1, raw food cooked food to be separated
As a direct contact with food chopper and cutting board, in cutting raw food, food bacteria and other residues in the above, and raw vegetables on the more bacteria and parasitic eggs. If they are thereafter used to cut cooked food, bacteria will use the chopper and cutting board as a medium to directly contaminate the cooked food. Even if you use boiling water to "sterilize" before use, bacteria are often not completely eliminated. Therefore, to ensure food safety, you should have two kitchen knives and two cutting boards at home, and use them separately. And cut cooked food before, first with boiling water will be more insurance.
2, to keep the board clean
board after use, with a hard board brush and water scrubbing, the dirt along with the wood shavings washed away. If there is fish, meat and other fishy smell, can be dissolved in salt water or detergent scrub, and then wash with warm water. Don't use boiling water, because the protein in the meat remains on the plate, and when it gets hot, it solidifies and is not easy to wash. After washing, stand it up to dry. After a period of time, the chopper can be used to scrape the wood shavings on the chopping board, or woodworking planer planing, so that the chopping board dirt completely removed, and can make the chopping board to keep flat, easy to use.
3, raw food cooked food to separate the reasons
Because livestock and poultry meat, aquatic products directly contaminated cooked meat, cold dishes, or food refrigeration raw and cooked is not divided into meat and vegetables, is the restaurant, collective canteen and family food poisoning is an important reason. This is because raw food carries many pathogenic bacteria or parasite eggs. According to information reports, pig, beef, mutton, 30% have pathogenic bacteria; fruits and vegetables, 79% have E. coli and other intestinal bacteria, 81% have roundworm eggs. In the processing of these foods, bacteria or parasite eggs are bound to contaminate utensils, if these utensils are used to process and hold cooked food, then bacteria and eggs will be contaminated to the cooked food, and food poisoning or parasitic disease may occur after eating. Raw and cooked food utensils, including kitchen knives, chopping boards, pots and baskets, as well as eating utensils, etc., must be equipped with two sets, according to the raw and cooked food used separately. Some families do not prepare two sets of food utensils, but should be done in the processing, filling raw food, the utensils clean or sterilized with boiling water, and then filled with cooked food.