Do You Have a Disgust Response?

Public health authorities have done information campaigns aimed at home cooks, urging people to keep their food out of the temperature danger zone. Not once in my research have i turned up a public health campaign raising awareness about the risks posed by tasting your food directly from the pot once cooked. If you know that there's virtually zero risk of infection posed by somebody tasting a simmering sauce, and if you're grossed out anyway, then i think that's a u problem, not a me problem. You have an overactive disgust response in one or two specific categories of disgust, as defined in the field of psychology. Core disgust is the reaction we have to things like rotting meat, vomit, mucus