That’s a good point, a lot of people probably would misuse them. On the other hand, I’ve known way too many people who clearly don’t know how to avoid cross contamination, or even proper food storage and refrigeration.
Yep. Had to fire a kid because he just didn’t understand that he needed to wash his hands, station, and tools between prepping meats and anything else. It annoyed me when he would switch between veggies, but that should be relatively safeish… Same kid tried to use the sanitizer sink to defrost a case of chicken.
Food is a lot safer than we think. You have to mess up pretty bad to get really sick from something. It’s the small minority of cases where something like e. Coli, or salmonella is present and given the opportunity to flourish that things get really bad. The truly terrifying one is botulism, and it’s toxin can’t be denatured by heat.
That’s a good point, a lot of people probably would misuse them. On the other hand, I’ve known way too many people who clearly don’t know how to avoid cross contamination, or even proper food storage and refrigeration.
Yep. Had to fire a kid because he just didn’t understand that he needed to wash his hands, station, and tools between prepping meats and anything else. It annoyed me when he would switch between veggies, but that should be relatively safeish… Same kid tried to use the sanitizer sink to defrost a case of chicken.
Yup, I’ve seen coworkers do similar - and never be corrected for it.
Food is a lot safer than we think. You have to mess up pretty bad to get really sick from something. It’s the small minority of cases where something like e. Coli, or salmonella is present and given the opportunity to flourish that things get really bad. The truly terrifying one is botulism, and it’s toxin can’t be denatured by heat.