in Frying Pan

You should always drop them lightly or the grease will splatter.

Yes rose. Throw out all the cooking utensils in that cabinet. IN fact, your kitchen and pantry. It all must go. Hire the best pest control in town. Give it a few tries. Or, burn the place down.

If you just bought it like all good gays you should have a receipt (some stores in Dec or Jan those rules don't apply) wash the pan good I mean REALLY good and exchange it .

And until you get rid of the rodent always leave the lid on all your pans....

All my pans are hanging on a rack, so there's little chance of any of them gathering any mouse droppings. I've never stored pans of any kind on a shelf. My brother has recently begun fighting a mouse infestation, which he first noticed when there were mouse droppings in his toaster. Now, in that case, I would get rid of the toaster (he did). But I wouldn't freak out over a frying pan. I'm squeamish, but not THAT squeamish. I would just wash it really well, and store it elsewhere. But you still need to figure out how to get rid of the rodent itself. Good luck!

OP?

This is what needs to happen in your kitchen pronto. Feel free to jump in there!

Thanks R5, There were droppings around my toaster, too, so I threw it out and bought a new one.

I bought a mouse trap and killed a mouse but I am going to get some foam this week and look for holes.

How does one spot rodent feces? I would never look inside my toaster....

The way you cook, Op, there have been worse things in that pan than mouse droppings

You will see it around the toaster, and maybe some on top.

[quote]How does one spot rodent feces?

Little pellets of poop about the size and shape of a grain of rice

I just wonder if everyone is throwing out pans and buying new ones or simply washing it out

I can't get the mouse dropping out of my head and will think of it when I am frying and eating my eggs.

Just wash it in hot water and detergent, you big girl's blouse.

Don't worry. You've been eating that for years in various baked goods.

[quote]Just wash it in hot water and detergent, you big girl's blouse.

This. And if that's not enough for you, add a little bit of bleach to the water.

Vinegar is a fine disinfectant. Swirl some around the pan and you can reset your mind.

You are fucked, OP. Mice don't travel far or alone. If you see one mouse in your house, you have 70. If you live in a large apartment building, fugheddaboudit. Mice reach reproductive capacity just 21 days after birth. In the few weeks since you bought your lovely new pan, your building has seen the addition of many, many, new baby mice. Three weeks later, they start reproducing, too.

You have to grow up, OP, or move. To another planet where mice don't exist. But you will probably have at least one breeding pair stowaway in your boxes of kitchen supplies, so good luck with that.

R17, is that all it takes to reset a mind?

Mouse expert, I recently saw a mouse in my house. About the same time he would go to the kitchen then back to the far end of the house. I haven't seen him in awhile. Is it possible he left on his own? Is there someway to get rid of them besides calling Orkin?

You should probably never eat at a restaurant if one mouse turd in a pan offends your delicate sensibilities, OP.

Throw it out. You will always think of that dropping when you dish up from that thing and be more careful about how you store your kitchenware from now on. And take care of your mouse problem.

We had a mouse problem in food cupboard. We did throw away anything that looked like the packaging was torn. Now all grains/flower/sugar/etc that are in soft packaging are in plastic containers. We put out some mouse traps. Caught about 10 or so. Haven't seen any in about a week, possibly because we took away their food source.

OP, if you're in an apartment, report it immediately

Clean the pan.

Get a fully enclosed mouse trap (as shown here).

For the bait, use a tiny dab of peanut butter.

Plan B: get a cat.

Clean it with disinfectant and re-season it.

It must be buried.

Cast iron? No worries, the mouse poop will not be absorbed and a good cleaning (pour hydrogen peroxide on it if you're really paranoid) and re-seasoning will get it usable again.

On another note, MARY!

Do you like cats?

Mine keeps my winter mouse population to zero.

How has OP survived this long in life puzzles me.

It isn't cast iron. It's "Quantanium non-stick surface reinforced with titanium" - original price $70, but I got it on sale. I just checked and it is back at $70.

I am reading all the comments.

Wash the pan well and keep using it. You do need to address the mice problem. I’d call an exterminator and bag up all pantry foods.

For kitchen sanity during a rodent crisis:

I put anything a mouse might want to eat into glass and plastic containers: rice, flour, oatmeal, nuts, etc. I even put the dog treats in a sealed container.

