Recipe for Disaster

May 01, 2014

Food handling hygiene seems common sense, but you'd be surprised how easily common food safety mistakes are made when preparing dishes. Cross contamination is a common mistake eg chopping raw meats on a cutting board and then chopping raw vegetable on the same board that has not been cleaned.

Some simple ideas to prevent cross-contamination of foods:

Have different coloured cutting boards for different types of foods
Use different knives for different types of foods

We love these videos from www.foodsafety.gov to remind us on common food safety mistakes:

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