Question on Kitchen towels ? (cider, drinking water, vegetables, vinegar)
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I have numerous cloth dishtowels but only two hang in the kitchen at any one time. One for drying hands, one for drying dishes. So they don't need to be disinfected. Ever since I watched a segment on one of the popular news shows where they used a special light to highlight spread germs in kitchens I don't even wipe down counters with them. For that it's paper towels always, and also for messy things like cutting up chicken, etc.
I think I saw the same show--when the lady cut up a chicken and then washed her hands and then they put the light on them and her nails were still contaminated....I've used gloves ever since (and pretty much all the time since becoming a Chef)
Last edited by MGS4EVER; 05-26-2016 at 11:20 AM..
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Ok, what part of "outside of a few limited ...." are you not understanding?...
I'm not going to mention my areas of expertise. However, I will suggest anyone reading your posts do a bit of research on their own. I could provide an in-depth treatise on the MANY (not "a few limited") dangers of contaminated "textiles," but this is the Food forum.
My kitchen towels are only used to dry my hands - I let my dishes air dry, use a sponge to wash them, and use paper towels and Fantastik to wipe up counters (or antibacterial wipes but those are more spendy). I have a few different towels but only wash them every other week or so (if I remember to throw them into my laundry bag!)
If you do mean dish cloths, I've never heard of putting them in the microwave the way you can do with a sponge. But when you do nuke a sponge, I think it's for 60 seconds, not 10. I put my sponges in the dishwasher - they get equally clean and that's easier for me since I'm already running the dishwasher any.
I'm not going to mention my areas of expertise. However, I will suggest anyone reading your posts do a bit of research on their own. I could provide an in-depth treatise on the MANY (not "a few limited") dangers of contaminated "textiles," but this is the Food forum.
From the shower curtains to hotel bedspreads all manner and sorts of textiles are "contaminated", and what of it? By the way you and others are going on we should be seeing illness rates and or deaths that put one in mind of an epidemic; but we don't.
Even if a textile were grossly contaminated it would still take other contributing factors before someone became ill.
Intact healthy skin on an otherwise healthy human is designed and is the best defense against infection. Merely coming into contact with "contaminated" textiles will likely not cause illness. Touching one's eyes, putting one's fingers/hands in any body orifice and or if the skin is abraded, cut or otherwise open is another matter.
From the shower curtains to hotel bedspreads all manner and sorts of textiles are "contaminated", and what of it? By the way you and others are going on we should be seeing illness rates and or deaths that put one in mind of an epidemic; but we don't.
Even if a textile were grossly contaminated it would still take other contributing factors before someone became ill.
Intact healthy skin on an otherwise healthy human is designed and is the best defense against infection. Merely coming into contact with "contaminated" textiles will likely not cause illness. Touching one's eyes, putting one's fingers/hands in any body orifice and or if the skin is abraded, cut or otherwise open is another matter.
Hey, it's not necessary to brush this poster off. I think s/he is right.
Like many other posters, I don't use cloth towels or dishcloths to wipe up raw meat juices. Paper towels for that. Otherwise, I can't think of a single "contaminant" that is likely to be on my household towels, sheets, etc., that would a) make someone sick, and b) not be removed by normal washing in a washer & dryer (with detergent and hot water, sans bleach).
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However, I will suggest anyone reading your posts do a bit of research on their own.
I could provide an in-depth treatise on the MANY (not "a few limited") dangers of contaminated "textiles," but this is the Food forum.
Be on your way.
