Nancy Young wrote:
> I just watched Sara Moulton on Good Morning America talking
> about washing produce. She said, Don't wash the triple washed
> spinach/whatever. That's because if you wash it in your sink you
> might contaminate it. I'm thinking ... huh? Then she talks about,
> if you wash produce, better to wash it in a bowl. Well, DUH.
>
> Is this a common thing, do people put their food directly on the sink
> surface when they are washing it? Yuck! Personally, I just wash it
> under running water and put it into a waiting bowl next to the sink.


Well, first off.. I use my large salad spinner to soak lettuce before
dumping the water out and spinning it. It saves a step. I even will lift
the basket of lettuce out and carry the spinner bowl out to my porch to
water the plants with to conserve water. But I'm not deathly afraid of
my sink. I routinely wash it or wipe it out and as needed wash down with
a dilute bleach solution, especially washing my chicken under the
running faucet.
My dishes don't usually go into the sink but rather directly into the
dishwasher.