Washing produce
"Mr Libido Incognito" > wrote
> Nancy Young wrote on 31 Jan 2007 in rec.food.cooking
>
>> 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.
> The inside bowl of my salad spinner comes out...I wash 'light weight'
> veggies in it then spin them dry.
>
> For things like potatoes or carrots ...I wash them under running
> water...they never leave my hand and I've got a dedicated to veggies 3M
> scrubbie that I use to help wash them. They go in a colander to drain
> dry.
There you go! I have put vegetables into the dish drainer that
is in the second sink, but nothing dirty goes in there. Even that
is a little iffy.
nancy
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