If You Don’t Have a Dishwasher, You’re Eating Bacteria for Dinner
Techyville.com Staff Writer
Scientists are saying that you probably want to use that dishwasher to clean your plates instead of just scrubbing them down and hoping for the best. Writing for The Atlantic, Alexandra Jaffe explains the reasons that you want to use your dishwasher
What reliably sanitizes dishes is high heat, at temperatures greater than most people can stand. Past 145 degrees Fahrenheit, water easily and quickly kills bacteria. . .But most people can’t handle water temperatures over 104 degrees, meaning those of us stuck with the pauper’s slog of scrubbing our own dishes have a higher likelihood of leaving some bacteria on our plates.
Most of the time, the sponge you use to clean your dishes is loaded with tons of bacteria before you even use it. In fact, the dirtiest place in your home is often your kitchen sink, the place where you’ve tossed out rotted food and other disgusting goodies that you might not want to digest again.
Here are some things you can do to make your dining experience a little less disgusting:
- Sterilize your sponges by putting them in the microwave for 30 seconds.
- Always use hot water
- Get a dishwasher, since you’ll never be able to get the water as hot as the water that a dishwasher uses to clean bacteria.
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Who wrote this article “National Dishwasher Manufacturers of America”??
Woodie Wills
June 24, 2012 at 3:21 pm
Also put a cap-full of clorox in every cycle!!! LOL
Butch
June 24, 2012 at 4:36 pm
My mother taught my sister and I to adhere to her habit of pouring a teakettle full of boiling water over the rack full of hand scrubbed dishes, glasses, and silverware. We’re talking 1950′s and 60′s. Of course she was doing this habitually before we took on the chore.
Ashabi
June 24, 2012 at 7:41 pm
Moms told us to do the same thing,I continue this sanitizing habit.
renee
June 27, 2012 at 1:48 am
I believe much bacteria exists on most items in the kitchen but nature has endowed us with an immune systems which allows a healthy person to cope with the situation.
John H Hill
June 24, 2012 at 9:25 pm
Soak your dishes in the hottest water possible then wash them a few minutes later. Someone is trying another get rich scheme on Black Folks get EDUCATED that’s BS.
head
June 27, 2012 at 6:39 am