Contents:
- Medical Video: DON'T EAT BROCCOLI UNTIL YOU DO THIS!
- What is cross contamination?
- Kitchen tools can be a source of disease transmission
- Tips for cleaning and caring for kitchen utensils
Medical Video: DON'T EAT BROCCOLI UNTIL YOU DO THIS!
After processing raw food, like cutting meat, what do you usually do? Leave the kitchen tools at the table? Or directly used to cut other cooking ingredients such as onions and vegetables? Be careful, this habit is very unhealthy. Kitchen utensils that are used up to process raw food must be immediately washed with soap.
Using cooking utensils that are not clean or combined with various other food ingredients will pose a risk of disease. Especially if you use the same kitchen tool for raw food and vegetables and fruits. This will cause cross contamination. What is cross contamination? Why should you immediately wash the kitchen appliance after processing raw food? Here's the explanation.
What is cross contamination?
Cross-contamination or cross infection is the transfer of harmful organisms between humans, kitchen and household devices, or in the body. Harmful organisms include bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. These organisms can be transmitted through:
- Cutlery, kitchen utensils, or non-sterile medical devices
- Coughing and sneezing
- Touch between humans
- Touch contaminated objects
- Dirty bed or kitchen
- Animal meat that has been contaminated
One of the bacteria in raw foods such as chicken is bacteria Campylobacter and Salmonella. These two bacteria can cause food poisoning, vomiting, to tipes. The most commonly reported symptoms are nausea and diarrhea.
Kitchen tools can be a source of disease transmission
Kitchen tools used to process food can be contaminated by various types of foreign organisms that are harmful to family health.
Generally, kitchen appliances that can trigger this are knives and cutting boards. These two objects are of course you often use to process various types of dishes. So what do knives and cutting boards have to do with cross contamination?
The knife is used to cut food ingredients. For example raw food, vegetables, fruit, or cooking spices. In raw foods such as chicken, beef, goat, shrimp, squid, and of course there are bacteria. Especially in chicken and meat.
If you use the same knife to cut chicken, meat and vegetables, this will be dangerous. The bacteria in the chicken will stick to the knife you are using and will stick to other food ingredients that are cut with the same knife.
Not only a knife, using the same cutting board can also cause cross contamination and eventually cause disease. As with knives, bacterial germs from raw chicken cut on a cutting board can move into the vegetables and fruit you will cut with the same cutting board.
Tips for cleaning and caring for kitchen utensils
Therefore, it is important to separate each knife and cutting board that you use to process the raw material with the ripe.
In addition, immediately clean the knife and cutting board before and after use to prepare food under running water. To be cleaner, soak the cutting board in warm soapy water.
Discard the cutting board if the surface has been cut deep, because the incision can be a place for bacteria to slip.
