January 29, 2004
Cleaning the Kitchen
For those of you with the kitchen cleaning mentality of a group of college guys rooming together Here's the good news :
Chuck Gerba, a professor of environmental microbiology at the University of Arizona who has studied bacteria in home kitchens, said that he found that people who had the cleanest-looking kitchens were often the dirtiest. Because "clean" people wipe up so much, they often end up spreading bacteria all over the place. The cleanest kitchens, he said, were in the homes of bachelors, who never wiped up and just put their dirty dishes in the sink.Read the rest of the article for the bad news and to have a few current myths blown away. Posted by Steve on January 29, 2004
