merryb wrote:
> 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

You guys are making such a mountain out of this molehill... I've made up
my mind. I've concluded that the majority of you don't know squat about
cleaning and sanitization and thus will never ameliorate your ignorant
squalling fears of dirt and morbidity.

JUST CLEAN YOUR ****ING SINKS! PERIOD!

Clean them, then use them. Then clean them again when you're done and
give them time to DRY before using them again.

And as far as tossing big batches of salad into the sink at the
restaurant goes, I'm assuming that the poster meant the FOOD PREP SINK
rather than the hand washing sink or the ware washing sink. Even so,
once cleaned, a sink is a sink is a sink and, once cleaned, is no more
biologically hazardous than any other prep area in use.

<and NO ONE has mentioned whether or not they wash their hands... before
or after!>