Mobile Phone and Tea Towels Are Most Dangerous Things in Your Kitchen

It’s not the dirty plate or the chopping board in your kitchen that can infect you but the tea towels and mobile phones are the major causes of contamination that harbor loads of bacteria cause even food poisoning. People tend to touch their towels and handle their mobile phones before washing the hands that can spread the harmful microorganisms while preparing a meal.

The mobile phones can be covered with lot of bacteria if they have been previously handled with contaminated hands. This study backs up an initial research conducted at University of Arizona that found 90% of the tea towels in the kitchen had food poisoning bacteria.

The study was published in the Food Protection Trends Journal and 123 people were observed while preparing a meal and it was found that tea towels were leading cause of contamination in the kitchen.

To protect from bacterial contamination the towels must be kept separate and they should be put on at all rail to dry and must be washed often at least once a week at a higher temperature 90°C. A laundry powder that can kill bacteria should be used and if possible one may bleach the white towels to kill bacteria.

People tend to take cellphones into the kitchen while cooking but they do not remember that the cellphones were also taken in the bathroom where deadly microorganisms like E. coli are also found.