On Jan 31, 5:28 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.
>
> nancy
When I was doing prep work, one of the restaurants would toss big
batches of salad in the sink. I always made sure to clean the sink
first, but I saw some who didn't do as good of a job as I did- Yuk