What is the reason why we should not dry dishes with a cloth? Millions of bacteria can be found in little more than 2cm3 of a cloth and with scouring pads it can be even worse. More than 10,000,000 of up to 362 different species! Maximum disinfection for unbeatable food hygiene with G2 Green.
Cleaning your hands, washing a fruit or vegetable, wiping it on the countertop, removing a tomato stain, taking a tray out of the oven and drying dishes. The bad thing about dishcloths is that they are used for everything and almost always the same one is used. They are washed and disinfected infrequently, are usually wet at all times and thus become the perfect place for germs and bacteria to run rampant.
Therefore, it is the most contaminated place in the kitchen next to scouring pads and cutting boards. Even more so than the garbage can and should never come into contact with other items that have already been cleaned and disinfected. Nor when in a hurry or when it is necessary to use the kitchenware. In the kitchen, haste is a bad advisor and so is cleanliness.
56% of the rags tested by the British Health Protection Agency (HPA) in more than 120 restaurants and collective kitchens contain unacceptable levels of bacteria such as e.coli, staphylococcus aureus and listeria.
The risks of not drying dishes properly and why you shouldn’t dry them with a rag
The reason behind this is not as simple as your kitchen solution. Dirty surfaces that come into contact with food can cause certain illnesses through germs and bacteria present on the food as a result of cross-contamination. Therefore, they must be properly maintained and disinfected very frequently. In addition, all hotel and restaurant establishments are required to maintain strict food safety standards that include proper sanitation of both food and utensils used. One of the most important parts of this process is to properly dry utensils and all surfaces to ensure that the process is complete and effective.
And paper towels are not the solution either…
Indispensable in every home and some people think that its inventor should at least have received the Nobel Prize or something like that. In fact, it’s called kitchen towel, but it’s good for a little bit of everything. To absorb oil left over from frying, as a napkin or as a handkerchief, to dry hands and countertops, or even to better preserve bags of lettuce and other vegetables in the refrigerator. It is suitable for everything in and out of the kitchen. It’s dropping some liquid on the table or the floor and everyone runs for the roll of paper.
Although paper is not hazardous to health, if it is to be used with food, attention must be paid to labeling. Thus, if a cup and fork appear among the symbols, they can be used with complete peace of mind in the kitchen.
However, its use is not as recommended for other common tasks such as cleaning screens, mirrors and windows. They can scratch surfaces and, above all, leave fibers and other annoying cellulose residues. The same goes for plates and cutting boards. It does not completely eliminate residues or bacteria. In addition, completely drying a dinner service with this would be a great waste of resources and money. The simplest solution is often the one that goes unnoticed. These are the most hygienic and recommended methods.
Methods for drying dishes (ordered from the worst to the best)
So, before deciding to store them in the cupboard, the first thing to know is that drying is just another phase of the cleaning and disinfection process itself. As important or more important than the actual washing and subsequent rinsing, it is useless to use the best products or the most modern dishwashers if they are going to be contaminated with germs and bacteria during the last phase. Do not store them wet, as this can cause certain types of fungi to proliferate:
- Cloths, towels and rags: Undoubtedly, the worst of all available options. It is also the least recommendable and hygienic. Probably, next to the scouring pad, the most contaminated element in the kitchen. The last technique that should be implemented and, even so, if there is no choice but to use rags, one should have one exclusively for this task and wash it as often as possible. When in doubt, a new one is better.
- Cooking paper: as they are single-use items, both the spread and proliferation of bacteria is reduced compared to reusable cloth items, but they have another drawback. Using them to dry all the dishes would be a wasteful habit and that’s without thinking about the large amount of waste generated. It is also not the best.
- Outdoors: Yes, as it has been done forever and you only have to take a look at the cabinet above the sink to realize why it has grids instead of shelves and is hollow underneath. The most natural way to do it and also the most economical, but it requires extra space that is not always available.
- In the dishwasher. Whether it has a drying function or not, it is the best. This cycle available in professional and domestic dishwasher models reaches higher temperatures that help to eliminate any type of germs and bacteria. And if they do not have it, you only have to finish the washing to open the door and let them dry as in the previous method, but without the problems of spaces.
Products that help to dry dishes more efficiently
And it can be even simpler if you use suitable and effective products such as
the G2 Green dishwasher cleaning range.
. In the
cost-effectiveness formula for dish washing
always takes into account aspects such as temperature, duration and water pressure, and less so the quality of the detergents and rinse aids used. By the way, the latter are undoubtedly the great forgotten of washing dishes, glasses and cutlery and it is more important than you think. It is one of those elements that everyone knows exist, but little do they know its usefulness.
- Increases washing power.
- Crockery always shiny and shining.
- Facilitates the drying of all kitchen utensils
- Removes detergent stains or water marks.
Increases washing efficiency, prevents glasses, cutlery and crockery from coming out with water or detergent stains. Like salt, which in its case combats limescale problems in hard water areas, it is an often undervalued product. Show off impeccable pieces with
G2 Antifoam Crockery Polisher
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G2 Makbrill 2 in 1
for those who often forget to use it. Their presence in the corresponding compartment depends to a large extent on whether they all look as good as the first day for longer.
And remember, for your home or business, Think big, clean green!
