AITA for asking my boyfriend to wash his hands while he was cooking?

I’m 21 and my boyfriend is 22. We live together. For context, I am a baker and I go to school for baking. We’ve had some problems in the past, but we had talks about them and worked through them. One of the main problems was that I was a little rude or mean, or just not nice when telling him about things he does around the house. So yesterday he was making chicken in the kitchen. He touched the raw meat with his hand and then touched all my cabinets, my seasonings, and clean dishes. Since I bake in my kitchen, it’s very important it stays clean. So I told him, “Hey, I’m sorry, do you mind washing your hands or asking me to grab the stuff for you? I bake in here and I don’t want my baked goods to get salmonella.”He said okay, and that was it. But I noticed he was being really weird with me the next few days. He usually calls me on his lunch break at work, and he told me he had something he needed to tell me. He got off work at 5 PM and didn’t tell me until 11 PM. Then he told me that I was being very rude and it feels like I only open my mouth to complain. It turned into an hour-long speech about how he was thinking about breaking up with me, but he wants to give it another shot because of what I did.I understand why we’ve had talks like this in the past, but I didn’t think what I said was that bad. I really love him and I don’t want to hurt him, but from my point of view, I feel like I can’t say anything when he does something wrong because he gets upset.

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