Can I say something: could you all please stop inserting contaminated tool back into a jar of food? You use a clean tool to take out the amount you eat, and that's it.

You can put it back if the tool had touched nothing but: air, the food in the jar, and your hand at the operating end. Otherwise, that butter knife stays on your dish for the rest of the meal. The exception would be if you cleaned the tool, like bare minimum by wiping with a brand new piece of tissue paper(but that's kind of wasteful).

Is that an outrageous ask? I know it's probably not a huge deal, like free water and such, and my techniques are that of total amateur being never professionally involved in medical and/or bio science fields, but just, how can you stand possible breadcrumbs IN THE JAR!?