Kitchen

[Free2be]

The mouse's body stuff cannot permeate the pot's materials.  If you scrub it, boil it, bleach it to your heart's content, store it for awhile then check for any sign of any offensive odor then decide, you will at least be making an informed decision.  If you keep it, speak no more about it's unfortunate history.  LOL

[CamilleP]

Put that stock pot and lid in the dishwasher on a sanitizing cycle and use it with confidence, between the detergent, heat and copious water flushing even bacterial endospores will be gone, and vegetative cells will be deader than dead.  If you are still freaked about it, after it comes out of the dishwasher put it on the stove top, fill it with water, and boil it for ten minutes, that will sterilize it a second time.  If that still isn't enough, follow the directions on a bottle of bleach and wash the pot and lid thoroughly with bleach and water, then rinse thoroughly with clear water and let it air dry so the bleach dissipates, sodium hypochlorite is a very strong and dangerous oxidizer.  If that *still* isn't enough, wipe the interior of the pot and lid with 70% isopropyl alchohol.  If you are still too worried to use it, follow the directions on a bottle of Lysol, make up a solution of that, and use that phenolic disinfectant to wash the pot yet again.  If you have access to a quaternary ammonium product, you can use that to disinfect the pot.  Finally, hydrogen peroxide is another disinfectant, though not as effective as alcohol, phenol, quaternary ammonium, or sodium hypochlorite.  If you still cannot bring yourself to use the pot, donate it to a homeless persons' or abused women's shelter, or a soup kitchen, they will be grateful to have a stock pot for cooking large batches of food for the upcoming winter.

[Yahooey]

Sanitize the pot and it is good to go  - think of the mouse as a previous protein

I know YUCK - but if you find you cannot ever enjoy another meal in the pot again

donate it

[novamc1]

After the OP's experience, I'm going to be very wary about removing a lid and taking a look into any of my LC pots---and I have a lot of them.  UGH.

 Perhaps the lid was slighty ajar and left an opening?  Please say this was so, OP!!

I would definitely discard the pot, or if I have the courage and stomach to clean it, would donate to the nearest Goodwill store. 

The image and memory  of a mutant Super Mighty Mouse would never go away and haunt my kitchen forever.

[SharkE]

Reminds me of that scene in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane with Bette

Davis and Joan Crawford. 

Husband said "put out mouse poison" set traps,too.

[Group 5 minus 1]

Absolutely not. Case closed.

[whiteghost44]

Although I appreciate where everyone is coming from, if it's a something I wouldn't use, I wouldn't donate it either....I would toss it.  

[giddy up]

Toss.  Use as an excuse to buy something new.

[Tyak]

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@January121 wrote:

I WOULD NOT HAVE TO THINK TWICE .... THROW IT OUT!!!!!!

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My thoughts exactly!  Even though its pricey, out it would go.

[Tyak]

I'd have to get someone to get the mouse out of the pot let alone clean the thing up.