On Jan 31, 8:28�am, "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.
>
> 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.

I have a half sink size Rubbermaid dishpan I use for washing veggies.
I have an over size sink, would be way too many gallons to fill that
sink just to wash a few leafy greens. And I wash all produce as soon
as it arrives home from the market, all cleaned *before* it goes into
the fridge. I scrub the entire (5# or 10#) sack of potatoes and leave
them to dry on the counter top on a clean dish towel. During warm
weather I wash most veggies outdoors with a garden hose... I grow my
own and they are very sandy so I wash the sand and mud off outside,
why put it into my septic... and of course the bugs, slugs, and snails
are happier left outside too... I worry when produce contains no
living creatures or substantial evidence thereof.

Sheldon