Scrub your pan with bleach.

[quote]I am going to get some foam this week and look for holes.

Don't forget to squat over a mirror. You never know where they come from.

I was and do keep food in containers. They are in plastic containers or the fridge. Nothing is left out.

OP, more concerned with some poop in the pan than the fact his home has been overrun by disease carrying rodents.

No, OP hates mice as well as mouse droppings! I am getting the foam for holes tomorrow. I already killed one in a trap. I will also move out of here as soon as I can.

Some people say bleach isn't safe.

R23, you didn't get us all.

You've had worse things in your mouth, OP.

I live in an pre-war building in New York City. Everyone has mice. I have 6 traps set around the apartment behind doors and furniture, and in cabinets. Months will go by without a nibble and then I get 6 in a week. It doesn't bother me in the least but I grew up in the country, so there's that. You, op, should stop being such a Frau and get a cat.

I went through a bad infestation - they would get on top of my stove, sink and the refrigerator. I left a pot on my stove and found droppings in it. I was skeeved, but washed it in boiling water and bleach solution and I was able to get past it. I found mouse dropping in the toaster that was on top of my fridge. Threw out the toaster - I don't want toast with burnt mouse residue.

Hate to give you more worry. but I read that mice are incontinent, so seeing poop is at least a visual clue, but who knows where they peed. I started making sure not to leave dishes in the dish drainer, cause I could never be sure if a mouse didn't piss on them. I had to get an exterminator eventually. After he filled in a bunch of openings, I caught 16 mice in the next two days - ones that couldn't escape through their usual exits. And I live in a studio apartment, so a house could have dozens.

I'm also freaked out that mice can carry the Hanta virus, so I get a little germ-phobic after I clean up their droppings. I wash my hands but I still feel icky and infected. I know the odds are high and it's usually wild/field/country mice that you have to worry about, but I still wonder about the mice I see here in the city.

That's juzz nazzy as hell.

You cooked the Christmas Mouse, didn't you?

Op you think your situation Is difficult. I had just finished decorating my chalet in Gstaad and I invited a beautiful boy from University of Zurich as my ski coach for Christmas holiday, and I fucked him and got a bit of shit on my dick. So I had to burn the chalet to the ground and cut off my dick, as I could never think of either without shit on my mind. I am now called Francine.

Kids, you never have "a" mouse. There is a family of them in the house.

May I call you Gidget, r44?

What R45 said. No such thing as “a” moue. Also: are you serious? You really think the pan should be thrown away?

A mouse. Not moue. Although I’m sure you had one on your face when you discovered it. ^^

Poop in the frying pan, Shoo mouse shoo.

Poop in the frying pan, Shoo mouse shoo.

Poop in the frying pan, Shoo mouse shoo.

Skip to my loo my darling.

So delicate, most of you! Wash the pan, use it.

The frying pan will be absolutely fine if you thoroughly clean it, would be a waste to throw it away for that. It sounds like you can’t get past the thought of mouse droppings being on there though, I would just recycle it and get a new one to give yourself peace of mind.

You're going to heat the pan, right?

Don't eat out of the pan until you heat it

Oish!

One time I stepped on a worm and didn't take off my shoes when I got home so my family had to burn all the carpeting.

It's good that you only think about the dropping. If it were my pan I'd be thinking that the mouse probably also licked the pan. His wormy little tongue lapping away at the non-stick coating. How it probably rubbed its flea infested body all around the edges, leaving little hairs behind. I'd be picturing its pink bald feet scurrying all over the surface while its nasty tail drags behind. But you only think about that single dropping? Well, good for you.

I bought a Mouse trap that didn’t give me very good instructions. The box says it kills 12 mice and only says to check window the next day. I think I heard the trap shut. What do I do ? Wait for the trap to kill 11 more mice or do I Yuchi take the mouse out and reset the trap ? David or anybody please hold me !

Normally, I never put my pots and pans in the dishwasher. I hand wash them. If you have a dishwasher, I would clean your pan in there.. the one time, to really clean/sterilize it. A good cleaning would be enough for me... unless, if a lot of droppings were in the pan.. then I'd be grossed out. I would buy another pan, and return this one, if you can (cleaned very well, of course).

Yuck