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Disinfecting
What is the best way to disinfect cutting boards and sponges?
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Germs and bacteria love to make their homes in sponges and cutting boards. With wooden cutting boards, bacteria can seep into the cracks of the wood even miniscule cut marks made by your knives.
With spongea, you can disinfect and kill the germs by putting it in the microwave for 1 to 1 1/2 minutes after washing your dishes at night.
I don't use wooden cutting board anymore. I use the plastic boards or the stone ones. However, if you like using wooden cutting boards, you can purchase paper thin plastic sheets that are marketed as a surface for cutting boards. You can easily wipe them clean after using it on top of the wooden cutting board.
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bleach is the best disenfectant
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I clean everything in the kitchen with bleach. It kills all those germs and is a good all around cleaner in the kitchen. :)
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Although bleach is the best thing to disinfect most anything, cutting boards are usuallly touching directly the food you are about to eat. Instead of bleach, I'd use vinegar.
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"Disinfect with Vinegar.
The disinfectant properties of vinegar have been verified by numerous studies including those conducted by the Good Housekeeping Institute, as reported on 48 hours (on CBS) in 2000. A straight 5% solution of vinegar kills 99 percent of bacteria, 82 percent of mold, and 80 percent of viruses, however in the USA, it cannot be declare a disinfectant without registering it as a pesticide with the EPA. Having said that, mix distilled white vinegar (found in any supermarket) with water and keep spray bottles of this non-toxic disinfectant in your bathrooms and kitchen - to disinfect and clean. "
Baking soda also cleans well, and using lemon juice on the surface after cleaning a cutting board with vinegar will absorb any food odors that are left over.
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soak the sponge for 24hours in clorox and spray the cutting board and let it sit for 5 or 10 min
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Use bleach for the cutting boards. And for your sponges, I guess you should put them in bleach too, but I think it would be best to just throw them away and buy new because sponges carry alot of germs.
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Bleach.
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use a mr clean spray or a lysol spray..
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I would say buy using clorox wipes i think they do a pretty well job.
HOpe i Helped
Sarah
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