Cookbooks in the Kitchen are a Potential Biohazard

[Shel_B]

An article in Food Safety News this morning suggests that cookbooks in the kitchen pose a possible contamination threat. Click Here for the article.

Edited October 27, 2016 by Shel_B (log)

[Cyberider]

How did we survive this long with cookbooks in the kitchen? 

[Nyleve Baar]

This is from The Onion, right?

[Alex]

This isn't a problem for me. Whenever I'm cooking something more involved than, say, oatmeal, I take off all my clothes, apply antibacterial ointment over every square inch (square centimeter, if I'm not in the U.S.) of my body, and I'm good to go.

[Anna N]

11 minutes ago, Alex said:

This isn't a problem for me. Whenever I'm cooking something more involved than, say, oatmeal, I take off all my clothes, apply antibacterial ointment over every square inch (square centimeter, if I'm not in the U.S.) of my body, and I'm good to go.

You too, eh?  I hope you also wash your mouth out with some alcohol like I do perhaps a couple of Negronis or something.  You just can't be too careful I say.

[Alex]

10 minutes ago, Anna N said:

You too, eh?  I hope you also wash your mouth out with some alcohol like I do perhaps a couple of Negronis or something.  You just can't be too careful I say.

 

Oh, yes -- if I haven't already had it washed out, post-tirade, with Palmolive -- heady, but with just a touch of mellow smoothness. I'm still on a roll with making margaritas from Rick Bayless's book.

Edited October 27, 2016 by Alex (log)

[Thanks for the Crepes]

I always have and use cookbooks in the kitchen. I have 46 year record of cooking almost every day that is spotless of food poisoning. *knocks wood*

 

When I was younger, I did splash some of my cookbooks (with who knows what now?). I still have and use some of those cookbooks, but I always keep them open on the shelf under the microwave that is far enough away from the prep and cooking area to be out of harm's way. It's still only a few steps away for referral.

 

My kitchen cookbooks will be pried from my cold dead hands! I'm pretty sure that the cause of death won't be attributed to food poisoning from said cookbooks. 

 

Long sleeves, on the other hand, are a potential contamination hazard in the kitchen, and I never wear them. I can't even wash my hands properly without soaking the cuffs. How can I work with raw chicken in long sleeves safely?  I was glad to see doctors getting a clue about this and also ties, that are another hazard, IMO. There are much worse dangers in the kitchen than cookbooks, I think.

 

 

[lindag]

My cookbooks are stored in another area of the house.  What I do have is a four inch stack of 8x11" recipes piled in the corner of the counter.  The pile just keeps getting bigger and bigger.  I need to toss them and start over, I think.

[liuzhou]

Cooks in the kitchen are a potential biohazard.

 

Food in the kitchen is a potential biohazard.
 

[Alex]

Perhaps I should put up this sign at the threshhold to our kitchen. It'll also help to keep meddlers out.

 

However, I think I will actually get this one.

Edited October 28, 2016 by Alex
to correct for non-functional Amazon links (log)

[sparrowgrass]

One fall, long ago, I found a preying mantis egg case and tucked it into a vase on the windowsill.  In April, I had five kajillion mini-mantises in my kitchen.  Every once in a while, I still shake a tiny flattened fellow out of my cookbooks.  

 

[Yiannos]

13 minutes ago, sparrowgrass said:

Every once in a while, I still shake a tiny flattened fellow out of my cookbooks.  

 

 

Mmmmmmmmm crunchy textures are the best!