"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
. ..
>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.
>
> I'm amazed that people would be washing, say, chicken or just dirty
> dishes in their sink, then plopping produce right down on the same
> surface. Like, the sink is clean just by virtue of being a sink?
>
> I'm sure no one here would do that.
>
> nancy
my one exception to washing directly in the sink is once a year when washing
the turkey. The sink is scoured first, rinsed out with bleach then rinsed
again. I just don't have a vessel large enough to do the turkey otherwise.
Janet