I always feed in the enclosures. For a BP I wouldn't worry too much if you get tagged. Now for something like my 5ft Red tail boa who isn't even full grown yet, getting tagged by her would not be fun. Even worse if it is something like a 14ft retic or burm. There is no advantage to feeding in a separate enclosure. Some say the rat will pee/poo in the cage, my answer is "why the hell are you feeding live rats to a snake to begin with?" You are playing Russian roulette and one day your snake will lose and you will either have a dead snake or one hell of a vet bill. Some say the snake will eat substrate. They wont ingest enough to hurt unless its a really small baby and you got them on something like walnut shells or some other really big chunky substrate. I mean in the wild they don't get food served on a nice clean plate, it wont hurt them. They will get conditioned to whenever the cage is opened, they will go into feed mode. If it actually got that bad, then you don't need a snake because it means you are pretty much ignoring it. My red tail boa comes out at least once every day mostly because she goes crazy and tears up her cage in the morning until I open the door and then she crawls out onto me and I let her wander around for about an hour. Then back in she goes and she is happy and curls up content. My little high white pied girl is still kind of new so she only gets out once a day till she is used to me more. So to sum it up, again there is no advantage to feeding in a separate enclosure.
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