Family's nauseating find on bottom of second-hand cookware

A woman has made a “gross” find on the bottom of a second-hand baking tray.

Dusty Grove, from the US state of Ohio, shared her find on Facebook on Wednesday.

“We have some really close friends,” she wrote.

“We often pass things back and forth that either us or our children won’t use and the other side might.”

A woman received a second-hand stainless steel microwave dish but discovered an engraving on the bottom. The engraving said it used to belong to hospital suggesting surgical equipment or human organs was kept in it.
Dusty Jones received this dish second-hand but found something disturbing. Source: Facebook/ Dusty Grove

Ms Grove added her friends recently gave her these “lovely baking dishes” which “for some reason” no one wanted to use.

However, on checking the dish she discovered why that is.

An engraving at the bottom of one of the dishes reads: ‘Maumee Valley Hospital Operating Room’.

It appears the tray wasn’t initially used for cooking food and many recoiled in disgust.

“At least it didn’t say morgue on it,” one woman wrote.

An engraving on the bottom of a second-hand microwave dish reads: Maumee Valley Hospital Operating Room. There have been suggestions it might have been used to carry human organs or medical utensils.
An engraving on the bottom of second-hand microwave dish shows it belonged to a hospital suggesting it might not have been initially used for cooking. Source: Facebook/ Dusty Grove

Another woman simply wrote “barf” while others called the find “gross”.

However, some pointed out since it was used in a hospital it’s likely the dish was cleaned and sterilised properly, making it more than safe to cook with.

It’s also not clear if the dish was used to hold medical materials or organs.

One woman added: “Hospitals have kitchens too”.

The brand of the tray, Vollrath, specifically makes products for food and cooking, including glassware, pizza pans and cooking utensils.

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