What precautions do you take to avoid contamination while cooking?

[Anonymous]

All this cleaning reminds me of the recent article about allergies and too clean houses - http://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20140606/too-clean-homes-may-encourage-child-allergies-asthma-study

"The findings support the "hygiene hypothesis," which holds that children in overly clean houses are more apt to suffer allergies because their bodies don't have the opportunity to develop appropriate responses to allergens, said Dr. Todd Mahr, an allergist-immunologist in La Crosse, Wis., and chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Section on Allergy & Immunology."

I don't put cooked meat on a plate where raw meat was and definitely wash a knife if I used it to cut meat and want to now cut veggies but definitely not to the extreme of some of the PPs.

[Anonymous]

Wearing gloves to touch raw meat and then throwing them away seems like overkill (OK, paranoia). Just wash your hands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty much what others do. Make sure cooked food doesn't touch raw food surfaces. Wash hands very often. Wash all produce.

I have a plastic cutting board, so I just wash it between food preps if there's an issue about contamination. I'd chop veggies on it and then cut up raw chicken, not vice versa.

This s what I do too

[Anonymous]

I use a separate knife for cutting raw meat v. veggies. Separate cutting boards. Store veggies separate from meat in fridge.

[Anonymous]

I'm wondering about raw meat juice leaking on the check-out belt... Don't you think we should clean off our things before putting them on our clean counter tops and into our pantries and refrigerators?

Yep, I like being OCD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm wondering about raw meat juice leaking on the check-out belt... Don't you think we should clean off our things before putting them on our clean counter tops and into our pantries and refrigerators?

Yep, I like being OCD.

I think about this every time I grocery shop. Especially when I see people put unbagged produce right on the belt. I'm with you.

-OP

[Anonymous]

I bag my meats and my veggies so that mine don't touch the conveyor belts. I also use a hand sanitizer after handling meat.

[Anonymous]

I'm cautious- didn't think closely about the changing spatulas, will do this in the future-- never been sick and never made anyone else sick.