There's a fly in your pan, what do you do?

[purplepoppy]

You're cooking a big pan of food. You've carefully chosen the best ingredients, took time to prep them and they've been on a long slow simmer for hours.

At the last minute a fly plops down on top. What do you do?

Pick out the fly

Stir it in

Discard the entire pan

Remove a ladle full around the fly

Drop in a spider to deal with it

[OfMiceandMen]

I pick out the fly and give some extra time to cook.

We eat flies/bugs all the time. You think they hand remove bugs, worms🐛 from apples/oranges, etc., before they press the juice?

Nope we drink all of that stuff, after it has been pasteurized. It gives us that little extra boost of protein in our fruit drinks.

So a little fly having a stopover in my meal is no biggie.

[molonski2]

I'm not starting again , I've put in too much work and no-one has to know , Id take the ladle around the fly preference , and maybe chuck in a few more herbs and spices , pretty much the original reason for spices , although it probably involved more flys , plus its a great test of these ( fragile ) immune systems of my guests , you have to be able to cop and deal with a fly.

[Bricealan]

Well, I have eradicated most of the crawling critters in my house with Home Defense, and only see a spider once in a while. I first thought about the spider to handle the fly but minus a good size spider, my only good option would be to dip out a ladle around the fly and throw it out. The only other good option would be to stir the fly in and hope he didn't eat much, and be done with it. Let somebody else pick out the fly.

[AviatorTom]

I pick out the fly, which usually also gets a bit of the food around it. If I don't notice the fly, or can't pick it out, I leave it in.. a bit more protein.

[Sparkie460]

I'll remove enough food from around the fly and cook a little longer to kill any remaining germs

[DJB72]

At home I'd just pick it out and simmer another 20 minutes. Anything over 90C will sterilise it.

When I worked in food preparation I'd discard it.

[exitseven]

Pick out the fly. I make everything well done so the heat kills all the germs.

[CheeseMonster]

Pick it out. Do this all the time before deep-frying, not like I'm gonna throw out the whole pot of oil just because the lid doesn't seal properly.

[PointTaken]

Pick it out and still eat the food. It's just a fly.

[Levin]

Shit's going in the bin. I'm easily disgusted, man.

I can't stand the smallest stain or encrusted bit of food on cutlery or pans, either.

[StormChaser838]

Just scoop out the fly, that's all , who the fucks gonna know.

[Iron_Man]

Get the fly out and that part of the food where he landed on

[blissinanarchy1]

Poppy can I eat your ass? Serious question.

[HippieVeganJewslim]

Save the wee fellow. It matters not if the fly is a bit dirty, as many people wash their hands not before eating.

[Jennz6]

I don’t want to eat it

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Did someone say protein?

[Agape93]

Pick it out.

[LemiaOfThunder]

Not sure I have one