Your kitchen may appear clean and safe. But is it so in reality? Here are some few tips to ensure this.
Your kitchen, the holiday destination that's been voted No. 1 by all neighborhood cockroaches, ants, rodents, and most household cat species. Your toilet exists because of your kitchen.
Most regular measures to be taken are so simple that at times one tends to overlook them. Sure, you wipe the table, basin, gas stove, Owen, or cooking platform clean of oil, spilled liquids and food debris. But once in while, a touch of detergent or an antiseptic solution should be diluted, and this should be applied to the same surfaces, if you feel so lazy to mix detergent go for the readily available cleaners that come in different combination and in different flavors, it won't work forever, but it keeps the vermin populace away, and with no raw material to lure them in, your purpose is doubly served.
Commonly touched objects and surfaces while cooking or culling operations are in progress are often overlooked fridge door handles, gas buttons, light or fan switches, Owen handles, door knobs and laps.
Chopping boards are among those utensils which need to be cleaned thoroughly. Apparently, there is a tendency for food matter to get driven into the grooves made by the knife. Bacteria could collect here. If the board is not scrubbed well. it will then mix with ingredients subsequently sliced.
Washed cutlery should be properly dried before being tucked into the drawer. Excess water draining from washed items should be wiped away or pushed into the basin. Mosquitoes can be attracted to such collections.
As far as possible try not to leave unwashed dishes overnight. If it's unavoidable, immerse the utensils in water so that night life cannot get at it, do not leave a knife in the basin. In the clutter of unwashed dishes, it's so easy for the person washing to reach for a plate not seeing the knife underneath and slice a thumb open.
Do not dum0p vegetable remnants, rice grains, crumbs etc down the drainpipe. And choked pipes need to be unblocked as soon as possible for obvious reasons. You can either use a powder preparation available in the market, or manually open the trap and scoop out the junk.
Do you shut the gas valve every night before retiring? It is supposedly a good habit, and one should also keep the kitchen ventilators open, just in case, if you are sure that you don't have any external disturbances to your kitchen in your area.
Just as you defrost and clean your fridge do not ignore your microwave. If on heating the chicken rolls, your kitchen suddenly fills with the warm aroma of home cooked and roasted cockroaches, you know it is time.
Keep kettle spouts covered, when not in use, no telling what climbs into such openings, especially at night. Ditto with all pans and pots and water filters.
Wear an apron, not just to keep ingredients from splashing spattering staining your apparel, not just so you can dry your hands at significant moment, but more importantly so that you will have something to explode into if you suddenly sneeze while frying the mackerel.
Fruits kept in a bowl should be kept covered with a lid or a basket.
And keep no flammable material curtains gloves near the cooking range
Needless to say, half these steps are never implemented regularly and most of us are still alive, anyway. What does this prove? we are lucky, that man are tough? Certainly! Man has a series of in built defence mechanism that can dull the edge of unsafe substances.
But why take risk and chances? It is like the case of a woman who on serving her family one lunchtime, found a boiled lizard in the rice, and lucky enough she found it before it is too late.
Your kitchen, the holiday destination that's been voted No. 1 by all neighborhood cockroaches, ants, rodents, and most household cat species. Your toilet exists because of your kitchen.
Most regular measures to be taken are so simple that at times one tends to overlook them. Sure, you wipe the table, basin, gas stove, Owen, or cooking platform clean of oil, spilled liquids and food debris. But once in while, a touch of detergent or an antiseptic solution should be diluted, and this should be applied to the same surfaces, if you feel so lazy to mix detergent go for the readily available cleaners that come in different combination and in different flavors, it won't work forever, but it keeps the vermin populace away, and with no raw material to lure them in, your purpose is doubly served.
Commonly touched objects and surfaces while cooking or culling operations are in progress are often overlooked fridge door handles, gas buttons, light or fan switches, Owen handles, door knobs and laps.
Chopping boards are among those utensils which need to be cleaned thoroughly. Apparently, there is a tendency for food matter to get driven into the grooves made by the knife. Bacteria could collect here. If the board is not scrubbed well. it will then mix with ingredients subsequently sliced.
Washed cutlery should be properly dried before being tucked into the drawer. Excess water draining from washed items should be wiped away or pushed into the basin. Mosquitoes can be attracted to such collections.
As far as possible try not to leave unwashed dishes overnight. If it's unavoidable, immerse the utensils in water so that night life cannot get at it, do not leave a knife in the basin. In the clutter of unwashed dishes, it's so easy for the person washing to reach for a plate not seeing the knife underneath and slice a thumb open.
Do not dum0p vegetable remnants, rice grains, crumbs etc down the drainpipe. And choked pipes need to be unblocked as soon as possible for obvious reasons. You can either use a powder preparation available in the market, or manually open the trap and scoop out the junk.
Do you shut the gas valve every night before retiring? It is supposedly a good habit, and one should also keep the kitchen ventilators open, just in case, if you are sure that you don't have any external disturbances to your kitchen in your area.
Just as you defrost and clean your fridge do not ignore your microwave. If on heating the chicken rolls, your kitchen suddenly fills with the warm aroma of home cooked and roasted cockroaches, you know it is time.
Keep kettle spouts covered, when not in use, no telling what climbs into such openings, especially at night. Ditto with all pans and pots and water filters.
Wear an apron, not just to keep ingredients from splashing spattering staining your apparel, not just so you can dry your hands at significant moment, but more importantly so that you will have something to explode into if you suddenly sneeze while frying the mackerel.
Fruits kept in a bowl should be kept covered with a lid or a basket.
And keep no flammable material curtains gloves near the cooking range
Needless to say, half these steps are never implemented regularly and most of us are still alive, anyway. What does this prove? we are lucky, that man are tough? Certainly! Man has a series of in built defence mechanism that can dull the edge of unsafe substances.
But why take risk and chances? It is like the case of a woman who on serving her family one lunchtime, found a boiled lizard in the rice, and lucky enough she found it before it is too late.
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