"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
>


1) Ms. Moulton said don't wash the tripled washed whatever. What about
UNwashed whatever, like unbagged lettuce? Does it matter? If the sink's
filthy, *anything* you wash in it could become contaminated. If you handle
chicken or other raw meat over or in your sink, it should be cleaned
*immediately*, even if you're only planning on washing dishes in the sink
next.

2) Ms. Moulton may have been aiming her advice at people who are too stupid
to clean their sinks before washing food directly in them. This is valid
advice, since we know for a fact that a fixed percentage of people are very
stupid, and that this percentage will probably never change.

3) I wash most greens in the colander. But some, like collards or swiss
chard are simply too big to wash that way. And, it's easier to see where the
dirt is clinging if you do NOT tear the leaves into pieces first. I clean
the sink with Comet. I rinse like crazy until I don't smell Comet any more.
Then, I rinse it again.

This is easy.