The Handwashing Spots You Can Miss While Cooking
Health
When you wash up quickly between jobs in the kitchen, it’s easy to focus on your palms and miss the backs of your hands, fingertips or the spaces between fingers. The CDC advises scrubbing with soap for at least 20 seconds and covering all of those areas.
Wet your hands with clean running water, apply soap and work up a lather. Rub the backs of your hands and between your fingers, and clean under your nails. Rinse and dry with a clean towel.
Make the routine easy to carry out by keeping soap and a clean hand towel near the sink. If you’ve just handled raw poultry, wash before touching the fridge handle, a spice jar or salad ingredients.
A cooking session has several transitions that call for clean hands. Think about the next thing you’ll touch before moving from raw ingredients to serving food.
