"jay" > wrote

> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:28:47 -0500, 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?

> I don't put any food item directly in the sink..in fact if a food product
> falls into the sink it then falls in the garbage... unless I have
> sanitized
> the sink to wash maybe a bushel of mustard greens.
>
> I always wash the *pre-washed* produce.

Ditto. She was saying don't wash it because you might get salmonella
on it via cross contamination from the chicken you just washed in the
sink. Too early for me, I thought, What?? Took me a second to realize
she meant you would then put your lettuce on the sink bottom. I don't
think so.

Oh, she says don't wash your chicken, either, because you're just
spreading the chicken germs all over when you do that.

nancy